After the dishes were done, I went to his room and asked if he’d refused the sausage because of our last quarrel. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Want some pie?” he asked, backing out of the refrigerator with a glass dish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I smile, nod, and continue loading the dishes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mama holds out a plate with a ravioli-like dish with meat inside and, when everyone refuses, scrapes the last of it onto her own plate. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We’ve cleaned up the dishes, and I’m sitting again at the table. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The caterer canceled at the last minute, so Abuela stepped in and cooked dozens of dishes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of cleaning dishes, Mama Ya-Ya sits at the table with me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

What I don’t love: pink sofas, green chairs, plastic cover on a table, stained mattresses, old clothes, unmatched dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Our new lunch boxes were the kind we had always dreamed of: bright aluminum with two removable trays, one for rice and one for a meat or vegetable dish. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, you gonna practice all day?” he asks as he puts the dishes in the cupboard. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He looked at Peggy; she was bent over the sink, washing dishes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The lines are always a mile long and everything I need to whip up Spanish dishes is there,” Kent says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They were just the names of various Gujarati dishes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I see him dive-bombing the dishes with forks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a dish from his other side—a deep tureen with some kind of stew in it—and he said, “I think this is just vegetables.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

To one side of the dish is a small conch shell set on a pedestal; to the other, a small silver handbell. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d stacked the dirty dishes and was filling the kitchen sink when I heard it—a shrill, strangled cry that began in one key and ended in another. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I help her scrape the plates, wash and dry the dishes. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I pause to read a café menu: traditional Syrian dishes among Turkish foods. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They are a set of manners, customs, and rules that cover everything from the correct size of a serving to the order of dishes served at a meal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The melody of preparation hides my footsteps: clinking glass, the jingle of silver cutlery, the clack of porcelain dishes, the grunts and whispers of the servants. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Eduardo moved his dishes, one after the other, under the lens of the microscope. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in line behind one of the big hats and watched as the girl I knew as Renee, but whose real name was Love, dished out the food. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I washed the dishes, I said nothing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the rest of the meal was authentic, including the excess of chilies combined with tomato and garlic, and the side dish of traditional red rice. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I came in from washing the dishes to find the two of them in silence, she asleep and he watching her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Common-law prisoners were used to dish out the food to us and we would return to our cells to eat it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the fire rustle and the distant clunk of dishes being washed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about pushing it back, but instead she got up to do the dishes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the constant schedule: the food coming and going, the meds being dished out, the announcements of Armelio. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s an ebony statue of a female saint in the comer, and a tureen on an altar crowded with apples and bananas and dishes of offerings I can’t identify. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dinner dishes manipulated like magic tricks, and in the study a click. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Maybeth soaped and rinsed, and the boys dried, and Dicey put away the glasses, dishes, knives, forks, pots and pans, they sang. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I tiptoe, the dishes in the sideboard jangle, the floorboards groan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In our last apartment, pre-Lenny, the countertop was rotting around the edges, so you’d realize halfway through washing dishes that water had been pooling downstream into the carpeting. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her violin mostly sat on a shelf these days, calling out to her, almost mocking her as she washed endless piles of dishes and dirty diapers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had turned into a craven dish, with cowering, tiny, lidless eyes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her spoon dipped dutifully into her dish of ice cream. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, as Sandi tried reading the menu, with the help of her index finger, sounding out syllables, she did not recognize the names of dishes listed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

How hard can it be to wash dishes? Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After dinner, I wanted to help Momly with the dishes, sensing how tired she was. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He tipped the table so that all the beers and the dish of shrimps went over in a crash. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I was making myself a snack in the kitchen, but due to the fact that I was vertically challenged, I couldn't reach a dish in one of our cabinets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Grandma, who was at the sink rinsing dishes to stack in the dishwasher, stopped and looked at us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She looked up from washing dishes and saw the river full of small sailboats leaning toward the far shore and knifing toward the bridge which was not in her view. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to dry some of the dishes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, supper was over, the dishes washed, and Nat was still talking. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later she appeared in the doorway, a dish towel in her hands. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With so many prisoners working so close together, the factory was a petri dish for snitching. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I mean, I dish it, so I should be able to take it, right? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Each night his mother cooked something his father had liked, but she was too upset to eat the dishes herself, and her eyes would well up as Shoba stroked her hand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand and an attendant laid more dishes on a small lacquered table. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“That reminds me of Chase. Last time he was over, he helped me with the supper dishes. Nearly talked my ear off about how he was going to invent a washing machine for dishes someday.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a great clattering of dishes and trays from the kitchen, dropped silverware, people bumping into tables and one another as we’re all thrown into darkness. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But the night before the hunt, after she had banked the kitchen fire and finished washing the supper dishes, she opened the kitchen door and sat down on the doorstep. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are what you use. You are not to eat off our dishes.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he walked solemnly around the table, and between the dishes of food, inspecting everything with the greatest interest, though he touched nothing. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hung the dish towel on its hook and headed down the Path to Perdition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Afterward we unpacked all the dishes and pots and dry food and stuff and put everything away. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I took out my dish of rice and a spoon and sat it beside my thermos of tea. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a banana split dish rowing with a spoon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“This place isn’t known for cleaning their germy dishes, but it’ll build up your immunities before you get home. You can go back to Jankburg the strongest little boy around.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He glanced behind her, saw the pile of dishes in the sink. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to argue that our new dishwasher is connected to the garbage disposal so we don’t have to be all old school about loading the dishes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Never let it be said I let my dishes air dry! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I know that Suesetta is waiting for me and there’s no telling how long it will take for all of these dishes to get washed, dried, and put away. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’d said she just wanted to check in with me, but then she’d immediately pushed the candy dish my way, so I knew there was a heavy topic on the agenda. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were scones too, on the table, and toast, and various pots of jam, marmalade, and honey, while dessert dishes, piled high with fruit, stood at either end. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We closed our eyes when listening to the descriptions of the twelve delicious dishes representing the twelve apostles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In time, I could locate the dish out on the surface, but it would take weeks for me to rig up any repairs, and that would be too late. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You took the dish towel hanging off the icebox handle and wiped off your sister.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee’s mother laughed from the sink where she was washing dishes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu served her drink last and wasted long minutes drying his hands on a dish towel before he opened the door to let her in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your father,” said Malcolm’s mother, dishing up the apples, “thinks one of those guests used to be the lord chancellor.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Turner looked around and found a dish towel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

After stories he’d close my door, but I could still hear Lola in the kitchen washing dishes, even though there’s a dishwasher. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We loaded all the dishes in the box and walked down to Bugs and the other kid. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was Julia's turn to do the dishes but we've become sort of allies in the last couple of weeks, so I dried for her. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No objection to pork. Pigs die for us constantly. It looks delicious, by the way. What do you call this dish?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I put the dirty dishes in the hatch, then went into the kitchen to dry. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pours wine into all of our glasses, and we order soups and salads and four different pastas, and no dish is spectacular but everything is good enough. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Was he? When?” said his mother, dishing up the fried potatoes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A fixed clock with a promise of lifetime repair brought us some dishes from an old woman who had a wedding set from her first marriage that her second husband didn’t like. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

No parties, no boyfriends, no nothing,” she said at last after the dishes were put away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Kat and Kropp seize the masterpiece—the big dish with the brown, roasted sucking pigs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass rapidly from one object to another, sampling them like dishes in a smorgasbord. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up to clear our dishes, but after I stack them, I just set them aside. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On my desk is the little bamboo plant in the blue- swirly dish Melissa gave me for my last birthday, and my computer with the longest, hardest-to-spell password I could think of: “anthropological.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrian was exceedingly courteous; he offered his sister the choice portions of every dish, and made certain he ate only what she did. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stay to finish my last four pancakes; twice I have to drop to the floor;—after all, it means four pancakes more, and they are my favourite dish. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to use Passover dishes and we had a big seder, where the family sat down and the table was set with matzoh and parsley, boiled eggs and other traditional Jewish food. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my mom he said, “See? I got paper plates so you don’t have a bunch of dishes to wash up later.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As Ophie carried dishes to the sideboard to be served and cleared dirty plates to make way for the next course, her mama kept giving her proud looks across the room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A bunch of our things were going to be sold at a yard sale on Sunday, except for important stuff like shoes and mattresses and a few dishes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She’s picked up roast chicken and side dishes at a gourmet shop in town. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I am assigned to wash all the dishes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We can imagine them, curious and dispassionate, observing us, as we would watch a bacterial culture in a dish of agar, to determine whether, this year again, we manage to avoid self- destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claims such ignorance gives each dish life, makes it more than the sum of its parts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a linen cloth on it and some covered dishes, along with a teapot and a pair of cups. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Attendants rush to bring her chafing dish closer. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sinita grabbed her towel and soap dish from her night table and joined the exodus. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were lemon wedges to squeeze onto our meat, and tiny glass dishes overflowing with bright ruby sumac, which was for sprinkling over everything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I thrust a covered dish of soup into her hands. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When a woman fell ill, Klanswomen looked after her children and brought covered dishes for the family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tortillas are still warm In a dish towel, Warm as gloves just Taken off, finger by finger. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed up on the counter, as I often did to grab the dish, but when I hopped off, I didn't realize the door to the lower cabinet was ajar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sutton’s is a cafeteria down the street from the department store, with trays that you slide down a steel counter to select just what you want for your entrée and side dish. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Lyddie nodded again to acknowledge the compliment and turned again to loading the dirty dishes on her tray. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Laila kept shuffling between the house and the yard, back and forth, carrying stacks of clothes and dishes and box after box of Babi’s books. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can hear them pulling dishes out of the cupboard and setting the table. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Before long, we're washing our breakfast dishes and leaving them on a dish towel to dry. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Our old pipes notify me as Mom begins to do the dishes after work, and the floorboards announce her as she climbs the stairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about the dishes,” he said, taking them from her hands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now we gently folded my egg whites into the thick syrup, then poured the airy, toast-colored mixture into a souffle dish and put it aside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Tables were covered with barbecue chicken and ribs, rice and beans, egg rolls, and so many other dishes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Afterward the boys washed dishes, tidied up the workroom, and moved the tables to one side. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At long last, today we shall be fascinated and entertained by ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus,’” she continued, once the dishes were cleared away and the trio of sad children had gathered obediently around her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was the demon girl who started to wash her dishes outside for the “fresh air” instead of inside the kitchen at the indoor pump. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eased the food into the dish with a stick. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Grover ordered a fried dam plate and a Salisbury steak, just for fun, Ralph ordered a list of side dishes — onion rings, potato salad, coleslaw. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the waitress clearing the dishes from my table, talking over her shoulder to the old couple. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We had rice and tortillas with “carne con chile” my favorite dish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The flames licked out to the gas on the kitchen floor and streaked across to the wooden farmhouse cabinetry and Gran’s cheery dish towels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

While we packed the breakfast dishes, Papa went outside to start the “Carcachita.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the kitchen, funneling dishes into the dishwasher as fast as they came. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While I’m helping her clear the dishes after supper, Mrs. Caconi knocks on our door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karl passed over a covered dish, wrapped in a towel, and one of the strudels. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At home, I have homework, and dinner to make, and dishes to wash. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This makes me so happy, I whistle while I do the dishes—which makes Marie wink at me—which makes me even happier, because she approves, and I stop worrying about what Dad would think. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

By now Mamita has finished with the dishes, and she sits next to me on the other bed and hands me a cup of steaming lemon balm tea. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eating, I helped Mom do the dishes while Dad got rid of the messy mountain of empty crab shells we’d left on the table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, the topic of conversation was a motion study project, such as clearing off the dishes from the table. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take something up to Noah so he doesn’t starve,” Rosa added, “and do your dishes. It’s not too hard to wipe dishes clean and put them in a dishwasher, Davis.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After I had eaten I felt tired and, though I should have gone to the stream to wash my dishes, I began to write in this journal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A cupboard of heavy walnut put together with wooden pegs stood near the fireplace and held dishes, food, and cooking utensils. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid only laughed when Brave Orchid scolded, “Oh, stop that with the dishes. Here. Take this dress and hem it.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small metal dish in the middle of the lamp looked a lot like an unblinking eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stop on the top step, where I can see into the kitchen: the kitchen table where the dirty dishes are piled, the back edges of Mrs. Smeath and Aunt Mildred. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ladle the payesh into small glass dishes our parents found in a secondhand shop. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marigold shrieked, covering her face with the dish towel. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

‘Store-room in there, and above the floods, luckily,’ said Pippin, as they came back laden with dishes, bowls, cups, knives, and food of various sorts. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after Faro reappeared in the front yard Mr. Loomis came out the front door, carrying his dish, full of food. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anyone with an elbow on the table might suddenly feel his wrist seized, raised and jerked downward so that his elbow hit the table hard enough to make the dishes dance. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad put some dishes in the sink. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Handle it how you think best,” she said, before turning back to the dishes in the sink or the pile of laundry she had to fold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"That was the self-same preparation of baneberries he slipped into my dish of eels," and Letitia thought she heard the wind howling down from the mountain crags. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They all held dishes of food, and as the monks came to them, they spooned it into their wooden bowls. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, they had all helped clear the table, Rebecca urging them not to stay and try to help with the dishes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was hungry thanks to my adventure the night before, and all I wanted was rice for some reason, but Mama was already dishing up our breakfast of steaming grits. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another time I slicked the rim of Gay’s travel mug with dish soap. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After she finished the dishes, she would call the police again, she decided. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diners were everywhere, and so were jobs making deliveries, washing dishes, or busing tables. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Don't be late, Sophie," my mom said into the phone, dishing out the eggs. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I stood next to Mamou and rinsed the dishes for her as she hummed along to the radio. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And she looked forward to Heaven as a place where clothes did not get dirty and where food did not have to be cooked and dishes washed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the dishes rattling at the table, I opened the door and ran down the walk to the street. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have an image of a kitchen full of food scraps and broken dishes, like the A-Team after one of their bar fights. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The storm probably blew the dish far away and then erased any drag-marks or scuffs that might have led to a trail. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scraped my dish into the trash and dropped it into the soapy water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Chickpeas with pig’s feet and white rice was one of my favorite dishes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Who could have imagined so much color that the ground disappears and we are left walking through an autumn's worth of crazy words that beneath the magic of my grandmother's hands become side dishes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I remembered with an ache certain dishes in France and Italy touched by innumerable human hands. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night while she was washing the supper dishes and Mary and Laura were wiping them, Ma told Pa that Laura had tasted the whey and didn’t like it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner I washed the dishes as usual and swept the floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If Barack got hungry, a valet would bring him a small dish of figs or nuts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The loud shattering of the guy’s nose like dishes heaved against a concrete wall. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Women gathered their dishes and babies in order to take them home. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fumbles the dish and blows on her fingers. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mom and I were finishing the dinner dishes when somebody banged on the door. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each rock and stone is sitting in its own petri dish next to a spectrometer. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I caught up with him halfway down the lane and he dished out to Brothers in the corner. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna looked dazed; she wrapped the pot of soup in a dish towel and took it out to the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I walked hundreds of kilometers with that cart. My silver and dishes are in that wagon. I’m sorry, but I’m not letting some peasant family make off with all of those valuables.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The little doctor is sitting behind his big desk with an anemic-looking roasted bird on a dish in front of him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Henry ducked down and splashed a little water on his face then rubbed himself dry with a dish towel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One machine washed the clothes, a second machine dried the clothes, and a third machine washed the dishes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mother called them for dinner, both refused to move, each clinging to their dishes of wet dirt; Minli had to smile at their foolishness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Thing is," Chuck continued, "without the dish, a signal would have to be really strong—" "Like, melting-the-pigeons strong," Morris supplied. "—for him to get it," Chuck finished. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and took a few dishes into the kitchen to wash. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I did the dishes, swept dust and candy wrappers out from underneath the couch, mopped the living room floor, wiped the bathroom sink clean of my toothpaste smears, and even made my bed. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But finally Klaus found a dish that sounded delicious, and easy to make. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I eye the growing pile of dishes with dread. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the house, made sure he always had a supply of clean shirts, cooked him his favorite dishes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dill put down the dish he was washing, turned, and gave his mother an incredulous look. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I put Emma’s silverware on her plate, but Dad says, “Don’t worry about the dishes. We need to talk.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

From a distance there could be heard a rattle of dishes. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope assumed it was one of the serving girls come to take away the breakfast dishes, but it was not. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The heated silver chafing dishes are labeled for the American guests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Steadily the other dishes were brought in, a half dozen or so of them, one varied and progressive course. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clean up the dishes and wipe up the tea I spilled on my floor. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And they were strong: if just one HeLa cell landed in a culture dish, it took over, consuming all the media and filling all the space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I had to wash dishes, I would crack one or two. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed his mother the first two books as she dished up the lamb stew that was his supper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory and I were washing up the lunch dishes when Mrs. Cullinan came to the doorway. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few more weeks, it was that way, too, at the restaurant where I worked washing dishes, and at the Sweriins’. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can talk here,” I said, suddenly embarrassed about how messy the counter looked and how the dishes were piled up in the sink. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Brooke told Jule to order vanilla and they poured the espresso over their dishes of ice cream. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I’m alone, I let the dishes accumulate in the sink, I allow colored fur to grow in jars of leftovers, I use up all my underpants before washing any of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing scoops of com to the chickens and mixing sour dry mash with leftover food and oily dish water for the hogs were among our evening chores. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning he found a dish of stewed lentils on the storeroom shelf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A few steps away, Chip’s mother stood in her nightgown, her hands fiddling with a dish towel. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She went to a flour mill for flour sacks, bleached them, and made them into dish towels that she sold around town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I scraped the last few salty black eggs from the dish with my soup spoon and licked it clean. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only when Mum dished up the stew did I even remember the Knife Grinder's visit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And she gathered up her dishes and went out to the kitchen. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I let out a breath when I see a few bubbles from the spilled dish soap. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their van is hard to miss, with the satellite dish on the roof and the splashy logo of one of the Denver stations painted on the side. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Situated 11,300 feet above sea level, Namche occupies a huge, tilting bowl proportioned like a giant satellite television dish, midway up a precipitous mountainside. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I ate at the kitchen table while my mom washed dishes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put the coffee urn in the church kitchen, which was filled with ladies doing dishes in the cavernous metal sinks, everybody full of food and laughing about nothing. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lyra waited till she was sure he was asleep, and then took the dishes into the kitchen and ran them under the tap, rubbing hard with a cloth until they looked clean. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finish, I do the dishes, watching rainbow bubbles float up from the sink. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Later, Mariam was in the kitchen, soaking dishes in soapy water, a tightly wound knot in her belly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Servants came and went, clearing the dishes from the table. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I drew a final bucket of water, washed the dishes, and set them on the table. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ingeborg was doing the dishes in northern New Jersey when she switched on the radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I clamber up the stairs to get my doggie dish. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But she did not say the words out loud anymore because Raymie’s mother was very upset, and talking about dishes and spoons running away together was not appropriate. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mango follows me in the kitchen door, but I lose him to the food dish. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As Helmuth dries the last dish, the Wagner opera is interrupted. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We could do roasted vegetables for the side dish. We’ve never messed those up before.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Smell of dish soap rises from the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Everything is spotty and streaky, Daisy. They can’t even wash dishes right no more.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the lady limped to her chamber and the master disappeared down the stairs, I picked up the tray that held the last of the dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m digging at the bottom of my sundae dish with my long-handled spoon, my phone buzzes with a text. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After they finished eating, Dad did the dishes and walked us to the car. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Where did this dish begin? I mean, how did they come up with it?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mama says, wiping her hands on a dish towel. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They poured their final precipitate into a platinum dish smaller than a dime, boiled off the liquid, and slathered the residue with a layer of Duco Cement. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid you’re on your own today,” Mother said as the dishes were cleared away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Bill sold plates of his spicy, delicious Creole dishes—gumbo, jambalaya. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our main communications dish, which relayed signals from the Hab to Hermes, acted like a parachute, getting torn from its foundation and carried with the torrent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he left for work the third morning, he had brought up some food, a dish of white beans in tomato sauce and bread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I knew something was bothering him—and I don’t mean the dishes or the garbage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Turtles— which previously I had roughly opened up with the knife and tossed onto the floor of the boat for Richard Parker, like a bowl of hot soup—became my favourite dish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly made: round platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It is as futile to seek the past there as in a refuse of dishes encircling a table, each with its own crust of gravy, its own tale of bone and crackling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Antonapoulos lifted the cover from his dish and inspected the food carefully. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To have dishes, he thought, just to have dishes and pots and pans and a stove to cook the food—it still made him marvel. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took a match from a small dish on the table and lit it from one of the flames. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

One of my favorite Persian dishes, consisting of rice with saffron, chicken, and barberries. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The other side unfolded into a miniature radar dish made of Celestial bronze mirrors. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I walk as casually as I can to the kitchen, where Mr. Milo is checking a dish in the oven. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents join us in the dining room, carrying in the remaining dishes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“My turn,” Mom says, dropping her coffee-stained dish towel on the table and sitting down across from me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

At the same time the door flew open, and from the dark interior a hoarse voice inquired, “Have you ever heard a whole set of dishes dropped from the ceiling onto a hard stone floor?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The reserve water supply which had filled baths and washed dishes for many quiet days was gone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, clearing away the table behind me, he dropped some dishes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing a few dishes. I’ll watch from the monitor in here,” she calls back. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She had rubbed it with a magnet and then floated it in a dish of water, let it spin this way and that as it slowly settled with its point toward north. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They ordered two steaks medium rare, baked potatoes, French fries, fried onions, succotash, side dishes of macaroni and hominy, salad with Thousand Island dressing, cinnamon rolls, apple pie and ice cream, and coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A successful dish, he will say, is one that “tastes like my mother.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Familiar words from a stranger or Fig’s empty food dish wasn’t going to make me feel okay. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother set the dish back in the center of the table and speared a green bean with her fork. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Somkit went back into Mark's kitchen and came out with dishes of fish meatball soup and fried eggs and scallions over rice. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He cleared the table while I started on the dishes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Maxwell never breaks a dish," Gram is saying. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You pick,” I say, putting our dishes in the sink and heading through the swing door. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Same day—Monday, May 27,1935 When I get home, my mom is doing the dishes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave the dishes, I can do them tonight. You baby me too much.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lifted the dish of green beans and helped herself to an almond-sprinkled spoonful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So you’re walking around this empty house, and all the towels are folded up, and the soap is still wet on the soap dish. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hours then, I’ve got dishes too. Hearth first, then bath, then dishes. Fair?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not only am I giving him relationship advice, but it’s totally hypocritical because it’s advice I’m dishing out but totally not able to take. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

While I clear the breakfast dishes, Uhmma takes her Bible down from a shelf and opens it to a certain page. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Later, Mom stacked the dishes in the sink, turned the faucet on, and went to change her clothes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We laughed at the ugly dishes I’d bought in a secondhand booth to replace the china. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The whole house hung like broken dishes just before they hit the floor. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That put an idea into my head, and I mulled it over while washing the dishes and wiping down the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some went to and fro bearing cups and pouring drink; others brought food on heaped plates and dishes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One day he returned from a customer with galareta, a Polish dish of jellied chicken feet. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That she’d stop washing dishes, just for one moment, and ask me how my day was. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He reached and got the bottle and tilted it and lit the wick and blew out the flame in the dish and handed the smoking bottle to the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As my dad rocked back and forth in pain, I grabbed a dish towel from under the sink. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t sass me, child. You think you’re smarter than me? You know I intended for you to wash those dishes. And you made your sister do your work.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, she began to clear away the dishes with silent efficiency and seemed to be the only one who was surprised that she was helping. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slung the dish towel off her shoulder and wiped at the spots on the table. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Carol says her mother wears rubber gloves while washing the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I'm dishing up two more small servings of lamb stew and rice, we hear the anthem begin to play. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When she had finished, she put the small cake on the top shelf of the dish cupboard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rap on the side of her head made her gasp and almost drop the dishes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a breakfast of grits with flakes of fried shark steak, Jay washed dishes while I snapped a whole colander full of pole beans. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just yesterday, on the road to Vienna, he took possession of a five-hundred-and-seventy- piece china set with a single marquise-cut diamond set into the rim of every single dish. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s always called me Mama, since he spent most of his first year strapped to my back with a shawl as I washed dishes and made meals and cleaned the apartment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Lissa ran water in the sink and began washing dishes with a lot of clattering. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dish shattered, and the candy scattered everywhere. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was sliding the casserole dish into the oven when the laughing started. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in, and I saw right away that the Clutters hadn’t eaten breakfast; there were no dishes, nothing on the stove. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chafing dishes melt medicinal pastilles, and steam vases release vapor into the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I glimpsed the back of Mom—she had her bathrobe on, her hair caught up in a big clip—and heard the clink of dishes in the sink. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It even had elevated towers for the dishes, for heaven’s sake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to know that I, his Little Brother, could dish it out and not just take it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A shorter woman threw a dish towel on the counter and walked over to him, smiling. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dirty dishes were stacked in the sink, which wasn’t right. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even sit down to the meal, just went straight from serving to washing dishes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We screamed in the weak voice of a parrot for Totchy to come and wash those dishes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá stood at the kitchen sink washing dishes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he saw the blackened turkey smoldering in the oven, he grabbed two dish towels and hauled the bird into the backyard, where he unceremoniously lobbed it into the canal. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of coconut husk that I could use to scrape the dishes clean, and a tin of powdered soap. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a twenty-minute conversation, I check on my soaking dishes and find Mom attacking the roaster pan with a scrub pad. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The serving girls moved down to the kitchen, where kettles of water were put on to boil for the washing of the dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After school, you can come to help prep for dinner, and then after dinner, help clear the tables and wash dishes. And can you do Saturday and Sunday brunches as well?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And apparently, the only seasoning is salt. Is this supposed to be some kind of desi dish?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was unfolded laundry in the living room, and the breakfast dishes were still in the sink. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always been the one for outdoor chores anyway, burning the trash and weeding, while my sisters squabbled about the dishes and such. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t want to wash the dishes, you called Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On a sideboard nearby there was a little chafing dish and a basket of poppy heads. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even at our poorest we always had beautiful furniture and matching dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cole was bone weary as he walked to the water to clean dishes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was full of dirty dishes and the milk had been left out of the refrigerator and turned bad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I poured coffee and tea, served oyster loaf and Indian pudding, carried the dirty dishes back to Eliza, and tried to keep the floor swept clean. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they’d cleared off all the dishes, Naomi said they could go play. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just getting to know him, that’s all. Thank you for doing the dishes, Moss. It is very kind of you, and is the best way to ‘win me over.’” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My parents are hidden behind the kitchen wall, voices chattering, dishes clattering. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The house took on a life of its own, hatching piles of dishes and laundry and newspapers and dust. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was one o’clock by the time Jan left and we’d done the dishes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We put their dishes on top of ours and headed back. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

At any other time, it might have made a tasty dish, but tonight all the food was flavored with fear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He went back to the TV, and after I finished washing the dishes by hand — no dishwasher — I went upstairs unwillingly to work on my math homework. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I loved it when she let me help her with the dishes. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He gathered up dishes from the table and piled them into the sink, scrubbing everything with extraordinary zeal. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of apologizing for running off, he heads straight for his food dish and waits for me to fill it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Me and the girl walked a little farther up the crick and started unloading the rest of the dishes. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Broken shingles from the roof covered the floor, there was an empty sack in a corner, some broken earthenware shards, perhaps from a dish or a plate, and a few bones gnawed clean. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The girl brought in a glass dish of raspberry jam. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Walensky said, with heavy sarcasm, “as long as they dish me my money, they can play games all they want.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Mia shook the dish towel out with a quick snap of her wrist. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Venkatesh would move from one family to the next, washing their dinner dishes and sleeping on the floor. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

Then, she asked me to help her by washing the dishes, which I did. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I shut the door and bring the dish into the dining room. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Amaka piled almost everything on her dish—jollof rice, fufu and two different soups, fried chicken and beef, salad and cream—like someone who would not have an opportunity to eat again soon. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hear dishes clank, then a drawer open and close. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mom blindfolds me With a dish towel And turns me six times, My lucky number For my lucky day. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough I am helping too: I set the table for breakfast, clear the plates, sweep the hall, wash the dishes after dinner. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Around ten or eleven, I sneak away, back to the hotel to change into my regular clothes and wash the dishes piled in the sink. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my tray, cross to the deposit area, and slam the dishes onto the rack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Just by the way Papa jabbed his spoon in the sugar dish, I knew something was coming. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The guard crossed the room, took a bowl down from a shelf, and used a spoon to dish the rice pudding from the bucket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took her hand out of the murky brown water that she was washing dishes in and pointed out to a ship in the harbor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One table-leg was too short, but she propped it up with a bit of broken dish. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later we passed the broth shack, and there was a sixty-year-old woman working there, hard as nails, dishing out consommé. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I told you it’s cool. I can get the dishes.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She made a quick run to the kitchen and brought out a covered dish. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The idea is improvisation: the foil containers that come from salad bars can be reused as dishes; the lone plate becomes a cutting board. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Stephen and I still get stuck doing the dishes together, and then he remembers he’s my brother. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, the men slaughtered a sheep, skinned it, and shared the meat among the finest women cooks, so that each would cook her best dish for the ceremony. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Blanca saw her mother serve the food on plates of handcrafted clay, such as was used for making bricks, since all the dishes had perished in the quake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter had come to take away the dishes and redistribute menus. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dishes seemed impossibly fragile, the china thinner than a cracker and painted with brightly colored elephants. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dill put the dish in the cracked white plastic drying rack and went to his room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Or some other foul dish that tasted no better. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a vast dish of eggs and bacon on the sideboard and tea and coffee. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Every time it was my turn to do the dishes, I always had an excuse—or else, if Lynn felt well, I let her do them for me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up the breakfast dishes, left his two hundred dollars on the kitchen counter, got into the car, and drove south toward home. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hand from hers and said, “Well, that’s just about it for the dishes.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard,” said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There is dried edamame in a small dish, and chocolate-covered sunflower seeds in a square bowl. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, he returned to the table with the necklace wrapped in a dish towel and handed me the bundle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And at night she cooked these orthodox dishes for Harry and her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, when I got here, I was able to get a job in the palace kitchen, just scrubbing floors, washing dishes—that sort of thing.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what’s what and it’s all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she’s a vegetarian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But what do you mean?” she said, frowning at him, her wand pointing at the casserole dish now suspended in midair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Techies dismantled the field dishes, making ready to pull the plug. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I hope when your Mami is in New York you will come visit me,” she said as we washed dishes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The large noonday meal must be out of the way and the dishes washed before the housekeeper could spare a moment, she said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We both turn to the table, where Helena is stacking the dishes to wash. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I spread my math homework out on the table and pretended to work on it as Mama cleared away the last of the supper dishes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I clear the dishes and throw the pizza box in the trash. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Usually Mrs. Tomolillo had taken the lids off and dished out everybody's food like a little mother, but then they sent her home, and nobody seemed to want to take her place. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Various detours prolonged the eastward journey; he washed dishes in an Omaha restaurant, pumped gas at an Oklahoma garage, worked a month on a ranch in Texas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I find a casserole dish I don’t recognize. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some more joined in and dishes and tables began to crash. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dad had made his famous salt roast, which was my favorite dish, but I had no appetite. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the sink to deposit them, and she added, “After you do the dishes.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Julie rinsed off the dishes, then put her gloves back on. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Glasses were all over the place, and dishes with peanuts in them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The primary satellite dish had broken off, remember? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of going inside for dinner, the children had clung to their pretend dishes of dirt. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I go inside and Ma’s putting the dishes away in the kitchen, lifting them out of the drain rack and stacking the plates on the shelf. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to help with the dishes, so I go upstairs and sit in my closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The girl picked up the dish and carried it carefully off to the Ravenclaw table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was nothing at all on the storeroom shelves except empty crocks and baskets, and a dish containing the crumbs of last night’s loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

While they try to predict what dishes will be served, I keep seeing the old man’s head being blown off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

So the TV was the same old model, the car that Charlotte drove was the same old model, the dishes and the silverware and the towels—all the same. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own mother would never have served so few dishes to a guest. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment there was no sound except the scratching of Henry’s pen and the distant crash of dish racks in the kitchen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I got up when the rooster crowed or when I heard the clatter of dishes as the women downstairs made breakfast for the men. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If the people didn’t care about cars, they would drive straight into puddles and flood their engines, as the physician did one day, when Aziz made a dish of chicken stewed with plums. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I ask you to wash the dishes?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Charlie grabbed my backpack and headed out the front door, leaving me to toss my dishes in the sink and follow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say I have to wash the dishes myself. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are dishes in the sink and papers strewn over the coffee table, and the toaster is in bits. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Heron Man gathered his dishes and went inside. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the men ran into the ship and brought forth food tins which were opened and dished out without much noise. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Johnny saw a dish being prepared in the kitchen for some diner in the other room, he would call for ‘some of that,’ and she giggled again and fetched it for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the sun rose, Nok walked up the road to the village, the fresh smell of green herbs and steamed fish rising up from the dish. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He picked up every dish and jug and bottle they had, looked into ’em, shook ’em, then tossed ’em into the middle of the floor so’s they shattered. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the tin and cloth and began looking for the dish she’d brought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just out of holoscreen range were a sink full of dirty dishes, a muddle of food containers and a sagging couch. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try,” I answer, and pick up my dishes to take to the kitchen. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Brother Worbs's flat is a mess: dirty dishes, clothes lying around, drawers pulled open. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

So what if there were rotting peaches in the fridge and dirty dishes in the sink? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I feel like hurling the dishes at the wall, one by one. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every home had a TV, and every TV a remote, and you could get a satellite dish if you wanted. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When dinner was through, the dishes would pile even higher than the mountain Mom and I had washed after Nowruz. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps a dish of peas and onions, some fresh baked bread with butter, and a flagon of mulled wine to wash it down. Or beer, if that's easier. I try not to be overly particular." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland took down the white china dishes from the shelf and began to wrap them in newspaper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The waitress returned, and his mom ordered a trio of lobster dishes. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dill pulled the casserole dish from the oven. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They slice and sew and suction through a river of it, like they are washing dishes in soapy water. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had some of Mama’s Hoppin’ John, a dish of peas and rice cooked together. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like in a stew or as flavoring for the main dish. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

After we ate our spaghetti, I washed the dishes and wiped the sink down. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At church potlucks they play a secret game of dumping random cans of food in casserole dishes and pretending their grandmothers gave them the recipe. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After lunch, when the dishes had been cleared away and we were talking about nothing in particular, Julian asked, out of the blue, if I’d noticed anything peculiar about Bunny recently. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He moved about the kitchen, washed the breakfast dishes, and swept the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean colored cooks know white people don’t want them using their dishes and things. That’s why they all drink out of jars and eat out of old plates or pie pans.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If the dish smelled especially choice, he would send it to one of the lords on the dais, a gesture of friendship and favor that Maester Luwin told him he must make. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That night I made myself join the demon girl by the pump to do the dishes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were glass dishes and heavy cast-iron pans. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sumac bobbed his head and squawked his general happiness, then fluttered to the ground and began eating the food from my dish. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Farid came over to them, holding the silver dish with the money in it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I dished myself out a helping of green string beans and turned to pass the tureen to the enormous red-headed woman at my right. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dirt was in the baseboard that John scrubbed every Saturday, and roughened the cupboard shelves that held the cracked and gleaming dishes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The lunch was a spaghetti dish of some sort because Bill’s girlfriend doesn’t eat meat. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit here, Mother. There! I guess the shock of taking a rest kind of threw you. Here! I know it’s a dish towel. They say that Billy Sunday drives the Devil all over the stage.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They get to dish out wisdom and attitude while the white woman finds love. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the samples in a glass dish. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I begged and pleaded and promised them I’d do the dishes every single night for the rest of my life, but they still didn’t change their minds. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

While carrying out the dishes, he was as helpful as St. Timothy. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She brought her dishes to the kitchen and headed back upstairs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Me and Bugs had done tons of dishes in the Home so I said, “Sure we do, we used to be real good at cleaning up.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the sink and leaned down to open the cupboard and sift through the fancy plates and serving dishes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She spends most of her time in the kitchen preparing elaborate dishes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Tables and chairs lay helter-skelter, our dishes broken to bits, everything we owned scrambled and strewn across the floor. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s three o’clock by the time the dishes are clean and we’re ready to eat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was all plastic too—the table linen, the butter dish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washes the dishes, when he washes them, in the bathtub, where scraps of crust and kernels of canned corn are to be seen caught in the drain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This woman who can only be Mitch’s mom throws a dish towel over her shoulder and brings me in for a hug. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Waited for him to do the dishes, wipe the counters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama dozed while Stella washed the dishes, swept the house and both porches, and peeled potatoes for supper. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She ordered two dishes of coconut ice cream and ate them slowly with a soup spoon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slamming the door shut, he steps to the kitchen, grabs a dish towel from the edge of the sink, fills a glass with water, and walks into my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In Cuba, the air seemed to taste sweeter, as if there were mangoes growing nearby or your mother had just cooked your favorite dish. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My favorite dishes are full of butter and cheese and sour cream. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could hear the sounds of dishes hitting against one another as they were washed by hand. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, her father was washing the dishes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No offense, but you don’t exactly look to be the sort who would want to be washin’ dishes anymore.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting to her. Amina, take out the good cutlery and polish the silver serving dishes.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if she lay in the middle of a huge slate-blue saucer or dish that went up and away on all sides to the horizon. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon has given up his eye- damaging geometrical shapes and is painting pictures that look like commercial illustrations: huge Popsicles, giant salt and pepper shakers, peach halves in syrup, paper dishes overflowing with french fries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A long, deep dish held fried fish that had been cooked in what appeared to be onions and...other things Anya had never seen before. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I think he’s just as apt to do that as eat a dish of toadstools.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The onggi seller’s stall displayed every size of vessel— from tiny sauce dishes to kimchee jars big enough for a man to stand hidden within. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

To make money he worked nights washing dishes at an Italian restaurant in his parents’ town. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the planes were Russian at first, flying so low that Marysia’s dishes rattled. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So many meals, so many dishes crusted with casserole. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was loving and firm with her family, three girls and me, trained us in housework, dish washing, clothes washing, and manners. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson might not like it, but if the Spencers did move on, at least they didn’t leave his sister behind like unwanted dishes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She continued to wash the dishes and pass them to me to diy. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

What if I add chicken to this rice and potato dish? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind not having to wash dishes or mop the kitchen floor. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved happily toward the sideboard, where Mrs. Dudley had set a warming oven and an impressive row of covered dishes. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Nation and I had to wash the dishes before we could start our homework. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They lost their furniture and their dishes and their blankets and never got anything back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even in this Middle Eastern restaurant, I try to find some seed of home in every dish. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I put the dirty dishes in the sink and Mami stops me as I grab my chalk. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When her mother said it, it reeked of drudgery: waiting tables, washing dishes, cleaning floors. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Do you know how to cook all of my favorite Persian dishes? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The same red dish towel he leaves on his shoulder most of the day. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, though, dishes and more housework and her mother’s vigilant eye always waited for Joyce in the dark and close confines of the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I washed the dishes when they let me, enjoyed the smells of kabob in the making, and waited for the horns to sound. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dad is in the kitchen, washing dishes, and Mom is in our room, helping Malia with homework. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She spotted an empty pie plate on a red dish towel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast had been brought in and placed on the table in an elegant silver chafing dish. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She wiped her hands on a dish towel. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I asked Mom how adoption works last night, when she was doing the dishes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His hands were in the soapy sink water, rinsing off the last of the dishes while Linda bagged up the trash for Joaquin to take outside. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Francie made up four tumbled beds and washed a few breakfast dishes and swept the rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such food Bran had never seen,- course after course after course, so much that he could not manage more than a bite or two of each dish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He plugged the dish’s modem lead into his laptop. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There's a table where all the dishes are highly breakable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad wipes his wet hands off on a dish towel. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

How every birthday, we cooked, ate cake, washed dishes, and stayed close like a real family. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ma hurried Laura and Mary with their breakfast and she washed the dishes quickly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets up to wash her dish, and when she’s done, she slips out the door. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I have a feeling we are not talking about clean dishes anymore, but I add extra dish soap to the sponge to get every speck of food off the plates, just in case. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up the dinner dishes, then sat in a chair by the window for about an hour, not doing anything except thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the grand dining room, the noble family had laid out elfin delicacies in heavy silver dishes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She would drift in through Mrs. Mannino's window and hang suspended over the kitchen sink while she washed dishes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly washed up my few dishes, then ladled clean water over each item to rinse off the suds. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The recipes, the herbs, the wine, the preparation that goes into a good venison dish would make an old shoe a gourmet’s delight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got rid of all Dad’s stuff. You bought a new couch, new dishes, new jewelry.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The TV wasn’t working because the satellite dish was no longer pointed up at the satellites. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That big silver plate that goes to the winner? I’m such a klutz with dishes at home. Would you hold it for me when the crowd rushes us? I’m afraid I’ll drop it.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She held her head bowed down, as if she wanted to view Gregor better, but ran senselessly back, contradicting that gesture, forgetting that behind her stood the table with all the dishes on it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think secretly she was hoping to catch me making a dish of dog’s or cat’s meat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You washed dishes right on this train! I was just telling some of the fellows you were in my car here. We all follow you!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He upended it, placing the open end in a dish also filled with mercury. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Returns with a dish full of jasmine rice with three chunks of butter melting into it. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Ai! This dish not salty enough, no flavor,” she complained, after tasting a small bite. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some dishes are served on small mirrors rather than proper plates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The women cut up chickens, peeled plantains, cubed potatoes, made sofrito, washed dishes, brewed coffee, and tended babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"It's a dish I tasted myself, or have you forgotten? I was ten when I was taken from my father's house, to make certain he would raise no more rebellions." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He points to a dish that is still half full. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll Find something valuable. I’ve always admired the plastic dishes people had in their living rooms. I never knew where they came from.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a table to clear and dishes to wash and dry,” I said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to cook all of Abuela’s best dishes,” she said, sharpening her knife and motioning for me to grab an apron. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She wanted to turn back to the safety of the dishes she’d left in the sink, but she had to stay the course. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The very dish I told Caesar Flickerman was the most impressive thing the Capitol had to offer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, the fawn broke my heart with its sweet, dished face, its absurdly fragile legs, its still-fuzzy coat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But she never had to do dishes, because her grandmother did them—probably happily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I found Aunt Loma sitting at the kitchen table, her long curly red hair still loose and tousled, the dirty breakfast dishes pushed back to clear a space. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As the ladies went out, they left their little decorated cards with their names written on them in the cut-glass dish on the hall table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the goddesses, some say Demeter, some Thetis, inadvertently had eaten of the loathsome dish and when the boy’s limbs were reassembled one shoulder was wanting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she had more time on her hands, she enjoyed making elaborate foreign dishes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I gather the kitchen dishes, put them in the sink, and wipe the table and countertops with some lemon-smelling spray stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

‘It sure enough time for Willie and my Highboy. But with this here real sink and grand running water these little dishes won’t take me two winks.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

No keeping rotten food in the cupboards or leaving rancid dishes in the sink. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I’ve got it. Simple video network. Not even digital. I’m going to broadcast a loop of the last ten seconds to every camera through our dishes. That should give you a few minutes.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So subdued, in fact, that there are long periods of silence relieved only by the removal of old dishes and presentation of new ones. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Salvador stopped, dropping a dish on the floor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

"Well," Chuck said, "The primary ran through the big satellite dish. It blew away in the storm. The rest of the backups were in the MAV." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes in front of him were now piled with food. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I’m IN THE KITCHEN, washing dishes and joking around with my coworkers, when Don Lucho pokes his head through the doorway. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like something to drink?” said Ear, throwing a towel over the heap of dirty dishes in the sink. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As if summoned across the new ice by his favorite dish, he arrived in time to eat until he could eat no more. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Many locals and visitors believed the eerie tales of lights flickering on and off during the night, dishes falling on their own, and phantoms in the bathroom mirror. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even without unleashing the worst it could dish out, the mountain had sent us scurrying for safety. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That was another super-mom moment because after she talked to the new owner, they agreed to special-order the dish—just for me! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I could finish those dishes,” he said with his mouth full. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It w'as a dull pop, a sound drowned out by the dishes being washed next door. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, he was back, carrying his water dish between his teeth. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The children washed the dishes while their grandmother watched them and told them where to put things away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did he let her clear away the shattered dishes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kept rearranging the serving dishes as though just about to offer seconds, but since the four plates were still piled high, the gesture was useless. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

That was one dish there was no argument with my father about. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the sound of the train clacking along, the waiters were jabbering the customers’ orders, the cooks operated like machines, and five hundred miles of dirty pots and dishes and silverware rattled back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we’ve stuffed ourselves, I collect the dirty dishes, their china ones and my metal ones. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long table laden with many dishes, the smell of musty old room and hot grease in the kitchen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The chocolaty sauce of the chicken enchiladas spilled out of the rolled-up tortillas and mixed in with the rice and beans, making the dish extra delicious. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Daughters and Otis arrived at noon, lugging in all manner of potluck dishes, as if we hadn’t eaten ourselves sick the night before. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I come up the cellar stairs I can hear Aunt Mildred and Mrs. Smeath, who are in the kitchen doing the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were books on the tables too, and there were shelves filled not with pans and dishes, but with books. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After washing the dishes, I fidget with the remote in the living room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma had just finished drying the breakfast dishes and was putting them back in the cupboard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When she has finished the dishes, she leads Frederick out onto the elevated patio, as is their routine, where he sits with his bib still around his neck, staring into oblivion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A warning look from her mother checked any further remarks, and the whole family ate in heroic silence, till Mr. March mildly observed, “salad was one of the favorite dishes of the ancients, and Evelyn...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought her own bowl to the table, too, and then a loaf of bread on a cutting board and a dish of creamery butter and spoons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I dump the dishes in the sink and run the water to soak them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as Grandpa finishes his last bite, I quickly clear the dishes, wash the plates, and run to set up my phone with the little tripod my dad bought for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We'd better get these dishes done. Hand me the lava spray gun, will you?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But they also did some shopping for furniture, dishes, and clothes, including a morning gown for Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never saw the dirty dishes in the sink. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it gets on her nerves enough, she will do the dishes herself, which is intended to be a rebuke. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Commercials for car dealerships, paper towels, dish soap. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Hannah will tell us what to do, and we’ll have everything nice when you come home,” added Beth, getting out her mop and dish tub without delay. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marigold grabbed a damp dish towel from the edge of the sink to better scrub at the tabletop. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It does not twirl incense sticks or throw shoes and dishes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a copper dish on the altar are three silver murtis, representations. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to wash dishes and always offered to mop the floor, but for the fifth day in a row, Mrs. Woods said, “Go outside. Play.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of a concrete sink, she stops and sets down the dishes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes were trimmed with gold, the silver cutlery was freshly polished, and a crystal goblet sat by each plate. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They call these meals "traditional," yet they're rarely the American dishes I remember. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was also like that last month when our favorite restaurant changed its menu and they no longer made my favorite dish the way I liked it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The enormous dish was white with concentric rings of tiny green leaves on it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Can I be excused, since it’s your night for dishes? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t be long,” Talis said as they were clearing the dishes after dinner. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His aunt, Uma Maima, presides in the kitchen all morning, harassing the servants as they squat by the drain scouring the dirty dishes with ash, or pound heaps of spices on slabs that resemble tombstones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He focuses on the dish brush, swishing the suds around, trying to get a streak of pizza cheese off a plate without getting his cast wet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this because as we’re all yapping in the living room, Papi washes the dishes, cleans the kitchen, and comes back to offer Mama a glass of water while he takes her empty plate. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By the time I was done with the washing, my hands felt raw, but the dishes were clean, and the teashop man grumpily agreed I’d done more than enough. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At lunch I’d help Mother cook and do the dishes, then I’d return, either to the junkyard or to the forklift. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And Ton-Ton knew all this, Matt now discovered, because he cleaned the Keepers’ rooms and washed their dishes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once the dishes had been washed, I disappeared into homework, often taking my books downstairs to the encyclopedia nook off the stairwell next to Robbie and Terry’s apartment for privacy and quiet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had the warlocks do their thing into lithium batteries, and then set up a network of receiver dishes around the designated area. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He dishes the ball to Hakim, who scores an easy layup. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima sets out paper plates that have to be tripled to hold the weight of the biryani, the carp in yogurt sauce, the dal, the six different vegetable dishes she’d spent the past week preparing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A stack of dirty dishes and a rag.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slave-era cabins sat next to cinder-block homes and trailers, some with satellite dishes and porch swings, others rusted and half buried. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a long moment she said, “You’re fretting a mighty lot this evening. Hard work is always the cure for worry. So busy yourself doing those dishes and getting ready for your final exams.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pour every prayer and blessing into the dishes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bugs said, “Dang, girl, you act like this is the first cardboard jungle I’ve been in, I know how you do dishes out here.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Recessed into the dome-shaped top of each stove were two shallow clay dishes that served as burners. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lee came out with a platter of fried chicken, a bowl of smoking boiled potatoes, and a deep dish of pickled beets, all carried on a pastry board. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Gardenia clanked dishes in the kitchen, her brother-in-law asked Bobbette what she did for a living. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On my boat I had discovered the aluminum, disposable cooking utensils, frying pans and deep dishes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to Shamika and his mama gossip as he did the dishes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They found dishes on the table and Pearl’s clothes hung over a chair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Raggedy Ann dolls and dollhouses, little aluminum dishes to play kitchen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By dish ten, a steamed fish, everyone was groaning. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even spoke a bit about her boyfriend, Ewan, while we did the dishes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I should need you to wash dishes? I have two good hands. They can wash dishes, too—and I don’t have to pay them.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a petri dish. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After the television was shut off, and the dishes washed and dried, they joked, and told stories, and dipped biscuits in their tea. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pick up my bowl and get ready to dish my rice. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Ma, why don’t you ever use those new dishes I bought you? If you didn’t like them, you should have told me. I could have changed the pattern.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes and crystal glasses that were spread across the table glimmered in the light, and morsels of unfinished food remained on the antique plates and serving trays. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had sucked all the bones, and he imagined that the taste of Olanna’s mouth was in his as he started to wash the dishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrion reached a thumb and forefinger into the salt dish, and sprinkled a healthy pinch over his meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I need to wash the dishes now,” I call over my shoulder, and run downstairs to the kitchen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows exactly what to say to each Democratic senator to make them dish about bills, exactly when Zahra’s running low on nicotine gum, exactly which look to give Nora for the rumor mill. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mom’s dish of tangled jewelry is still on her dresser, and her glass perfume bottles are still lined up. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At home he sometimes cooked the new dish he had eaten in the jail, and on the streets there was never any knowing just what he would do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her mother would clean off the headstones with an old cloth and burn sage in a shallow pewter dish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she checked Doc over, then wet a few rags with cool water and a little dish soap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She set the dish in front of me — it looked pretty good — and turned quickly to Edward. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

With the dish towel still clutched in her hand she pressed it against my forehead. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had just begun washing the dishes that were stacked in the sink when there was a knock on the back door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes were washed, and everyone was sitting at the kotatsu talking when the front door slid open and Papa stepped through. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While my sisters and I offer our sympathy long-distance, Paul is the one who arrives at our father's house on Thanksgiving day, offering to prepare traditional Greek dishes to the best of his ability. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Beatrice dished out the stew into three bowls and began to slice the bread. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I place samples of leaves and ground cover in petri dishes and spray my environmentally approved potion over each. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could feed the chickens, pack in wood, cook cornbread, wash dishes, wash Little Arliss, and sometimes even change the prickly-pear poultice on my leg. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start washing last night’s dishes, wishing she’d just leave me be. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On swollen legs they carried out dishes of lamb and rice, okra in tomato sauce, Greek salad, rice pudding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man went into a little room at the end of the kitchen, where he hummed a familiar song, dished out rice into many bowls, and brought them out on a tray. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In fact this lonely rabbit would make a small stew and we would still be hungry while we washed the dishes afterward—a feeling we were trying to get used to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a side dish, sweet corn was a no-brainer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We dished out the pasta and I called everyone to the table for dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I learned to deftly lift a slice of meat or a helping of vegetables with serving spoon and fork neatly manipulated in one hand while holding the dish with the other. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first dish was a boiled swan, head still attached, which he would not touch. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I watched Mama wash dishes and let the words sink in. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He released her hair and her now-ripped T-shirt and once again ordered her to wash the dishes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I was the one who answered the knock, opening the front door just a crack before I saw Ms. Banks, Faith and Mrs. Bernoffski, with a big clay dish, on the other side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I suppose. Most of it doesn’t affect me much. I still sleep in a bed. Sit in a chair. Wash dishes in a sink.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As she walks slowly through the rooms it irks her that there are dirty dishes stacked in the kitchen, that the bed has not been made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I rinsed all the dishes and put them in the dishwasher. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember anything about washing dishes and clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin asks, looking up from the petri dish he's been studying intently. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But I had to wash the dishes, so I would dash out to the pump. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cook handed her the tea service, which was somehow even heavier than the oatmeal tray, she’d made certain to warn Ophie that the dishes were valuable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mom couldn’t afford to buy much food at the market, usually just a half pound of beans, a few ingredients to make gravy, and some cornstarch to make kaunga, a traditional doughlike dish. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I went back to the kitchen and started to dish out the rice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had learned to cook some of her fancy dishes when she worked as a maid in white ladies’ kitchens on Park Hill. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I still had one evening left of washing dishes in the cafeteria to work off my smoking conviction, we didn’t much fear the Eagle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew she was still soaking the dishes in the sink so I had a little more time. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t volunteer any information about the broken satellite dish, and Mom didn’t ask. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the men roared in approval, I carried the tray loaded with the dirty supper dishes down the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked over to Raheem, who was dishing out eggs to the line of kids at the table. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fishtail took off his big moose-hide mitts and Angeline dished up a wooden bowl of the soup, eager for him to sit and warm himself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But it was also that the neat stacks of dishes on the high shelves and the smell of Pine-Sol made me feel weirdly safe, or warm, or just normal, I guess. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The dinner dishes had been cleared, and the cousins had all gone out to see a picture show. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Dad washed the dishes and I dried them while I waited for my electric kettle to reach 180° Fahrenheit, which is what I liked for steeping my genmaicha. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

You tell me when it comes on and I will come over, she yells over the noise of running water and clanking dishes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were maybe fifty different dishes to choose from on that table. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you know how much I hate drying the dishes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t always have to eat immigrant dishes, do I? I can enjoy American foods once in a while.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Support” came in the payment by members of a fee, “stockvel money,” to the host; and in return, they would be given free liquor and “stockvel plates”—dishes of chicken, rice and vegetables. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Lilienthals were supportive of Bobby, he reciprocated with gifts: a television satellite dish, a vacuum cleaner, leather goods that he’d buy on trips to Vienna, and special gifts for birthdays and other holidays. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Goldie gave the spatula to Tidings, wiped her hands on a dish towel, smiled at me, and said, “Come here and let me kiss you, puddin’.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna hurried over to join it, but the woman who was dishing out the yolk stood up and said, “Egg yolk is finished! O gwula!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he had finished his beer, Doc went into the kitchen, and cleared the dirty dishes out of the sink. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, Roza wrapped his finger in a dish towel and elevated his arm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A photograph of the kitchen sink showed three dirty dishes, each with little smudges of pizza grease and tomato sauce. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mother dished out sadza, a cornmeal porridge that is our staple food. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I took a picture of the dish with my phone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every so often, Henry will look up, catch Alex’s eye, go pink around the ears, and return to his rice pilaf as if it’s the most fascinating dish on the planet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

An argument, about who should put the dishes in the dishwasher, whose turn it is to sort the laundry, clean the toilet; something daily and unimportant in the big scheme of things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dainty ladies were putting roses and violets in their dishes—baked mangolds still mairg an excellent flavouring for bread-and-butter puddings—-while the squires were showing their weakness for sheep’s-milk cheese. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate my cereal and washed the dishes with my shoulder bag slung around my neck Brooklyn-style. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It receives radio waves from the depths of space, focusing them onto the feed arm antenna high above the dish, which is in turn electronically connected to the control room, where the signal is analyzed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man kept staring as though she were a maggot on his dish. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

An herb stew and one of the most popular Persian dishes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He explained why he has cable TV, as opposed to a dish. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evenings, after a long day working at the Winn-Dixie, she restocked the boat’s small refrigerator, fixed dinner, and washed dishes in the brackish water of the bayou. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Every now and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished out to each boy in our House, and this, believe it or not, was a present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night he washed the one plate he used and wiped it dry and set it back in its place on top of the stack of dishes Thula had left behind in a kitchen cabinet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There are so many side dishes, you can hardly count them—potatoes of all kinds, and cabbage and every other vegetable, and delicious breads. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The N and the Z. I found the I, L, and A. I polished those with the dish towel. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I light tiny tea candles beneath a chafing dish to start melting a skin-color pastille. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the dishes were done, Dad and I settled in for our nightly tradition. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While Wynn put away the dishes, singing again, Nan leaned over with effort and whispered, “He doesn’t have to be here, you know. And he really is a help.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After the dishes were cleared Henry put his elbows on the table and lit a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I guess we could ask Mr. Poe about it,” Violet said doubtfully, as Klaus stood beside her and dried the dishes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When we finish, I stare longingly at the dish. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I steadied the three dishes in my arms and started to leave our kitchen when Ma slid a can of fruit-punch soda under my left arm. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But there was enough in the dish, finally, to write almost a half-page of a letter to Carol. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

If ever there was cleverness in the joke, it has been wrung out like a dish towel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But when Emma reached the kitchen, she found Finn already sitting at the table, digging French toast slices out of the dish where Mom had been keeping them warm. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One drab woman was weeping silently into a dirty dish towel. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The worst part of being on punishment isn’t the cleaning up and washing dishes and raking leaves, it’s not being able to go over to Suesetta’s house after church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Emile was beside himself with pride as he pointed to various dishes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pats my shoulder before standing up to go finish washing the dishes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The millet was reaped with stone knives, piled into haystacks, and threshed to obtain the seeds, which were then stored in skin bags or wooden dishes and finally ground with millstones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear dishes clatter and then a chair scraping across the floor. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I sat Dinah against the sugar dish and had a hot bowl of grits for breakfast. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dinners would be noisy with the clinking of knives and forks against dishes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can bite like a car-nivore, or chew like an herbivore, depending on the dish. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Deza handed Bugs and the other little boy some rags and some soap powder and they started splashing the dishes in the water. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I need your help,” I told Mom that night after dinner as we stood side by side doing dishes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She used to make this dish,” he said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every now and then she stopped to sip her milk, and he filled the dish a second time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mother said as she dried the dinner dishes and handed them to me to put away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked his favorite dish, potato shorwa, though he could scarcely eat more than a few spoonfuls, and took him out every day for a brief walk around the block. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who has that kind of money to dish out based on me singing one little song? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everything looks different from this spot at the table, compared with when I’m clearing dishes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching them in my hands, I glided past the Daughters as they finished up the dishes in the kitchen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, don't worry about the dishes, Patty. I'll take care of them in a minute," Momly said, now bending down, sweeping nothing into a dustpan. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Every family brought a table, some chairs, and a dish to share. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She’d let me cook dinner, wash dishes, and clean up after myself. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid the fairy on the pillow, then filled a dish with milk and put it on the table beside her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Maya and I will take these dishes into the dining room, and you can bring the rest when you’re done, okay, aapa?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So I walked into Annemarie’s room balancing my lemonade and an ice water for her, along with a dish of almonds that her father had somehow warmed up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Jazz clanged pots and dishes around in the kitchen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As usual, I was doing my best to get out of having to do the dishes, but I stopped at the sound of this odd weeping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bouquets of flowers and a dish of tangerines flanked the drawing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I walk into the kitchen and I spot the sink piled high with pots and dishes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Miles away, at the Arables’ house, the men sat around the kitchen table eating a dish of canned peaches and talking over the events of the day. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

After I hung up, I helped Betty Jean fold the laundry and do the dishes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smaller tables and sideboards were positioned at the edges of the room to hold trays and dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hand Fina the note so she can see for herself, then pull back the foil from the dish. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say a word and starts running the water for the dishes as she clip-clops up to her office because, you know, “someone has to work around here.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I knew I should clean it more thoroughly, maybe with dish soap, but looking at Luke, the way he was writhing on the grass, I didn’t feel I had time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The dishes my mom left drying on the rack are an exhibit. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Water splattered all over him and the dishes he’d just dried. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Molly has been cooking quite a bit lately, reasoning that if Dina tries some dishes that don’t have animal protein front and center, she’ll see how many more options are available. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

While I was washing the dishes, Grandpa said, “I think I’ll shave.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mashed stubs of cigarettes lay everywhere, in cleansing cream, in a dish of grapes, and on the floor beneath the bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll remind him when we cook and do the dishes too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Medicinal pastilles burn on chafing dishes surrounding Charlotte's bed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Daddy is washing up the dishes when we hear a knock on the door. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine I’d been shoving that ice cream dish under her nose for five or six weeks before somehow it began to sink in that she wasn’t like the rest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rows and rows of petri dishes line the walls behind him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our team tested the sleep habits of five wild three-toed sloths by placing on their heads, in the early evening after they had fallen asleep, bright red plastic dishes filled with water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sallie Moffat renewed her friendship, was always running out for a dish of gossip at the little house, or inviting ‘that poor dear’ to come in and spend the day at the big house. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie balanced the tea tray, wincing every time the dishes rattled the least little bit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

At night, after Ash had washed the supper dishes and banked the kitchen fire, her stepmother called for her to come to her chamber. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hear, hear!” said Harry and Ron loudly as the empty dishes filled magically before their eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Poe serves the most beautiful-looking lobster pasta dish I have ever seen, garnished with basil leaves and fresh Parmesan and even truffles! Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I wore my old hey-diddle-diddle pajamas—cats played fiddles, dishes ran away with spoons. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She ran back three more times, bringing out more covered dishes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You mean, take out all the dishes and such?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She’s probably already in cat heaven, while some animal lover has turned her into a tasty dish. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After finishing the dishes, they leaned against the counter, drying their hands on either end of a towel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Agrippina had slipped a poisoned one into his dish one night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the eat-in area of the kitchen, I spent over an hour constructing an elaborate obstacle course and placed Sir Fig Newton’s food dish at the end. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In 1973, in a smuggled newspaper, we read about the wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, and the story detailed the bridal luncheon of rare and delicate dishes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut off the radio, and I take my dishes from the TV room back to the kitchen, and I scoop myself a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull away The dish towel, dazed By the sunlight. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also little side dishes of pickled vegetables and garlic yogurt and the still-warm disks of fresh bread that my dad baked every evening. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I still washed dishes and helped with dinner. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When he returned, he and I washed dishes in a large aluminum tub. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It infuriated Brave Orchid that her sister held up each dish between thumb and forefinger, squirted detergent on the back and front, and ran water without plugging up the drain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rinsed a pot and set it in the dish drainer. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is a large, white, carrot-shaped East Asian radish that is often made into kimchi, the spicy fermented condiment that is Korea’s most famous dish. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I asked, taking a sandwich from the platter and passing the dish to Sookie. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She asked to be excused, and dumped her dishes into the stainless steel sink. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Vegetables are good for you; your mother says so too. Have some more,” she insists, until Father intervenes and upholds my right to refuse a dish I don’t like. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This one and that one came into her house with covered plates of broth and other sick-room dishes without taking the least notice of her as Joe’s wife. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I can work. I can wash dishes and stuff?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Javier walked out of the kitchen, a dish towel flung over his right shoulder, and Moss’s heart fluttered at the way the white undershirt clung to his chest and shoulders. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Baba carries big foil containers full of samples of Mama’s most popular dishes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He washed his hands in a bowl and wiped them on a towel like Mama after the dishes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Jamaica, we’re greeted by dozens of large butterflies, the Giant Swallowtail, as people sitting on the floor eat special dishes, like ackee and saltfish. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Meals are always being cooked, dishes washed, the vacuum or shower running. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And then she runs into the kitchen and starts washing the breakfast and lunch dishes like a maniac, doing them by hand and stacking them away instead of putting them into the dishwasher. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only her Dad’s face rose up above the boys’ heads as he smiled and dished up the punch into the little paper cups. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

While Quines is clearing the dishes and the others are set- ting out coffee, I notice the sweat beaded on their foreheads and I can see in their eyes that they’re swamped. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He replied without looking up from his dish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them even have portable satellite dishes attached to them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the middle of each table there are two china dishes, one with salted nuts, the other with mixed candies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To prevent burglars and vandals from breaking in, we’d hang laundry on the clothesline and put dirty dishes in the sink. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fine linen cloth covered the table, which displayed eight porcelain dishes with perfectly placed silverware and folded napkins on either side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That’s when my mother decided I no longer had to do the dishes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom stood at the sink washing dishes, half-watching the morning show on a tiny TV propped on the counter. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She switches to a job washing dishes for $9 an hour. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With all of us here for lunch today, it looks like every dish in our house is in the sink—pots and pans, plates, bowls, glasses, silverware. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They can add more and more, stuff the pages of their scrapbooks with dining room suites, beds, stacks of towels, one set of dishes after another, and think nothing of it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, we’d wash our dishes and gather to watch the least offensive movie the teachers could possibly find. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The few problems I had with black folks were nothing compared to the grief white folks dished out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile, set down the dishes, and close the door behind Emilika. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Abbey and I quickly cleared the rest of the table and started washing the dishes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And just like that, Mutti packs up everything—the dishes, the pots and pans, the uneven chairs, the brown wooden table, the worn armchair, the scratched-up black oak table lamp, the two wooden bedsteads. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hole-in-the-wall place in Davis Square whose menu had twenty different egg dishes and another twenty pancake varieties. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Then you and Bri do the dishes. I’m going to my room.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was my dad’s favorite dish before he died. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She turned around and began to dry her hands briskly on the dish towel, and to Pearl’s chagrin her mother’s face was suddenly stiff and closed in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As my parents and the FOB sat talking at the kitchen table, I dropped two dishes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Immie left the dishes for the cleaner and changed into swimsuits. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was putting the breakfast dishes away and Harold was warming up the car so we could go to work. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the dignity of both women demanded that they never speak of dishes nor of swabbing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Rowan tried to be more practical, picking out staples like eggs, flour, and various proteins and side dishes to go with them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The First National Bank, which had dished out loans as freely as a doctor gives out lollipops, was in grave trouble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed his food dish at the end of the obstacle course I’d constructed the day Fig was at the vet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For a time he fussed with the dishes, whistling to himself as if the subject had been settled. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask you now, please go and do the dishes and do the weeds in the garden. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She puts out the dishes and I can feel her peering over my shoulder to make sure that I’m still going. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And everyone was eating that slop off my mother’s good dishes from her china cabinet in the dining room. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief to finish the dishes and go up to her room and shut the door. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lynch was so old he had washed dishes at the Last Supper. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was laid with a starched cloth and good, if chipped, dishes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lay Rose down on the kitchen table as I dried the dishes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As I cleared away the table, Madam informed me that my day off would begin after I brought in wood and washed up the dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday morning, she showed up carrying a box loaded to the top with two loaves of banana bread, two pies, peanut butter cookies, corn muffins, a dish of macaroni and cheese, and a lasagna. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Your mom is right. Just because you’re going to be far away doesn’t mean you can eat off filthy dishes and what not.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She reached for a loaf of bread, but a server swept it out of the way to make room for a new dish: a huge platter with a suckling pig on it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and drift off, only to be awakened by her standing over me with a dish of Jell-O. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He knew how to prepare a few French dishes, perfectly seasoned and magnificently presented, which were his contribution whenever there were guests for dinner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Chuck fumbled about with dishes and things from the fridge, Thomas pulled out a wooden chair from a small plastic table and sat down. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After dinner, as I’m clearing dishes and the Doctorita is grading papers at the table, I say, “Doctorita, I want to go to school.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was against the rules, they often stuffed bracken, osmunda, and other ferns inside their uniforms and brought them home to their mothers to make side dishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He sends pictures of math proofs from his AP math class, his AP English required reading list, pictures of beakers and petri dishes from his biology and chemistry classes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Granny, can I have some water in a dish? There’s a toad out front that looks as if he’s just about to die of thirst.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence, for Mrs. Van Hopper liked to concentrate on food, and I could tell by the way the sauce ran down her chin that her dish of ravioli pleased her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I learn which fork to use with which course and how to sip soup quietly and what wine to drink with what kind of dish. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The dishes are supposed to be back on the shelves. I take them out again for lunch. I set out lunch at one, but first the dishes have to be back on the shelves.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She put her husband’s breakfast into the food container that she had bought in Chinatown, one dish in each tier of the stack. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her into the kitchen, where a man stood at the stove with a dish towel over one shoulder, flipping pancakes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I love a man who dries my dishes. Even if he does insult me.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She began straightening up the kitchen, putting away the leftovers and piling dishes in the sink. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wanna sit down at the antique oak table to eat from the “special-occasion” dishes Dr. Rivers has taken from her china cabinet. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the flickering glow, Taylor’s mother looked just like she had when Taylor was six, but this mom wasn’t crying at a sink full of dirty dishes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At home at one or two his mother would be putting away die lunch dishes and getting ready for her exercise class. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the rent is $150 a week, so it’s on to the Biarritz, where a jolly gal shows me the efficiency for $110 a week—no TV, no linens, no dish- ware. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a shelf for food and dishes, an armoire for the bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There would be stacks of petri dishes next to the cottage cheese and butter. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

They comment on each other’s dishes, trading tastes on their bread plates. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stewards began to bring out the first dish, an onion broth flavored with bits of goat and carrot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I ripped off the wrapping paper and inside a box were a set of three cotton dish towels hand- stitched with my name on them. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She’s making a beef dish, stirring the pot while talking nonstop in a friendly Pakistani accent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I missed Grandpa Ted, but Lolo and Lola comforted me with their stories and hugs, and with the dishes they cooked that made their house smell so good. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She found a can of fruit cocktail and spooned it into three dishes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once I’m inside, Grandma immediately urges me to the dining table, where soup, rice, and a lot of banchan, Korean side dishes, are set out for one person. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If there’s a bit of food left at the bottom of the pan, she leaves it to spoil instead of transferring it to a glass dish. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I washed dishes over and over, and Martín yelled at me a couple of times because I was taking too long to move the dish racks through El Monstruo. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They just seemed to stop talking at some awkward, cliff-hanging moment and then Mom would attend to washing the dishes and Dad would silently read the newspaper. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I begin collecting my dishes to follow them. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After supper, Cole washed the dishes at the water’s edge, gingerly rubbing gravel on the plates to clean them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was polite and well mannered, and at family dinners was the first girl cousin up from her seat to clear the table and wash the dishes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had been feeding him in the morning; it was time for his breakfast and his food dish was in the yard near the front porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At lunch I grabbed an orange plastic tray and stared at the chafing dishes full of food, unsure what to take. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

How could the others eat so heartily and with such a clatter of dishes and shrieks of conversation? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Moss concentrated on the dishes as his heart began to race again, as the thought of texting Javier to confirm their first date sent an electricity through him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Waiters were buzzing about all over the place, carrying plates and dishes. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In another, she was washing the dishes in the apartment. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the men finished their meals, Joe hauled their dirty dishes back to the cookhouse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She strokes his face, running her fingers around his dished cheek and down under his chin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

See Mama swatting a frying pan of flames with a dish towel. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We sent return communication in a similar way, wrapping notes in the same plastic and placing them at the bottom of the mounds of dirty dishes that were routed back to the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked for my job back at the cafe and the boss lady allowed me to return; again I served breakfast, washed dishes, carted trays of food up into the apartments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in front of the sink and look at all of the dishes that I have to wash. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to talk,” he said, putting the dishes in the dishwasher. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone recited the Five Principles of Good Citizenship and the Four Attitudes Leading to Right-Mindfulness, and then a sullen, acne-scarred boy began dishing up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When winter comes they take their own cats indoors for safety, then they put out dishes of poisoned food for the strays.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was like the one in Mother’s picture, covered with cloth and dishes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am preparing a list of items for you to purchase. You may leave as soon as the dishes are washed.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My trips up and down the stairs continued until my knees threatened to fold up and quit, bringing dishes down, carrying more delicacies and hot drinks up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Pa works all day and is tired at night, Big Ma gives me her opinions while I wash dishes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson was eating his second dish of ice cream. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He joins us at the kitchen table, but not before grabbing a spoon from the dish rack and helping himself to my bowl. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

By the time I finished with the early morning dish prep, I had practically drowned in soap bubbles. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I still have to dish to them about what just happened with my parents, but they’re getting on a boat and I have somewhere I need to be too. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She always had some book with her, and poring over it, she would make a thirty-minute job of that daily dish of banana split. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was ’zactly the kind of corn Ma would dish out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mama sighed and started washing the dishes left over from breakfast. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

They had no food, and their water dish was empty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Afraid of her answer, but knowing I should, I asked, “Need any help with the dishes, Ma?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I take Helena to Tatarska Street next, one of us carrying a broom, the other a mop and a ruined dish towel. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jay looked uncomfortable and Mama put a dish in the oven before she turned back to look at me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Uhmma’s hands washed our dinner dishes, cleaned the kitchen floor with a rag, folded load after load of laundry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Cook asked as Ophie took the dirty breakfast dishes over to the sink. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t change her clothes. She doesn’t wash her dishes.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get there, I do the dishes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, on the morning of the fourth day, I caught Chester bleary-eyed over the water dish. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine counted whatever crossed her path—dishes, steps, and stars in the nighttime sky. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were always aromas of tasty dishes, flowers cut from our backyard in vases, doilies that Grandma India crocheted on tables, and squares of tapestry she had made on the walls. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My bed was unmade and breakfast dishes lay desolate in the sink. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Mom carves the turkey, Dad dishes the carrots and corn and mashed potatoes and gravy into their respective bowls, and I fill the water glasses with ice cubes and water. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s a mix of so many dishes, I don’t know where to start. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Well, Mrs. van D. does the cooking and Mother does the dishes and polishes the furniture. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in my life I don’t want to be. the dishes you miss number fifty, he says, walking away. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

So, yeah, I have a terrible stepdad, and I don't have a phone, and sometimes when we're out of dish soap, I wash my hair with flea and tick shampoo. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Salma Auntie carries the last steaming dish to the dining table, and then stands back to admire the elaborate feast. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a couple of plates and spoons from the drying rack beside the sink, he set the table and dished them both up some food. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They fed the sentries and took back all the dishes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The, dish we had at my house with the chicken and walnuts and pomegranates. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She read the labels on the clothes and turned over dishes and vases to study the markings on the bottom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we were done, the woman told us, “You boys leave your bags here, it’s time to do the dishes now.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind the cooking if I didn’t have to do the dishes, too,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was wiping her hands on a striped dish towel. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had no dishes to wash, no carpets to vacuum, no floors to polish, no nappies to change and no bills to pay. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electric lights lit the windows, and inside we could sometimes see a family sitting down to listen to the radio together, or washing dishes in the kitchen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of eating kosher, using different table settings for every meal and eating all meat or all dairy dishes, I just ate what I wanted. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a vegetable. It’s round and green and has no business being in any dish, ever.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And I hadn’t been in the school long when Mrs. Swerlin, knowing I could use spending money of my own, got me a job after school washing die dishes in a local restaurant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Llorona removed the lids from the footed pie dishes, picked two of them up, and pointed to the others for me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Isa was in tears, and Miss Josie invited her in and fed her cookies from a delicate china dish and gave her a pretty lace handkerchief to dry her eyes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Moss dried his hands after finishing and hung up the dish towel on its hook near the refrigerator. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She smacked him on the butt with a dish towel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He made many a toast, laughed loudly at every jest, and attacked each dish like a starving man, but beside him the queen seemed as cold as an ice sculpture. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as the table was clear and the dishes were clean, I headed straight to my room and closed the door. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finally his father took from the shelf a flat oak slab, bigger than any of the pans or dishes, and put it on the table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel his skin, rough under the buttery sauce from the. dish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We just ate, helped clean the dishes, and then walked our full bellies back to campus, thankful for the exercise. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papa stood in the kitchen, washing dishes, filling glasses, and forcing more food onto their guests’ plates. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Vinny got milk out of your fridge and poured some into a dish. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Half as many is too much; get rid of them. Throw away that tent, and all those dishes,—who’s going to wash them, anyway? Good Lord, do you think you’re travelling on a Pullman?” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could have put my mother’s dishes into any one of these and you would have had plenty of room left over. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“She seems to be,” I said, helping Bess to wash the dishes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured rinse water over the dishes so that they rattled together violently. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat at her table, she put the rubbish sack in a covered dish to dissuade the rats and roaches. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only annoyance in his life was a girl called Alice, who helped with washing the dishes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She went silent as Moss moved on to the next dish, and it was the first burst of awkwardness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At that, I place the knife on the rack, on top of the mountain of clean dishes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

After a minute, he heard the sound of dishes clattering in the sink. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom picked up the dish towel and we went to work. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the dishes were done, Marly slipped away and walked to Harry’s place. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite time was just before sundown, when the dinner dishes were washed and the children ready for bed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she washed the other dishes in the sink, she looked out the window. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"There was more to it," the sword dished. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No dirty dishes for Eleanor to wash, a pleasant evening in good company, and perhaps the sun shining again tomorrow.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she came upon a concave dish in the ground—the roost. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few dishes are in his sink; a pair of slippers rest by the doorway. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was real fast at washing the dishes but I noticed she got kind of slow and was touching my hand a lot when it came to giving them to me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The kitchen floor is littered with boxes containing our dishes and pots, but the tile counters and cabinets smell of Windex and bleach. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She washed dishes and tried to scrub the bathtub, but I still had to get after her to hang up her school clothes instead of throwing them on the floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I have learned to cook this dish from my girlfriend.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he poured some out into a clay dish and took the rag and stuffed it back into the bottle with the screwdriver. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Chafing dishes melt medicinal pastilles, and steam vases release vapor into the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I realized then I didn’t want to do the dishes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when it was upended in a dish of mercury, there was no air to replace the mercury in the tube. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Nope. I cleaned pots and dishes all day and ended up covered in soap bubbles. And I almost got eaten by the gigantic dishwasher.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to pick up the dishes and throw them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything back, just looked at my grandma, who was drying her hands behind him on a dish towel. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But Master Lockton enjoyed the dish, so fat eels weighed down my basket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried a book and a bag that rattled with the dishes we had packed for lunch. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants picking up empty bowls and dishes, while others brought in white creamy kheer with crushed pistachios. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This held her lull in a small crystal vial, with a dish of plums to cut the bitterness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, we sprinkled some more shredded cheese on top and put the baking dish in the oven. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Each dish had come with its own wine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The emperor inserted his silver chopsticks in the dishes several times, inspecting the chopsticks after each jab. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Now, we gotta go do dishes in the cafeteria, Chipper. God, the sacrifices I make.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She washed and put away the few dishes, then took her cleaning materials into the sitting room. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday just as Shirley and her mother were about to wash the lunch dishes, Father suddenly burst into the apartment. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

So Capricorn's men avoided that part of the village, where dirty dishes left by its long-gone inhabitants still stood on many tables behind dilapidated front doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He raked sparks into the dish and it bloomed into flame with a low whoosh. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

All of yesterday’s dishes are still in the sink. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“That is in the stones also. Show you the holy dish some day, and all that Teach you arithmetic. Nice weather. Don’t have daughters unboiled every day. I think dinner will be ready.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped her hands in a dish towel and sat down next to me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was in the kitchen cleaning dishes—despite my best efforts to avoid them—and a bomb went off so close that the whole house rattled and the fan over the window fell. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The girls would sweep, dust and do the supper dishes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their food was dished out from a leafy bower, where Marian and her attendants cooked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We washed our dishes and clothes in the river, and then jumped in the water in our underwear. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, she went on one of her tears and punched me from one side of the room to the other because I didn’t wash the dishes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darius is right by me when I send the dish over, and we two are briefly side by side, obscured from view, as we scoop up the peas. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dry my hands and smooth my hair back and wipe the sweat off my forehead and hope I don’t smell too much like dish soap and grease. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conor hated the program but he made sure it recorded for her, then he spread a duvet over her and went and did the dishes. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The witch-queen took her portion of roasted hare, and one of the knives, and sprinkled a little of the herbs onto the dish. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I mop the floor, she washes dishes, and we go about our cleaning like this is a regular day. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I interrupted her as she was washing dishes and, swearing her to secrecy, I read the composition aloud. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat back, arms behind my head, watching Quinby lick her dish clean. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I continued to point to the candy dish. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the clinking of forks and spoons against plates and serving dishes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Now that you are up, I am bringing you leftover dishes,” said my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches for the dish of sugar packets, takes out a pink one, a white one, a blue. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Something about it reminds me of those empty sundae dishes back when Shay and Jessica made me feel small for being me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When supper was finished and Lee had washed the dishes Adam said, “I think you boys had better go to bed. It’s been a big day.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Jenny patiently turned to the work of clearing up the supper dishes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can eat haphazardly now, snack on junk food and takeouts without worrying about balanced meals, go to bed when I like, let my dirty laundry rot, neglect the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She passes developments that from the air look like petri dishes of tadpoles, each tadpole head a cul-de-sac. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in the room, just a frayed rug, a few dishes, a pair of mattresses, and a lantern. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that I’d washed restaurant dishes in Mason, Michigan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get Penny out of the dog’s dish” was all she finally said. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The others were down on the second floor where our dining room-kitchen doubled as a gaming room in the evenings, when the dishes had been cleared away. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer pointed to one dish after the other, but Blount just sat with his hand over his mouth and shook his head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A “food cycle” is a period in which we have only one particular dish or type of vegetable to eat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The light catching her mom’s face as she stood at the kitchen sink, unmoving, the water running over the untouched dishes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

By Friday night, things were tense at dinner and Joaquin disappeared into his room without helping with the dishes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Joseph stood up to start clearing the dishes and his napkin fell to the floor. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ophie watched her mama go but remained behind to help Aunt Rose clean up the dishes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was half a Corningware dish of lasagna from last weekend. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She was on her feet now, making short work of the dishes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kids who wanted to be kids instead of washing dishes and ironing their papa’s shirts, and the husband who wanted a wife again. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the café sounds: The voices, the whirring of the espresso machine, the clink and clatter of glasses and dishes go silent as I watch her index finger hover over each part of the page. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Littered all over the floor were empty wine bottles and dirty dishes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

George darted into the kitchen and came running back with a dish of applesauce. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She shoved the dishes down to the floorboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rinses dishes, puts them in the rack to dry. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Roza had just raided the fridge and pantry, setting out ingredients for another of her Polish dishes—flour, potatoes, onions, butter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kathleen waited breathlessly all day for night to fall, and when darkness came she plucked the leaves from the wreath and set them afire in a small dish at the foot of her bed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tap the virtual words and I’m suddenly surrounded by dishes hovering in midair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They smelled sweet and tangy, and the dish was colored rich gold in places and olive green in others. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe I forgot Sue Anne’s casserole dish.. I jump in the front passenger seat, wait until she climbs back into the car. She puts her hands on the wheel. “Drive me by Hilly’s? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was drying his hands after finishing the last of the dishes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Puzzled, I let her lead me into the living room, where she let go of my fingers and lifted the top of a crystal candy dish on the fireplace mantel. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As I watched Mom dish eggs and Soyrizo onto two plates, I thought about the family tree assignment for Spanish class. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Some dishes, after all, call for something special. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s step right along and get them dishes washed and dried and put up,” she said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marly gathered a whole lot of them and made a little dish of ink. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the dish were occupied, where would they go? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fooled for an hour or so brewing this dish, adding this and that, when I heard the mouse in his tunnel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fig’s empty food dish stared at me from the floor, piling on more pangs of guilt. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He turned his head to see what kind of dish she carried, but quickly looked away again when he saw that it was a bowl with steam rising from it. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I nod and take a bite of my keema, remembering the time my uncle told me that the spicy minced meat was his favorite dish when he was a kid. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She nodded to the serving platters in the dish rack. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Cole finished eating, he washed dishes and carefully folded the at.oow, which he had used as a tablecloth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The Master lit the spirit lamp under the little silver chafing dish and heated some butter before cutting half a dozen poppy heads open and tossing them in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I love this place: the jumble of old, glittery broaches in the glass case, the worn pots and dishes and frayed baskets on the bookshelves. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi laid her dish towel on the counter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Panicking, Mama swats with a dish towel, a frying pan of flames. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After the last dish had been dried, Aunt Rose turned and looked at Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Kitchen appliances and a sink full of dishes lined one wall. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I visit them daily in their spacious glass dishes, and like any good mother I cajole, I celebrate when they reproduce, and I take special note when they behave oddly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow Mohammad to where a large group of older children and teenagers sit wolfing down dishes of stew. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As in, I collect the dishes from the table and take them to the kitchen to load the dishwasher, and when I return, Jupe and Rae are nowhere to be found. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Joseph picked up one of the dirty dishes on the table, but his uncle stopped him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I better take care of the rest of those dishes.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Fear drowned out grief and that night we packed clothes and dishes and loaded them into a farmer’s wagon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night she chose to direct it toward her famous steamed pork and preserved vegetable dish, which she always served with special pride. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a table to clear and dishes to wash,” one said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She actually had to hold the tip with her teeth to keep from telling, especially when Joe went out to work with Daddy at the weeding, and she and Mother were alone with the dishes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The other is comprised of the exterior walls and roof, a brick-and-concrete shell that fits over the cells like a dish over a stick of butter. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished his dish of cold cereal then walked out to the log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

All I have to do is remember Momma letting me dry the dishes after she’d wash them, how she used to say no one in the world could dry a plate the way I could. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I brushed them off on my skirt and stood up to clear away the dishes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us turn to stare at her, and Dad lets his dish towel fall to the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He froze mid-scoop, a big glob of oatmeal stuck to his spoon, suspended over the dish. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

From inside the tent I hear the crash of broken dishes and then Marlena screams. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Evenings, I threw the ball for Tilly, helped Dad repair some of his broken crab pots, and even offered to help my mother with the dishes one night when it wasn’t my turn. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember what I was thinking that night,” Desdemona said later while washing the dishes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I helped clear the dishes but then I sat back down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the restaurants is this fish place, where the cheapest dish is, like, thirty dollars, and that’s just for a salad. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I mentioned something to that effect while we were doing the dishes, and Dussel launched into a veritable tirade. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He pushed the dishes aside to make a place for his hat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I moved furniture and packed the ugly dishes while receiving advice in a nonstop stream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We woke Mother and dug in our bags for a cup or a dish. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Slowly Rupa went back outside to finish the dishes, and Neel followed. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the kind of response I expect from Dad’s usual dishes. I don’t understand what happened. He said there were no nuts or dairy.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

An overturned mixing bowl, two plates, and a handful of cutlery set to dry on a checked dish towel spread out by the sink. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

An orange, completely pierced with small star-shaped objects, sat on a bed of pine needles in a ceramic dish. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If by “effort” she means writing a check that could send a small village to college, then she definitely put in quite a bit of effort just so I could be a human petri dish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

So that night, as dishes were passed around a silent table, and as the clock on the breakfront chimed the quarter hours, Turner decided he would dare the silence and ask. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There were dirty dishes in the sink, and food from the garbage had spilled onto the floor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I hand Andrecito back his dump truck, whisper thanks, then collect our dishes, letting their clatter fill the silence, and head toward the kitchen without a word. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feeds the migrants a main dish for two or three days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I took dishes down from the cupboard and silverware from the drawer and set the table. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They too have been summoned by the bell, they resent it, they have other things to do, the dishes for instance. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dried her hands and left the sink, something Luke had almost never seen her do if there were still dirty dishes left to be washed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner one night, as I’m washing the dishes, he studies me with concern. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Eric and Caroline did the dishes in the kitchen while Ma and I sat in front of the television. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying it now because I might not have time later. I forgive you for not washing the dishes when it was your turn.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everything I did felt heavy and difficult—drying the dishes, kneeling for evening prayers, even pulling down the sheets to get into bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breakfast dishes rattle when I stack them up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was never much of a hand around the kitchen—I’ll admit that I tried to get out of chopping vegetables or cleaning dishes whenever I could—so I didn’t linger there long. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The twins were slurping the last of the syrup from their bowls when Henry’s spoon began to clink against his dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I brush off his mother’s concern, tell her it’s no big deal, then help her take the dishes out of the dishwasher. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We would also return the dishes to the families who brought us food after Gran died. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, she carried it to the sink, washed it, and set it in the dish drain. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day I would cook fancy dishes like lamb curry and mess up the whole kitchen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janie was standing by the stove washing up the dishes when he spoke to her in a queer cold voice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

After they were gone, Scythe Curie helped Citra with the dishes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While we labored over changing beds or washing up dishes, Pascal would wait outside, teasing for our attention by shouting the handful of American phrases Leah had taught him: “Man-oh-man! Crazy!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings we’re supposed to do the dishes—“Rattle them up,” our mother calls it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For you, miss,” Cornelius says to me as he places the dish in front of me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

For their wedding, he had imagined perfection, the house in Nsukka festively decorated, the crisp white tablecloth laden with dishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Biryani is one of the few Pakistani dishes I actually like. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Pig slop,” she said as she emptied the pie dishes into the trough inside the first pen. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We float the plates and glasses in the dish pan and dive-bomb them with the spoons and knives, whispering “Bombs away.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ten-minute-old gnu is a favourite dish, but hyenas also eat young lions and young rhinoceros. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He helped the paladar by serving customers, cleaning dishes, and greeting people while the rest of Abuela’s family chipped in where they could. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After she helped her mother wash and put away the dishes, Stella curled up on her bed and pulled out her notebook. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I continued drying the dishes, unsure of what I was supposed to say. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hurried to set out the breakfast dishes before Eliza came downstairs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I needed to tone down my part in it, become more responsible, listen to Mamá—wash some dishes or do some laundry for a change. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The dishes in the sink are dry and encrusted. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He would, although, paradoxically, it inflamed more than abated his homesickness to try a mouthful of a dish and pronounce, after some prodding, that it was too salty, too sweet, too spicy-hot. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said the dishes needed to get washed, so I asked Shirley to do them.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So Naomi dusted and straightened dishes in the cabinets. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grease a mold or ovenproof dish with paraffin or stearin and bake for 2½ hours. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Joon asked as she rinsed the last few dinner dishes, abandoned by someone at the sound of the bell. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Attendants rush forward, bringing her medicinal chafing dish closer. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I jerked hard, and I kept on pulling until the dish rotated toward me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I put a blue-and-red-plaid tablecloth on the kitchen table and found white dishes with a blue stripe ’round the edges. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I first know that Sinaloa likes me when she helps me with the dishes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had gotten into the school; I’d definitely be able to take anything it could dish out, right? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Parvin helped us as always, doing laundry, washing dishes, and chopping vegetables for dinner, but the work kept piling up. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finny hobbled over to the dresser and took up his soap dish. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished his cereal and toast, drank the last of his juice, then rinsed the dishes and put them in the dishwasher. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He hurt his knees and elbows on broken glass, rusty sardine cans, and broken pieces of crockery and dishes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was always quietest now, when he could linger over nothing, with the lunch dishes in the sink and dinner far off and the kitchen bathed in incandescent sunlight. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, no more than one bite of each dish,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When driven with his mates to the new owners’ camp, Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he held the soap dish down until it filled with water and sank. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill went to the sink and washed the dishes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I set the dish next to my plate. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It’s often considered the national dish of Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If I ate at school there’d be less dishes to wash. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were excitedly pointing here and there, calling out to one another to try this, sample that, look at this unusual color, see how that one steams in its dish just so. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When I finished eating, I placed my plate and mug in the plastic bin for dirty dishes and walked to the wall decorated with album covers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was “mamaliga,” and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call “impletata.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Margot and I do the dishes and straighten up the room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Just once in my life,” she says, “I’d like to see a bite of food go direct from the dish into somebody’s mouth without a detour of any kind.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen my mother brought forth the succession of dishes: lentils with fried onions, green beans with coconut, fish cooked with raisins in a yogurt sauce. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She made me rewash the breakfast dishes with near boiling water and complained that I left too much dirt behind when I swept. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered half the dishes on the menu and ate very greedily. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He climbed inside and poured some water from a jug into the animals’ dishes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They used her Uncle Nicolas’s books, the dishes, the boxes, the furniture, and the drapes of bygone days to arrange their astonishing nuptial chamber. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Count Olaf looked around the room, which was filled with dirty dishes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Particularly the decadent dishes served in the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory was a little annoyed because I had begun to leave egg yolk on the dishes and wasn’t putting much heart in polishing the silver. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my eyes adjusted to the dim I saw dirty dishes, apple cores and soup cans littering almost every conceivable surface. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I washed up my dishes, tidied the kitchen, and found myself with idle hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi stood a few feet away from him at the sink, dish towel in hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She turned over dishes to read the manufacturer’s name and lifted the corner of the Persian rug to count the knots. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked busying myself with work all day, going back and forth to the river and continuously washing dishes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Trust me, my mother’s a food synthesis engineer. That stuff’s not actual chicken—they grow it in a petri dish.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Do I just take what they dish out, try to stop being "so sensitive"? What do I do when my very identity is being mocked by people who refuse to admit there's a problem? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But after that, there were the dishes, which Henry would not remember to do. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Peggy placed a plate, knife, fork, spoon, sugar, cream, and bread before him; then she dished up the bacon and eggs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d stand us all in front of the kitchen counter and ask, “Whose week was it to do the dishes?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ma and Grandma cleared away the dishes and washed them, and swept the hearth, while Aunt Docia and Aunt Ruby made themselves pretty in their room. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I’m back from the final run, she’ll have my totals ready, and James will be doing the dishes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On Fridays, we would eat vanilla ice cream that I spooned into dishes the size of small, cupped hands or pan dulce that I baked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Ah ain’t got a bit of use for a empty dish. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had often read about elfin food in books but had never tried most of the dishes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Can you spare two dishes and a good sharp knife? We’ll get these cleaned and ready for frying.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papi comes out of the kitchen where he was getting started on the dishes, comes over to me, and gives me one of his awkward fist bumps. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I insisted that I had to do something, and that if he cooked, it was only fair for me to do the dishes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner Chloe said she would put the dishes in the dishwasher. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tried it a couple of times and then he stopped and poured more gasoline into the dish. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I spilled the Kool-Aid. I made a mess....And I know sometimes I forget to wash the dishes.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The dishes are real china in a pattern of purple forget-me-nots with silver trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Little words, like fish and dish and swish. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Dinner plates, dessert dishes, creamers, skewers, candlesticks, butter dishes, forks, spoons, teapots, trays, platters, ladles, tureens—the long table was covered end-to-end with treasure. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She just took that clock under one arm, the dishes in the other hand, and walked out, leaving me in cold silence to give my guilt plenty of room to grow. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tracking stations captured the signals with their sixty-four-foot receiving dishes, then relayed this data plus voice communications through a jumble of submarine cables, landlines, and radio waves to the computer center at Goddard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They climbed into the dish and placed duct tape over every seam and rivet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then, just as Ma’s dishing up a peach cobbler that we’re going to eat hot with milk, I hear a sound outside that makes my bones feel like icicles inside me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Language!” she snapped, going back to the dishes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Of course not; he knows you are with me,” Robert replied, as he busied himself among sundry pans and covered dishes which had been left standing on the hearth. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished dinner and dried the dishes that Dad washed, I went out to check on her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ugwu took the dish into the kitchen and put it in the refrigerator. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom dishes out cobbler for each of us. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound a serving man entered with a covered dish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mother immediately appeared in the door with a dish of meat and right behind her the sister with a dish piled high with potatoes. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Bowls full of side dishes adorn the table: okra, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, greens, homemade bread. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check for dishes, and Helena sighs when Max takes away the textbook. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We’re up 5–2 in the fifth, and he’s at the dish with one out and nobody on. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She put her dishes by the sink, started to wash them but thought better of it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ma’s pleased I got the dishes done, I can tell. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Roasted,” whispered Valley, smiling as she helped dry the dishes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I did my homework, Daddy graded papers, Mother did the dishes and none of us said a word. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, she picked up her feather and the last dish of ink, almost gone now. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And here I was now, twenty-nine years old, sitting in the very same apartment where I'd watched all that TV and consumed all those meals dished up by the patient and selfless Marian Robinson. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was eaten and the dishes washed and the beds made by lamplight. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, have it,” said Harry, pushing the dish toward the girl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is the king's favorite dish, but this time it has been cooked with no salt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was a clatter of dishes, and after a while the talking stopped. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And now, after helping clear the dining table of all its holiday dishes, that was what he decided to do—put on a sweatshirt and go for a run. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could throw together a rudimentary dish out of metal I find around the base, but this isn't some walkie-talkie I'm working with here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong cleared their dishes away and then started to head back to their room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Every night after dinner I washed the dishes and cleaned the counters with a new sponge my father had bought me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You seem a little ...” Theresa reorganized some other dishes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he does the dishes, there’s dry food stuck on them in the morning that someone has to chip off with a table knife, but he’s still on the schedule, week after week. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The brothers got rid of their dishes and glassware, replacing them with paper cups, paper bags, and paper plates. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I quickly scrubbed my dishes clean in the sink, and placed them upside down on a dish towel to dry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Marie seldom called Pecola the same thing twice, but invariably her epithets were fond ones chosen from menus and dishes that were forever uppermost in her mind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the dishes were all wiped and set away, the trundle bed was aired. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waving her arms like a conductor, she led them in a raucous “Happy Birthday” and dished out generous gobs of ice cream. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up my dishes and put them away. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The boys, trudging up the slope with pots and dishes, didn’t look especially happy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her that although huge satellite dishes lounged on top of the houses in Enugu and here, we did not watch TV. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ham and eggs were in a round dish—the ham underneath and the eggs on top. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The stumps were chairs and tables and stoves, and leaves were dishes, and sticks were the children. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma put down the knife she’d been peeling potatoes with and wiped her hands on a dish towel. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave his room, pumped to go out and do this, when I see the stack of dishes in the sink. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The serving men brought every dish to Bran first, that he might take the lord's portion if he chose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At home my mom was forever making me do chores—wash the dishes, sweep the house—but when she tried to do that in Tzaneen, the women wouldn’t allow it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every morning there were the dishes to wipe. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, while he washed the dinner dishes and I dried, I asked, "Gramps, why don't you ever talk about Birdie with the guys?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mama pats his flames with a dish towel, her hands. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We drained the macaroni and then poured it into a baking dish. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dudley turned to regard him briefly and went into the kitchen with an empty dish. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I met him there, grabbed the hand towel we dry dishes with, wet it with cold water, and gave it to him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Cream splattered the windows and walls as the dish shattered. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday we had mashed potatoes, grapes, chicken glass of milk each ice cream each a big sauce dish full awful good too lemon pie cake don’t you think that is pretty good.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sixteen people at dinner didn’t sound very fun, even with such fancy dishes to eat off of. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Men were seated around the large oak table, which was crowded with bottles of wine and liquor, with dishes of rice and meat and salads. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes landed on the red Talent bracelet around her wrist, now sticky with glue-water from its run-in with the dish towel. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She’s at the sink in the kitchen, my apron around her middle, washing the dishes in water she’s warmed on the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the German-speaking communities in Pennsylvania, it was essential for a spiced baked apple dish called pandowdy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He’s got his hands in the air, looking for the dish from me. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She finished it quickly and dropped her plate off in a dish bin. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“She can comb my hair and keep house. She can wash the dishes and serve our meals. And she can take care of the little boys.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A sandwich? Is this a dish named in honor of Bartholomew of Sandwich?” she asked, puzzled. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You simply turned the ignition switch with your hand and it fired, and one evening a guy did just that as Daddy was standing by the kitchen window washing dishes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just reaching for the dish towel when I heard Mother say, “There’s something I need to tell you, Richard.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dark his mother brought a deep dish of stew and left it for him and went away. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, main dish. What about beef stew? How hard could that be?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This year, there will be no red apples in a bowl or candy canes on a little dish to offer visitors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Macaroni and cheese. Full meal or a side dish?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Antonapoulos tasted the dishes with his wooden spoon and they drank glasses of red wine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each of the recipes was dated, telling the first time they had eaten the dish together. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the corner table was a candy dish filled with butterscotch hard candies. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Pa shakes his head while cleaning the pots and pans before we eat so the dishes won’t seem as mountainous when our stomachs are filled, a trick Abuelo taught him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The endless washing of dishes and scrubbing of floors and wiping of windows was the kind of repetitious work that aggravated the pain in her hands and wrists. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He wraps his hand in the dish rag and tells Mam, Quick, quick, wipe the blood off the Pope before it dries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I scraped off the rust with our dish scrubber and shined up that locket as bright as I could get it. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was very gentle with us and did not notice a badly washed dinner plate that left a greasy stain on the dish towel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma insisted on finishing the soup and side dishes she was going to make with the bean sprouts, and then changed her clothes and did her hair and makeup. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He flipped power switches, slid the dish onto the microscope’s platform, and pointed to a small monitor attached to the microscope. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To the back of the range, I set the dish of Perilee’s stew to warm. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I will see her every day, and we will go searching together for lovely things—gold-trimmed dishes, and a white cat, and a sugar Easter egg, and a cup of stars. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Totally unorganized, she didn’t care if we never washed the dishes in the kitchen sink. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So I was talking to my guidance counselor about college and how I need some extracurricular activities,” he says while loading dishes into the washer. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The breakfast dishes had only just been cleared away. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The dish, one of the most distinctive landmarks on the Fairbanks skyline, had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless’s design. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cilia went to work packing the silver, and she built up a little fire on the kitchen hearth so she might have hot water to wash the dishes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or Terry washes dishes in a sink, to be accurate, Molly thinks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now the dirty dishes are piled high and the kitchen table is covered with crumbs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her kitchen reminded me of ours last night before I’d washed a mountain of dinner dishes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I put the dish in front of me, pretend it’s delicious, avoid looking at it as much as possible, and it’s gone before I’ve had time to realize what it is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She let the curtain fall back in place and walked to the kitchen, wiping her hands on the dish towel slung over her shoulder. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It takes ages to clear the table, an eternity to help his mother with the dishes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It held empty dishes, and he realized the boy must be coming back from the crematorium, which lay just ahead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mother set the pickle dish back on the table. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room got still because Mother had even stopped washing the dishes to listen. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You take care, Miss Mira. And remember”—she winked at me—“you can handle anything life dishes out.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Almost. Your mother's in the kitchen, making that chicken dish again." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Virginia, sit down for a moment before you do the dishes.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the meal was over, and the last of the dishes were being removed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered the dishes to take to the kitchen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was honey, fat, and vinegar to spice each dish. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Marigold called to her other brother, marching toward the living room with the dish towel clutched at her side. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop picks up our dishes and hobbles to the sink. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I washed, Fern put the dishes in the rack, and Vonetta dried. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then we heard more: doors slamming, a cry from Hua-hua, crash after crash of dishes breaking overhead, and the indistinct voices of the Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my payesh around in the dish with my spoon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seven eyed her toad, who was sitting happily in his travel tank eating a ceramic dish full of spicy flies. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My boss, a white woman, directed me in unpacking barrels of dishes, setting up new tables, painting, and so on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a longing that almost split him open, he thought of her handing him a bit of smoked hock out of her dish. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breakfast dishes were standing piled around on the table, because for his father breakfast was the most important meal time in the day, which he prolonged for hours by reading various newspapers. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m making this mostly because I know my father loves this dish and I know how to cook it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless in that form,” said Mr. Wopsle, nodding towards the dish. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed loudly, put my dishes in the washtub, and tucked my hair into my mob cap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rinse off the dishes and put them in the drain board. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mary knew she shouldn’t wait—every moment those cells sat in the dish made it more likely they’d die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I remember, when we came for the wedding. Your dad always did the dishes. He wouldn’t let me help at all. Your dad is so sweet.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I would occasionally ask him to make certain dishes for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Mother telling me I was on dish duty, because she was leaving for Utah after lunch to consult for another midwife on a complicated pregnancy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After we’re done dishing out turkey dinners with all the holiday fixings, we eat dinner at my house. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She balanced Susie with one arm and waved the other hand over the dessert dishes surrounding us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of us remained silent while Mama finished dishing out the food. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She seems to want to stay and watch me taste it but she hurries back to her work in the open kitchen preparing the bahn-chahn, the savory half dishes of vegetables and fish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another colored girl, younger, washes dishes at the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ella starts bringing dishes to the table while I set our places. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod and dry my hands on the dish towel, but even the Doctorita’s threats can’t wipe the smile off my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man picked up the skewers of meat off the smoking grill and piled them onto a wooden dish. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Square cookies crowded the dish, smelling deliciously of butter and sugar, and Ophie’s mouth watered as she looked at them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After clearing away leftovers and washing dishes at night, Naomi packed four lunches, folding wax paper around the sandwiches and laying out the thermos for Henry’s coffee. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, this is the time of day Mom gets the house settled for the night—giving Dad his evening meds, putting away the dishes, closing the curtains. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Mom came back wearing sweatpants and started washing the dishes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the main side dish in our house for all three meals. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The dishes, the crystal, the candles, the food, the wine, the chairs ... he realized this was the dinner party he’d imagined the very first time he’d looked through his uncle’s window. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We served ourselves on plastic dishes from the table and sat where we could find places, the children on the floor with a spread-out newspaper for a tablecloth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey got some ice cubes from the refrigerator and wrapped them in a dish towel, which Shelly gingerly positioned across her brow. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I make whatever is easy for dinner, tonight a Korean dish of soup and steamed rice. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put cells in culture dishes and expose them to radiation, drugs, cosmetics, viruses, household chemicals, and biological weapons, and then study their responses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I think for a moment what I do know of herbicides, ranging from less toxic solutions like vinegar, salt, and dish soap to something like Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d set one place at the table and dished up the green beans, mashed potatoes, and meatloaf. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After my father and my brother left, I helped my mother bring the dishes into the kitchen. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A tiny watercolor of a peeled orange on a blue-and-white dish, painted by my mother. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Gerta," she says as we dip bread into a dish of olive oil, "I have something for you." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She takes out serving dishes from the cabinet, and I pour the pretzels and nuts into separate bowls while she arranges the crackers around the chunk of cheese in the middle of a small tray. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded at her, and she stared at him and then went back to her dishes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he started dishing dirt about some of the other teammates. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She thanked it as though it were alive, and then her gaze lingered on the covered dishes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

French jams, English marmalades, an unclean butter dish, bottles of ketchup and Lea & Perrins circled past, before what the Object wanted: an economy-size jar of Rolaids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She stomped over to it, picked up an expensive-looking ceramic dish that was holding some sort of candies, and flung it at the window. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

June’s hands are soft, like she’s never washed dishes in her life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could see Rosaleen and May through the kitchen window finishing the dishes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened a can of corned-beef hash and patted it into a disposable dish and set it on an asbestos pad over a low flame, to heat very slowly. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma swipes at her with a dish towel, and that makes Hana laugh, and I feel a little bit better. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Our mom was over by the refreshments table, retrieving her dishes, and Ray was standing nearby to make sure we didn’t insult Mr. Abbas. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That it was impossible for him to even consider making the bed, or washing clothes or dishes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passes me the casserole dish filled with gravy and leftover turkey. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Come here. I’m going to teach you to wash dishes.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Seems to me that teacher of yours has only himself to blame,” Grandma said one night while doing dishes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I found her in the kitchen, washing up the supper dishes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For the next ten hours they would fry eggs, grill burgers, pour coffee, and wash dishes for a stream of customers from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Or Liyana would read them to Poppy in the yard after they’d washed the dinner dishes, as he sat drinking a cup of Arabic coffee in his favorite green metal chair with the scalloped back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She offered sesame candy from a dish beside the lamp that also had buttons in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I never did understand why Mother made me dry the dishes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat an apple and put my dishes in the dishwasher. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, Greasy Sae does the dishes and leaves, but she comes back up at dinnertime to make me eat again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was drying our dinner dishes just then, and I threw the dish towel at him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lee went to the kitchen and rattled dishes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything they ate was what my father would call “side dishes”: potatoes, zucchini, bean salad, and a mystery casserole that I could not identify. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

August, June, and Rosaleen started doing the dishes, but I slipped off to the honey house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, it’s a Jim Crow army. All they want a black man for is to dig ditches. And in the navy, all I can do is wash dishes and scrub floors.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly those dishes make me feel like this year will be the worst year I’ve had so far. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She soon got aholt of herself, though, and went back to washing dishes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I knew there wasn’t candy in the dish, but Mom reached inside and picked up a little gold key. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But as Baba wipes his plate, Mustafa jumps out of his seat, stacks the dirty dishes, and carries them over to the sink. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Lizzy stayed at her chair while I took the dishes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, Mutti is clinking dinner dishes in the kitchen sink as Hugo dresses. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No need for that, now. We let God dry the dishes here.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We did this over and over again with dishes and silverware, until there was nothing left but cups. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Yet she stayed there a year, cooking, washing dishes and pots and pans, scrubbing the floor. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s built, he keeps his mouth shut, and unlike you”—she popped a grape in her mouth—“he does dishes.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As sour as Mrs. Caruthers was about oatmeal, Ophie didn’t want to see how she acted if one of her dishes got chipped. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But as soon as he bowed and the audience clapped, Farid went around with a little silver dish, which was the only thing that didn't quite seem to belong in these surroundings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Grandpa pushed the dishes back and, using his fork as a pencil, he drew an imaginary line on the tablecloth. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learns that one does not grate Parmesan cheese over pasta dishes containing seafood. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Jill already did the dishes, so all I have to do is mop. You want to take off early? I know you have school in the morning.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even weirder, her hands and arms up to her elbows were covered by bright yellow rubber gloves—the kind my mom used to wear when she scrubbed the bathroom or did the dishes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sugar, she nodded and I went back to my dishes, but I heard her muttering. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Later I climbed up on the roof to readjust the TV dish, or try. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Father slams his hand down on the glass tabletop, rattling the dishes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Mom brings the steaming casserole dish to the table and places it on a hot pad. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The dishes were quickly done then we gathered in the sala where my mother kept her altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk back out into the restaurant with her following and sit next to Shay’s and Jessica’s matching empty dishes. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He would not brook special dishes being prepared for her at suppertime. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her cameras and her supplies went into the trunk, along with the dishes and toiletries. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I found her busy at work, cleaning up the morning dishes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gram is rolling dough for a rhubarb tart, back and forth with the big rolling pin, dusting the yellow dough with handfuls of flour, stretching it to cover the brimming pie dish. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So close to normal, and then, just like that, we’re back to this new, terrible normal where I’m stuck inside my room crying, listening to her downstairs cleaning up my dishes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So the cook and her helpers prepared hundreds of dishes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like the candy dish at the Gran’s,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After Noah and I finished dinner, we put our dishes in the sink. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the big back-to-school dinner that night—roast beef, green beans almondine, cheese soufflé and some elaborate lentil dish for the vegetarians. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were mad at each other, so we didn’t talk much for the rest of the meal, and by the time Ruthanne cleared the dishes, I was itching to get out of there. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But it was still Gran’s favorite soap in all the soap dishes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Not the shy ice cream bells’ giggle of Rachel and Lucy’s family, but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the only time I really feel present is when I purposely knock a dish of peas to the floor and, before anyone can stop me, crouch down to clean them up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to go into the kitchen, open the box, get a bowl out. . . . This doesn’t include your dishes, you know. If you want a bowl and spoon washed, it’ll be another dollar.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The way you acted. That’s like asking someone to a feast, then making them wash the dishes! But—farewell, anyway. That,” she added, “doesn’t count as speaking.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“After thinking about her walking all the way here carrying that heavy casserole dish, I felt obligated to go tonight,” she said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She sings as she puts away the dishes, stacks the pots and pans beneath the sink, polishes the furniture. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He took Bow Wow out for runs and he did the dishes without anybody asking. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, sometimes they argued over how much time Aimee’s mother was working, who didn’t do the dishes, who left the milk out all night. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Carmen returned, and the rest of the family dug into the dishes laid out across the table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Daddy kissed her neck and she squirmed, shooing him away with a dish towel and a grin. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He brings me ice wrapped in a dish towel and says that next time we’re having fun, I should tell him if something is wrong. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just then Mrs. Odom came out on the porch, wiping her hands on a dish towel. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Lee brought dishes out and put them on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m done, I rinse the shrimp and then clean up the sinkful of shrimp veins and wash my hands and then get to the dishes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I was kidding,” she says again while I’m passing her a really hot rinsed dish so she can dry it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were tired of replacing the dishes, glassware, and silverware their teenage customers constantly broke or ripped off. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The woman, Martha, dished the stew onto chipped enamel plates and put some in a bowl for the deaths to pass among themselves. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I eat at other people’s tables but won’t invite them to mine, where the dishes are rotting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal Dad read the paper and I helped Mom with the dishes and then we went into the living room to watch television. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The hostess had definitely dished behind the scenes, and this new girl didn’t look disappointed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They always said that about my sister, not me because I dropped dishes at them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the dishes were washed and the beds made, the children went back outside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating swiftly, Old Tallow put away one bowl and then another while Mama was dishing up the rest of the meal. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I can hear dishes clinking in the Starlight Room. The cook just cut his thumb. He says—” “Not there! Can’t you open your ears more?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She dished up a bowl of oatmeal from a pot that hung by the side of the hearth, then carefully set it in front of me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dinner dishes are stacked in the sink, and the candle wax is dripping onto the Formica table, and the wineglasses only have the last puddles of red. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You could at least do your own dishes!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

After supper, we kids washed the dishes while Poppy tended to my mother’s hands. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he cooked dinner, and did the dishes, and took out the trash,” she went on. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beto wandered to the stove and lifted the lid from a casserole dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like maybe she had just put away a whole load of dirty dishes, which is something that had happened before. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room next to the dish cupboard, the boy filled Sounder’s tin with cold ham-boiling from the possum kettle. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill came home and started to badger Joy about washing the dishes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Now hand me that sugar dish, Jez. And Jay, get me a lemon.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a whole stack of casseroles in the fridge, a leaning tower of Pyrex baking dishes crimped in foil. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Ma came for my dishes, I said, “Take that clock with you. I can’t make the fool thing work.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Without tending to the dishes they stand up, Gerald taking their two glasses and the rest of the wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had left his dirty dishes in the sink. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dad was stirring the soap dish up with his shaving brush, and I got close to the sink to smell the soap. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lowered her gaze girlishly, depositing the seed hulls into a dish. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy whimpered, stacked dishes and baked goods onto a tray with a tremendous clatter, and hurried down the hall. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Department dinner,” she explained, as she and Helen put away dishes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the dishes in the cabinets were made of plastic. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Eye signaled to the bartender, who threw down his dish towel immediately. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I poured the slurry in a dish and then set it underneath the water heater to dry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the dishes were cleared and washed and Papa was filling the tin pail with ashes, Caleb spoke up. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jody ran into the kitchen where his mother was wiping the last of the breakfast dishes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we do some dominoes and the loser does the dishes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Quines collects our dirty dishes, I whisper, “Delicious salad.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the carriage left and dishes were washed and Lady Seymour was sound asleep, I started my free day, still trembling from Madam’s threat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sink in the corner of our room is hardly big enough to wash our dishes so it sure ain’t fit for washing clothes. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

After numerous runs up and down the stairs to retrieve food and flatware and dishes, the table was finally set. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

With that promise in mind, Aru had cleaned her room and washed the dishes without complaint. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is a little shabby, with old-fashioned white cabinets full of handprints, unwashed mugs on the counter, and a sink full of dishes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At least twice a week she’d ask me to cook breakfast long after everyone had eaten and the dishes had been cleared. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can't keep up with all the silverware and dishes appearing and disappearing in front of me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I washed and dried my dishes and our mugs, then wiped down the counter. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He went into the kitchen, suddenly ravenous, and dumped some ice cream from the freezer into a dish. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do like a single dish that you ate out of.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She pauses, takes the popcorn out of the microwave, and puts a dish of butter in to melt it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Already cooked enough for you. See? One soup, four dishes. You don’t eat it, only have to throw it away. Wasted!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she presented herself at the makeshift cooking area to clean dishes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night after the dinner dishes, I waited for him to ask me to stay upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I sat at the table and watched as Helen washed the dirty dishes, tied up the garbage bag, watered a spider plant over the sink, and poured boiling water into two cups. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He checked every tin and jar of food, then emptied ’em on the pile of broke-up dishes; he used his boots to stomp every chair into kindling. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Darren laughs as I gather up our dishes and wash them, but I think about Heather and her brothers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Each holiday meant taking all the dishes down from the shelves, even the ones we never used, and carefully washing and drying them, as well as the windows of the dish cabinet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We leave the donut dough to rise as Dad eats his favorite Hanukkah dish, fried eggs and leftover latkes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There was tea, in a great silver urn, and coffee too, and on the heater, piping hot, dishes of scrambled eggs, of bacon, and another of fish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My brother washed the dishes and I dried them and put them away. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need your help to win an election, Oscar!” she says, hitting the table so hard with her open palm that the dishes rattle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And what about the dirty dish and shower water? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

In front of the tall French window our square mahogany table was covered with steaming dishes and surrounded by my family, who were laughing and chattering when I rushed in. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t argue; we just washed our dishes, then headed off. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After supper, the children washed up the dishes and their grandmother went out to the fields. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexa, her dad, and I sit around the table, and her mom sets down the star dish. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Are raw oysters more acceptable to you than a dish of boiled dog? Evidently not.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I play facing the hoop and either dishing off or busting a move for the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I placed his full food dish on the feeding mat at the end of the elaborate obstacle course. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We found them still in place late the next morning, the water of the dishes swarming with insects. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, but I’ll stay here and clean up the breakfast dishes. Gideon says I’m supposed to be a help, not a burden.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After Roberto and I cleaned the dishes, I went outside, behind our tent, and prayed on my knees again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tall pile of meat teetered on the man's dish as he huffed up the mountain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You mean to say she broke our Virginia dishes? What we gone do?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as she grabs a knife from the dish rack and a loaf of bread from on top of the fridge. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And my mother squared her shoulders and bragged: “Our problem worser than yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. It’s like you can’t stop this natural talent.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped two large pieces of steak for the dogs and refilled their water dish. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He spends hours with it, putting doll clothes on it and feeding it on doll dishes. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They can be grown in petri dishes layered with nutrient-rich broth—but, in fact, they do not need much to survive. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cohen helpfully washes dishes in the kitchen and makes us cup after cup of ersatz tea. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They smoked while they cleaned the dinner dishes later at night, sometimes opening a window to let in some fresh air. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mamou finished the last few dishes and then pulled half a watermelon out of the fridge. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She used to hum as she washed the dishes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He squeezed some dish soap onto his plate and swirled it around with the brush. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A dull, red light shone on the faces of the workers as they watched their own arrays of little glass dishes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weren’t people needed to wash dishes, wait table, make noodles? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me a hot dish covered in tinfoil. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He talked while he worked, mostly about the dishes he could make from the different parts of the pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was a big sideboard with some dishes and jars and jugs of food piled neat ’crost the shelves it had. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

For this formal affair, however, places were set at table, and the buffet was enormous, eighteen or twenty hot and cold dishes, mostly variations on sube-eggs and breadapple. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dried the dishes and put them away in the cabinet. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When we moved in, she busied herself with getting settled, arranging the furniture, unpacking dishes, hanging pictures on the wall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The dishes,” Mumtaz said, and pointed to a towering stack in the sink. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look around at the dishes piled in the sink, the strips of beet peel staining a wooden cutting board, a saucepan half full of translucent cabbage, a roasting pan charred and waxed with grease. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But Miss Celia, she just smiles, washes the muck off her hands in a sink full of dishes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He angled another dish into the dishwasher and chuckled. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At some point I get up and find a dish towel. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s on you. You didn’t have to agree. But now you got dish duty.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Of course, before we could get started, she wanted to dish about Raul. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed her the dishes, and one by one, she took them from me and slowly—very slowly—put them into the dishwasher. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama dished up bowls of okra soup over the rice and placed them on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"We might almost have known you were coming,” laughs my sister, "there is just your favourite dish, potato-cakes, and even whortleberries to go with them too.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice, out of the corner of my eye, that my mother is nervously piling dishes and then getting up to take them out to the kitchen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was slicing with such a ferocity, seemingly inattentive to her sharp cleaver, that I was afraid her fingertips would become one of the ingredients of the red-cooked eggplant and shredded pork dish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grilled mackerel, purple rice, spicy bean-sprout soup, and lots and lots of delicious side dishes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He stood at the sink washing dishes as she spread peanut butter on saltine crackers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Mother Fletcher put down the dish towel and turned her head to one side. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten tables I'm stuffed, and we’ve only sampled a small number of the dishes available. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stone droned ... a Christian can rid himself of the frustrations of modern living by ... coming to Family Night every Wednesday and bringing a covered dish . . . abide with you now and forevermore, Amen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Jay scraped my dish clean and put it in the sink along with his. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Zola thinks about this, and then she goes away and later that day she brings to me a poppet dolly that she has made out of a dish towel and many colored ribbons. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Negro had come back and was starting to collect the empty plates of people who hadn't dished out any beans yet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, dried my hands on the dish towel and followed him, thinking if maybe I was in trouble and what for. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But that was dishes and wood-chopping and things like that—not sugaring! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the campus, he walked past the Geophysical Institute, a tall glass-and-concrete building capped with a large satellite dish. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, after a delicious meal prepared by Mr. Swart, I went into the kitchen to wash the dishes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just because I dish it out, doesn’t mean I have to swallow it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He sat at the high table as a dish of onion soup cooled before him, hardly tasted, staring at the flame of the nearest candle with those hooded eyes, ignoring the talk around him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I could of hoed in the garden and washed dishes for them guys.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant, called Haedanghwa Korean Cuisine, was hectic and Shin worked long hours, washing dishes and cleaning tables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her eyes slid past empty plates, crumbled bits of cornbread, a smear of potatoes in a casserole dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a thin orange glow in front of the food dish, the last trace of my “magic” powers. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She dressed the dish with some green onion and herbs and then slapped the man's back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The dish was glued to a piece of cardboard, labeled “Sample A,” and left alone to decay into element 94. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“She told your mom I was going to spoil her. She said men in Iran don’t do dishes.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like maybe I’m an empty dish compared to everyone else. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While the table is empty, a long board off to the side has been laid with at least twenty dishes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“And make him coffee after breakfast. And wash the dishes.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t add that it’s one of the only Korean dishes I really like. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t ask me to wash the dishes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

You could see lots of aerials and satellite dishes, and sometimes, right over in the distance, a glistening line that was the sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Dad starts telling that story, my mother goes out to stack the dishes or fold the laundry. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Granny’s favorite dish was a peanut roast which she made to resemble meat, but which tasted like something else. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoky collards, turnips, sweet potato pie, and the rest of the kitchen’s concoctions sat in the Valentines’ nice dishes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I scraped all the leftovers into the trash and focused on doing the dishes, scrubbing each plate in clockwise circles. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was peacock pie, jellied eds, Devonshire cream, curried porpoise, iced fruit salad, and two thousand side dishes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To break her of this I put her dish in the center of the room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went everywhere begging alms with a copper dish. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She looked around her, at the dishes drying in the kitchen, the banner hanging on the curtain, the door to the bedroom where Nunu was sleeping, safe and sound. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She returned a few minutes later with a large pot of codfish and ackee, the official dish of Jamaica, and a large helping of grits. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Fern stood at the kitchen sink drying the breakfast dishes as her mother washed them. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He just stood there, watching her back as she worked at dishes in the sink. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What math I was ever taught I learned doing the breakfast dishes and listening to Mother explain, over and over, what a fraction is or how to use negative numbers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Jody’s father had gone in to the fire and his mother was washing dishes, Billy found and lighted a lantern. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually the pigeon is the favourite dish of all raptors, if they are big enough to take her, but I was thinking of nothing but domestic habits.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat around the table with the serving dishes spread out before us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wash the dishes quickly, because I don’t want to miss it when Mamita comes banging on the door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I asked when I had finished the dishes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is festooned with stockings and underpants; hair rollers perch on the kitchen counter like bristly caterpillars, dishes cake in the sink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bring a covered dish of food with you to the funeral home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was more concerned about me washing dishes and scrubbing floors than keeping my own hands clean. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“First she stole her sister’s lover, and then she tried to steal her sister’s dishes. No, I don’t like her.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I never had to do dishes at The Children’s Home and resented being treated like a servant. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She just nodded her head and ate her supper in silence and helped with the dishes, and when the little children went up to bed she went with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they did believe that what they’d learned from the other island invasions had prepared them for anything our enemies could dish out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight Jaden came up to me when I was washing the dishes and asked if I could join him in his office for a few minutes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stared straight into the dish as Leo flipped the switch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When Thaya Jaan came to visit last year, we didn’t understand why Mama went overboard cooking elaborate Pakistani feasts for him, including the dishes usually reserved for dinner parties. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Dr. Rivers comes in holding an oval dish with two pot-holders. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She could not say when she had finished the dishes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, she says, “There’s a pile of dishes waiting to be washed. Get to it.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t want her standing in the cold kitchen doing the dishes, either. It’s bad for her.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had learned how to prepare all kinds of exotic dishes during our years in exotic lands. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I returned to the dishes as you helped her with the dough. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then the sink water ran from the tap and dishes clinked as my mother dried them and put them back in the cupboard. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“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 left the empty water bowl in its new location and placed his food dish on the feeding mat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the end she had to put her head down on her dessert dish to recover under the privacy of a large linen napkin, which she pulled over her head like a blanket. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Mama stood scrubbing dishes in the sink, singing to herself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My favorite time of day was always dinner, when each of us was around the wooden table in the dining room, with warm aromas escaping from the hot dishes in the center. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the sink Portia was drying the dishes with a clean checked towel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tea table had vanished, and the chairs and dishes, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After everyone was finished, Maribel hurried into the kitchen, where her buñuelos waited on an oval platter covered by a dish towel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I went in the first load, with Mama and May and a back seat heaped to the ceiling with dishes and lamps and bedding. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overstuffed pillows, fluffy bath mats, floral-print shower curtains, pastel comforter sets, four-hundred-thread-count cotton sheets, and dishes, all in the calm shades of baby nurseries. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And then I asked him if he had any special dish he liked; if he did I’d try and fix it for him the next day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went to the sink and started washing the dishes from dinner. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women have set up long tables and laid out side dishes, desserts, and cold drinks. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Wading through the crowd of silent people in the front hall, I found Miss Love busy getting out dishes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Shirley, the dishes need to be washed. Can you do them?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone is already there, helping to dry and put dishes away, wash pots and pans. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As Lupita looked on in wonder, dishes rapidly came out clean and dry. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I raise both arms, and he raises both of his, and when I cross the dish, we do a jumping double high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He let Luke and me tag along while Adele did the dishes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She brought out her old wooden board and cleaver, then chopped the ginger and scallions, and poured soy sauce and sesame oil into a shallow dish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma had a long table and she’d lay out dish after dish on her old lace tablecloth. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

We helped him clean the pots and dishes and then we were each able to shower. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s filling up the sink with soapy water and sliding in dinner dishes from last night. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She shut the dishwasher with a clang and left the room, the dishes inside still rattling in her wake. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With supper over and the dishes washed, Grandpa said, “Well, we had better turn in as I want to get an early start in the morning.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week before the party, they prepared the banquet: half a steer roasted in the courtyard, kidney pie, chicken casserole, various com dishes, eggfruit, and the best harvest wines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was slide your tray along a steel counter and select what you wanted from all the main dishes and desserts and drinks. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The slide of a dish across the floor as it is kicked. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of using something that might harm us, I mix a concoction of a surfactant, NaCl, and a chemical derivative of acetic acid—aka Dawn dish soap, salt, and vinegar. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Managers upbraided a group of messenger boys overheard dishing office dirt at a local diner, and engineers caught having a loud, detailed work conversation at the Industrial USO were called on the carpet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I finished drying the dishes on the rack as they poured their first drinks and started to play. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The dishes rested briefly on a clean flour-sack towel while I dug another out of my things. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I am delighted to say that I am ahead of schedule on the dishes and I will continue to wash them in an hour or so. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She says, “Where is the homeowner? I need dish soap. The whole bottle. Two if you have them.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

My father, dishing out the beef stew, says that a species a day is becoming extinct. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps the place neat and clean, always putting my things away and washing dishes and scrubbing floors. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen, where there was an electric stove and a refrigerator that no longer worked and was used to store glasses and dishes so Poppy couldn’t get at them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She ladled chili into the bowls and passed a steaming dish to each of the people at the table. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After I race through washing the dinner dishes, Nino Carlitos and I sit down at the dining room table with a small notebook and pencil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel catches Emmett out of the corner of his eye, waving a dish towel in his direction. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my fishing rod from the garage and dashed to the comer of the house where Dad had mounted the TV satellite dish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And after we’ve eaten our fill and the dishes are stacked up and the children are sleepy, I have everyone gather in the living room and bring out my last surprise. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That gave me a smile, but Ma slammed things around like she’d rather break the dishes than clean them. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mia set the chicken into a casserole dish and went to the sink to wash her hands, and Pearl, with the feeling of stepping off a very high diving board, plunged ahead. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An unpleasant scurrying told him the roach’s family was searching for the dishes that were usually stacked there. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was certain that she went to her grave worried about his addiction to compilation meat dishes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

"Come dry," she says to Helmuth, pressing a dish towel into his hand. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, cranberry sauce—all the side dishes. I hear turkey doesn’t have a lot of flavor.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the night before they were to leave, they left the dirty dishes on the table all night!! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dishes piled up on the table beneath her window, untouched and spoiling, until the servants took them away again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only last week he learned how to make vegetarian lasagna and tried a new dish at the Chinese place. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I carry trays of dirty dishes from the dining room back into the kitchen so the dishwashers can spray and scrub them clean. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dabbled my fingers in the bowl of warm water a Ladies' Day waitress set down in place of my two empty ice cream dishes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It feels like something I might hear in a cafeteria lunch line when I've stared too long at a mysterious noodle dish. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

To wash our clothes and clean the dishes, we would get water from a nearby pond. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I bite my nails, trying to remember all the things I wanted to buy, but the dreams are lost in the roar of gunfight on TV and clanking dishes in the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lee answered the door, a dish towel tied around his middle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So after some instruction, Joseph put on the apron and started carefully polishing the clean dishes even though it made no sense to him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Hela, do the dishes, and be careful. And the same for you,” I say to Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like every child of an innkeeper, Malcolm had to work around the tavern, washing dishes and glasses, carrying plates of food or tankards of beer, retrieving them when they were empty. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that Mr. Lawrence Hobgood brought dog biscuits as his covered dish?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have a boyfriend, do you, Virginia?” the Doctorita demands as I wash the dishes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he put the soiled dishes into a square metal machine and pulled a lever, which brought hot water and hot air through the device. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Alexa’s family always eats dishes we never have at home, and her parents talk to us like we’re not little kids. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

To never stand next to Mom quietly talking as we do the dishes? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or saying if I could help do the dishes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

My father got up all pissy and took the dishes into the kitchen. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to look at me as she reached for some dishes on a high shelf, Miss Love almost smiled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So those of you who bring these unpopular dishes, please stop. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t let dinner dishes touch the sink on their way to the dishwasher, once even taking a plate Conor was still eating from. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She just washes dishes, her back to me, the running water filling the silence. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z