I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Would it really be like the movies I’d seen, with beautiful people everywhere, or would it be a place full of hate and race riots like the Cuban newspapers described? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She thought how she might describe it, the way they bobbed on the illuminated water’s gentle swell, and how their hair spread like tendrils and their clothed bodies softly collided and drifted apart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Maribel was finished, I said, “Now you need to write down words that describe how Yu Li was feeling in the story.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After describing at great length how solid and fireproof the Tribune Building was, Mackintosh paused and, with a sad sigh, he con-cluded, “That is, it was fireproof up to the date of its destruction.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Gallien described several pieces of equipment not mentioned in the newspaper account that matched gear found with the body. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas was surprised to hear it was so bad—he wished Alby would give details, describe something, anything. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He described recent events and gave credit to Union General Grant and his officers for the successful end to the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Coach Hedge listened as Nico described his dreams, then his meeting with Hades at the Chapel of Bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He described Oppie as arrogant, naive, and suspiciously hostile to a thermonuclear program that was manifestly in the nation’s best interests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"There's something about the way you write. It's...how do I describe it...It's important." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means “reluctant to associate with others,” and it might describe somebody who, during a party, would stand in a corner and not talk to anyone. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In her book, my mother describes her long struggle to make sense of this humiliation, to reconcile her experience with her faith. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After listening to his mother describe her letter, Wes quickly volunteered to get a job and help out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Pippin and Sam had remained flat in the grass, and had seen nothing; so Frodo described the rider and his strange behaviour. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

How did the same word that described two people in love become a word that described something so mean? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was describing the play they had put on last year, which was Oliver! Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him about the dream, but I can’t think of a way to describe it without showing my hand, so instead I ask him about recovering memories, about hypnosis. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking, still, as he wheeled his bike into its narrow port beside the door, he realized that frightened was the wrong word to describe his feelings, now that December was almost here. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stinks is a weak word to describe it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gone was not a word Ivy thought she would ever use to describe a house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the plants he knows already, others we have dried samples of, and others I have to describe. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know of no community that has experienced all the misfortunes I describe. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, Gold was starting to realize that the Soviet Union was hardly the workers’ paradise Tom Black had described. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t rely on her size as much as you try to use the way she moves. It’s hard to describe. It’s as if she walks in a more determined way.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As described in the pages that follow, there is a certain pattern to this cycle. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Although the detailed sequence that I’ve just described applies to the Fertile Crescent, partly similar sequences also appeared elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And how are you going to describe love to somebody? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I describe the seasons, the land, the wheat and olive harvests, and the Eid celebrations. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Chubs let out a noise that could only be described as a squawk and just about flew into the front passenger seat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the word fat, the one that best describes me, makes lips frown and cheeks lose their color. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted me to write about my gratitude for at least one big thing that was happening and describe how it affected my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The doctors and my dad had described me to her, but she still hadn’t seen me with her own eyes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

All of this is described as “wilderness” in the tourist brochures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After reading an article describing the nutritional intake of the University of Washington crew team, Smith made sure the horse received feed with a high calcium content. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspapers were full of interviews in which the city’s leading men described Root as the guiding force behind the fair, that without him the city could not hope to realize its dreams. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was working on the seam of a dress, when it’s like the room shook me, that’s the only way I can describe it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In a New Zealand television interview following the expedition, Hall somberly described how he took their favorite climbing rope and lowered Ball’s body into the depths of the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They found out the journal Nature would publish their paper that described how they could train the brain to improve and sustain attention using a video game. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I read more and see that he was described as "troubled" and suffering from "mental illness." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She let out what I can only describe as a howl of frustration. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart; just as these presences did in the open air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My friends didn’t need me to describe what I was seeing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Logic and Pseudoscience Since numbers and logic are inextricably intertwined both theoretically and in the popular mind, it’s perhaps not stretching matters too far to describe faulty logic as a kind of innumeracy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you describe a feeling, a glance, a sniff, a roll of the eyes?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I will describe it to you. Do you remember your chamber in the palace? I will tell you what was there.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I grab a pillow and a handkerchief, throw on my robe and slippers and dash next door to Father, just the way Margot described in this birthday poem: The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I am the bënduka, the single word that describes me precisely: someone who is bent sideways and walks slowly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To stand in the farm equipment warehouse, surrounded by a million links of paper chain, piled to the ceiling, is an emotional experience that’s hard to describe. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It's a compliment one rarely receives when describing an adolescence spent drinking Icees at the North Hills Mall. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Chapter 2 described the first step in some detail, including the legal rules that grant police the discretion and authority to stop, interrogate, and search anyone, anywhere, provided they get “consent” from the targeted individual. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I described Lucy’s symptoms—the same as before, but infinitely more marked—he looked very grave, but said nothing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The site, described as a system for matching people who want to establish contact with their “next-of-kin by birth,” seemed reputable and aboveboard—nonprofit, no fee required. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most lay people would describe as the most salient feature of Native Australian societies their seeming “backwardness.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the event keeps returning to me in my dreams exactly as I’ve described it, with all the same sights and smells occurring in sequence as I stretched my weight over the water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This wine seems to be improving as I drink it. Imagine that. I seem to remember that dagger, now that you describe it. Won it, you say? How?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He described it in a book called The Harmonies of the World. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described feeling supported by Daley and knowing that she was being useful to the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Revenues from what the bureau described as “other personal services” increased 74 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

By then he’d already described the case in print several times. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As I described the velvet wedding dress in full detail, and the satchels of dates and almonds the groom’s family passed out for each guest, it almost felt like I was gossiping with a friend. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was no point in describing to him how awesome it was going to be to watch the musicians floundering all over the intersection. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His attitude seemed to me almost obscene, the attitude of someone who discovers a sexual secret of yours and promises not to tell a soul if you will describe it in detail to him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described everything to them— the airfield, the airport, the plane, what it felt like to see clouds from the window of the plane. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I described the demands I had made, and the progress that had been achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely apoplectic,” was how she described Louis Marx’s reaction. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At night, in the quarter, she described these dreams or visions, as she called them, to the other slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even worse, when she asked us to describe a trapezoid, which I wanted to raise my hand and say, "A trapezoid is another name for a scary kidnapper." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She described exactly what happened as if she had witnessed it.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know how to describe it, really, but her self-consciousness is contagious sometimes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A nearby reporter was yelling into her microphone: “Officials are describing this as a structural failure, Dan, though no one seems to know if it is related to the storm conditions.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As the documents confirmed, he went to see the attorney Comstock, whom Webb described as one of the few decent white attorneys at the time. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Katherine listened intently as her brother-in-law described the work, her thumb cradling her chin, her index finger extended along her cheek, the signal that she was listening carefully. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Among all of Volpe’s students, Wayne is the best at describing his teacher’s directing, maybe because he sometimes struggles with it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The woman was dressed like a Southern belle, just as Jason had described. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a longtime Afrikaner nationalist, and an outspoken supporter of the Nazi cause; he once described Hider as the “greatest man of his age.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was admired by his colleagues for what Kamen described as his “knack for ingenious experimentation,” though perhaps less so for his unabashed ambition in exploiting it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll have them write a journal entry describing what their expectations are of me and the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Aggressive” is used to describe me a lot. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Chocolate normally was dull-brown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Emma was quite shocked, though Charles had known it was coming from the way his sister described the baby’s appearance and symptoms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Newton performed his experiment in 1666 it was probably deliberately designed to produce the elongated spectrum, an effect he describes as if were a complete surprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I never thought about it being triggered by Gram’s death, though, because “stress” is a word you use to describe how you feel before a big test. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cooney probably wouldn’t have used these concepts or described her goals in precisely this way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, the word Mom and Dad use to describe girls who like other girls. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as “a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After Strong described at dinner one evening his experiences supervising the carpenters, plumbers, and electricians building his house, Lawrence drove him up the hill to the Rad Lab site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The ringleaders of this school are Descriptivists: they describe how language actually is used rather than prescribing how it ought to be used. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They could not have begun to describe their time in the wards, or how it had changed them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anthony described Stanton’s physical decline in a letter to a friend, writing that it was a pity “that such mental powers must be hampered with such a clumsy body.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was pretty straightforward, like Ms. Keaton described, so I’m relieved. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His subsequent attempts to walk through the walls of his house resulted in what his biographer Radolphus Pittiman describes as a ‘concussion of ten days’ duration’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the simple equation 4x – 12 = 0 describes how an unknown number x is related to 4, 12, and 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Olmsted used the opportunity to describe in detail Jackson Park and the trials of dealing with the exposition’s many layers of committees that for the moment seemed to have so much power. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I skim through the text, which seems to be describing exactly what’s happening to me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And “hell” was the right way to describe the room she’d gotten trapped in. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In 1905, Edward Elgar, a fervent admirer of German music, described the British music scene as ‘vulgar, mediocre, chaotic and insipid’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As they walked along, Santa described to Mrs. Reilly the many sadnesses and tribulations that had comprised old lady Lopez’s dismal existence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how could even he love her if she were as repulsive as the song described? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was enclosed behind high, white walls, in what the two researchers described in 2004 as a hive of “repetitive, modular cells organized in high-walled geometric blocks.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Popish described having seen the baton of a CO who came face-to-face with a shank-wielding inmate; the baton had a large slice cut out of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organization’s leader was described as “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad” and a “Minister Malcolm X” was apparendy chief of staff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It goes from 0 to 10, where 10 is for two things that are totally different and 1 or 2 might describe just the production-range differences between two batches of the same product. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

This disturbing phenomenon of people cycling in and out of prison, trapped by their second-class status, has been described by Loïc Wacquant as a “closed circuit of perpetual marginality.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At first alienists described this condition as “moral insanity” and those who exhibited the disorder as “moral imbeciles.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It did not convey much to me, until I reached a passage where it described small punctured wounds on their throats. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I describe to Ma all the pretty flowers I see on the roadside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he asked me what that place might resemble; and in my answer I described a paradise of dogs; upon which he inquired whether dogs have a soul, and this, too, I answered. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can at last describe to you our factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, when I reflect on my mother’s words, remembering the way they appeared as if by magic on the screen, one detail stands above the rest: that Mother described my father as bipolar. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Malala describes her childhood village in the mountains of Swat so clearly I can imagine the crisp clean air, waterfalls, and jagged cliffs with narrow suspension bridges. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then several eyewitnesses from the battle described the weird sound Grover had made, which drove the Titans army back underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s law of fall describes in mathematical terms what happens when bodies fall under ideal conditions; but it does not explain anything. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought the Lady was dozing, but her eyes snapped open when Madam described how British soldiers had looted the City Hall library. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he describes the sphere of water as like a cloak or hood covering the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sharp, the word everyone used to describe Emenike in secondary school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pressed Nasreen Baji's clothing that night and hung them in her armoire while she reclined on her bed and listened to me describe the wedding. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was described as a dragonfly, a hedgehog, and a Tinkertoy. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re all going to Frauenburg. Come with us and she can ride in the cart. The contractions and symptoms she described speak to early labor. She shouldn’t be walking for extended periods.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was describing a small tapestry she had embroidered as a wedding gift for her friend Thomas, the woodcarver, who had recently been married. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The workers had begun to arrive early that morning, bearing the kettles and plants and equipment, while Jamison was still in Kira’s room describing the events of the day before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closest he could come to describing it was: she belongs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The scene as described was a macabre picture — something that might have been created by a surrealist brush. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was described to me as an eminent, learned Muslim, a University of Cairo graduate, a University of London Ph.D., a lecturer on Islam, a United Nations advisor and the author of many books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as exhausted almost by the telling as she had been when she reached the top of the cliff that long-ago dawn, she described the terrible trade she had made. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She took the needles and did something that I can't really describe because of where I was standing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In many places I’ve adopted the words interviewees used to describe their worlds and experiences. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Underneath Cantor’s conflict with Kronecker was a vision of the infinite, a vision that can be described with a simple puzzle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Such motion is why we describe the planets as forever falling toward, but never reaching, the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Migrants describe being locked up by police officers until a relative in the United States can wire the kidnapper’s fee and buy their freedom. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ethan, who never said much, had a lot to say about the camera angles and background music and described the star's performance as subtle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is difficult to describe. An order would be issued, but before we could receive and interpret it, a new order came to march in queer formation.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Were such a person described to me, I'd say, "Oh, you mean the village idiot." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Bobby launched an aggressive series of moves, waging a board battle that was later described as both a “slugfest” and a “sparkling attack and counter-attack.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe this hillside had ever been the gullied wreck Joel had described at dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

James was describing the witch’s house, listing the kinds of candy used for various parts of the building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Satan was described in his most intimate perversions in the Galician accents of this priest whose mission in this world was to rouse the conscience of his indolent Creole flock. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biologists might have blanched at trying to describe the “gene molecule” on purely hypothetical grounds—but what physicist could resist taking a ramble in weird, risky territory? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They described themselves as "country tough" and presented themselves as fearless, relentless women who could not be intimidated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It described how you should look, your face and eyes and all, if your hormones were in good shape, and I didn't look that way at all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe, united.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The punishment of Tantalus is described often, first in the Odyssey, from which I have taken it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ernest described his idea to him at a faculty dinner, he became uncommonly interested. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The term, “relocation” abbreviated, was used as noun and verb to describe the nomadic lives of white-collar families employed by global companies. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would take me all night to describe the dragons’ kingdom and all the great creatures that live there. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain of silence is so thick that we cannot even be sure such things occurred—let alone describe them in detail. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus was the second boy I kissed, and it was best described as frustrated mouth wrestling. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was the word Scythe Curie used to describe the people she chose to glean. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Listening to Ms. Freedman, the seventh-grade science teacher, describe the spring unit on the solar system reminded me that I was really going to be there for the entire school year. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My work could charitably be described as sloppy, like Petey’s cocoon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Jason had described Camp Jupiter to her in great detail. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s used to describe political movements that whip up hate and fear against outsiders and try to disguise them as patriotism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Though I could find a few choice words to describe what you've done on this island today.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The laws of Nature must be identical no matter who is describing them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word group, for instance, is a term used to describe everything from a basketball team to the Teamsters Union, from two couples on a holiday to the Republican Party. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a block of writing describing women’s shelters are Sarah’s name and phone number, as a support person. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The alternative histories hypothesis sounds rather like Richard Feynman’s way of expressing quantum theory as a sum over histories, which was described in Chapters 4 and 8. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, I found out later his job was not the way he described it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare called the full stop a period in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he described nervous players “making periods in the midst of sentences”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

“The blooper,” as Watson described it, “was too unbelievable to keep secret for more than a few minutes.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Are there no other witnesses to the events you describe?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know what I expected when Michah first described it to me, but it's both exactly like I pictured and nothing like it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Poetic though they sound, and I appreciate that you’ve just described both tender ballads of love and socially prescient commentary, I still don’t believe this rings any bells.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article described him as a native of Upperville, Virginia, and a man who “loved the South as though it were a religion.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eventually I would checkmate the other guy,” he chuckled when he described the experience years later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Mr Charles described it, all three passengers seemed to be overcome as one by the realization of what an imposing physical force my father was. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was the lazy one,” Theodora said complacently through the door, “but you’re much, much worse. Lazy hardly begins to describe you. You must be clean enough now to come and have breakfast.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Berrange proceeded to read him two other statements, both of which Professor Murray described as communistic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linguists capture their regularities in “descriptive rules”—that is, rules that describe how people speak and understand. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A girl who knew Robert as a child in New York City described him as “very frail, very pink-cheeked, very shy, and very brilliant.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the study described above, for example, black participants showed an amount of “shooter bias” similar to that shown by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He described their last meeting, at the lecture at MIT. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

These circumspect words produced a scientific earthquake, for what Rutherford described was the first artificial splitting of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I always hated that word, but I knew it was how people described Auggie. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were not individuals inclined to soft-pedal their views about national politics and national security or, in Neylan’s case, about Robert Oppenheimer, whom Neylan described as “a man so conceited he just shoved God over.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now the humiliation of hearing Momma describe herself as if she had no last name to the young white girl was equal to the physical pain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described, in his halting way, a city of whitewashed houses and tile roofs, of vines spilling over walls, of busy marketplaces and beautiful gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know either of you well. And certainly not well enough to try to describe your relationship.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

No matter how I tried, I just could not relate them to the villains described in the da-zi-bao. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diversity-driven affirmative action, as described and implemented today, sends a different message. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I never thought I’d hear that word being used to describe me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But she told them about the secret northern pass through the mountains, and the detour Hecate described that could take them to Epirus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The forty-nine-year-old Bobby Fischer was described by a reporter who was covering the match for The New York Times as “an overweight, balding, bearded figure, unmistakably middle-aged, whose expression sometimes seems strikingly vacant.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Matt described the bones, and to his surprise, the little boy recognized them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his mother, whom Dasch described as a "battle axe," had always managed to somehow provide food, clothing, an education, and a home. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

One day, she showed us a video in which a scientist described what he called “the most astounding fact,” which was that all living things are composed of the atoms of collapsed stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In books hatred is often described as hot, but at Capricorn's festivities Meggie discovered it was cold—an ice-cold hand that stops the heart and presses it like a clenched fist against the ribs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hahn wrote to Meitner at her new office in Sweden, describing the strange results of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This worldwide migration has been studied and graphically described by the British ecologist Charles Elton in his recent book The Ecology of Invasions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But once when she was chatting with some stupid boy online, she described herself as the color of coffee with not enough milk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And she said, “Yes, I think you could probably describe it like that.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For homework, Mr. Daniels said we have to write a paper describing how we feel about a short story he read today. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, tell me about it! I love dearly to hear people describe their travels.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to be described as sad. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The response was already becoming hysterical—the shooters were being described as computer geeks who played violent games for many hours, were outcasts in their school, and had a site on the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He also read out papers submitted by Fellows who were not present, and described new inventions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The phrase volley of abuse, for example, uses the image of a fusillade of bullets to describe an outpouring of anger. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shivered, imagining only too clearly what he described — the alley at night, the frightened girl, the dark man behind her. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He made himself a pair of moccasins out of deer hide, and a hat that I can’t even describe. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she described sharing freshly squeezed sugarcane juice and spicy samosa plates with her girlfriends in vivid detail, I could almost taste them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once, when asked to describe Seabiscuit at length, he replied, “He’s a horse,” and walked away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the bulletins Fletcher had described in his cottage, with one change. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

These can be gleaned only from the recollections of his associates, who uniformly described him as insistently supporting Neylan’s position. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Uncle Antonio told her of the deserts in Baja California, describing them as terrible places of heat, sand, and bare rocks, with no water to be found. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He described all the ways the Library was suited for the blind—the routine, the unchanging furniture, the textured knobs and cupboards in the kitchen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But that was the perfect word to describe me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

One of the descriptions she read was of a girl who sounded to me like some sad welfare case, in the sorry way her clothes and hair were described. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Adams described his encounter with the anonymous climber, and then sliding down the ice, my mouth went dry and the hairs on the back of my neck suddenly bristled. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I listened as Bodega described how he would preach these points to Vera. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

James Mortimer also has an ancient scroll which describes the curse of the Baskervilles. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A newspaper reporter attending the conference described the news in a short article, which was picked up by papers across the country. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, somehow the Angel kids survived this—perhaps by a means that I might describe as... not entirely natural. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In describing the fire dead, the term the newspapers most liked to use was “roasted.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are so many words I can use to describe the looks on people’s faces. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He began to describe what had happened, and he started crying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The characterization used by girl after girl to describe him was the same, said with the wistfulness of irrepressible infatuation: “He’s so fine!” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described a plan for treatment, pegging some hope to what the results could be, but I was too overwhelmed to note the details. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Although the reservation’s capital then seemed a small, squalid place—a “muddy little trading post,” as one visitor described it—it was likely the biggest settlement Mollie had ever seen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He also described the structure of feathers, the nature of a butterfly’s wing and the compound eye of the fly, among many observations of the living world. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not one has ever described it as little. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Laertes was now studying in France, and I pored over maps of Europe, marking the cities described in the letters he sometimes wrote to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I describe the bright, airy space in my favorite studio. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin had shown him the same things, and Matt had almost done what Tom described. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Chief Elder told me, at the beginning, that the receiving of memory causes terrible pain. And you described for me that the failure of the last new Receiver released painful memories to the community. “ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

New Twelves were called to the stage individually and their attributes described. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Crime, on the other hand, isn’t a single discrete thing, but a word used to describe an almost impossibly varied and complicated set of behaviors. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s an activity being described, use well, the adverb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we might describe as admirably strong executive leadership struck Jefferson and his Republican followers as the arbitrary maneuverings of a monarch. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He couldn't explain what he had been convicted of or even clearly describe what he wanted me to do. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Gone was the perfect word to describe what Ivy was seeing right now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But when he watched Guitar’s face as he described what could be had almost for the asking, he knew right away he hadn’t guessed wrong. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all the major European languages the same metaphorical use of a word meaning ‘uncover’ was soon adopted to describe the voyages of discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Scoville put acquaintances and relatives on the witness stand to describe the defendant's odd conduct. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The painting is how she described it, but there's also more. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Melodies are often described as being made up of phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He recited the virtues of Arm and described the fantastic cleverness of all three. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Underground, on the subways, conditions could only be described as chaotic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two people can be in the same car crash, he says, and describe it very differently. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

To this day, I can’t properly describe how I felt in that moment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The words dead, diseased, or dying are supposed to describe the cows, but they’re so far from home that they seem to describe the reporters. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A party of tourists shuffled past the confessional while their guide described the mosaics above their heads in a muted voice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their behavior and their desperation is described in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick’s book about how ordinary North Koreans endured the famine years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I described the weakness of the PAC, and argued that a postponement would be a setback for the struggle as a whole. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Maier asked all those people to describe how they figured it out, only one of them gave the right reason. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

How could she describe to him something that would be almost impossible to believe? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the other Vessels had described it to her at lunch a month before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It has happened also because, for reasons to be described later, destructive insects often undergo a “flareback,” or resurgence, after spraying, in numbers greater than before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to describe—hands reach upward and dozens of yellow crosses race across the ceiling like stars or airplanes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Matt considered the possibilities, he realized that no Illegal could have hauled a metal chest through the dry hills and canyons Celia had described. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know how men will say this, to describe that womanly affect they find ineffable. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did lives have laws, could he have described his with an equation? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depressing is not a word that usually describes Mount Olympus, but it looked that way now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wish that described me, but it doesn’t. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Fight, flight, or neurosis” was how William described the general symptoms to himself later on, struggling to make sense of them on paper. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Later, he would describe it as a one-legged fat man wearing a stiletto heel standing on the middle of his chest. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was originally invented in the late 1960s in an attempt to find a theory to describe the strong force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policy itself, though, is quite simple to describe. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It describes the psychological harm we have all suffered from this year’s lack of identity. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The unveiling in 1926 of a new opera by the last great Italian composer in the genre, Giacomo Puccini, could fairly be described as a media event on a global scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He imagines himself in the farmhouse she’s described to him, waking up to eggs frying in a skillet, walking with her through snowy, abandoned fields. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

William Gilbert, writing On the Magnet in Latin, is, as one would expect, alert to the difficulty of using words like ‘proof’ and ‘demonstration’ to describe what experiments do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I described how the Lincoln Memorial was the biggest statue that I’d ever seen. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He criticizes Vincent’s dark palette and describes to him the work of some painters he’s seeing in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He described mines he was in on, and rigs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of Africans who had been stolen, torn from their homes and families, and described the miseries of their bondage and then their hair-raising escapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And yet there was truth in it; this was the real chaos which he thought he was describing—so long ago it seemed now . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experiment he describes cannot be performed in Cambridge at the beginning of the year: it requires the sun to reach an elevation of 40 degrees above the horizon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead he calls Maxine, describing the details of his day, amazed to think she’d been with him at the beginning of it, that it was in her arms, in her bed, that he’d woken. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And I, on the other hand,” said the Martian, “cannot see what you describe. Well.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow it was the one thing in all Washington that Leslie had never seen, and so he could tell her about it, describing the tiny beasts hurding to destruction. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

How can I begin to describe the complexities of life here in a country whose leadership sets the standard for absolute corruption? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

High school English teachers encouraged me to describe very personal feelings in words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experimentum was, as a consequence, the word generally used by medieval philosophers to describe artificially Constructed experiences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Greek historian Herodotus described it as a stack of eight stepped towers, with gates of solid brass and 120 lions in brightly colored, glazed tiles leading to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

During my lunch break, while waiting for Sarah to prepare the sandwiches for the newsmen, I wrote out a timeline of Yakov’s death and described how it fit into the overall chain of disappearances. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was so solid in his ability, so sure of himself on the board, that Fischer once described him as playing “like a house.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The change in his demeanor upon seeing the children was hard to describe. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Tho, fifty-nine, had gray hair and manners Kissinger later described as “impeccable.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Behind the cloak that Einar had described she could see that he wore a tightly fitted dark suit with sharp creases in the trousers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in this vast region is Pluto’s palace, but beyond saying that it is many-gated and crowded with innumerable guests, no writer describes it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we talk about Atlantic slavery, we must describe sugar Hell; and yet that is only part of the story. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a lime green car, sort of medium sized, and with a kind of long snout, so had it been a person, Carla would have described it as having a long nose. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Tell me,” she said, “how would you describe the nature of your discussion?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He began to lead Scarlett down the steps, deep into the hill, and to describe what he saw to her as they went. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Now, M. MacQueen, I want you to describe your movements last night from the time of leaving the dining car.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the anguish that filled me cannot be described. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to describe the sensation of absolute peace and beauty that surrounds you. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steve Reich has been described as the single most influential composer of the late-twentieth century, bringing fresh ideas and impetus to both popular and classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is usually described as “cislunar space,” but that really wasn’t a good name for this strange region. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She assigns us to write an acrostic of our names, which is a poem where, for each letter of your name, you describe yourself with a word or phrase that starts with that letter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She shook her head sadly when he described Nico’s imprisonment in the bronze jar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rather, if that had occurred Linus would have written two papers, the first describing his new theory, the second showing how it was used to solve the DNA structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He pronounced "incorrect" as though the term described the most heinous crime imaginable, and I stared at him open-mouthed, feeling a vague guilt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described how she would roll up the side panels and everyone would practically faint at the cloud of wonderful smells. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I’d told her how Meg helped her father escape, and I’d described the first battle with IT, which is this giant, evil brain that wants to control everyone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled a pint of whiskey out of a paper bag while Mom described their various adventures on the trip. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Donders’s writing at the time shows an ebullient quality, such as when he describes the challenges of quantifying mental processing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A chill raised goose bumps on Sheed’s arms, as the horror of what Mr. Flux described sank in. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After all, she designed the system, so of course she would describe it in the best possible light. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There’s something else that hurts, too, something I can’t even describe. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But she couldn't seem to describe what she meant. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she begins describing his amputated leg, a tear trickles down my face against my will. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The epoxide is popularly described as “an oxidation product” produced by weathering. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I described Buck’s Peak, with its many junkyards, barns, corrals. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Milkman fantasized too, but not for the stationary things Guitar described. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Della Porta was clearly intrigued, and if he did not actually perform a number of the experiments described by Garzoni which he claimed to have, it seems he did perform these particular experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The structure of mass incarceration is described in some detail in chapter 2, with a focus on the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re kidding me. You just described my whole diet, especially when I was a kid. Poor girl.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There they found him, at Clara’s insistence, looking every bit like a dejected sheep, exactly as she had described him on her slate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sending the sketch to Theo, he describes “a blond, soft effect, and in the woods a more sombre, serious mood. I’m glad that both of these exist in life.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The trademark Adams style might be described as “enlightened perversity,” which actually sought out occasions to display, often in conspicuous fashion, his capacity for self-sacrifice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Anything they could name, anything they could imagine, anything they could describe, they could do, or could have done to them, just as long as they paid. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is misleading to describe the expansion of the universe as a sort of distending bubble viewed from the outside. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that what got you so upset? It is a strong surah, but it’s not describing you, silly girl. You weren’t being evil or trying to spread rumors about Emily.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the next page, he described life in his country. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Late that night, the blind man listened with a concerned look on his face while Matty described Trade Mart. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And after each scene she described, she would ask, “Remember?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

If Aristotle had described a current of information moving across generations, then Mendel had found its currency. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He does a good job of describing the various shades of green his sister turned when she got seasick. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He started describing his favourites, but I couldn’t really concentrate; the more excited he got telling me about his animals, the more uneasy I was growing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you hear the announcer on the boat describing the invasion?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

While describing the trip, he left out an important detail. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I hope you know what that means because I really can’t think about Sam and describe it to you. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver made a face as he shrugged on his puffy blue jacket and laced up his gym sneakers, shoes his sisters described as “disgusting” and “foul.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The word Shin uses again and again to describe those first days is “shock.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had neither the time nor courage to describe why I couldn’t run. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One reporter who spotted Guiteau at police headquarters after the shooting described him as “a pale, emaciated, small man, with the appearance of an insane person.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she went on to describe her wedding day: .... Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler described comets as darting through space “as the fishes in the sea,” but being dissipated by sunlight, as the cometary tail always points away from the sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after this, he thought up an idea for an escapement for a pendulum clock, which he described to his son Vincenzio, who actually built such a clock after Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Heqet continued to describe every process he was taught at the goldhouse, but the more interesting the processes, the more complicated they were, and the harder they were to describe. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The old man seemed to be trying to imagine the place, as if it were Paradise Terrestre, or a country described by Mandeville. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local paper ran a front-page article about the incident, describing how poorly my students were treated, after which I received death threats. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He made them describe the Shire and its country over and over again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

To Casteen, these are steps to remove what he describes as “artificial barriers” to a college education placed in the way of otherwise deserving students. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I waited for it so I could describe it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon I can. I’ll describe your hangdog look and shoeless state for her too. Lay you a good solid groundwork for some groveling.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The formation of the Roman state and the expansion of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander were described in detail by contemporary classical authors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to describe the feeling, seeing the raft tapping against the shore of our land. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I nod and Mary continues, describing the various features of the work I’ll be doing. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A reporter was describing a large crowd gathered near the town square, and in the background there was some sort of chanting. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I stood there, scribbling and describing and wishing I had one of my very own. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The language of genetics might be used in some such way to describe the genetics of language, if we knew more about both. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know any other way he could describe this sensation except to say that it felt right, as if he was always supposed to do this. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jefferson spoke for many of the participants caught up in this intensely partisan and nearly scatological political culture when he described it as a fundamental loss of trust between former friends. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For a week I wrote faithfully, describing friends I liked and teachers who were mean to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"We've had other entries in other years that described businesses," said Jack Petrocini, president of the local chapter of the Rotary Club. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still another speaker rose and described the domestic situation in the United States and linked it with the world scene. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Conservative Party described the resolutions as hostile to Afrikaner interests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And keep in mind that adverbs usually do the most good right in front of the action words they describe. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something I can only describe as pride swells against my chest. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The trial itself has been described in detail many times, and we need not elaborate on it here. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen any photos of this room, but its layout and contents had been described in great detail by the movers hired to clear the place out after Halliday’s death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jesse, hooked on arguments and ideas— he often describes himself as a fighter—could usually be drawn out of his shell. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evolution describes nature’s past: How did living things arise? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Or to be described as “different” from the majority of your race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Overall, 1 percent described themselves as upper class, 15 percent as upper middle class, 42 percent as middle, 35 percent as working, and 7 percent as lower. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He described its skyscrapers and explained how each year the buildings grew taller and taller. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most strikingly, in a chain reaction in 94, “energy would be released at an explosive rate which might be described as a ‘super bomb.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She said she would read them aloud and we would try to guess who was being described. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I honestly cannot think of how I could describe it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Marshall Laird, who has described this incident, compares chemical control to a treadmill; once we have set foot on it we are unable to stop for fear of the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Verwoerd did not reply, except to describe my letter in Parliament as “arrogant.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he even read them different endings or described different places where the same scenes were shot to see which they preferred. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Adams had written them much earlier and had described Jefferson as a duplicitous political partisan. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was still a child, Robbie thought, not beyond confessing or blurting out that she had read his note, which in turn could lead her to describe what she had interrupted. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t describe where we were to him, so I just kept calling his name, and he found my voice. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled it from the shelf, noting the dark gold lettering on its cover that Ekon had also described. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was describing them in minute detail, so as to understand the similarities and differences between the different species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The structure, as Watson described it, “was too pretty not to be true.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pretend out loud that I’ve built him a majestic castle, describing every brick and barrier and weapon that will protect him from the monsters outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But to describe genes in the wild, he knew that he would have to go wild himself. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Diaries describe a violent Aryan revolution in the United States that overthrows the government and seeks to take over the world. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s ever so much grander than you described it, Enoch. And oh, did you describe it! For seventy-five years: London, London, London! The greatest city on Earth!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I describe how Hilly showed up here, stormed into the house, I wait while she repeats everything back to Minny. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A thrill ran through Taisin as she heard Mona describe the sprite. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But in concocting the elixir the Fairy Queen described and giving it to the fairies, she would certainly be performing magic. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

If I try, then, to describe to you what I believe made my father thus distinguished, I may in this way convey my idea of what 'dignity' is. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how the physicist Otto Frisch described the first instant of the explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I tried to replace the image of Marcus that I knew with the one he described. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hastily scooping it all into the cauldron he saw, to his surprise, that the potion immediately turned exactly the shade of lilac described by the textbook. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The normal bell-shaped curve seems to describe many phenomena in nature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to describe it. I can’t look at them.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Du Bois described as “the public and psychological wage” paid to white workers, who depended on their status and privileges as whites to compensate for low pay and harsh working conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Let me describe this stereotyped situation: A crime wave is sweeping a city and citizens are clamoring for police action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to picture them because, with his limited vocabulary, he described everyone as “very good.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His tone had a victorious ring to it as he described what happened. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach was still a little...well, floppy was the only real way to describe it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Nauseated by the memory of his final moments, I explained my role in his death and described the fire at the fairgrounds. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I pretend I’m a scientist, on the outside looking in, the way Ms. Keen describes her days watching rats get lost in mazes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to waver before the necessity of describing the day that followed the first five of that April. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malan introduced the Group Areas Act — which he described as “the very essence of apartheid” — requiring separate urban areas for each racial group. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who do have their voting rights restored often describe a feeling of validation, even pride. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

However, you will see, as described below from the photographs... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But Baba describes his ancestral jute farm with bright eyes: coconut and mango trees, perfect for a small boy to climb; a sparkling pond full of tasty fish; lush fields, green after the monsoon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first describes the way a speaker establishes—both overtly and more subtly—his bona fides as a speaker and his connection with the audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He prompted nothing; he betrayed by no comment that I should consider the courses described in these narratives. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He described having seen the truck ahead of his skid and go over a thousand-foot precipice; what was remarkable, he said, was the slowness with which it fell. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, in order to understand how Sapiens behave, we must describe the historical evolution of their actions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose every mother is reduced to idiocy when describing her firstborn, but, oh, he is a beauty—large and dark like his father, but with the bright blue eyes of the Bradshaws. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described to the psychiatrist how two demon COs were using secret symbols to communicate with space beings who landed on the roof of A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than courage, something else is evident in that work—a quality that one can only describe as tenderness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The writer went on to describe, in precise terms that only a spy would understand, procedures for a dead drop in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t carry a bow or quiver, and he didn’t have the headlamp eyes Reyna had described from her dream. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe the difference between the two boys can best be described in this way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no reason for me to go on describing all our quarrels and arguments down to the last detail. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The girl was keeping some vow which I could not describe and, not knowing how to develop the story, I resolved that the girl had to die. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those areas I’ve described, he told me to make the decisions myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to attract attention, they walked down the street to Joe King’s Blue Ribbon Bar, which, Robert described as “jumping, jammed, and crowded.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told him to fill out a form describing his pain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to describe it either,” I said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She gesticulates as if to describe her usual thought process. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever a ‘pig-of-a-louse’ was, it did describe the whitish, flaccid, parasitic Dove. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale will get her the herbs she doesn't grow herself, but she must be very careful to describe them because he's not as familiar with them as I am. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

C. J. described the virus in vague terms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere she looked she could see gold, just as Atal had described it: sparkles of light, floating and drifting and sometimes moving in a current of purpose. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Basel and Muhammad took great delight in describing the science teacher’s nose; it was longer than the pointer he carried, they said. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a second report that I found in the bureau files, agents described Burt as a “murderer.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Built right on the waterfront, just as my dad described it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Every night when I fell asleep I would see myself tied to the ground in the middle of a long, open space,” Johnson later described. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This was the moment Turner chose to describe to Nettle the kind of place that he had in mind for dinner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to try to make you cry by describing how it felt, or how they looked at us, or what they said in between all their kindness. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I would describe it to you, but I think it’s the kind of thing where you have to be there or at least know the people. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the leadership of the revolutionary generation lacked a vocabulary adequate to describe the politics they were inventing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Cloak was exactly what Xenophilius had described: A cloak that really and truly renders the wearer completely invisible, and endures eternally, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are cast at it.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Can you describe all the things you understand?” he looked sideways at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Deborah found pages describing Hela the Marvel character, she thought they were describing her mother, since each of Hela’s traits in some way matched what Deborah had heard about her mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The colonel described a recent incident in which a group of Viet Cong fighters had disemboweled a village chief in front of the entire village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I realize that I am a Catholic, moreover, when I listen skeptically to a political thinker describe with enthusiasm a scheme for lasting political change. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the edification of the fence gossipers, he would later describe what he had seen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she described what she had found when she answered Lee’s call. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He shows her the room where he and Sonia sleep when they visit, and describes the view of the tiny lane lined with corrugated tin-roofed businesses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man described what food outside the fence looked, smelled, and tasted like. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He holds the assignment that I did for Mrs. Hall where we had to describe ourselves, the one with “Why?” written over and over on it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But such a model becomes increasingly complicated as we try to describe the behaviour of things further and further away from Earth, across the Solar System. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They chewed through whole paragraphs describing the naval base, the destroyers and submarines docked at the pier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cange, with a population of about thirty thousand, might be described as the most impoverished, famished, and disease-ridden place in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The majority of entries described inmates snoring, lying on their sides, and turning over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to describe Farsi chanting: the way Mom drew her voice out like the notes of a cello as she recited poems by Rumi or Hafez. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The loser of the watch, the person from whom it had been stolen by us, I later found, had described the repair that it needed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it, Paul described how two of three windows in her cell had been nailed shut. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

You would have seen the two of us engaging in what can only be described as an elaborate and precise dance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to describe how loud and frightening and terrible such attacks are. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what he’s describing is a lot like what I do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Minerva lived in a little nothing house—or so Mate had described it to me—in that godforsaken town of Monte Cristi. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described it as an eroded, hard mass about the size of a nickel. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With some alternation of terms, some toning down, the passage could describe the building of a termite nest. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fellow actor described his eyes as being “like living jewels.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was much as Bunderson had described it to Reggie in August, but there was an important caveat to the plea in abeyance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She described her life in New Orleans—everything except her boyfriend Sammy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We described the accident to one another over and over. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As if “old and ugly” did not describe her father as well. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I imagine the experience of unease mixed with exhilaration often described in connection with this moment is very similar to what I felt in the Ford as the surroundings grew strange around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Mong asked him to describe what it felt like to be so good at ball he got a giant smile on his face and shrugged, took a long swig of beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was still fragments, some of it, though from describing it to Alys she remembered the birth now, clearly and with horror. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This story was so graphic and depressing, describing details I never thought about before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meltdown—that’s the only word to describe my state of mind. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Osiander, in his anonymous introduction to Copernicus’s On the Revolutions, insisted that Copernicus should only be read as presenting an hypothesis, not as describing how the world really is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As it happens, Denis Papin, who had qualified as a doctor, was the first to describe the placebo and the placebo effect, in a letter to Leibniz, 11 or 12 August 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My diary entry from November 24, 1994, describes it as "the best day ever." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As Barack described it to me, he'd been happy in Indonesia and got along well with his new stepfather, but his mother had concerns about the quality of his schooling. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A European diplomat described a recent trip to North Vietnam, and the destruction he’d seen from American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The only word I can use to describe it is powerful,” says Philippi, who came into Truman theater two years after his friends Ryan and Miletto. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They described to each other the tumbling gem. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the principal characteristics that made Coke distinctive, like its bite, consumers now describe as harsh,” the company’s head of American operations, Brian Dyson, said at the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

So far they had described an artichoke, a butterfly press, a sneaker, a ring of keys, a potted hibiscus, a carved Christmas angel, and a sandwich. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And I saw worse tortures, too—things I don’t want to describe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She described the camp and her years growing up there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘The Acropolis is heavily defended, just as I described. Any approach aboveground would be impossible.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to describe how tenderly I suddenly feel toward them—hyenas, camels, and all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like some kinda hippie,” his mother had said when Brenda, who had been in seventh grade last year, described Miss Edmunds to her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Papin’s pump consists of a cylinder with a piston; the piston is sealed by a layer of water, and Papin describes with care how to achieve this. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In his book Descartes’ Error, Damasio describes trying to set up an appointment with a patient with this kind of brain damage: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We sit awhile, and Marv describes the later events of the game to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The counseling did nothing at first—I can’t think of a single session I would describe as “helpful”—but their collective power over time was undeniable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And by the windows looking out to the water, plants with long stems and these flowers that—well, it’s hard to describe. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every evening Meggie asked her to tell more stories, and then they sat together while Teresa wrote and Meggie read the words and sometimes even tried to paint pictures of what her mother described. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I try to think of the easiest way to describe it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Benjamin Ross was described as “twenty-eight years of age, chestnut color, medium size and shrewd.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice sounded just as Percy had described: an angry buzz in multiple tones, female but not human. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Expert food tasters are taught a very specific vocabulary, which allows them to describe precisely their reactions to specific foods. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then Fuchs handed over what Gold described as “a considerable packet of information.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would write a sonnet describing the petals, white and rose-colored, that fluttered to the ground, borne upon the warming breeze. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“If you ask me,” said Ron once Harry had finished describing his conversation with Tonks, “she’s cracking up a bit. Losing her nerve after what happened at the Ministry.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

With enemy forces advancing, the Joint Chiefs requested permission to broaden the mission from merely guarding the base to engaging in what was described as “limited offensive operations.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Richard Feynman described his first reaction as “very considerable elation and excitement.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described how my mother was working overtime trying to care for Robbie, who was now in her seventies, widowed, and struggling with an array of health issues. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The following day we took a three-hour bus trip to Hammanskraal, a rural ghetto outside Pretoria, there to see what my mother described as the greatest diviner in the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described the conditions there as “so severe that I could not even think of the possibility” of flight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Similarly, I use ‘mankind’ when describing early modern views; ‘humankind’ when expressing my own views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If you've never passed a winter in Chicago, let me describe it: You can live for a hundred straight days beneath an iron-gray sky that claps itself like a lid over the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

During a May conference at Caltech honoring the visiting Niels Bohr, he alluded to the lightweight neutron while describing the disintegration of eight heavy targets, up to aluminum, by deuton bombardment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The only word to describe it was a timelessness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked even cooler than Dad had described it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He offered to enlighten me, and I gratefully accepted: he described how contraceptives work, and I asked him very boldly how boys could tell they were grown-up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the courtroom, reporters discussed the best terms to use when describing Sasha. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She took me to Downings, Vaults, the Woods, Delving, Cricklet, Tenners, Candlebear The names she gave them, nonsensical at first, fit like a glove when I finally saw what they described. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In all the fairy tales she had read, the fairies were described as unnaturally beautiful, and now Ash knew what that meant. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were not here, I would describe the look as awe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, I wrote, The descriptions of the dinners really describe greed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she described to Inspector Thomas Mathew how it was not just what Velutha had said that had made her come to the police, but the way he said it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described my dreams, and the feeling I’d had on the beach, that momentary breath of evil that had seemed to stop the world, and made Ares back off from killing me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

To work out his species theory he had to become adept at describing at least one creature in minute detail. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman returned several times, perching on our sofa again and again, describing the uncomplicated births of her other children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mom described the top floor briefly, but she didn’t take them up there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray described a place of old stone walls where the earth smelled faintly of tar and hemp, bordered by a river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He goes on to describe the harbor full of crowded boats leaving the docks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s something we both have to do,” I tried to explain, but it was like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had to describe it to someone else, she would dutifully relate the obvious details: light brown eyes, a pleasant nose and chin, and a mouth that smiled easily. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I smile at Malik again, but this time, the smile feels...I don’t know how to describe it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Both conditions had been described in medical literature long before the cause was known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Eighty-one species are described in the following pages, but I do not doubt that more will be discovered, necessitating another revised edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His was the genuine feeling that Milkman had faked when Reverend Cooper described the hopelessness of “doing anything.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was describing things that had happened more than thirty years ago, but the memory still made him angry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I'm not quite sure how to describe this band's music, except to say that it sounds like a hundred thousand weasels being dropped into a boiling ocean. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, he developed a way of talking and writing about the problem that might be described as “enlightened obfuscation.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is natural to describe key events in terms of the work of individuals who made a mark in science—Copernicus, Vesalius, Darwin, Wallace and the rest. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Post survived somewhat longer, for he made no direct attempt to compliment the prisoner, but described sym-pathetically an encounter with him at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was before I knew what life was like outside the city, and it doesn’t seem as horrific as what Edith described in her message to us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

You could tell they thought he was as guilty as sin, which usually wasn’t a bad way to describe my brother. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I went on to describe all our mistresses. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A talented musician, he socialized with what he described as an “exciting group of leftist intellectuals and bon vivants” in San Francisco. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He described how a woman had been cooking in his tent when the killers came. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He describes his eight bombers circling the machines, getting closer and closer, ready to attack. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In thus describing China’s seminal role in East Asian civilization, we should not exaggerate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was never tired of hearing Victor describe the dinner at Mrs. Pontelliers. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles Umlatt described my father as “passionate about the environment” but also “volatile and impulsive.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I did not describe it in detail, only said it was a dolce, and I think he believed it was something more elaborate than bread pudding. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido pointed to each section of the building and continued to describe one incredible thing after another. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All I can think of are those colors the woman described. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They explained the situation, describing what I looked like and what was wrong with my legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then the reporter described the final two suspects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And when, once or twice, I did hit, always just some combination, as I’ve described, West Indian Archie paid me off from his own roll. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of the traps and monsters described in the module could kill me easily. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rita had a keen mind, yet those close to her thought that her judgment was impaired by what one person described as “a love that was truly blind.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She described the port and its seafood and claimed it was even better than what we ate in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was I who described their daily lives with airy ideas. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was disheartening, just another suggestion that psychology, admittedly far from curing inmates, even had trouble describing what was wrong with them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, for me, the best way to describe it is, I got a lot of scream inside. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

William Faulkner added his pilot’s know-how to the scenario, getting technical as he described exactly what Tania would have to do to make her plane turn and swoop and dive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She could describe him only as “quite a dark colored boy” with “curly type hair.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that “walk” didn’t describe it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey spent the drive describing her mother’s next invention: an office chair that grew more uncomfortable the longer you sat in it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

How could a mere mouse take the sword from this adder that Dunwing had described? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It may have meant “stone upon stone,” which describes the rocky slope rising from the bank of the Hudson that the prison is built upon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was interested now, at least a bit, so I went on describing the rest of you, and at the end, I knew I had him convinced of the truth of my affection for you. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He describes the phases as providing ‘strong evidence that Venus moves in a sun-centred orbit’ when one might rather say that they provide conclusive evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Apparently the people David is describing, whoever they were, believed in that problem too. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If a cop ever asked me to describe him, it would be hard because there have to be a million men who look just like him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In her autobiography, Elizabeth described the discussions of abolition and women’s rights at Peterboro as “white hot.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I cringe while listening to her describe the Hideout, a place that’s supposed to be only for the kids in the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He described Neubauer as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Nothing like what I just described ever happened to him in the aptitude test simulation, I know. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

To keep her family out of the projects and on what might be described as the upper rung of poverty, she had taken up with a man who worked handling baggage at O’Hare International Airport. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but I’ll try. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, successful attempts have been made to unify three of the four categories of force—and I shall describe these in this chapter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently Michelangelo believed that only by describing the anatomy completely could he be certain that the figure would be convincing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of “priests,” who are described in Part II of the song, titled “The Temples of Syrinx.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the Iliad a vineyard is described with youths and maidens singing, as they gather the fruit, “a sweet Linus song.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In describing my mother, I say, “Her beauty is the kind which seems to be thrown into relief by grief?’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The reason why we can be certain is that the arrivals took place in modern times and involved literate Europeans, who described in innumerable books what happened. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the broadcast—variously described as part kabuki, part commedia dell’arte—started in 1956 on WOR Radio, Bobby listened to almost every show when he was in New York. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The book described a variation oFchess that seemed to be the forerunner of Fischer Random, with the exact same rules. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The early Greeks, for instance, used the word "fiving" to describe the process of tallying. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, the topic is to describe myself. So I did.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It was when I first began to perceive that “white man,” as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The private who brought it to him described plundering the villa they took it from; he called it “shopping.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Corn is an English word that has been used to describe | grain crops including wheat and oats. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

No cook-fires shone beyond the trees, and there was no trace of the electric lights Grandmother had described. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He describes how snow falls in flakes covering the land in a white, soft blanket. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rambling remarks described the predicament of slave owners as truly tragic and not of their own making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For more than six months, newspapers across the country featured front-page articles describing the testimony from witnesses, recounting every shocking and scintillating detail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He described as much as he knew about the organization of the Manhattan Project, saying he’d heard that the bomb design was happening at a secret site somewhere in New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morris’s website described his company as “a boutique law firm focusing on the comprehensive needs of high-net-worth individuals.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

With disappointment I located myself in class photographs—my dark face undefined by the camera which had clearly described the white faces of classmates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here Hickock revealed his pedophiliac tendencies, and after describing several sample experiences, wrote: I know it is wrong. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described how in Brooklyn we didn’t have to wear uniforms to school, but on Fridays there was a class called assembly in a big auditorium, and all the kids had to wear white shirts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My sister’s bed still smells like her—fabric softener, lavender lotion, and her warm and sweet human scent I can’t describe. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But when it came to describing what her face looked like underneath the mask, I simply couldn't find the right words. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I described our apartments, la marketa, the Jewish people, the Italian girls, and the books I was reading. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Holmes walked Belknap through the building’s many corridors and described how the place would look as a hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Over the next half hour, Zafoona’s cheeks grew pale as she paced back and forth while Habib described what had happened. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t recoil in disbelief when she described Pet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One scene remains to be described in this portion of my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I felt a hot stab of shame, like somehow it was my own crime he was describing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the first instance, the officer appears to be describing something that is quite impossible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dull isn’t a word you’d use to describe such misery, and enchantment. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is not an impossible combination—indeed, it seems to describe Sarrotti rather well—but it is certainly a puzzling one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pointing to the map in Major Cooper’s arms, Wheeler described a more aggressive alternative: mine North Vietnamese harbors to block Soviet and Chinese ships bringing in military supplies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She describes how hundreds of people lived together in that single structure. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She started a letter to her children, describing the trip. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The story described the supposedly secret American bombing raids in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Digges was not a conventional reader of Copernicus, for he understood that Copernicus really did intend to be taken literally when he described the Earth as moving and the sun as stationary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I can’t think of anything worse than having to describe myself. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If you happen to see her, could you tell her ...” I paused, trying to think of how I could describe what had happened. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They described in detail the woman and her hut, so it was easy for Ma to pick it out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The assistant who had set up Nixon’s secret recording system also testified, describing in detail how it worked. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Scientists usually describe the distance between two pitches in terms of the difference between their frequencies35 . Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was around this time that Aaron Giebel had begun work on his house—although calling it a house was the same as describing the Statue of Liberty as a figurine. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to describe my feelings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Gold had what he described as “an almost puppy-like eagerness to please.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a maniac treading through the night with a dark, unfulfilled heart—she had frustrated him once already—and she needed to be earthbound to describe him too. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To Van Riper, that seemed to describe much more accurately how people make decisions on the battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that’s kind of how it felt. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He later wrote about his experiences and commissioned artists to depict the scenes he described. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Love and hate and a little bit of courage and lots of fear would all rush over me at once and grip my throat and tighten me up," Dasch described. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described him as a cross between a billy goat and a female heretic, an infernal beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She also said that I should describe people in the story by mentioning one or two details about them so that people could make a picture of them in their head. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He described Haupt as a "drugstore cowboy," which was slang for a young man who hangs out on street corners or drugstores. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Breland looked up at the judge with a kind of “I couldn’t help it” smile, and then asked the sheriff to describe the body. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He saw the principal role of chemistry as finding out what things are made of, and coined the term ‘chemical analysis’ to describe this process. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She rubbed the charcoal between her palms and as she did so she described the sort of husband for whom she longed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mother’s fabrication is so elaborate I can hardly describe it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might describe these three reconciliations as attempts to explain nature’s past, present, and future through the lens of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After describing the inferno, the paper stated: “The fire broke out on . . . De Koven Street . . . being caused by a cow kicking over a lamp in a stable in which a woman was milking.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The roach’s Mamma was lying on her back as he had described. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Walter described the location of the store, we were able to track him down. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Anatomists describe the nature of materials, structures, and body parts: they describe how things are. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Did I ever. Imagine how shocked I was—me, this Talentless little thing, making such a world-changing discovery. It was ... I can’t even describe how amazing that moment felt to me.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is a word not typically used to describe science, or scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That was the beginning of a funny round-robin to see who could describe his or her experience in the most colorful language. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story described the concerns by the trucking industry that if texting were made illegal, it could hinder their efficiency of communications. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You’ll excuse me, sir, but the elderly American lady is in what I might describe as a state, sir. She’s saying she knows all about the murderer. She’s in a very excitable condition, sir.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no ultimate theory of the universe, just an infinite sequence of theories that describe the universe more and more accurately. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not begin to describe their movements or strategies, so rapidly did they follow one upon the other. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sophocles, Euripides’ contemporary, describes how the hero died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, for example, if we wanted to describe the oral texture of something, one of the attributes we would look at is slipperiness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake,” he wrote. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the final paragraph, Mother described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The deaths of my four girlfriends left me with a pain I cannot describe. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Courtney Speed described him to me a few years later, she said, “Charisma! Woo! I mean, cream of the smooth! Very well versed and knew something about everything.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Racial hygiene,” as Ploetz described it, was the genetic cleansing of the race, just as personal hygiene was the physical cleaning of the self. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In another entry he described a visit from his latest wife, Georgiana Yoke. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“When I was observing you, before the selection, I perceived that you probably had the capacity, and what you describe confirms that. It happened somewhat differently to me,” The Giver told him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The article began by describing Bohr’s becoming entangled in his microphone cord, drawing a pained high-pitched squeal from the loudspeaker. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I heard a psychologist on a radio talk show once describe the four stages of grief. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The theory was a good scientific theory, in the sense described in Chapter 1: it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I ask them about it, they describe it very matter-of-factly. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, Clarkson brandished whips and handcuffs used on slaves; he published testimonials from sailors and ship doctors who described the atrocities and punishments on slave ships. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The word “planet” originally described “wanderers” that were known only as moving lights in the sky. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Hijabis was a sort of colloquial term some people used to describe girls who wore hijab. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Paul Lindau, an author and publisher, described it as “a gigantic peepshow of utter horror, but extraordinarily to the point.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The biggest I ever saw in my whole life,” Mancuso said, stretching his arms as if he were describing a fishing catch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described the torturous climb up the cliff at length, feeling the need to relive it inch by inch as Einar had told her he had, remembering each handhold, each precipice and narrow ledge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"We don't have a lot of time, Mentor. Could you describe, to Gabe, the trade you made?" Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Kind of a nerd,” is how one classmate described him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how to describe what I was feeling. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty-nine years old and described by friends as “a very good, efficient drudge,” the hard-drinking Spangler often sleeps in either the theater or a nearby stable. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I described the glittering casinos and the glamorous high rollers, the palm trees and the swimming pools, the hotels with ice-cold air-conditioning and the restaurants where hostesses with long white gloves fit flaming desserts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One episode in these wars was the conquest and mass killing of Moriori tribes by Maori tribes, as described in Chapter 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly the book described the dangers of fire. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The way that short man popped his knuckles and gave him a look that could only be described as scornful caused him to put up his guard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Below you will find some of the formal terms musicians use to describe texture. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In terms of pure sound, Josquin could not be described as a radical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes too you will see the term Phanerozoic used to describe the span encompassing the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic eras. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In previous chapters I have described general relativity, the partial theory of gravity, and the partial theories that govern the weak, the strong, and the electromagnetic forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes," said Lombard, "peculiarly unfortunate describes it very well." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He described his time with Lupa and her pack, learning their language of gestures and expressions, learning to survive and fight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a long story about how Marshall had saved the Professor from being unjustly accused and described the murderer so that the police were able to catch him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “essential unity of science,” as he described it, means that “an advance of the horizon of knowledge in any direction uncovers territory of all the sciences.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

So far in this section, I have mainly described the economic and political history of Andean Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, something that I can only describe as an icy blast swept over me, and I looked up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Its presence is often implied even when it is not actually used to describe form. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister Princesse would give an introduction to the performance, describing our history. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Lacking words, categories, or language to describe what had happened, they called it, finally, a case of “fulminating liver failure.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He describes ripples, the glint of light against water, tiny pebbles on the shore. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In Sarajevo, Zlata described how soldiers used a “black crayon of war” to put an “S” on Serbs, a “C” on Croats, and an “M” on Muslims. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even care what they saw—if movies were half as good as Penelope described, she was in for a treat. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I walk into my very first vintage store, like the ones Janae described up near her college in Syracuse. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The crows who have seen them do not describe any youth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then, quickly, I tried to write a few lines describing them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

People use poetic language to describe things they don’t understand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s only one way to describe this insane, chaotic, crazy, fun, happy senior year: the time of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we clean up the Hameeds’ kitchen, everyone gets a chance to describe their recipes to the whole group. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

To hear him describe it, what we were about to do—kill a bunch of chickens in the backyard—was nothing less than a political act. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The taxi driver, while taking me to the Hotel Aletti, described the atrocities the French had committed, and personal measures that he had taken to get even. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gladiators led it, and it was just as Marcus had described, only no words of his could have done justice to their dazzling splendor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I have a strange and happy feeling that I can’t quite describe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They ask me to describe a day in my life. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I described how I walked to school each morning, looking over my shoulder for fear I’d see a Talib following me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He described how Lorraine and Leanne made plans to go to Florida to visit Luke and me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But Berg insisted: Perhaps I should describe further to you my ideas on this article, especially in view of your statement that the name of the patient must be withheld.... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he described how a branch had hurled down into the road in front of him; to avoid it he’d hit his brake pedal. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, though, argued that it was quite clear that general laws of the sort described by Descartes could never produce the perfect design that one could find in the paw of a dog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Friends described him as shy, smart, and always ready to help anyone who asked. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was at work that day, but my mother described it to me later—Dad being carried out of the house by burly paramedics, trying to joke with them as they went. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In a portrait of “Three Russian Women” for his book The Curtain Rises, published in 1944, he describes her incredible career as a fighter pilot at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Claire did not describe much after she passed the charred body. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I described every stage for you. I saw everything. It’s clean.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have powers you can’t possibly know about. It would take days to describe them all.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Zach’s mom sat halfway back in the auditorium with his dad, Tom Philippi, the “manly man,” as she described him. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The way he describes this place makes it sound like the great bazaars of northern Africa I’ve read about in books. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Kira’s head was already spinning with the effort to remember the names of the plants and the colors they would create, and only a small corner of the lavish garden had been described. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I have only described one situation, that of the lunar module taking off late. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the woman hold and tend her infant one afternoon, Claire confided in her and described the return of the memories. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He described the wondrous feats of magic Lon could achieve if he joined them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He described ducking cafeteria chairs as he tried to fulfill his duty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Blake sat with Rodin on the bench and described his arrival in England and debriefing by MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So is describing a beautiful woman as easy as looking at one for you?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The broom dog rested on his lap as he scribbled words and phrases trying to describe the environment around him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe that would describe a canyon, complete with a handy river at the bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Char continued to describe the visit of a trade delegation and the same ball that Dame Olga had attended, although he didn’t mention what he had worn. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would begin by describing some incident in which she was a sort of honest buffoon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure she’d have the courage to describe them twice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She described how the infant had begun to say her name. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Reading Malthus and thinking about the natural world, Charles realized that nature was not happy and peaceful, as Paley had described in his natural theology books. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He described the enchantments of chicken, pork, and beef in China, Hong Kong, Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Each fresco appeared in the exact location described in the original D&D module. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see anything like she was describing, but I nodded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And the reason for this was that my faith had been shaken in a way that I can never fully describe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably described it in detail, but by that point I was only half listening. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Reconstruction is most typically described as stretching from 1863, when the North freed the slaves, to 1877, when it abandoned them and withdrew federal troops from the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She described the dinner, and Robbie’s wild look at the table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mathematicians know how to describe them: they are wave functions, solutions to a differential equation called the Schrödinger equation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she describes a place that sounds like heaven. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

How would I one day describe this my own child, I thought, if ever I had one? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Nancy saw what she described as “horrendous gut lesions” in some of the animals, caused by sloughing of the intestinal lining. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t described the gnarled hands, or the enemas, or the pounds of liquefied tissue we’d scraped off his body. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It described the music as ‘fidgety, screaming and neurotic’, and as a ‘confused stream of sound’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought all was lost, Velia and Delia burst through the barn doors wielding what could only be described as giant metal baseball bats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He ran them through his fingers, foot after foot of them, described them as “normal” to the microphone, put them in a bucket on the floor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Laws stripping people of their rights were inevitably described as laws restoring those rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until he wrote this book that he used the word evolution to describe how species change. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had not heard it described that way before. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was our crime—Lola’s, Marshall’s, mine—and from the second version onward, I set out to describe it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He argued, not unsuccessfully, that the Earth was best described by that single doleful word. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katrina had described his strong hands smoothing the wood and rounding its corners so that the coming baby would not be endangered by sharp edges. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people who remained conscious throughout, while appearing to have been quite dead, could only describe a remarkable sensation of detachment. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Devastated” is the only word that comes to mind to describe him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She wished she could use her charmspeak on the Fates, describe a happy ending, and force them to make it come true. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“A dynamo in low heels” was how one old friend described her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Words can't describe how poor we were. But we were starting to see better days." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The earliest theoretical attempts to describe and explain the universe involved the idea that events and natural phenomena were controlled by spirits with human emotions who acted in a very humanlike and unpredictable manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved his hand fishily in the air, unable to describe what he imagined. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dr. King described in detail what might happen to those of us who joined the march—possible police violence against us, maybe physical injuries, and even the chance of imprisonment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he changed to modern speech and described some of Father’s actual victories. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

White described how, after being shot by Boxcar, he was found in the ditch and rushed to the hospital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And then, Liam bent down and kissed me, and there were no words to describe that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He describes how two Khmer men in their early thirties stepped forward and took the prisoner from the Youns as the crowd cheered again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the Aztecs had no illusions about the Spaniards, whom they described in these words: They seized upon the gold as if they were monkeys, their faces gleaming. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had on this sweater that was pretty tough to describe. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article also described several people who had got lost with satellite navigation devices. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At least, the words “Lady Eleanor” were spoken often, but the person they described—dutiful parent, loyal citizen, steadfast spouse—sounded more like the high chancellor than like my mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He described it so vividly, a shiver passed through my body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Indeed we have,” said Hallgrimsson, and if Coram had had to describe his expression, he would have said that the scholar was preening himself just a little. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Boyle went on to carry out extensive research into the phenomenon of second sight, which one might describe as the beginnings of parapsychology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon after we were released I wrote a paper for a seventh-grade journalism class, describing how we used to hunt grunion before the war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snuck down the alley to the shed window that Curzon described. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to understand the horror he described, a murder spurred by jealousy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This natural control, plus quarantine measures and local spraying, achieved what the Department in 1955 described as “outstanding restriction of distribution and damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He’d brought a big drawing pad and asked me to describe the creature again, and as I did he sketched it, stopping occasionally to ask for clarifications. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the Mark I, these sparks packed the power of lightning bolts, ripping through the drift tubes and leaving behind what Pief Panofsky described as “spectacular stalagmites and stalactites of copper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then he would come close to actual weeping when he described to the class the death of Manolete which he had studied exhaustively while in Spain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No such creature was described or spoken of directly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that it was Edmund, my childhood tormentor, and described his menacing ways. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The "report" mentioned in this decrypted message described a crucial step in building an atomic bomb. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So he asked Marie to describe briefly that day when I had first known her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the speech might be described as “Spoken but not heard.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to describe his smell exactly—clean and sweaty at the same time—but I like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But they were Christians so I won’t describe them to you, or I could get them killed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Genetics had found a means to describe the flow of information from organism to organism, and—within an organism—from encryption to form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A recent centenary conference and festival devoted to him in modern Hungary simply described him, correctly, as 'European'. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to describe, but I imagine the way I am at this moment is a lot like getting sucked into a vortex. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The consequences that these would have for black holes and the big bang will be described in later chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles described her as very tall for her age, sturdy and strong. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Piper described their duel on the highway, Jason winced. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the paradise my grandfather had described. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And she said it was best to describe things that were interesting or different. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I recounted stories from our childhood and described our house, room by room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

No words can describe the sorrow I felt upon hearing the circumstances of Tariq Johnson's death, and none can convey my frustration with the system that allowed his killer to walk free. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The case contained a secret compartment, in which Ames had stashed a document describing the CIA's relationship with the spy, along with his photograph; Ames never found it again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each man described the mute as he wished him to be. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Morrison, whom Agent Burger described as an “unusually shrewd and reckless and self-confessed criminal,” dressed like a dance-hall hustler. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he described getting on the bus and how there was a man on the bus wearing a skirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In social studies, in a unit on basic economics, Jake helped Mr. Lyons by describing the difference between satisfying wants and meeting needs to a group that just couldn’t grasp the concept. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And the whole, wonderful point of some experiences—music, sex, laughter—is that there are not and never will be any adequate words to describe them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her text discussed the metamorphosis of more than fifty moths and butterflies, describing the timing of each phase, her repeated experiments and failures, and any other interesting insect behavior she had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It sounded exactly like the letter Ms. Hussey had described to her class. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He overflows with words describing how bad it sucks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned disbelief was the only way to describe her reaction to the sight of Cap on the receiving end of all that love. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In her autobiography, Elizabeth described Bayard as “a tall, fully developed man, remarkably fine looking, with cultivated literary taste and a profound knowledge of human nature.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The book described the phenomenon that dictated rocket-nozzle design, and Quentin and I talked about it until we were certain we understood it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was described to me by my mom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The book was, true enough, what might be described as a 'sentimental romance' - one of a number kept in the library, and also in several of the guest bedrooms, for the entertainment of lady visitors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, it’s public record, and it substantiates what you described. He told me that we should look at it”—Gay paused meaningfully—“before too long.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’d relaxed into his normal self now and was describing the new stop-motion video he was in the middle of making. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Although the township did boast some handsome buildings, it could fairly be described as a slum, living testimony to the neglect of the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember when I described the differences between Oklahoma toilets and the ones in Iran and how obviously better they are because squatting is good for flow and washing is good for hygiene? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Entranced again by Lawrence’s “thrilling” optimism, as he described it to Weaver, Fosdick came away from the meeting anxious that the Rad Lab might not need the foundation’s funds after all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But at the exact same time I got nervous about that, I also got this other feeling, which I can only describe as love for Annemarie’s elevator. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Derby described the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don’t want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth any more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used that word in describing him: “good.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She described the season’s ongoing theme as “charitable crafts” because “it’s not just our own lives that get messy.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The man had a little lisp and he was describing pollination, which he described as nature’s way to reproduce. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He described it several times in print, in Latin and in French, but never in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon I’m filling page after page, making lists of people and foods and places I miss, describing them using metaphors like Mrs. Brown taught us. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I described Daisy Nation, my grandmother, as “renowned for her beauty.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I knew right away it would be about interesting things described in the most uninteresting way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny described it as only a silversmith could. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Could you describe the vehicle the suspect was driving?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A piece of music, or one performer's part in that piece, may also be described as having a range, from the lowest to highest note written for the performer in that piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Unlike others who have described their Catholic schooling, I do not remember the nuns or the priests to have been obsessed with sexual sins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s difficult to describe it without lapsing into poor taste; indeed, the truck and trailer alone were a monument to the word “god-awful.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mother: “I didn’t say you were pushy, but no one would describe you as having a retiring disposition.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fuchs described some of the complex challenges of separating uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach after coach paid him the highest possible praise: they pulled out every possible time-worn cliche to describe him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Descartes describes something in nature as a machine it is biological entities which he always has in mind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d stopped using the word fascinated to describe the way he engaged with me and my life, because the pejorative iteration of the word no longer seemed fair. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of freaking when I described the most gruesome of the Mosses’ punishments, she spoke calmly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Another set of useful terms describe how quickly a melody goes up and down. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know her name, where she came from, where she went, and you can’t describe her. And you think I’m a fool.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But cool didn’t begin to describe what was going through my head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Historians have described the commandos as ordinary men who had an extraordinary job. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His brow furrows as he describes the perilous condition of Denmark and relates how Fortinbras seized control after Claudius was killed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The testing, the experiment, the surgery, and my subsequent mental development were described at length, and his talk was enlivened by quotations from my progress reports. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Bailey, you know I wanted to like your children, but they . . .” She couldn’t bring herself to describe us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they graduated, he had fallen for Shaker Heights as well, the way Elena described it: the first planned community, the most progressive community, the perfect place for young idealists. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be—because my friends back home described so many types—and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He described to her the green wheat fields of Herat, the orchards, the vines pregnant with plump grapes, the city’s crowded, vaulted bazaars. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, that really describes my daughter—top student, athlete, White House guest.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“And I thank you, because once again you have provided an opportunity for a lesson in language. ‘Distraught’ is too strong an adjective to describe salmon- viewing.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he was four years old, Flint could best be described as a “spoiled brat. ” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went on to describe every one of them. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The army is “the people, the state, and the party,” says the government, which no longer describes itself as a communist state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She began to describe this year’s group and its variety of personalities, though she singled no one out by name. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The nature of the road describes the nature of the travel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suspected he had found me a foster home and that I was going to be “repatriated”—the term used to describe the process of reuniting ex-child soldiers with their former communities. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of the mirror, describing the kind of cornrows she wanted. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he described his finances, it became clear he was spending the money we’d secured for him more quickly than seemed prudent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It is almost - impossible to describe this hunger that consumed us,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The story described the Coca-Cola truck driver who, distracted by the computer he used to get his delivery orders, killed a seven-year-old in the backseat of an oncoming truck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wish I could describe every second of those eleven minutes on stage, every move, every jump. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

After Nick, behind Bernabe’s back, had derisively crossed himself, he walked around the store, describing the crime. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d described the way dragons flew, with special appendages on their wings. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bobby was using a form of chess notation that described the movement of the pieces to various squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How could he describe the Labyrinth to someone who’d never explored it? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead I began to describe the perfect little house we’d seen earlier. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, Harry was besieged with requests from the other sixth years to describe the sensation of Apparition. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He longed to know what she looked like, because Lyra had never described her, and the face that went with this voice must be remarkable. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed to hear one another describe this feeling they had all felt, but never before put into words. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She can then describe the exact location, including the different paths leading to the area. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As described in chapter 4, many people labeled criminals describe an existential angst associated with their pariah status, an angst that casts a shadow over every aspect of their identity and social experience. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He described what was happening, mentioned some of those who were present, and that the new heavyweight king was “in the next room, my bedroom here” taking a nap. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys will say amongst themselves that so-and-so has a nice rack, while girls will more likely say that a boy is cute, a term that describes both physical and emotional characteristics. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

During the last year or so, in the New York Times, Arnold Toynbee used the word “bleached” in describing the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The FBI describes him as a "dirty rat" and a "snappy dresser." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I described the aspen grove where she was buried and told him about the river nearby. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He described the visit as a “courtesy call,” and I was told to be ready to leave at 5:30 A.M. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I considered the impossibilities he described, trying to take it in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. It’s really hard to describe.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

International economists often describe South Korea as the single most impressive example of what free markets, democratic government, and elbow grease can do to transform a small agrarian backwater into a global powerhouse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It succinctly describes the method of propulsion of the landingboat, sir.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so how many of you used adjectives that describe your personality?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it was great!” the normally articulate Robert exclaims, unable to find a more expressive way to describe the event. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the office life the woman appeared to be leading was about as close as you could hope to the one Ruth had often described for herself. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To reinforce the point, Dr. Strayer described the concept of “inattention blindness,” in which lack of attention can cause someone to not see what’s going on around them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I am afraid it is not easy to describe clearly what I mean here. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His right hand described the circle of the hills, the sloping fields and the mountains, and ended at his hat again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is reminiscent of Schooler’s experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people’s ability to solve insight problems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The words musicians use to describe timbre are somewhat subjective, but most musicians would agree with the statement that, compared with each other, the first sound is mellow, the second bright, and the third rich. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know the words to describe it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

All was moonlit, all silver, too beautiful to describe. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan unsheathed his sword and stalked forward, feeling the hunger, living in the moment, just as Goddard had said, and allowing himself to feel that hunger was freeing in a way Rowan couldn’t describe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The astronomical system it described was far from being Ptolemy’s own idea, although he seems to have tweaked and developed the ideas of the Ancient Greeks. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing much happened that she could describe to herself in thoughts or words—but there was a feeling of change. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To justify the exterminations, the Nazis had already begun to describe the victims using the euphemism lebensunwertes Leben—lives unworthy of living. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after that I began playing ... how can I describe it? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So Matt described the brown-clad men and women who toiled endlessly over the fields and the gardeners who clipped the vast lawns of El Patron’s estate with scissors. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nigro had described this phenomenon at the Academy, and he was absolutely right: Somehow you just knew. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Written accounts of earlier expeditions motivated later ones, by describing the wealth and fertile lands awaiting the conquerors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Listen to how Borgenicht describes his decision to expand beyond aprons: From my study of the market I knew that only three men were making children’s dresses in 1890. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I would like to impress this on the magazine writer who described some body’s walls as “hanged with handsome black-and-white photographs.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was often asked by reporters how it felt to be free, and I did my best to describe the indescribable, and usually failed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way it permits me here to describe myself, writing... Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on a long wooden bench and couldn’t think of any word that described her anymore. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

How can I describe to them in my broken Chinese about our mother’s life? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That characterization describes perfectly the course of the relationship between Strauss and Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But there is plenty of scope for arguing with ‘is’ statements, and one could hardly describe them as stubborn or powerful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I describe to her the images I see. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now that the Cranes had spent years bouncing from state to state, their family adventures were starting to feel...Emily wasn’t sure what the word was to describe it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Classic” is definitely a good way to describe my grandfather. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He described the eejit pens and the opium fields that surrounded them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described the interior as bare except for a small wood stove and a bed—a good place for a soul to think and heal. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And I haven’t any good ideas concerning where to start to describe the contents of her envelope. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then play the leitmotif on an instrument that helps describe that character. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This type of phenomenon has been described in the psychological literature as pluralistic ignorance, in which people misjudge the norm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The photographs these new cameras created were fast becoming known as “snap-shots,” a term originally used by English hunters to describe a quick shot with a gun. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was nothing she could not describe: the gentle pad of a maniac’s tread moving sinuously along the drive, keeping to the verge to muffle his approach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled the menu to her and opened it, scanning the items with what could only be described as fear. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the heart of it was Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The correspondent sounded very excited as he described the Norwegian destroyer sinking. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he described how I looked, they both burst into tears. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I would like to think there is another word to describe his behavior, but “lurking” is a perfect fit. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He described it as ‘a supplement to Aristotle’s On the Heavens’ because he assumed it would be part of a programme of education still based on Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is hard, even now, to describe my relationship to Caroline in those days. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nepal’s Supreme Court orders the government to issue citizenship ID cards that allow people to describe themselves as “third-gender” or “other.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the dialogues he wrote he describes himself as mixing with the elite of English society, but he later claimed this was fiction not fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After introducing himself, he facilitated a conversation that would last about an hour, asking people to share their stories and describe their concerns about life in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I think I saw the boy you described running that way. He had a kite in his hand. A blue one.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

How on earth would I go about describing a girl’s parts? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Seriously, I can't argue with the fact that Oreos are extremely delicious, and the menu you described actually sounds amazing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I’d never entered Coosa Liquors, but it was every bit as desolate as Alaska described. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the classical models of latter-day seclusion represented by Cincinnatus and described by Cicero and Virgil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to describe the shock of return. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t I take more time describing the water butterflies to Javier? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Penkovsky had gotten his hands on a technical manual describing the same R-12 missiles that the CIA had detected in Cuba. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The highlight came when Berrange read Murray a passage that the professor unhesitatingly described as “communism straight from the shoulder.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Doug described it to me, “It feels like somebody’s driven a nail between my eyes.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The phrase ‘in model’ is extremely rare, but a single sheet published in 1651 is described in its title as a summary of Christian doctrine ‘in model’: it is a wall-chart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was no way to describe to his friends what he had experienced there in the Annex room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is a delight for me to read her notebooks from those years, which describe a magic world that no longer exists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because the act of describing a face has the effect of impairing your otherwise effortless ability to subsequently recognize that face. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to write it down, but I keep reminding myself that I’m the only one in the world who can describe what happens when it goes this way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It never hides,” the scythe told them with a world-weariness that was hard to describe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While the family ate, Baba, Neel, and Rupa described the previous night’s events to a bewildered Ma. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Ulster Scots were not merely settlers; they can be more accurately described as settler-soldiers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A newspaper account described typical Levittown home buyers as “young persons of moderate financial circumstances who had small children and might expect others.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hoving has talked to many art experts whom he calls fakebusters, and they all describe the act of getting at the truth of a work of art as an extraordinarily imprecise process. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

These days it seemed ridiculous, as the life she described was becoming more and more of a fantasy—trips to the mall, family vacations, and Friday night football games. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He describes these instructors with pimples popping from their skins, fangs sprouting in their mouths, their tongues hanging out like those of dogs, their eyes crossed in permanent, girl-inspired imbecility. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frank also described the guy as a “creep.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And similar to that person Jack had described, she also couldn’t imagine ignoring The Gold-Bug puzzle now that she’d found it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I described the whole thing to Mom over dinner. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then, without describing the daunting task faced by black nurses or praising them for acting fearlessly when everyone else had fled in terror, he attacked them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Adam was describing the cheerful, fun side of me, but I had another side. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You see, if the y coordinate and the x coordinate change, the point they describe changes too. Then if you change the time period—” He stopped in midsentence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep came, and with it came my dream-fate which drew me to the witches’ Black Mass. I saw all, and it was exactly as my uncle had described it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ted Skopinski was the trajectories guy, elaborating on the math describing the path taken by a space vehicle as it left Earths surface and settled into orbit around it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The elephant opens her shovel-shaped mouth in what can only be described as a smile and starts to sway, keeping time with the movement of her trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It described how one man went to prison for armed robbery, but more than one person said they saw him somewhere else, not at the crime scene. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Time and time again Europeans described the People of the First Light as strikingly healthy specimens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And clean? Dress hair, press clothing—" “Make soap, wash dishes, barter—yes. You've just described every free-woman in the Scholars' Quarter." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I go to the side and knock on the door the street cleaner described. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She described herself as just a citizen alarmed by the growing phenomenon of texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When she described him—kind eyes, brown hair, a glow like a TV in a dark room, white robes—Ellie gasped and said, “Oh my God, you saw Jesus.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to describe that feeling, just to say that it’s kind of like cold, sunny days. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A legend in his own time, Americans had been describing Washington as “the Father of the Country” since 1776—which is to say, before there was even a country. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Arm described his glimpse inside the Mellower and how, after the dinner party, he had walked through General Matsika’s thoughts, opened a door and stepped into an actual memory. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What Lincoln sees now can only be described as shocking. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It annoys her that the waiter, perfectly attentive, looks neither of them in the eye as he describes the menu, speaking instead to the bottle of mineral water positioned between them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition’s Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“God dog could he run!” was the only way Ken Hankins, an independent oil producer who had been born in Odessa in 1933 and was a die-hard Odessa High booster, could possibly describe it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s why so many people look the same to you. It’s why you don’t look people in the eye. Why you couldn’t describe the man who took Roza.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The place was put together, given life, sustained into today’s version of its maturity and prepared for further elaboration and changes in its complexity, by what can only be described as a bunch of people. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps on his computer a roster of 1,600 names and addresses, and on each entry is a note describing the circumstances under which he met the person. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias had described the layout of the Ice Court in detail, but he’d said little about the way it actually looked. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She would have the words to describe them: their mean, snickering faces she knew by heart. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don’t expect me to describe it, that’s impossible, so I’ll only say it was sublime! Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first part of Mrs. Gardiner’s business on her arrival was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Agassi tape is a perfect illustration of our inability to describe how we behave in the moment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I found myself using my hands as I tried to describe it to him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Wow is their word for wonder and awe, and it is definitely the best word to describe what I have seen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

So she described it, sitting in her chamber among her maids—while her true lord was eating. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Duke Valentino as his instrument and the French invasion as his opportunity, he achieved all those things that I discussed earlier in describing the actions of the Duke. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

These papers, in fact—along with the others Mrs. Heine has described, the ones her husband and his ‘buyer’ held—were entered, as you may recall, as state’s evidence in this trial. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t describe how great it feels to have another chance. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described Harriet as “a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. “Her success was wonderful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the State, may be justly likened to the hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I was kind of an oops,” was the way he described his entrance into the world. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described scenes of devastation—forests turned to deserts by American chemicals, villages burning, children wounded by American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t start to describe for you my welter of emotions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Nugent overheard his gyptian companions using a phrase to describe the phenomena, a phrase that was unknown to him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He escaped because of what he described as a “totally miraculous chance.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sam could never describe in words, nor picture clearly to himself, what he felt or thought that night, though it remained in his memory as one of the chief events of his life. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Odd,” the doctor went on, “and just the kind of thing we’re looking for. Make a note of it, my dear, and try to describe it exactly.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Adams received word of this outrageous ultimatum, he ordered the delegation to return home, but he also withheld the official dispatches describing the bribery scheme from the Congress and the public. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And you,” said Bod, who had had that night described to him over the years by many people, some of whom had even been there. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The audience members rise to their feet and cheer, making a noise that Withers can only describe as “breathtaking.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When he pulled his eyes away from Mr. Flux to Sheed, he didn’t feel better, all too aware that the fate TimeStar described for his cousin wasn’t so different. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a term chefs use to describe the texture of the pasta. You want it to still be a little firm when you bite into it.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hatun described his time laboring on the roads and bridges, and how some of the men had been hard-working while others were lazy. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“It might be our destination. This is not what Stan described.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I stopped by a dried fruit stand, described Hassan to an old merchant loading his mule with crates of pine seeds and raisins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

However, Met Bong describes the Youns as savages who are bent on taking over our country and our people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What originally was planned to be an angry riptide, one English newspaper aptly described now as “the gentle flood.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact,” he said, “the general plan of the furnace was not unlike that of a crematory for dead bodies, and with the provision already described there would be absolutely no odor from the furnace.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The expression first came into popular use in the 1970s to describe the flight to the suburbs of whites living in the older cities of the American Northeast. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made one of the other Gentry kids describe what happened to you at that lecture,” Vivi says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This is how the fall was described to me, but my mind sketches it differently—on a white page with evenly spaced lines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then she asks if any of us wrote down words that describe our ethnicity. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Was he really one of those men described in the oath? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have a saying among Black Americans which describes Momma’s caution. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had been smart, if I had been honest with my survey, I would have described Hannah. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She treated me like an adult, asking for my thoughts, listening keenly as I described the various worries and administrative tangles students had brought in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She picked up on it when they had met, and now, here was Reggie, sounding a lot more like the person Kaylene had described. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Each has a thick coat, some with fur that is straight and sleek, others curly, and the colors vary from jet black to what I can only describe as blond. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Inside was what Kurnakov described as a “neatly written report” outlining the basic scientific principles of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described the prison routine in every aspect, but he never told her of its stupidity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he described the machine’s capabilities for Karl Darrow, the lab’s eminent physicist and a writer of popular science articles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was never tired of hearing Victor describe the dinner at Mrs. Pontellier’s. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

He’d had no disciplinary violations and the staff at Chad had described him as motivated to participate in treatment programs and remorseful about his crime. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A forced letter, trying to amuse, describing my fellow passengers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If you haven’t tried it, then I am sorry I cannot describe it properly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The church modes, like their Greek forerunners, were ascribed certain moods, and a great deal of theoretical energy was expended over hundreds of years describing their effect and their best possible application. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But the truth is that was a careless and condescending way to describe her. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This woman, in all her eccentricities and in her appearance, is almost impossible to describe, but I shall make some attempt to do so a little later on. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ruling Alone In the inscription that describes Cleopatra’s participation in the ceremony of the Buchis bull, no mention is made of Ptolemy XIII. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

When two words are combined to describe a noun, sometimes you use a hyphen between them and sometimes you don’t. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A survey was conducted in 1995 asking the following question: “Would you close your eyes for a second, envision a drug user, and describe that person to me?” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It would not describe somebody who provides one bed for three people to sleep in, forces them to do horrible chores, and strikes them across the face. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“My trouble, Bast, is that she is very important. Important to the story. I cannot think of how to describe her without falling short of the mark.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brahe did not count the star of Bethlehem as a true star, for the Gospel of Matthew describes it as moving in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Another day he appeared on the television program of Irv Kupcinet; he described attempts that had been made to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had set themselves up to describe the world. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first narrator described the Arables’ farm and told the audience about the baby pig who was moments from execution. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tired and hungry, Wild devoured a seal steak as he described their nine hours of searching the coastline. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I can’t even describe how mad I felt, leaving the blacktop. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, what had my entire town full of hope and big ideas was what one scientist described on the news as an extremely rare group of albino woodpeckers by the name of pileated. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I describe Finch, and Mike rubs his chin and starts nodding. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Horrified, he describes the creature the way H. G. Wells did in his novel—the leathery skin, the tentacles, the quivering mouth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He graduated from this part of the course in 1591, second out of a class of fourteen, and moved on to his theological studies described by his tutors as an exceptional student. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

White Americans have contented themselves with gestures that are now described as “tokenism.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

So I described how Bruno Jenkins had come in and how I had actually seen him with my own eyes being shrunk into a mouse. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was an odd sensation to hold my entire vocabulary in my hands, to look back through the stack and recall the afternoon I learned to effectively describe my hangovers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The word, as popularly used, did describe me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The remaining papers had to be “grouped, described, labeled, indexed, and reverently dispatched to their sealed tombs in the government vaults.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The answers that this approach suggests for the origin and fate of the universe and its contents, such as astronauts, will be described in the next two chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can I describe what really goes on between us? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I came out of the store, one woman was excitedly describing for the rest a Malcolm X lecture she had heard in Mosque Number 7 one Sunday. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen haltingly described how big the boiler was, how intimidating. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has ever described to me what happened when Shawn’s head struck that second time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Malik insists that Jar Jar Binks should be a verb, adjective, and an adverb to describe whack stuff because Jar Jar Binks is the worst character in the Star Wars universe. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had tried to hide his shock when Juno had appeared, but she looked exactly like his grandmother had described—right down to the goatskin cape. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Thus it was often far from clear exactly what Galen was describing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What my sensations were, no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Learning the hard way” is a nice way to describe the next few years after I walked out that door. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

What Jefferson had described as “the reign of witches” even began to assume the shape of a political comedy in which the joke was on the Federalists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hecate expected her to defeat some super-powerful sorceress—the lady in the gold dress, whom Leo had described from his dream. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reese, for example, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals described a drug task force completely corrupted by its dependence on federal drug money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Antisocial personality, though it described plenty of guys on R-and-W, seemed also to serve as a catchall for problem inmates who couldn’t otherwise be categorized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I attempted to convey to her what a genial employer Mr Farraday is; and I described the changes to the house itself, the alterations and the dust- sheetings, as well as the present staffing arrangements. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For once not wearing his red carnation, the mayor was asked to describe Fuller and replied, “He has a proclivity for vexation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He serves dinner on a round plate and describes the locations of different foods by the hands of a clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The only world I know beyond this camp is the one Met Bong describes to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at Judge Samuels, as she describes the ways her heart has been broken. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The brother-and-sister team created an impressive poster that described their entrepreneurial efforts as purveyors of lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“And what I do remember is almost impossible to describe. It’s all much less clear than it was even a few months ago. I suppose I should have tried to write it down or something.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to write three paragraphs answering the questions: What is the author trying to say by describing the expensive dinners in such detail? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It so happened that a cloak exactly like the one Xenophilius had just described was in the room with them at that very moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But he is well aware that describing clouds is at the limit of his linguistic capacities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It describes the fine, irreverent carelessness I myself would like to cultivate, in these and other matters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He described how he’d shot her in the head, then carried her body in his arms down to the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It is my hope that the harsh reality described in this report is now clear enough that we can begin talking about solutions. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One girl described how she slept on gurneys in hospital emergency rooms at night while attending college during the day. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Recently a white woman from Texas, who would quickly describe herself as a liberal, asked me about my hometown. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was the stile Circe had described to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still finding the words to describe how he felt about them, and he knew that Ana would wait for him to discover the right ones. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All the torments of the one class and the joys of the other are described at length. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Soft, but rough like a file over the fingertips. It was a sermon, you know. About hell-fire. He described the tortures of...well, you know. I once heard a sermon like that—almost.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone is one in 3 billion at the moment, which describes the odds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie’s many fans described him as a perfect spokesman because he is just a regular guy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

How can you describe my bright eyes, the strength of my hand as I gripped my mother’s thumb? Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment, which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shake my head..“What a—” I can’t even think of a word strong enough to describe him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, as has been described in earlier chapters, the classical laws were superseded by quantum laws based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described the sneering fury in his face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Skadden, the legal historian Lincoln Caplan describes that early world of takeovers: The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Seneca people gave him a name in their language to describe what he was doing: Conotocarious. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This is the part where I’m supposed to use food metaphors to describe everyone’s respective complexions. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Almost any of the readers of this book, had they been in the right place at the right time, could have made the great discoveries described here. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The short, wiry man had the narrow face of a ferret and what I can only describe as psycho eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When we studied the seasons, Mrs. Brush assigned us an essay describing a winter holiday with our family and said the best one would be printed in the school newsletter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This was the meritocracy John Casteen described when he greeted the parents of freshmen in a University of Virginia lecture hall in the late summer of 2004. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Are these the words to describe the vibe she gives off? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Carla," he coaxed, "can you please describe the man you saw?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

How he would never quite describe the man who stole Roza, at least not in the way that other people would. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A gruff, hard-drinking man who often carried a bone-handled six-shooter and, for good measure, a knife slipped into his leather boot, he was brasher than Tom—“rough and ready,” as a relative described him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some similar dinners, if there were dinners that could be considered similar, might have calligraphed menus on sturdy paper describing each course in great detail, or perhaps just listing an intriguing title or name. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He finished by describing the lesson he would “take most from the book.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She described in detail her dream about the painting, confiding that no one but Calder knew about it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Who could ever describe this confusion, and come up with the village names and the dates for the history books? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He described all those tests, inkblots and all that stuff, and he said the kid is definitely a killer type. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty had wondered how to say it, how to describe it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for . . . giving me sanctuary. It’s been ... I can’t describe how it’s been, since that story came out.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, we wandered away from dragons, for to explain about the dragons, I had to describe my home—I mean, our home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were transfixed as we listened to newsmen describe the power of that very special military unit. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin grandly described it as an “irregular polyhedron,” but it was little more than a wooden shed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

From what she had heard described, they were endless work—feeding, rocking, bathing—and they cried too much. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he started to describe what he’d been doing—I didn’t actually see anything until a few weeks later—I found it hard to show much enthusiasm. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several more lines of text, describing some of the issues this group has fought for. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Several times when I described Phoebe’s world of lunatics and axe murderers, Gram said, “Just like Gloria, I swear to goodness. Just exactly like Gloria.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There came into it—but it was something hard to describe. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It describes people’s inability to choose their own Personal Legends. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world’s greatest lie.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of his speech, Shin described how he had crawled over Park’s smoldering body. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“He described this scene to me. I recognized it when the automaton drew the picture.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Papa spent some time describing hell, as if God did not know that the flames were eternal and raging and fierce. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she went back and told Charles of her failure, he sent a letter to his cousin Fox, who had visited Malvern before and had written to Charles describing the grave. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As her daughter later described her, Emma was pretty, with gray eyes, a clear complexion, a nice high forehead, a firm chin, a straight nose, and beautiful long, thick brown hair. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

William never described in detail exactly how he was treated there. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Former mayor of Atlanta and U.S. ambassador Andrew Young once described Shuttlesworth as “fearless to the point of insanity.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This chant, also called plainchant or plainsong, has by default often been described as ‘Gregorian’ chant, after Gregory the Great, who was Pope at the end of the sixth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The reason is that upward mobility requires what sociologists describe as the twin pillars of success: human capital and social capital. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was young and pretty—a “handsome blonde,” as he later described her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

How can I describe what it was like during the invasion? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I fed a fireplace once with seventeen pages about a man who needed to be mutilated. I described the torture lovingly.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know everything and Milkman found himself rattling off assets like an accountant, describing deals, total rents income, bank loans, and this new thing his father was looking into—the stock market. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her letter to me, I’d written her back describing how life in the U.S. was different, but nice. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Harvey actually measured the capacity of the heart, which he described as being like an inflated glove, and worked out how much blood it was pumping into the arteries each minute. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity—of anger and hellish rage—which came over the Count’s face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Kepler had described his snowflakes as like little stars; now, everywhere he turned his telescope he found them, thick enough to make a snowstorm. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t divulge what he knew, however, and upon receiving the message the sheriff set out in what the press described as a “fast automobile.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Powers describes these as ‘purported’ experiments, but of course they were real. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d discovered that the way the sun shines in the fall is exactly like writers describe it in books. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He had taken a strong interest in Indian affairs in Oklahoma, and he was trusted by the Osage; a reporter described him as a “kind-hearted, white-haired man.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He describes the plot without giving too many details. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In mid-July, District Attorney Corkhill gave the press Guiteau's confession, in which he described planning the shooting, buying the gun, and following the president around Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Can you describe it concisely so that you can find this spot again if you have to?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dean, who had helped organize the cover-up, described the Plumbers and the Ellsberg break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Your writing shows promise. If you’re able to overcome the difficulties like the one you describe in your paper and you continue working as hard as you have, you’re going to succeed.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Thirty-three years old, Riddick was one of those intense men who, despite being well under six feet tall, are invariably described as huge. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In describing black women you admire, always use the word “STRONG” because that is what black women are supposed to be in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We were born into war,” I continued, describing my childhood. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was Alexandra, I was South Africa, I was part of what Alan Paton described as “a tragically beautiful land.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has a regular face! How do you describe a regular face?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The political deal Jefferson described would never go down in Virginia, where assumption was regarded as a “fatal poison” and the Potomac location “of but little importance” in comparison. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were a group of about thirty “mature” women—that’s how Padre de Jesus described us, bless his heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This of course described half the kids I knew. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later sent a letter describing his welcome, his new position at a building company. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn’t sure the document described anything real at all. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She did not behave in a romantic way toward her husband, and yet she had used the word to describe him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And yet there again, the Neurocase paper I cite above on the prodigious memorizer of 7t describes how the subject’s “self-report indicates that imagining affective situations and high emotional content is critical for successful recall.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"What a splendid word to describe an arrow vibrating, just after it has hitl” Lancelot said: "I heard it in a ballad.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman floundered for a word to describe the nagging he thought he was a victim of. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that attacked the human brain the way the man named Anton had described in the barracks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just for fun, I’ll describe the session with his very first patient. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A sound comes out of me that could only be described as a squeal of delight. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Gloria spoke as if she had ended the discussion by using words the school used to describe children such as herself. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sum of all contributions could be described by the series—½ + ¼ + ⅛ ...—all of which conveniently added to 1. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Both my parents have tried to describe something of what it was like for them to have grown up Catholic in small Mexican towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She describes the narrow house, the gas fireplaces, the dank odor of the bathrooms, eating Weetabix and hot milk for breakfast, wearing a uniform to school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want any contact with the old grandma she had described, but I went. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as for a divorced daughter from a love marriage, well, words could not describe Baby Kochamma’s outrage. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t have any pictures, but we have thoroughly described our darlings to each other. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, describing a sunset from Daniel Deronda, he failed to notice the one that was presently falling over Michigan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Massive Chinese agricultural, scientific, and industrial efforts are described in a book that Life magazine recently published. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. Verbs. A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence that forms the main part of the predicate in a sentence. To run. To sprint. To dart. To dash. To scuttle...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

As 1 shall describe, the prospects for finding such a theory seem to be much better now because we know so much more about the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced up and down as he described his vision to the others. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was indeed a fist, just as it was described in the texts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff claims the breach in the defenses has been repaired, but with the horde that Gideon described on the way, I want to see for myself. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He in turn described the parade ground, the rifle range, the drills, the “bull,” the barracks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But if the universe is completely self-contained, with no singularities or boundaries, and completely described by a unified theory, that has profound implications for the role of God as Creator. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how to describe that feeling, what to do with it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But by and large, I believe these generalizations to be accurate, and indeed, such 'idealistic' motivations as I have described have played a large part in my own career. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later they walked down the road to a place the Internet described as an expat bar. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After introductions, the Keeper described briefly all that had happened and why they were gathered again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She described to us firsthand how she hid the Frank family from the Nazi soldiers and how she found Anne’s diary. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

D&D players could explore the labyrinth with their characters as the dungeon master read from the module and guided them through the story it contained, describing everything they saw and encountered along the way. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As he describes it: To carefully study the organization and sequence of this, the approach must be naturalistic or ethological. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is my way of describing what it’s like when people have really bad arguments and it is the worst place to be in all the world. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see her the way she looked in Phnom Penh, not the way Ma described her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's useful, therefore, to be familiar with the terms commonly used to describe each element. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was as if he were in another world and describing it to me—as if he were actually there seeing and hearing and feeling what was going on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him two full pages to describe the Plant and the Very Important Tiny Leaf. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I described every room in our house in detail, even the pattern on the spoons in the kitchen drawer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

An Indian Affairs agent would later describe her as “industrious” and a “person of good character.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It describes a thing, so it can usually be found right in front of a noun: “I just love my everyday diamonds, ” said Magda. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interpersonal skills were a big part of it, though nothing like the IPC skills the Academy had described to us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and described Gum Baby’s break-in, the chase through the Bottle Tree forest, and finally our fight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes got misty as he described what it was like to break the sound barrier. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he described it, it had been two parts frustration to one part reward: He’d spend weeks planning a community meeting, only to have a dozen people show up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wrote about my favorite things to bake, describing all of the recipes in detail. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who knew him, from Mr. Brown to his classmates, described him as fiercely opinionated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those things that are presented to the eyes and depicted on panels or paper become fixed more firmly in the mind than those that are described in bare words. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At noon on the following day, Wense Grabarek was sworn in as mayor of Durham, inheriting a city described by one newspaper as “a powder keg.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently you are afraid of someone who has some contact with reality, who can truthfully describe to you the offenses which you have committed to canvas.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One spectator at the exhibition that evening was Carmine Nigro, a short, bald man in his early forties; Bobby described him as “cheery.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On three occasions I hear what can only be described as "aggressive laughter." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“From the way you describe her I can see a real friendship developing.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

What I saw could only be described as a field of pale gray fog. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The way that short man popped his knuckles and gave him a look that could only be described as scornful caused him to put up his guard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I remember once shortly after we were settled in Los Angeles, I tried to describe to a neighbor what it was like to be starving in the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So it was with extremely mixed emotions that she read a letter from Mr. Henri Martin describing the illness of her grandmother, and suggesting she come down right away. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid misunderstanding, use another word to describe an un- lucky accident. fulsome. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like how Zahra has described hurricane days to him: stuck together, hoping the sandbags will hold. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In The Crystal Horizon, his book about the ascent, he describes struggling up the final meters to the top: When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to Burkhart’s testimony, White had testified to Ramsey’s confession, and witnesses had described Hale’s fraudulent acquisition of the insurance policy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tallulah Bankhead once described herself as “pure as the driven slush.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muntu does not mean exactly the same as person, though, because it describes a living person, a dead one, or someone not yet born. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah. That wretched tiger! It seems to be all anyone can talk about. Last night at Drusilla’s party everyone was describing...” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that one can describe the position of a point in space by three numbers, or coordinates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It begins by describing how blacks were asked to become involved in the crisis, detailing in dramatic fashion what they did. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There are lots of words—some of them choice—that people generally use to describe me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The answer is, not surprisingly, that our friends can describe us fairly accurately. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t agree with the radio announcers who described Little Rock as a nice, clean Southern town, a place where my people and whites got along peacefully. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each history in the sum over histories will describe not only the space-time but everything in it as well, including any complicated organisms like human beings who can observe the history of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used the word “fair” to describe his new editorial policy. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters described her secluded, melancholy life, and she referred to her husband with blind sympathy, as a fine, discreet, considerate man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A flattering offer,” as a member of the Cigrand family later described it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Archduke Francis Ferdinand, described by an escort as being “half-boor, half-tightwad,” roamed the grounds incognito—but much preferred the vice districts of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Miles Umlatt described my father as “passionate about the environment” but also “volatile and impulsive.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I describe the blue hallway with two doors, and the simulation that followed, from the moment I recognized the Dauntless training room to the moment I shot myself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could not describe what happened next, not ever, but he would’ve tried anyway. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiting room is painted some terrible color that needs two words to describe it: off-white, burnt ivory, eggshell. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It makes me cringe a little, the way all the books we read in English class describe people’s skin color using food metaphors. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In its purest form, the symphonic poem style is what orchestral film music grew out of in the 1920s and ’30s, its job to support and describe something outside music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They were both the same height, dressed in cheap-looking formal wear, but his dad’s eyes were focused on his mom, gazing at her with the exact same adoration that Jessica had described. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Aerodynamic equations describing transonic airflows might contain as many as thirty-five variables. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She wished her mom could see her right now because unhappy was the last word Ivy would use to describe herself. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The whole would be, as MacKaye ecstatically described it, “a retreat from profit”—a notion that others saw as “smacking of Bolshevism,” in the words of one biographer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the Qur’an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“She seemed lovely, though hardly muscular. I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer. But again, lovely.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He describes why the Central American migrants felt forced to leave their lands and tells of the dangers and problems they faced along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the situation she's described is strange and unbelievable, and I keep feeling like she must be explaining it wrong. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The climate described from inside sterile urban studios was not the one I was encountering in the church halls and rec centers of Iowa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One chorus described the changing of seasons, from fall to winter, from winter to spring, and how water changes from water to steam to rain to snow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When she got older, she described herself as a student of American history, attuned to the inevitable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As the day wears on, I overhear case after case being described at the interrogation desk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d relaxed into his normal self now and was describing the new stop-motion video he was in the middle of making. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

How do I describe the heat and the swirl and the lights and the sounds? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Percy described the Roman fort on the ice, Hazel looked troubled. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to lead as normal a life as possible,” she argued as we described to Grandma what had happened to us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my diary, and try to ‘remember correctly and describe clearly all that I see and admire’, as Father advised. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later filed a much-reviewed affidavit describing the entire horrific process: At 8:30 p.m. the first jolt of 1,900 volts of electricity passed through Mr. Evans's body. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Often when a European has described the Americans with hostility and scorn he has turned to me and said, “Of course, I don’t mean you. I am speaking of those others.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some other terms that are used to describe instrument ranges are: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The story described how Johnson had decided to expand American involvement in Vietnam while telling the public he sought “no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When my mom describes it all, she skips over the interrogation and the panic and says it was a time of three miracles—three things that couldn’t have happened without the intervention of angels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Next week the newspaper reported the man’s capture and described the nature of his punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In her book, Malala describes the freedom, beauty, and respect for different beliefs in her village that were there before the Taliban, and hopefully will be there again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I lift my palms to catch the confetti and something I can’t describe lands on me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Car salesmen even have a particular word to describe the customers who pay the sticker price. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The only stipulation was that he had to describe the two models impartially, without arguing in favour of the Copernican system, and restricting himself to the astronomical and mathematical arguments on both sides. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cady Stanton described her father as “a conservative’s conservative.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fingers and strings made a careful conversation, as if their dance described the lines of an infatuation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nailer described the beach and his father, the way things ran on the wrecks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chronically ill, having recently lost two young children, his wife was described as “stupid, sulking, lonely, melancholy.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described party allegiance as “the last degradation of a free and moral agent” and claimed that “if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He makes a noise, which I can only describe as some form of a grunt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Lighthouse was so well constructed, however, that it was among the last Wonders to vanish: Arab travelers describe at least part of the tower surviving well into the medieval period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In it he had described how happy he was to finally be leaving the hospital after undergoing his third and, hopefully, final surgery, but he also mentioned how it pained him to go back home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Nobody told me that, when they described her, how velvety her eyelashes are. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, Mama described a whole library that Don Bernardo confessed he had hidden there. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, when it did, she would describe it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m describing the condition that we Muslims were in back in the early 1950’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out to be very difficult to devise a theory to describe the universe all in one go. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio there are cheering crowds, and solemn voices describing what color she’s wearing, a different color every day. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Funeral voices...that was how he would describe them later. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His former employer described him as "a thoroughly wholesome, typically American boy" with a "modest demeanor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In bed, he made Laila listen as he described with a queer sort of exhilaration the hands he’d seen severed, the lashings, the hangings, the beheadings. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As for the director, he described Rutherford as “a large, rather florid man, with thinning fair hair and a large moustache, who reminded me forcibly of the keeper of the general store and post office.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I described how we searched for Deborah’s body on the morning after the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Who can describe the swiftness of your course?’” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At one point, she describes a time just after my parents were married when they were living in London and my eldest brother was still a baby. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I sat sulking while she described her new pink leotard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article didn’t waste any space describing the records of the lesser teams in the county. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several factors conspired to prevent Hooke building on the achievements described in Micrographia to the extent that he might have done. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now practice describing the expressive qualities of a song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I struggled to find the right word to describe George Finkle. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Archimedes wrote this, describing his construction methods, but all the copies were lost in ancient times. If I can translate this...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is the same idea we associate with the name of Copernicus, whom Galileo described as the “restorer and confirmer,” not the inventor, of the heliocentric hypothesis.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best place to put a word like finally—that is, an adverb, a word that characterizes a verb—is directly before the action being described: in this case, go or gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“London Bridge” might go as far back as the Middle Ages in London, as it describes the disrepair of the famous bridge. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“The nature of names cannot be described, only experienced and understood.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Real sailors would describe the positions as starboard, port, and stern. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described an enemy plane downed by a Harrier, cartwheeling right over his head till it crashed into the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As the nineteenth century ran out, more and more of the continent was mapped and described by navigators from around the world—although Antarctica claimed many ships as payment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Ton-Ton described the city so thoroughly, he seemed to have a map spread out in his mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moody, listening to his mother describe their new tenants, was intrigued less by the artist than by the mention of the “brilliant” daughter just his age. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She described the vision reflected in her knife, where Bacchus offered her a silver goblet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Therefore the shock she received can better be imagined than described, when he said in a perfectly tranquil tone, “Do you care to dance?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked to describe and classify mammals, he scribbled down an incomplete and absurd system of taxonomy—omitting categories, inventing others, lumping kangaroos with beavers, and pigs with elephants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He described the approach and went on to explain how the rabbit hutch was to be found. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They described the roar of rocks sliding down hills and everyone running out of their houses reciting the Holy Quran, the screams as roofs crashed down and the howls of buffalo and goats. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now that the Cranes had spent years bouncing from state to state, their family adventures were starting to feel...Emily wasn’t sure what the word was to describe it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Although Copernicus, Galileo and Newton were well aware that their ideas were momentous, and we can legitimately describe their work as revolutionary, they never explicitly said to themselves, ‘I am making a revolution.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the last chapter, I described how archaeologists have spent the last century pushing back their estimates of when Indians were first present in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Luke Hunter he described was, like, a million shades away from any self-portrait I might have painted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But Roy had been begotten in the marriage bed, the bed that Paul described as holy, and it was to him the Kingdom had been promised. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I described you, like maybe she was confused. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Notify student of and describe any changes made to the classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But I knew the planet must have been coded by Halliday, because its design matched the world described in 2112’s liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You could not create such a world as you have just described. It is a dream. It is impossible.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s best described as a ‘pilots airplane,’ ” said an American military official in a front-page article in the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You know nothing of these matters, and it would take me all day to describe everything down to the last detail. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The pamphlet described him as a “card-carrying member of the ACLU,” which it said was the equivalent of being “against everything moral, ethical, righteous, holy, Christian, Godly and patriotic.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He experienced what he would later describe as “a major pucker factor” setting in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t born cool like this,” Cool Papa said in a way that could only be described as cool. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge was just describing how Piper had defeated Khione with a roundhouse kick when Piper interrupted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it is a good way to describe things. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gushing adoration cannot be dismissed merely as local boosterism; black newspapers across the South described the town in much the same terms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So he goes to a doctor, describes her symptoms, and asks for advice. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

You are hereby directed to refrain from engaging in any of the activities described above. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He describes Kelling, in fact, as his intellectual mentor, and so his first step as police chief was as seemingly quixotic as Gunn’s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navid’s reaction to my question was so absurd I almost don’t even know how to describe it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As described in chapter 1, during the late 1970s, jobs had suddenly disappeared from urban areas across America, and unemployment rates had skyrocketed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I described him for the doctor, his walking before me in the schoolyard, stamping the blacktop, announcing our presence with his swagger, his shout. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another memo, four years old, described the Family Reunion Program, probably soon after its inauguration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know we cannot rationally describe the kind of person we will fall in love with: that’s why we go on dates—to test our theories about who attracts us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I pray this person takes the right step and comes forward should such a situation described in the question exist. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid still described aloud her nieces’ and nephews’ doings, but now in a monotone, and she no longer interrupted herself to ask questions. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her granddaughter describes the handicraft exports from the Sundarbans region, where tigers are in danger of extinction and girls are in danger of being sold for money. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Finch had described it like a series of stops and nots. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Do you know of the Jameson Raid, described as a “fiasco”? Marvellous punctuation story. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“We’re talking failure to the square root,” was the way he bluntly described it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she described the head itself, the open eyes, the graying skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The song described the home that they had lost forever: the orchards, the cool lakes, the warm forests, the green fields. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I was there when Matthew described it to Caleb in painstaking detail earlier: a black box with a silver keypad, marked with a strip of blue tape with a model number written on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He described the clinical signs of disease that he had seen at the monkey house, and by the end he felt that no one had noticed his nervousness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, if it was either of the problems I described, then time was on our side, and things should get better. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard her describe the horrible ordeal she went through. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Winthrop was the only person who ever described me as a doll. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, in some way I couldn’t describe, it felt different. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a basic power struggle and Dr. Greenfield adopted what he describes as a “paradoxical approach.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing in all my hooks about foreign places had described a scene like this before me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was such a gusto about the landscape which stretched before their window, such a riot of unexpected people and things, that you hardly knew how to begin describing it The Dark and Middle Ages! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man asked what our driver looked like, and my dad described him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Not remembering which of the bases had amino groups, he could not qualitatively describe the quantum-mechanical argument until he asked Chargaff to write out their formulas. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He searched for the right word to describe his own feeling. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

One way to describe Pena’s goal would be to say that he was trying to bring back a people who vanished thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soojin describes the heaps of red, white, and blue decorations her mother has been collecting since Independence Day. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the Geek Club used the same phrases—“a truly great teacher,” Sam Hunter said—to describe Mr. Brown. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran for three pages, typewritten, single spaced, describing the signs and symptoms of a filovirus infection in a human being, as well as possible experimental treatments that might arrest the terminal meltdown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They each had on wigs, glasses, and what Seven could only describe as prairie-like dresses, courtesy of Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine some report going into my file describing my home life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, when describing the texture of a piece of music, two of the most important questions that need to be addressed are: is there counterpoint, and how important is it? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because of the styling, though it’s nothing you could plainly describe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother thought it was extremely good because it describes a number of adolescent problems. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She looked at the faces in the sea of pink-skinned people who stood around pointing at the captives and jabbering in their language as each of the slaves was described. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tried to describe it to Kate once, she said, “You can thank Dad for that. Maybe if he hadn’t used your head as a punching bag.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We have seen footage of what ultimately happened to you in the control room,” says Niles, “but it is confusing. Please describe it to us.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen years after the incident with the Weavers, I would sit in a university classroom and listen to a professor of psychology describe something called bipolar disorder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I cannot describe these last days of our journey very well. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stare at the clock that sits just inside the gates that no one can properly describe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Just write a post that describes the moment, like, Hey, we met at the post office and made out inside a mailbox, so on and so forth.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“You seem to be describing plans to commit a crime. I don’t want to hear any more about it. As a lawyer I can’t be a party to it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“If you understand a thing, you can describe it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nor have the seeds of H. alpinum have ever been described as toxic in any other published text. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The valves were already known, but Fabricius investigated them thoroughly and described them in detail, first in public demonstrations in 1579 and later in an accurately illustrated book published in 1603. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember what else I knew about Marcus, so I could describe him to Professor Thomas better. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They described a daily, even hourly, fear of gangs and violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her students did not “read from the expected perspective,” as she described it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We went out about fifty feet along the reef, and then he said, “Now, we feesh” He described the hole to me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could you describe a sled without describing a hill and snow; and how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she describes how Willow took charge of the whole hospital, there is such admiration in her voice. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cases described, on the other hand, were predisposed to gross lapses in reality contact and extreme weakness in impulse control during periods of heightened tension and disorganization. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ptolemaic avenues with their grand colonnades are gone, but the streets of Alexandria are just as crowded and chaotic as the ancient accounts describe. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But the chief part of the ceremony which took place in the precincts of the temple has never been described. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women’s hotel on a Minneapolis side street is just as Lillian described it, with a clean but sparsely furnished lobby and a bored clerk who barely looks up when he hands us our keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Grunt work,” Ethan called it when he described it to me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They, on their side, saw a man of serenity—the kind of sage that Kipling described in Kim. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like Irish Spring and a little bit like potpourri and like something she couldn't describe any way other than boy. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Under the headline “At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk,” the story quoted businesspeople describing the desperate need to respond to client inquiries within seconds, or risk losing a sale. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One evening, the men, who were joined by Jan Timman from Holland, the number three-ranked chess player in the world, went off to what Broodhaers described as a “raunchy” nightclub in downtown Brussels. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His feet tapped show tunes at breakfast, and during dinner he often pointed at the mountain, his eyes shining, and described where he would lay the pipes to bring water down to the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both these words seem to be real-estate agent code for a house that doesn’t have many specific attributes worth describing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But that’s the best I can describe what it felt like sitting there, T. Like thousands of pounds of rusted-out metal were falling on top of me and I couldn’t get out of the way. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Charlie asked me about the people in the pictures, and I described a little girl in a green dress named Evony. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Thus in 1660 Boyle describes one experiment ‘as a plausible, though not demonstrative proof, that Water may be transmuted into Air’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The companies not only advertised in the newspapers, they issued booklets and broadsides describing and picturing the beauty and richness of the West. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would be too embarrassing to have to describe how I’d arrived in this situation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also described machines for pumping water, sawing wood and performing other industrial tasks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She imagined how she would describe it to Babcia, the silvery black paint, the cream leather interior, the dashboard that looked like the cockpit of a spaceship. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Therefore, most of the city’s eighty physicians did not believe that the illness described by Rush was indeed yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Which was that a hardworking and respected colored maid has agreed to let me interview her and describe in specifics what it’s like to work for the white women of our town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When she described how the Gestapo captured Anne and would not allow Miep to say good-bye, it made all of us emotional. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of kindness in it, and a sort of lazy enjoyment—those were the words he found to describe it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Good cover story. Did you call it needle phobia or aichmophobia? Because both terms can be used to describe the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The best year and the worst year,” Grace’s mother described it, when she talked about it at all. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We hit the highway and drove east,” he’d said, in the process of describing what he and Hickock had done after fleeing the murder scene. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not bring herself to describe to Mrs. Bedlow the two encounters in the weaving room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

To encounter ‘simple’ people—a tradesman, a housewife, a farmer—describing their spiritual lives in detail amazed me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Schafer began his work on understanding the sonic environment, he realized that we don’t have a very specific vocabulary to describe sounds—what we’re hearing and how we’re hearing it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And down below, on the planet’s bleak gray surface, there were exactly 1,024 copies of Megadon, the domed city described in the liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Leo couldn’t understand the words, but the song was plaintive and bittersweet, as if she were describing a home she could never return to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For his part, Daniel is trying to find the right words to describe her eyes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

If Halliday had re-created the Tomb of Horrors just as it was described in the module, I was in big trouble. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The dwarfs listened to Skirnir describe the commission, and they shivered, and they named their price. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Precisely because they were rare, the mutants had acted like lamps in the darkness, allowing biologists to track “the action of a gene,” as Morgan had described it, across generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Back in Cape Town after the expedition fell apart, February described his disappointment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They just really excluded me from it,” was the way he described it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the “low fear” version, the language describing the risks of tetanus was toned down, and the photographs were omitted. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward the Astrophysical Journal published two articles: one by Penzias and Wilson describing their experience with the hiss, the other by Dicke’s team explaining its nature. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She describes a migrant who lost both legs but cooked for everyone in the shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu blogged about this story, describing the silver streaks in the woman’s gray hair, the fingers quivering from Parkinson’s, as though she herself had been there with Blaine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In tearful conversations with Andy he would describe himself as “worthless garbage.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Logic of Port-Royal sketches what could go wrong when it describes people who are too credulous when it comes to miracles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The first essay is on nature, by a writer I've never heard of who spends pages describing a lake. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer followed these terrifying events from his home in California, burning with what he described as “a continuing, smoldering fury” toward Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of Amelia Bloomer, and laughed, describing the costume she had worn when she made a speech there one afternoon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oddly for someone who had been rubbing shoulders with physicists for nearly twenty years, Weaver mistakenly described the beam in his diary as comprising 5-million-volt “electrons”—particles that were not in the cyclotrons inventory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Can you describe the events of that morning? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The merchant describes an already thriving sea trade connecting India and Egypt with the coast of East Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He started to describe it to me but then stopped, realizing it was better to spare me the extra pain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like trying to describe love, or maybe even hate. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Burger described him as being in a relentless "state of fear throughout our entire trip to the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He continued his rant, talking about how he was being “persecuted by the Jews,” and claiming that “the Holocaust never happened,” and using four-letter words to describe “the Jew Ellsworth.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His favorite poems were those that described the countryside, poems about being out early when the morning light is thin and pale, and about hearing the birds’ songs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even though the dream was always the same and we’d been over it a hundred times, Dr. Golan still made me describe it in every session. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They sat at the wobbly table and Sam described the world above. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The storyteller vividly described the landscape of their pre-infant life: the hunting they did, the games they played, how they listened to our world ... A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She described Percy as brave and heroic, which made him uncomfortable. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Writer Ernest Seeman accurately portrayed the Durham of his youth when he described this neighborhood of “large houses and well-groomed lawns, where several of its richest and most righteous rajputs and masters of machinery lived.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The way the doctor would tell it, when he described the fight to anyone who’d listen, was that Hassan was a lazy mechanic who didn’t want to work on his lunchtime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Other quills will describe the triumphs of the following years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He described how everyone acted and how they were afraid to ride in a taxicab. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Richard’s gaze stayed on her face as she described Sasha’s ordeal—the charred skin, the painful skin grafts, the hours of daily bandaging. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Almost none of the ones I described in detail are still at Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have taken these many words to describe its impact. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The place you described in your dream! But Grover’s going to fall if we don’t catch him.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mai had read the pamphlet describing the funding for the project. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In that case, adults seem to have no problem at all shutting their phones off and describing what a miserable future a kid like me is setting himself up for. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I'm not too crazy about describing rooms and houses anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to describe the harm that that would do to me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he describe it so he didn’t sound like a lunatic? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear the response from inside the litter, but I saw the footman making a jagged gesture down his right cheek and knew he was describing me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I could talk and describe endlessly; but that was all I had to give. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That said, no effort is made here to describe, in any detail, what should or should not be done in the months and years ahead to challenge the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when a Christian Pole wanted to describe a chaotic event, he would say, "It was like a Jewish congregation." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Having discovered a new land, he had no word to describe what he had done. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That book, which has been described as the most influential work in the history of science after Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, presents a number of arguments which have become famous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Genes had been described as “particles of heredity,” but that description carried no information about what that “particle” was in a chemical or physical sense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Is the real me the one that I described beforehand?” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As I was describing Washington, they had the look of envy in their eyes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just as it’s hard to describe what makes a piece of music or a painting aesthetically pleasing, it's equally difficult to describe what makes a mathematical theorem or a physical theory beautiful. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have checked a number of the early papers describing the development of the HeLa cell line but have not been able to find any information pertaining to the race of the donor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How anguished she would be when Ignatius described his tender pleasures. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Cool Papa would have described as “hard pretty.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Larsen, whom Bobby described as “sulky and unhelpful,” kept discouraging him, telling him that he shouldn’t expect to place higher than the bottom rank of those competing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What broke loose is popularly and succinctly described as hell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I even had people who were the victims of stereotyping describe the dangers of labeling groups of people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now he hopes she will not die—not yet, not until he gets to the house described and mapped out for him in clear, childish pictures by True Belle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vitruvius described something like perspective painting, but the Renaissance invented a new combination of subjectivity and objectivity, the situated viewer and the vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you what I did today...I start to describe the Eiffel Tower for him, the sculptures, the painting in the Louvre, and even the scene where Lou and I laughed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I weaken again at a clear green broth that I can only describe as tasting like springtime, and again when I try a frothy pink soup dotted with raspberries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Again, that didn’t seem like much of a story to me, but Auntie laughed appreciatively as Uncle described missing the cans, and missing them, and missing them again. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

No adult, or child for that matter, had ever described him as beautiful. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

To give you an idea of, the numerous complaints, I’ll briefly describe these sweltering days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Am I wrong, then, in describing such an event as a miracle? The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described what had happened at the fort—the voice of Gaea, the spiders in the garrison, the Mark burning them away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Later Governor Faubus came on television to give what one reporter described as a pleading speech. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you pick up furniture? What, three-week wait? Yes, well, this is brand-new, beautiful, let me describe to you. No? Then let me describe to your boss, okay?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mostly it dies after flowering once,” Annabella had said, describing woad. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For each instrument, what "color" words would you use to describe the timbre of each instrument? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By today’s standards I might have been described as hyperactive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One story described it as the inverse of the sky—a huge, hollow, upside-down dome of rock. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He pressed the razor to the bone and guided it through the hair, describing an arc across the top of the deceased’s skull literally from ear to ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As she described their special relationship and all the sacrifices she made during their two years in hiding, I sat there in awe. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I told them that exactly described their fellow Afro-American Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hmm . . . she looked right through you, eh? Like you weren't even there? Interesting way to describe your old life, don't you think?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This proved that McMillian’s truck had had no modifications or special features and therefore could not have been the truck described by Myers and Hooks at the trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jefferson had not yet invented the expression “the revolution of 1800” to describe the Republican ascendancy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At dinner my first night on the peak, Dad described the explosion as a tender mercy from the Lord. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I say “evolved” because that’s the only way to describe mine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

All over North America are places that are described as “the first” settlement, building, or school. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I accompanied him to the servants’ quarters, where he squatted by our pallets and asked each of us to describe any symptoms we might feel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her Creole had improved substantially, allowing her to take accurate notes as they described their various pains and miseries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She described how she stormed into Nazi headquarters and tried to bribe Gestapo agents to let her friends go after they were captured. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Military biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had me describe the contents of the cupboard and the particular plates she liked best. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eye lit up when he described the Cyclopes’ forges and the palace of Poseidon, but he also told us how tense things were. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He described the time he had watched a young girl poking through the wreckage of her home, lifting the charred remains of her doll. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As Rat described it, the compound was situated at the top of a flat-crested hill along the northern outskirts of Tra Bong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he described it, his ink “would elude the generally known means of detection, and yet could be rendered visible by a suitable counterpart.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If forced to describe me to a police sketch artist, you might begin by mentioning my nose. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For those who dare to face their dreams, the experience offers something special beyond the power of words to describe. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, describes a jerky and discontinuous universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The only resident in the building was Alberta, described by friends as a “devout churchgoer.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Second, any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always been straightforward with me—more so than most of the others—but when he described the white mouse who had been given intelligence, he was as pompous and artificial as the others. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I have to describe the feeling that this has given me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Journalist Louis Lomax was one of the first to understand the dimensions of this shift and to describe its significance. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Malala describes how the Taliban marred the walls of her father’s school with threats because he allowed girls to attend. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For those of you who did go, let me describe what school was like on the day of his funeral. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Soon after John Mayer put on the Space Task Group jersey, Carl Huss and Ted Skopinski followed suit, making Katherine the natural inheritor of the research report that would describe Project Mercury’s orbital flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The caller had described our building precisely when making his threat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Instead he described Russeau’s changing of Edwards’s grade as a “blatant” example of grade-fixing to make sure that a football team would be eligible for the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state troopers went on to describe, briefly, how the oncoming car hit the disabled vehicle and sent it into the side of the rocky embankment with Will’s dad pinned between them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Getting toothpaste back into the tube doesn’t even begin to describe it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Natural laws are described with equations, and equations, in a sense, are simply tools where you plug in numbers and get another number out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We looked at the moon and described the shapes we saw to each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That was the only way I could describe it. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He cannot imagine coming from such parents, such a background, and when he describes his own upbringing it feels bland by comparison. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She described different features of each plant and explained the best way to remember them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Leaders of these groups described the oppression they suffered by analogy to that suffered by blacks. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On November 7, 1925, Bolton—whom a local reporter described as “one of the most beautiful girls ever reared in the city”—was found with a fatal bullet in her chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I said I’d try to describe it when I got back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia listens with rapt attention as he describes the entire process, asking questions about the technical aspects as well as the creative ones. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The writer Ivan Turgenev described him as an intelligent, queer, and sickly creature. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lanky, with a loping gait, and dressed in what some Europeans thought was Western or Texan clothing, he was described as being “laconic as the hero of an old cowboy movie.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And an old buffer was pleased to describe us as “young heroes.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let me describe Tyler’s window for the rest of you. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Still unaware of what caused the noise, Wilson and Penzias phoned Dicke at Princeton and described their problem to him in the hope that he might suggest a solution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the present tense, might is used rather than may to describe an iffier situation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These appointments, somewhat misleadingly described as “the midnight judges,” had occurred after the presidential election, and therefore denied Jefferson the right to choose his own men. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Union lawyers highlighted the inequities of the laborers’ lot by putting Louis Swift and other packinghouse owners on the witness stand to describe their own luxurious homes and lifestyles. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tristran had asked if any of them knew the little hairy man he had met upon his travels, and had described him as well as he could. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three pages followed describing Dame Olga’s social calendar and her wardrobe. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's a good friend of Kerling's who described him as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The word is usually used to describe someone who rubs you the wrong way, a jerk, or a douche. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They gave me a slave pass,” as he described it, “and I used it for mischief.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As a time-traveler, he has seen his own death many times, has described it to a tape recorder. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

We all gave our different versions of the same answer: “Good isn’t exactly the word to describe my day.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book continues to be the focal point of study and debate by scholars and was once described by Martin Luther King Jr. as the “historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This peculiar blend is what Barthes was referring to when he described facts as linguistic yet claiming to be copies of the real. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The problem that you describe is one, among so many others, that has troubled both my waking thoughts and those that intrude upon my sleep. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Devastated” is the only word that comes to mind to describe him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A journalist who had watched Smith for years described him thus: “He nods hello, shakes hands goodbye, and hasn’t said a hundred words in all.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fumulani’s songs often described the struggles of the poor, his lyrics straight from the warm red Malawian soil. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Many described her as a modern-day Joan of Arc. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that’s described in these books. Now . . .” “How does he manifest himself now?” asked the Savage. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue recalled that in the course of his testimony the sheriff had described finding a coffee cup—tipped on its side, the sheriff had explained—on the floor of Carl Heine’s cabin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing could more correctly describe the initial moments of my reunion with Rahim Khan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She took a step forward and then started describing how crowded the cars were. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is our thesis that the psychopathology of such murderers forms at least one specific syndrome which we shall describe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Giant had definitely slowed down and was now running more normally, although normal was a silly word to use to describe a galloping giant. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Copernicus had described a spherical universe with the sun at its centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Omer knew exactly what she was talking about the minute she started to describe it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if you understand what a geometric progression is, but that is the best way to describe it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jackson then launched into a sermon on God's will, which he described as patently proslavery, based on several passages in the Bible and the pronouncements of every Christian minister in Georgia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

What I’m describing here is an intellectual capacity — our ability to process raw information. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie was no sycophant or whipping boy, as he’s been described by other writers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers have often described the Yanomamo as "fierce," aggressive sorts whose small villages are constantly at violent odds with one another. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The second, and perhaps more interesting, fact about these explanations is that all of them are describing a very different way of tipping an epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spinning top which is beginning to lose its spin slowly describes circles with its highest point before falling down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The playwright Tony Kushner has described the attraction of gay men to the theater, and their influence on it, in one word: fabulousness. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Man is often lost in a technological, physiological, astrological lack of logical existence that can best be described as a whole lot of nothing lightly dashed with an obvious hint of Scotch,” Hal says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I wish I could describe what happened next, not as I saw it, which I might manage, but as I felt it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eyewitnesses described the killings of dozens of people—state troopers, innocent bystanders, anyone who stood in the invaders’ way. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She took my hand and led me around, describing their big dreams. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what caused it, and I didn’t exactly know how to describe it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I filled mine out, I found myself describing a certain someone at our school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z