I heard the air leave his mouth with a big “pah” as he doubled over. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So instead of thinking about ideas to save their home like Isa had asked, Laney put all her attention on getting double chocolate pecan cookies from Mama. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Harry doubled back to see who had spoken and met Professor Lupin, looking around his office door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was low-ceilinged: They had had to double up to move through it nearly four years previously; now there was nothing for it but to crawl. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Blake's handlers inside the KGB went to great lengths to shield him from MI6's counterespionage teams, who were always on the lookout for traitors and double agents within their ranks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a deep blue doublet studded with a double row of golden lion's heads, and around his brow a slim coronet made of gold and sapphires. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My room was scarcely larger than the double bed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone’s joy seemed to double it? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often doubled over from abdominal pain, he vomited constantly, and the treatments soon left him confined to a wheelchair. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His might is increased by his belt of strength, Megingjord: when he wears it, his strength is doubled. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

By the time they returned, Betty had drawn the bedroom drapes and turned down the spread of the double bed. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bucky doubled over from the force of the blow, pressing his arms against his stomach. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It also doubled as an industrial-strength air conditioner/purifier, which was primarily what I used it for. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the Rouge, workers collapsed from heat and fatigue, while on Hurlbut my grandmother did a double shift. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He held the double doors open for me, and as I passed by, he looked at me right in the face, kind of daring me to look back at him, which I did. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Anatole told me these stories at night with a flat resignation, but I cursed and threw pillows and cried while he held me in the vast comfort of our married-student double bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wind over the grey waves they doubled, snapped, swooped, lunged, till smoke roiled about them red-lit by the glare of their fiery mouths. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could have figured out something if I had stayed out a little longer, but I heard a double click coming from Peewee’s direction. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait ten minutes to make sure no one doubles back. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Doge and the Senate, delighted, offered to give Galileo tenure in his post at the University of Pisa for life, with his salary doubled to 1000 crowns a year. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a lime green and sky blue check shirt and there was a double knot on one of his shoes but not on the other. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To test his theory, Ames prepared a document with the names of two Soviet intelligence officers who had approached the CIA to work as double agents for the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of her slinging it over her shoulder and walking out is enough to make me double over. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He knocked gently on the arched double doors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Won’t you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness?’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I push Katherine ahead of me through the fine double doors, anxious to escape before what passes for lawmen return. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She informed me that a double room at the front was available, though I was welcome to it for the price of a single. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at me and does a double take. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As if they orchestrated the whole event, right down to the double suicide. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You look different, too,” I mumbled, my eye drawn by the glimmer of the double Albert watch chain draped across his slim waist. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I order a double cheeseburger with fries and a chocolate milkshake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Stacked up against its longer side is a high double wall of yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, Arnold wanted to be a double agent for the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard pulls open the double doors to the bar, throws his hands into the air with a flourish, and ushers Lil and Em, giggling and whispering, inside. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I spent most of the voyage bent double over a puke bucket, bringing up every scrap of food and swallow of brackish water I choked down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, whatever the old guys are paying you, I can pay you double. Treble. A hundred times. Whatever they’re giving you, I can give you so much more.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Put another way, if you double the distance between two objects, the attraction between them becomes four times weaker. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Telkhines, that’s your cue! I wave my hands, and you leap energetically in your tank, do a synchronized double spin, and land in pyramid formation. We practiced this!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was standing in front of his chair, bent double as if he feared his legs would refuse to obey him if he took so much as a step toward the Shadow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The moment Valley repeated the second part of the spell, she doubled over with the mirror in hand, her hood going over her head and covering her face and hair. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jaime received a blow to his stomach that made him double up in pain, and when he was able to stand his eyes were full of tears and his pants moist with excrement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched cartoons with the little kids until golf came on, then played double solitaire with Maisie until they were both bored stupid. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Boyle found that if the pressure was doubled, the volume of trapped air was halved; if the pressure was tripled the volume was reduced to a third; and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I just got some new skills on beam, an aerial, which is a cartwheel with no hands, and a round-off double into the pit,” I wrote in my journal that year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Armpit doubled over but fended off the next blow, and the two of them fell to the ground and rolled into the gutter, fists flying as they traded punches. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Luna was five years old, her magic had doubled itself five times, but it remained inside her, fused to her bones and muscles and blood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Two teenage boys, kicking a football back and forth twenty yards away, stopped to watch, bent double with laughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she did double duty, nursing Tad Lincoln and caring for Mrs. Lincoln, helpless in her grief. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Five doubled equals ten, then adding a zero to ten equals a hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I pondered his question, which was edged with double meaning. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Or rather, I’ve made a huge digression and doubled back to my starting place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, In class today we discussed how double standards exist for men and women. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the wall beside the double doors, there is a bulletin board. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

May Belle lifted herself up sleepily from the double bed where she and Joyce Ann slept. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My grandmother—besieged yet again, and now with doubled ferocity—assumed the role of public defender for Jagu. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Cheers fill the room again, and this time people pump fists and pat me on the back and give me double thumbs-up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d figured it out, she had skipped through the double doors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any friends that can sing it. I was going to double the third refrain to give someone the chance to come in as Aloine.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She doubled over, and her cookie tray clattered to the floor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I walk up the road toward school and then I double back to my car, which has been sitting in the same space since Sunday’s trip to the diner. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So beer cost double for us, but whatever, we were seventeen. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pour flour, salt, more salt, pepper, paprika, and a pinch of cayenne into a doubled paper sack. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Hebe, get in here for a second, on the double. Your skipper needs you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the guards pushed open the double doors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It served a double purpose, to shield their eyes from the sun and create a camouflage effect. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With supplies in hand, the cousins stepped to the glass double doors separating them from the bright day and paused. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gregor was startled by the sudden commotion behind him, so much so that his little limbs bent double under him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Royal Brougham had come to know Al Ulbrickson pretty well, and he did a quick double take. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Elijah, your money is no good when I’m around. Besides, if you insist on paying me back you can always double up on your tithing when you go fishing.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He would double back on his path and attempt to lose them in the river, and then the second relay of hounds would scent him out and once again plunge into the chase. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before her she could see the robes of the scythe in yellow, so she doubled back, only to find the scythe in green closing in. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The padlock on its double doors was huge, more suitable for the gates of heaven or hell, I thought, than a little West Virginia church. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A normal indenture was seven years, but she had to pay off the debts of her parents, and the only way she was allowed to do that was to sign up for a double indenture. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they are bent almost double to avoid getting entangled in the thick canopy of branches overhead. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then she doubles over and coughs again, harder this time, into her fist. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bailey still sat, doubled over his book, a Black hunchbacked gnome. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes to the TV cable truck and opens up the back double doors—but with no luck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Michael says we’re up over sixty thousand links, and lengths of chain hang everywhere, doubled, tripled, and quadrupled up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All the kids knew the double meaning his answer conveyed because it was public knowledge now. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not circle about topics, searching for the right phrase, or double back to restate a previous sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have time to waste; we all knew the PSFs well enough to know that there was a chance they would double back and check for survivors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the “cold carton,” the ABC strain had nearly doubled, while the CBA had dwindled. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He doubled over, wheezing and chuckling at the same time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She pushes forward a plate of double chocolate cookies from my favorite bakery in town. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I doubled back into the living room and turned off the game and the TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Water deprivation in hundred-degree heat doubles, maybe triples the dehydration clock. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As a spymaster, Washington had to be especially watchful for what he called “double spies.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The security guy double takes on Dalton’s passport, because his hair is brown in the photo, but now it’s bleached blond. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It split light rays in two, so that when you looked through it you saw double. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He shut the double doors to the shed, took a key from his pocket, worked the padlock. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘Nothing or a double helping is your way!’ said Merry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve taken my last vitals—120/80—and I’m standing at the crux of the hall by the nurses’ office, looking at the double doors I came in five days ago. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The double entendres, the two-pronged sentences, slid over his tongue to dart rapier-like into anything that happened to be in the way. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen he could see his formidable mistress bent double over the hearth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve hidden us all,” Duny said, sullenly, for his head hurt from his father’s blow, and the working of the doubled incantation had drained his strength. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Polly doubled over and ran to find another tree. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she went to the north side entrance she saw empty cars standing in a double row the length of the building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the rules had a double dose of Nan and only a sprinkle of me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He turned neatly on to his feet, jumped down to the beach, knelt and swept a double armful of sand into a pile against his chest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My double advance lunge was a tempo faster, but I hit her on the thigh, off target. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I watch another group of 4 and then 2 doubles, another set of doubles, another group of 4. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I found out the piano bench doubles as a storage place for some cool stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I make my way back toward the staircase, passing the double doors to the master bedroom, and notice that one is slightly ajar. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘Maybe in a day or two Baby can move into a double room with some other kid.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be watching their comings and goings, and if she tries to alert him, I will know. We can always make this a double assassination.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For one thing, every day, the perimeters of her former estate seemed to double, as did the contents of her almari and coffer boxes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He doubles over, one hand covering his daughter’s name. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the daunting task of following the greatest hero in American history, Adams faced a double dilemma. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The cat changed direction, and the boys tore after it, doubled back toward the hives, straight into the path of the flying honeycomb. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bent nearly double, his fingers touch the keys much like he touches his cards, one at a time. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over towards the double doors of the gymnasium, where the Aunt usually stood, to see if she’d noticed, but the Aunt wasn’t there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked stacks and the other tomes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a moment Reynolds was back, leading blue troops at double time through the fields, tearing down rail fences as they came. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The widgeon, who had slept on water, came whistling their double notes, like whistles from a Christmas cracker. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even reached double digits yet, and he had a detailed account of every high school boy I loved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She braces herself for a double dose: “Love, love,” she says the words quickly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I mean I was upset when I wrote them. Maybe I could make double for next week?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You walk straight down this corridor and through the double doors into the next building. Make a right at the first opening. You’ll see it on your left.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The freeways have traffic exchanges with double and triple decks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Kevin was doubled up, tipping out of his chair, on his knees on the stage. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The team formed a circle, placed their hands on top of each other, then broke in a single file for the double doors. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karl Johnson has since left the C.D.C., and he now spends a great deal of his time fly-fishing for A single Ebola-virus particle with a pronounced “shepherd’s crook”—in this case, a tangled double crook. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exceptions.—X final, being equivalent to ks, is never doubled; and when the derivative does not retain the accent of the root, the final consonant is not always doubled: as, prefer' + ence = pref'erence. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver’s stomach rumbled, the double chocolate pecan cookies he’d eaten an hour earlier a distant memory. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Fists doubled, the white man advanced, kicking the bicycle out of the way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had doubled the intensity of his workouts. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the morning the children formed a double line, something Ralph had never before witnessed, and walked quietly to the library, where they selected books to read. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He rotated the paper, gazed at it for a moment, and began to scrawl, numbers and circles and great, arcing lines that doubled back on themselves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Again we pass the double doors with the red number—then several doors under heavy guard and still others with large glass panels. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Riptide elongated into a shimmering double- edged sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike many of the double agents who preceded him, Aldrich Ames did not turn to spying because he was attracted to communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reached over for a pillow, doubled it up, and hit it hard with my fist. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Teachers gasped for breath, doubled over in pain, fell to the steps. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a bit warmer, sharing our body heat inside my double layer of jackets, but the night is young. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The phone’s been ringing for three days, sportsfans. I’m glad you found time to answer it. Let me speak to Ben, on the double.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either that or the track, but I was going to end up there later anyway, and after yesterday, I wasn't down for another double practice. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I followed his line of sight to the doctor walking through the double doors. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She stumbled a few steps back into the chain fence, doubled over, and clutched at her waist, gasping for breath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I am only imagining the corner bike racks and the double locks, because I never went home with him, never saw his life, never knew that person Gat was when not on Beechwood Island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Yossarian, astounded, hauled her up into the plane and held her motionless on the floor in a double armlock while Hungry Joe radioed the control tower for permission to return to Rome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I think I messed up the amounts, though. Didn’t they want an hour? When I doubled the recipe, I didn’t do enough. I don’t think it’ll work over forty minutes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Leading away from Brannock’s Post there was a double line heading down and to the southwest. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tremor in the queen’s hand has doubled, but her jaw is steely. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I rearrange my tiles, sequences of bamboo and balls, doubles of colored number tiles, odd tiles that do not fit anywhere. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Nat finally gave the order to reef sail, the men lay aloft on the double. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just hearing my name, the pain in my head doubles. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Still, I like sitting on the apartment’s front steps, watching kids play pickup, double Dutch. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He gave a cry, and, dropping his arms, doubled over. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They stood either side of a double line of pegs and rope. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Now that’s an odd thing. When I was a youth, friends laughed together and spoke in peaceable voices. Only enemies stood glaring and yelling, with their fists doubled. But then, times change.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She would eat any small thing, a piece of pasta, and her stomach would swell to double its original size. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I doubled over again and dry-heaved on the side of the road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His off-center Mohawk could make you do a double take, thinking he was tilting his head when he really wasn’t. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Got a hot date? Me and Penelope can double.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I remember Cato waiting at the top and whip around, but he's doubled over with cramps and apparently more preoccupied with the mutts than us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Also, the Babylonians used only two marks to represent their numbers: a wedge that represented 1 and a double wedge that represented 10. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her stomach was starting to really bother her, to the point where she’d be doubled over in pain. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just see what it takes to double our altitude,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I have said about segregation goes double this day . . . and what I have said to or about some federal judges goes triple this day.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally got home, Grandma had no sooner sent Ernie upstairs—with the beer bottle containing the half tooth—to lie down with a double dose of pain reliever when the phone rang. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a double wow kind of situation. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I saw that Islam’s conversions around the world could double and triple if the colorfulness and the true spiritualness of the Hajj pilgrimage were properly advertised and communicated to the outside world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though bent almost double, she stared up at me with black eyes that seemed to know my past, while Elnora stated her business. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I should have had this container woven with a double wall. But it would have taken more time. Now I pay for not waiting a bit longer.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His double fish tails swished back and forth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Feeling no end of a fine bird, he gave a sharp whistle that brought his two warriors on the double. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Not far from the house, off to one side, was a smaller building, whose double doors were also closed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Well, he’s up in my face fast and gives me a double arm shove, and I hit the ground. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All custom-made. They revamped the space a few years ago, too—it’s double the size it used to be.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hobbits, bent nearly double, toiled along behind the taller folk, but it was plain that they could not go much further, if the snow continued. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like discovering someone very close to you has been leading a secret double life. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She went upstairs, got one of her Egypt books, and showed the rest of them that the tenpins were shaped exactly like the inner part of the double crown of Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to cope with something that might be called double vision. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went out the double door and was gone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They had just stepped inside the room when Master doubled over with a fierce jerk and threw up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, she tried a home remedy: salt water, a double dose of hypertension pills, and a glass of vodka. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Almost every other major city in this country leads the same double life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He might have doubled back, and be waiting for her with murderous thoughts behind the stable block. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As we wait in our double line, the door opens and two more women come in, both in the red dresses and white wings of the Handmaids. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That doubled the number of points he lost. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled again, and every tooth seemed to have a meaning, double, multiple, thirty-two different meanings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the stern of the ship, they reached a set of wooden double doors that opened into a large stable. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The injury forced me to scratch out of the doubles competition. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, she almost declared the book so she could get double points, but—thinking of Babbage poaching her books—she pulled her finger back from the mouse right before she clicked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bridge looked at the fat deck of cards Sherm held while he took double bites of his sandwich. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You might wrap up the goods before you deliver ’m,” the stranger said gruffly, and Manuel doubled a piece of stout rope around Buck’s neck under the collar. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, the dominant position acquired by Aristotelian natural philosophy within the medieval universities resulted in a double inhibition on experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I double over, clutch my knees, and rest my head against the floor, sobbing, choking. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Judd just points to the sledgehammer again and doubles over laughin’, like it’s the biggest joke he ever played on somebody in his life. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One officer under his command was ordered to withdraw from the town of Gordonsville, where he was on the brink of a signal victory, and march on the double to Staunton. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ged pushed it open and entered, stooping nearly double to do so. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hasok Chang has proposed the label ‘active realism’ for this double recognition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s a shame none of their friends made a double portrait of the two of them at this time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Chicken looked at the tree Sula was pointing to—a big double beech with low branches and lots of bends for sitting. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

To save time, he ordered the brigades to double the line of march. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I decided, though I felt like throwing up my double cheeseburger. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

So I departed from the royal presence—eck, eck, eck all down the long red floor in the red gloom of the hall, until at last the double doors shut me off from him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Men hung at a stage-bar, mostly drinking beer, while the women danced in stiletto heels so high they doubled as stilts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons and evenings he sits by the door, behind a small wooden desk, in a room that doubles as a food pantry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He came back up with a jar of peanuts and a double martini in a water glass, which he carried into his room, and shut the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The great yellow rolls of his flesh doubled over his breasts and over his belly and in the mountains of his cheeks his eyes were small and sunken as a pig’s eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen dared give me an unfinished painting! I will double tax his village for the next ten years!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed merrily and, still walking backward, doubled her speed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, amid such intense suspicion of the British, no one seemed to take note of the double agent inside the KGB's London residency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Herbert, my dear friend,” said I, shutting the double doors, while Herbert stood staring and wondering, “something very strange has happened. This is—a visitor of mine.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Eduardo did a double take, climbed off his bike, and, approaching Farmer, greeted him with a heartfelt hug. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at the shaded, sombrely-papered bedroom, with the neatly made double bed in which he slept alone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The copies of my poems Rudy handed back had on them brief, inane remarks I read and reread for double meaning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I watch as I feel my hands throw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich together, and I think how I'd give anything for a double cheeseburger right now. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A double layer of clothes never hurts anyone in winter, as long as the clean ones are worn closest to the skin. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look a little . . . Pardon the double entendre, my friend, but there’s something a little worrisome in your eyes.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“There are so few children in Faerie that I’ve never seen one of us twinned. Is it like being doubled or more like being divided in half?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What’s more important still is the issue of a double ration of smokes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena does a double take and stands, her jaw dropped in mock outrage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She doubles forward and hugs me, squishing me against her perfumed self. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There was an island with two trees on the lake and the trees looked like the double sails of a fishing-boat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As his hands went to his chest, Njemile and Kaisha shouted, scrambling to reach their friend as he doubled over, his arms shooting out to the ground to catch himself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bedroom was furnished mainly with a large double bed covered with an eiderdown comforter for the big Greek and a narrow iron cot for Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Three double seasons in a row of bad weather had ruined all expectations and then came the day when the blossoms jumped out fat and creamy. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t get around a cape! You double it! You—you—lubber!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to see him when I take him out tomorrow, and ignoring him now would mean a double dose of those pursed lips and teepee fingers later on. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

My heart thudded, stuttered, and then picked up again in double time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My advice on double negatives: Never say never. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bridges opened the double doors for them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom on the left has a double bed, and the one on the right has bunks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what’s good for you. You have no taste buds. A double tragedy.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"You know prophecies always have double meanings. It might not literally mean you die." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You could double the number of troops and that would keep things quieter—until they left. You could use nuclear weapons and kill all the people. I wouldn’t call that a win.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I paint polished wood, and metal: a copper-bottomed frying pan, as seen from the bottom, an aluminum double boiler. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walter turned down Main Street, the car lights still on, honking the horn a double toot, six times at one corner, six times at another. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His trick was to sit with the horn in his lap for the first half of a piece, then start at the beginning and, tooting double time, hit the last note right with the others. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Declaring a book will double the point value. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At times like these I need an air sickness bag and an oxygen mask and a chair cushion that doubles as a flotation device. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I stared at the sketch until my vision started to double. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But as I walk through the double doors of this place I do wish that it were possible. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Running along the ramparts, bent double, the Abbot cried out, “Stretcher bearers! Over here! Help me to get the casualties down into the cloisters.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They bought one ad, opposite the contents page of the New Yorker magazine, and in the space of a month sales doubled to 60,000. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blurred red glow at ankle level was the coal fire of the double range whose door was kicked shut just then with a great clang and an irritable shout. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We slow the double circles down to a certain speed so Rachel who has just jumped in can practice shaking it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path of the double agent was lonely and perilous. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He doubled her knees and pushed her completely into the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ai—” Bud doubled over, sneezing like a whale clearing its blowhole, and some urine finally popped out willy-nilly in the process. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he realized I didn’t know what he was talking about, he left the building in a huff, pushing the double glass doors of the library open. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Every large household was said to have a servant on double payroll. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a heavy man with plump fingers and a double chin. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He was doubled over and grunting when he noticed the children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘And I would give gold to be excused,’ said Legolas; ‘and double to be let out, if I strayed in!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At the bottom center of the bulkhead just above the seat there was a nylon strap sticking out, the end of it doubled and cross-stitched. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The real estate taxes her father was paying would have been double the amount of money required to ensconce her in the most expensive boarding school. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Frogs were cash as far as Doc was concerned, the price was standard and Lee had a double profit. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to tell great jokes, too, ones that would have Lenny doubled over laughing at her impressions, but it’s been a long time since she told one. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As he took aholt of Miss Love’s elbow, I pushed open the double doors and he stood glaring at the silent, uneasy crowd. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There are two great identical snakes on a Levantine libation vase of around 2000 B.C., coiled around each other in a double helix, representing the original generation of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee poured a tumbler full of dark liquor from his round stone bottle and sipped it and opened his mouth to get the double taste on the back of his tongue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a dull, double thud, as two bodies collapsed separately into two chairs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I got right up from the table and went out and hooked Jumper to the double shovel. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas believed that there was a double foundation to magic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Between these lampposts my shadow on the winter snow would stretch ahead of me, double, shrink again and disappear, the lamps casting their haloes around them like the moon in fog. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry away, double back again, slip through the passage at Mickiewicza 7, skirt the overgrown courtyard, and pass through the front door of my apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the same day of my thirteenth birthday dinner, Conrad got his thirteenth Boy Scout badge, so we had a double celebration. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Rachel made the same fast double advances, this time followed by a lunge, with her blade swiping only the air, narrowly missing me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I think so. I don’t know. I’m seeing double here. It’s very confusing. I can’t figure out who to maul first!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Filthy, back in the day, I was the boss, never lost, I had the sickest double cross, and I kissed so many pretty ladies, they called me Lip-Gloss. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

In the bottom of a big plastic jar of bolts and screws and miscellaneous hardware he found a double handful of gold krugerrands in a cloth sack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Guardian closes and locks the double doors and climbs into the front, beside the driver; through the glassed-over wire grille we can see the backs of their heads'. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went for a wing first, pulling apart the spindly double bones and getting all the meat trapped there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he doubled over I smacked him in the nose with the hilt of my sword. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

This fact creates double difficulties for efforts to test the hypothesis that intellectual differences underlie technological differences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now flying by some magical means, Aech’s avatar swooped down, passed over the bottleneck of gunters clustered at the castle entrance, and disappeared through the open double doors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ma doubled over and fell to her knees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer nights we used to ride double on Nancy’s horse, Babe—that old fat gray? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walked barefooted out onto the varnished gymnasium floor, between the filled bleachers, the howls and whistles from the boys were double what had greeted any of the other girls. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice Max has to double her steps once in a while to keep up with me, so I slow down. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I double over when I reach her and lean on my knees. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This was the time of hygiene lectures, and of practicing blanket-baths on life-size models—Mrs. Mackintosh, Lady Chase, and baby George whose blandly impaired physique allowed him to double as a baby girl. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In Paradise Regained, which describes the temptations of Christ in the wilderness, his words are described as “ambiguous and with double sense deluding. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She could hear his heart beating loudly as though it were pumping double, triple its normal rate. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She pulls her legs up to lotus position on the couch and doubles over with laughter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After she limped-tiptoed down the main hallway, she pushed open the double doors into the library. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No need for me to get down there. You get a double session.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The double pos-sessive is calmly explained, and I start to peel away the problem. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Overtime was plentiful, and men jumped at the chance to work holidays, which paid double time. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when J.T. came in with his mother, he glanced our way and did a double take. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She said I’d have to do double the work to get half the respect. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We were moving at the same pace, and unless one of us suddenly doubled back and bolted into the dining hah, the exiting crowd would draw us closer together. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father had worked behind those double doors—Metias had mentored under Chian in overseeing the Trials. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The days until the first task seemed to slip by as though someone had fixed the clocks to work at double speed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Bull ordered his son to dress on the double, to meet him at a muster formation in the kitchen, or be put on report. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, the double doors behind the counter were banged open as a bread truck backed up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is still in the red sun visor and tennis whites she wore leading her fitness class at the Forum Gym and winning at doubles afterward. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We rode our bikes as if to head over to Cory’s place, but instead we doubled back to make up with Styx. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This man who doubled as the villagers’ barber on Saturdays had a heart as black as the pit of hell! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him sat a man with suspicious gray eyes and a liver- colored coat with a double row of gold buttons fastened over a large pudding-belly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Peruvian littoral, the Tehuacan Valley lies in a double rain shadow, sandwiched between two mountain ranges. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he will organize a drought to scorch out the yam and manioc fields, so whoever did not die of fever will double over from hunger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew nearly collided with a college-aged guy, who did a double take of Matthew’s shirt—the one with five diamond playing cards on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We could catch a movie or even a double feature. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I sprang out of my chair and twisted the knob on the stove and the flames doubled in size. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was the main line from Venice to Trieste, with a high solid embankment, a solid roadbed and double track. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stretching as far as I can see are double rows of shiny barbed wire fixed to tall metal posts. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s light, you can carry it around easy, your wife, she could handle it too. It’s a double action.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We step off the elevator, and a man with an impressive double pretzel-loop on top of his head points at us, like we’re some sort of exhibit at the museum of natural history. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I’m doubled over and my wrist is being folded back, bending, bent as far as it will go and bending still. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It gasped, slobbered, spun, doubled, clawed the air frantically; finally its mouth gaped and its pink-white tongue shot out stiffly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like a handsome young double for Papi, and a lot like us, the family eyebrows, the same high cheekbones, the full, generous mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And if the Germans learned how seriously the Americans were working on an atomic bomb, they’d surely double their own efforts. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arletta Paisley had recently become the national spokesperson for SmartMart, and with both of them greeting me at the city limits, I felt double welcomed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, this was double stupidity on his part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I do the one thing my double is unable to do, because she is not desperate enough: I fire. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Initially we were hesitant to discuss the double helix with her, fearing the testiness of our previous encounters. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, a moment later, he doubles back and enters my room, and it’s as if Mom’s standing before me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Talking made his ribs hurt, and Jam watched as he doubled over with a groan. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I followed close behind Grandpa, who told me to come in and close the sliding double doors. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He mounted behind me, and the horse with its double burden carried us easily into the pathless wood as if it knew our destination. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Bubble, bubble, boils and stubble, wrinkles triple, gray hairs double,” Seven said and Valley repeated perfectly as Seven handed the mirror over to her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suffolk High had this graduation ceremony where the seniors lined up in their caps and gowns outside the high school and marched onto Main Street double file to the Protestant church for a ceremony. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered exactly what was happening, and the pain in his knees seemed to double. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The big metal box sticking up from the roof looked like a storage shed, but the double doors and eye-reader gave it away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“In the meantime,” Fahim continued, “our patrol shifts are doubled, and every morning, one of us has to go to Father Olufemi’s study and give a status report.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Galen and I raked this into a broad rectangular mound about the size of a double bed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bent double, two moles staggered up carrying between them an enormous rock. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had double pneumonia—fluid in both of her lungs—and she could barely breathe. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

On Monday, Ms. Allen, the art teacher, does a double take when I walk into her class. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

But when a giant claw pierced the air bubble they were in and snipped at his neck, Nathan doubled his pace. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One day he won and so went double or nothing the next, and lost. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In fact he was about to go on a drop-off and pickup mission that night, a “double Lysander operation,” as they called it, two pilots flying two planes to the same field. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

William was a doubles tennis champion and later took up golf. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He stopped once and bent nearly double, a great spasm rocking him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel comfortable, and I was clearly making other people uncomfortable as they walked past me in my hijab, doing double takes and then whispering to their friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What Clinton did not know was that Gray was a double agent whose information came directly from Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shows him the transmitter in the attic: its double battery, its old-fashioned electrophone, the hand-machined antenna that can be raised and lowered along the chimney by an ingenious system of levers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand through his own red hair to clarify his double meaning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around and do a double take at an odd painting—and then realize that the room is filled with them. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Ranofer whirled and doubled back, casting a shrinking look over his shoulder as he did so. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin solve the three-dimensional structure of DNA, producing the iconic image of the double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This double door, it might be noted, was at the south end of the room. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The following week Mr. Nielsen doubles the order. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They wanted him to exercise such qualities on the people, so that they might double their salary and give vent to their avarice and cruelty. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Extrapolation of the statistics of double stars which are greatly disparate in mass suggests that almost all single stars like the Sun should have planetary companions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since, she’s ranted about thieves, double- and triple-checking to make sure our doors are locked, worrying that someone will steal the truck, clutching her purse against her chest in crowded markets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The double basses and timpani are rolled in, and helping to wheel in a harp is a woman with a turquoise scarf over blond hair, wearing sunglasses and deep red lipstick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and my earmuffs are on, doing double duty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Soon she was doubled over, giggling and snorting. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The reason I’m asking,” X-Ray said, “the reason I’m asking is I got a business proposition for you. How would you like to double your money in less than two weeks?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

After Oliver’s conversation with Jimmy L, he came back inside, swiped three of the double chocolate pecan cookies Mama had baked earlier, then retreated to his bedroom for some Beiderman brainstorming time. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He crawls under a barbed-wire fence, then under a double strand of smooth wire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were radios everywhere, and little girls jumped double Dutch to Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Glenn Miller. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And I’d turned away for five seconds to grab the worksheets out of my backpack when there it was again—the soft double ding. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two doors and a passage with a double turn insured the cellar against any possible infiltration of the day. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you talking like that? What’s with the double negatives?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I nearly doubled over as I felt it burn all the way to my stomach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ahead, he turned off the path and entered through the double doors of a massive building whose four corners were adorned with decorative cupolas. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I say. Now you just say after me—‘I’ll take double poison and cut my throat if I tell.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room, a gun appears on the ground before my double. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Brother Leon intoned, “the quota is doubled this year because we have more at stake than ever before.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the front steps, Lissa stopped and stared up at the double doors, secured with a rusty chain and padlock. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though exact numbers aren’t known, some experts claim that the total number of victims may have doubled to 200,000 or more. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Her library card, which, of course, doubles as a key card for Meeting Room B. Find a way to borrow it.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I watched his strong body wither, then bloat, saw him suffer, night after night, doubled over at the dinner table, pressing on his stomach, his eyes shut, his mouth contorted in pain. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father used to work behind those double doors, working hard to find new ways to combat the plague. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As the rest of the church faded out, the Pastor seemed to double in size. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I turn my head to get a better look as we pass the double doors it's sprayed on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When Walt’s double life came to light, the revelations inflicted deep wounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week I more than doubled the number of my TMV photographs. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Stella, now nervously circling the burl of the wood grain at double speed, thought tonight could be the one when she wore a hole clear through it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Nero licked his left eye and grinned, a hideous sight that displayed double rows of needle teeth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I doubled back toward the bookstalls, puzzled by the disparity between the map and what I saw. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He walked quickly to the back of the restaurant, where the double doors led to the kitchen. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I doubled back through the diner to the fire exit and crossed the alarm wires to fry the circuit. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then by chance my knee found a tender spot between his legs and he doubled over, cursing me as I fled. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

While I could answer most of the questions on the practice exam, I was slow, needing double or triple the allotted time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The scent of laundry soap, old books, and double chocolate pecan cookies from the Vanderbeekers’ floor gave way to the smell of Miss Josie’s Southern Rose perfume on the second floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Never moving his broken body, he reached out all the same, and for an instant he was seeing double. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both of them made gestures signifying that they were hanging up telephone receivers; then they bent double, laughing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had a double bed with a cover made of millions of ruffles, and the way the pillows were laid out, it looked like there might be a dead body underneath. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you’d made a mistake when you doubled your chorus earlier,” Denna said to me as the applause died down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He only learned of Mary Jackson’s double major in math and science after he made her the offer to join the Four-Foot SPT group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She approaches the double doors and pushes her way into the sanctum sanctorum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The room was double the size of the largest classroom in my old school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see them wheel him through a set of double doors and I fol­low. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two multicolored giraffes greeted customers at the entrance of the restaurant, making an arch as you walked through the French double doors. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“All right, old chap. I won’t give you away. Run along and get me a double whisky, and jump on it.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I can’t help but think that I’ve just doubled my trouble, what with Miss Hilly and now Mister Johnny too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Only a few weeks into his new assignment, a chilling reminder of the risks of Blake's double life landed on his desk. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain clutched his head with both hands and doubled over in laughter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Will left and looked in the other rooms: a little bathroom, a bedroom with a double bed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even so, there was hardly any space to walk around the two double beds, the two tiny nightstands, and the various trunks and bandboxes of the inhabitants. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like he’s about to leave, but then he doubles back to my bedside, bends so his face is level with my ear, and whispers into it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pull back the notebook and mark a big 1 over top the VI I see that he seriously means to charge me double. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment he was doubled up by a violent coughing fit which nearly always attacked him soon after waking up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It will show up better if I make the whole thing with double lines.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was like shooting the winning basket in double overtime! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Then why not more men? Why not double your odds?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It seesawed its way toward her in an ungainly, almost blind fashion, tongue lashing wildly, mouth pulled back slightly to reveal double rows of grungy, bladelike teeth and puffy, bleeding gums. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

More than double my usual sales in the last week, overall. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With that, the Mahdi walks past my grandmother, through the lobby and double doors, and out of our lives. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I bend over double and hold my stomach, moaning a bit. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"But we could double or even triple our safe intercept range—" "We're done talking about this," Lewis said sharply. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At her side stands the Birthing Stool, with its double seat, the back one raised like a throne behind the other. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doubles over in feigned pain before stretching his bent arms back, as though getting ready for some basketball shots. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But a DNA double helix cannot autonomously make a copy of itself; otherwise, it might replicate without self-control. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ernest equipped the garage with bunk beds and a kitchenette for Chromatic technicians, and soon doubled its size to accommodate a full- scale electronics shop. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be acceptable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton looked forward to “double shift” nights posted on the refrigerator door, held secure by one of his mother’s many angel magnets. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He bent down, took up a double handful of lukewarm water and rubbed the mess from his face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Coach Reed said, “Over there now,” in a kind of double sergeant’s voice. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have plenty of multivitamins; over double what I need. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Locked double doors stand between us and the elevator bank, which is why we need Eric's ID. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"That would give each and every witch down there a double dose at least. We could turn them all into mice." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Charlie points at the creaky old sign above the green double door. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We were like odd ruined flagpoles, bent double, with our bright clothes flapping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is of my head, shot a little from beneath so it looks as if I have a double chin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of hours the crowds had doubled in Gotenhafen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They had crossed streams and doubled back on their own tracks more than once,just in case the men had a tracker among them, and Sefia was exhausted. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I walked through the dining room to the double doors that led to Gramma and Grampa’s bedroom. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you flag the book before you download the clue, you will earn double the points if you reach the book first. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As I double over, catching my breath, she says, “Why are you doing this?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bailey crosses the adjoining tent, walking around the double circle of chairs as passing directly through it does not seem appropriate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Any savage balked in the forest would utter the double shout and hold up the line till he was free again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He double locked it in the shed and went into the yard. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And he had doubled the output of the ice company. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They gave her a horse to ride, and doubled up themselves; none of them wanted to get near her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

What they don’t know is the man they call a traitor leads a double life: He spies for George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby pushed through the door and did a double take immediately. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Its cardboard hands were doubled into fists, the fingers outlined in orange paint, and I noticed that it had two faces, one on either side of the disk of cardboard, and both grinning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A full moon hovered low in the sky, breaking through reefs of bomb smoke now and then to shine like the lighthouse’s ghostly double. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A vendor on the corner is selling water bottles, candy, and newspapers, and I stop real fast to get Skittles since they double as an appetizer and breath mint. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Come on, man. I’m hungry. Okay, forget the double cheese. Just a burger.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He saw the outline of his brother’s head against the pillow in the double bed, but he could not see whether Aron slept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer arrange double dates with her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every football game rubbed a healthy dose of salt in the communal wound—and since all of those games were lost, it doubled the pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I remember the year because I turned ten shortly after, and as soon as I did, Caitlyn dubbed me the “double digit midget.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

DNA replication requires many more proteins than just DNA polymerase to unfold the twisted double helix and to ensure that the genetic information is copied accurately. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We drive along the face of the dam, then double back for about a hundred yards and find the access path. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One punches her in the gut, and when she’s doubled over, another guard kicks her to the ground and handcuffs her. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Some were sitting on the floor in the foyer, and he could see a bunch more camping out past the double doors that officially led to the rest of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He did a double take and gave me a look. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He always put Obinze’s name up for the outside work that paid better, always asked if he wanted to work weekends, which was double time, always asked about girls. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mom, double Is in Halloween,” Lori said, erasing Mom’s writing and penciling in the changes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed, combed, as tidy as two dudes setting off on a double date, they went out to the car. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

President Ratcliffe sometimes puts them on double watch shifts, so that they get no rest, and they go around red-eyed and bad-tempered. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I take it back!" he gasped as he doubled Over on the straw. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rowan had one, too—bright green bands bearing the curved blade of a farmer’s scythe above an unblinking eye—the double symbol of the scythehood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can double deal with Ice and Bianca if you and her make up,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is the musical equivalent of dropping a random blob of ink on a piece of paper: by folding the paper and creating a symmetrical double, a pleasing shape is suddenly formed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Most stars in the sky are members of double or multiple star systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Blake's assignment from MI6 was to recruit Soviets to become double agents for the British. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t go for the double—just a single. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The hallway ahead ended with tall double doors, flanked by three guards on each side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

By this point I was doubled over in the stall, laughing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By puffing out my cheeks I nearly doubled its size. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Our baggage stock has done double duty, and the big horses are foaming and blowing hard. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Our right to be in England had to be double and triple confirmed, with sheaves of paperwork and fingerprinted identification cards in addition to the new kind of passports we’d been issued. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was doubled up on the sofa giggling. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I fled toward the double doors, the floor seemed to roll beneath me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, everything is doubled. That’s a lot of selling for this school, Brother Leon. For any school.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved as fast as they could, bent almost double; ahead of them, Crookshanks’s tail bobbed in and out of view. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

George Blake stepped forward, out of the gray zone of the double agent, and chose to make the communist East his home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anorak throws open the double doors, revealing an immense treasure room filled with piles of glittering gold coins and jewel-encrusted goblets.* Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was the hidden double stitching that kept armholes from tearing out. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Profits are expected more than to double next year. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve no idea how long it took us to reach the windy summit of Lafayette other than that it was a double eternity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Segal had been one of South Africa’s premier singles and doubles players during the fifties. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked so tiny in the double bed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He doubled over, shuddering and retching, as a dozen fiery snakes seemed to work their way down his esophagus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The first things we see once we’re inside are the merry-go-round unicorns standing guard at the foot of each side of the double staircase. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess so,” I said, looking down at my double serving of sweet potatoes with butter and cinnamon. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

With a stub pen she was bringing her books up to date, a fine old double entry ledger. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Otto and Sheed knew him well—and knew to avoid him—they couldn’t have placed him as Mr. Flux’s double before. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stopped spinning and stumbled to the ground, right on the double yellow lines. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That wall was said to be forty feet thick at its narrowest, and near eighty on the seaward face, a double course of stones with an inner core of sand and rubble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Zero was still lying doubled over on his side. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I reach for Eric’s gun, so panicked I can barely see, and when I look up, I swear the amount of Dauntless in the room has doubled. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle sent a standard-bearer ahead of them, a double banner flying from his staff; the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn on high, and below it his own black fish. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They doubled the Horn. And sometimes they got home again. But what about all the ships that don’t come home? If ‘sailing by book’ makes men a little safer, what’s wrong with it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julius led them, bent double, peering at the dry grasses and broken scrub, moving slowly, a terrible air of desperation about him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

So he was in double distress when he emerged from under the rock and stood in all his angry might, looking around, baffled, for the cause of his pain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The heavy double doors creaked as they closed behind me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The drüskelle had existed for hundreds of years, but under Brum’s leadership, their force had doubled in size and become infinitely more deadly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He went inside, cleaned his teeth with a finger and some toothpaste from his tattered bag, fell on the double bed, and was asleep in a moment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the office with him Portia sat on a bench against the wall, her hands cupped beneath her chin, her body bent almost double. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anyway, one night in July, my dad had to work a double shift. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They doubled the Cape and fought head winds. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the throne room,” Kaisa said, pointing to the closed double doors in the fourth wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 3:30 officials from the International Olympic Committee, draped in gold cords and wearing tall silk top hats and coats with long tails, walked out onto the Maifeld and formed a double cordon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

Within the average, older children ages eight to eighteen spent nearly double the time with media than toddlers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Petey said, “Some of us know not to use a double negative.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Notice that you can't avoid double sharps or double flats by writing the note on a different space or line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Chess clubs everywhere saw memberships swell; during the match, the Marshall Chess Club’s roster doubled to six hundred, and the United States Chess Federation added tens of thousands to the fold. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I clutch my laptop and stare at those wide double doors. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Heavy odors of Mediterranean cooking floated across the congested neighborhood from the opened kitchen windows in every' apartment building and double house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oleg Gordievsky's career as a double agent had landed him right in the middle of one of the most dangerous standoffs of the Cold War—and into scalding-hot water with the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only double letters are the twin I’s inside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vacuuming is the most disturbing video, actually a double feature beginning with an introduction to the special backpack vacuum we are to use. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And before bed I want you to take a double dose of your iron drops,” she stressed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’d lock up the bar, make myself a double Singapore Sling, settle down with a paper fan and practically swoon with grief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what would Zed look like stuffed in the passenger side of his pickup upside down and bent double? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw us as suspects, every one of us a “person of interest” in a locked-door double homicide. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

What begins as a denunciation of those defending slavery somehow doubles back on itself and ends up in worrisome confusion that the matter is being talked about at all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the course of complaining about his hard lot in life, he avowed that he could double his business overnight if only he could find enough reliable workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men all in a panic of fear; sent a round robin, asking to have double watch, as they fear to be alone. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In less than a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to do business with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strange language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stonesnake went east with him a short way, then doubled back to obscure their tracks, and the three who remained set off toward the southwest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With Ma wrapping up her double shift and Daddy on the way home from his last delivery, I had a short window of opportunity to disappear. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It doubled up, its eyes moved, and it seemed to struggle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A karate blow to my wrist doubles me over and I stagger backwards. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brownstone row houses lined both sides of the street, and long, wide, stone stairways led from the sidewalks to the frosted-glass double doors of the entrances. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

From the alley at the side of the warehouse came the noise of pounding boots, moving at the double, and a shout of command: “Halt!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halleck issued an order: If the assassins are caught, put them in double irons and take them to the commander of the Washington Navy Yard, who will confine them to a monitor warship anchored there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days my sisters and I all slept in the same double bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a special occasion, seeing as how it puts you into double digits,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, there would be double canister. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned left and headed toward the big double Ferris wheel. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sal doubled over and gurgled like he was going to throw up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

One of the women is older, and large, with a round face and double chin. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Up front, peaked into the bow, was a double bunk filled with bags of sails— six of them. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only space that feels like mine is my tiny bedroom, into which a double bed and a desk have been crammed, with barely enough space to walk between them. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were nice older guys who flew in from Miami every week to make fast money working double shifts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I gave Carmen a double kiss, which sent my face into a lobster boil. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No one guessed that their shy, pale coworker was capable of leading a double life. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cost of the Mark I had already doubled from the original estimate of $10 million, and CRD’s president, Fred Powell, was forced to question “the wisdom of continuing further research and development work.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But I don’t have double vision or anything and I can think clearly enough. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was a double pick at the top of the key. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly clear, but it showed her a double image, the right one quite close to the left and about fifteen degrees upward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not a double play combination like the famous Chicago Cubs’ Tinker to Evers to Chance. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw open the double doors and tumbled into the cool, breezy afternoon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was double the usual throng of news reporters. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier punched Enoch in the gut, and he doubled over. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Riding double was something Tally had never done before, and she found herself glad she was with David and not just anyone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I looked at the two sets of double doors leading out of the room, one labeled tomes the other stacks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Middle-class whites moved in, and over time the population of Clarkston more than doubled. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Profits are expected to more than double next year. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Systems are commonly double, two stars orbiting one another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since so much of learning anything depends on the atmosphere in which it is taught, Finny and I, to our joint double amazement, began to make flashing progress where we had been bumblers before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stumbled backward through the door before the smell could knock me unconscious and found the boys doubled over, holding their stomachs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Baba said something to someone and there was a double click as he hung up. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On one side, there is a double bed covered with a net, and a twin in the corner. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, very good. Reznak, see to it. Once the Second Sons ride out, close the gates and double the watch upon the walls.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What features of the double helix enabled it to bear the code of life? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, by chance, Kit would find herself alone, and rushing through her task at double speed, she would steal down the path to Blackbird Pond, hoping that Prudence too had been able to escape. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

After years of spying for MI6, the double agent knew that his luck had run out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He ate his double chocolate delight and tried to imagine that he and his friends were just chilling on a vacation. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So as we climbed out onto the fallen stone the stars reflected themselves in double fashion; as above, so below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each man has another mess-tin full for the evening; and, what is more, there is a double ration of sausage and bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow it across the front lawn, through the glass double doors of the main building. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The double doors to the ballroom are open as I pass by, so I stop for a second to look. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She did a double take to something on her right. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The pilot punched him again and the pain doubled. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“A deus ex machina, then, in a double sense,” said Dr. Calvin, dryly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I was so used to practicing the song alone that I almost forgot to double the third refrain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He is wearing a cap like the men behind the swinging double doors and a paper surgical mask over his mouth—my heart sinks when I see a drop of blood on the mask. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Six,” he said, but his stomach cramped on the fourth and bent him double with a pain that lasted off and on all the way to Roanoke. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron flipped me double middle fingers and another finger sign I’d never seen before and said, “Just keep your stupid little butt out of the water.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or completing a double pirouette and finishing as gracefully as if I really did have wings. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the attic she had struggled with the words, pressed on, doubled back to difficult verses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The little page, coming back with the ordered drink, bowed himself double. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, considering the doorways opposite, two smaller doors flanking the great central double door; “Now,” he said, and selected the nearest. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Casey Palmer is gay?' I said again. Then I doubled over, laughing. “ Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He returned home each day around three p.m. and collapsed into bed for a few hours of sleep before waking up for another double shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Blockalteste distributed double rations of bread and margarine for the road. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A double helix of DNA can thus be envisioned as a code written with four alphabets—ATGCCCTACGGGCCCATCG...—forever entwined with its mirror-image code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We sped through the double doors and out into the parking lot. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The principle of double entry is simple: every transaction is entered twice, as a credit and as a debit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At once, she doubled up and vomited right at his feet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Puh-leaze—she can’t even count all the times in the last few weeks when nature or weather or some animal provided some annoying double meaning. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This meant that every now and then Simon had to do a double shuffle to eaten up with the others. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As you and Muthu arranged the pieces of tire in our shelter, you doubled over with a coughing fit. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, doubled over with cramps, I sit there reading the label stupidly, unable to think of anything except my own shivering discomfort. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As she said this, she pushed open the double doors to a huge auditorium. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Starts with the same sound and has double letters somewhere around the middle part. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Lawrence viewed the quest for 94 through a double prism. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We walked up the hall and stood in front of the double doors of the elevator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It had fallen open at this glossy double page advert, and though the paper had gone soggy and there was mud at one corner, you could see it well enough. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all but a requirement, a built-in fee for our societal double standard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I double over like I have a stomachache. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But on the beam, I suddenly went crooked on a double back-handspring layout series, and I crashed sideways to the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By comparison, Abuela’s room was opulent, with its double bed, thick mattress, four bedposts from which to tie the mosquito netting, pillows, and a small crocheted rug. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Reading his letter, I drew a deep breath, for I realized that Delbriick did not know of the complementary double helix at the time of Linus’ talk. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

All she can talk about on the way to school is her double date tonight and how cute Donna is and how she thinks she might love her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Favoured to win the tournament, they held several doubles records, and watching them play was as exciting as watching a match of singles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse had tied them into a double knot, the way one does for children, and Shadrack, long unaccustomed to the manipulation of intricate things, could not get diem loose. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were leading him nowhere: they doubled back on themselves and ran the same course twice: yet he was so accustomed to them that he could not stop. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel room was basic: two double beds separated by a wooden nightstand with a gray lamp on it, across from a chest of drawers that doubled as a stand for the TV and coffeemaker. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the double doors of the parlor whooshed open. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The windows of the vans are dark-tinted, and the men in the front seats wear dark glasses: a double obscurity. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There has been another attack . . . another double attack.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was no room for extras in the camp; everything did double duty. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And well she might recall it, for the crow’s head was double the size of her own. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Forming a double line that led to the Dodge sedan, they hurried us and our baggage into the car while they stood guard. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that point, four years later, the initially modest gap between rich and poor has more than doubled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Something nonalcoholic, please, doctor's orders. Make it a double—twins." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She executed a perfect double back-flip, twisting around at the last moment to face Gregor’s direction, and landed on the ground as lightly as a cat in front of Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when they come through the automatic double doors into the ICU, both of them stop, as if repelled by an invisible barrier. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m about to double negative your head in a minute!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Flint was doubled up, hanging onto his new broomstick for support. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s fly round, and do double duty today, so that we can play tomorrow with free minds,” said Jo, preparing to replace her pen with a broom. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no mount to give you, my lady,” he said, “and if we tried to ride double, it would be the end of my horse as well. You must walk.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The top athletes got hoodies too, Day-Glo orange with double helix lightning bolts on the sleeves. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Their cells grew in size, being swollen with chromosomes which doubled in number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Right. And on January third I double your allowance again.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, Jo?” and her mother looked up quickly, as if the words suggested a double meaning. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bottle of black, black ink, a pen and a pad of paper marked with double and single lines, and a paperback book. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, she almost declared the book so she could get double points, but—thinking of Babbage poaching her books—she pulled her finger back from the mouse right before she clicked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We’ve redone the security cams, rewired the stadium, and security detail has been doubled. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We go through the heavy double doors into the pre-op area, and then into a room slightly down the hallway. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But it’s fascinating to look down the rows and see all those long-legged women in their colorful pagnes, bent over almost double to inspect things laid out on the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the double doors, I notice a familiar figure in the lobby and slow down, briefly debating whether I should go around to the back of the building, near the dumpsters. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Point out the double sense of the word "expedition" in the following sentences: "With winged expedition, swift as lightning."—Milton. "The expedition of Cortez miserably failed."—Prescott. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salim doubled over with groans and writhed like he had been poisoned. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time the steps doubled back on themselves, and she could see Stone below them, and the Cates of the Moon farther down, its torches no brighter than candles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A voice floating in the air scratches a sentence in vuvv and then translates, “Is breakfast included with the double king-size room?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean it’s obvious this kid was leading a double life,” the guy is saying. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her mom had become some sort of genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A note can also be double sharp or double flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We lean against the kitchen counter, doubled over with laughter, until our mother comes into the kitchen and says, “What are you two kids up to?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They agreed to nearly double the workers’ wages and shorten the workday. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A sudden chill rolled up the back of my neck and prickled my scalp, and then the Feeling came over me so swiftly and sharply that I groaned and doubled over where I sat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Backbiter’s double edge glowed wickedly—half steel, half celestial bronze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Moss glanced behind himself and did a double take when he saw that Kaisha was standing off to the side. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were six silver dollars and a double handful of copper coins. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the bricks on the back wall of the auditorium are a darker shade, almost brown, and they form this double helix design. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mosca quickly stuffed the floor plan under his waistband before vanishing through the big double door. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She winces a bit with the term double dates. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She goes to the supermarket that gives double coupons. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Now they moved at double time, still on land that sloped upward. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guys who’d never given me a second glance did a double take. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heartbeat quickened as one of the men stopped and doubled back toward us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ma grabs the other double chocolate chip because she’s never been big on anything with nuts or raisins. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then he asked me if I was sure, and I told him I was positive, at which point he sent me his double emoji. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As if her words signaled the next stage in the assault, the giant stone double doors to the chamber shuddered as something crashed against them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, on the left, there was a set of double doors, one propped all the way open. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Another two steps and he was slamming the back door, locking it with a double bolt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to have grown larger, and not only as we neared it: its size appeared to have doubled. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They had run because they were in double danger: from the war itself and from the armies on both sides. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just past 4 A.M. and I have been shut out of the room with the swinging double doors for over five hours now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The library was dim, even with the heavy bottle-green velvet drapes drawn back from the tall double window. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was freezing, my stomach was doing double flips, and each fresh wave felt like it was going to drown me, but so what? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And then walked away while the neighbor registered a double take. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is hard and rough, like he knows what I’m about to say, and he’s daring me, double daring me, to go ahead and say it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"He hit me in the face with a yard of chitterlings!"—bending double, roaring, the whole room seeming to dance up and down with each rapid eruption of laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry doubled back and watched Professor Lupin covering the hinkypunk’s box with a cloth. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It had also happened that a visitor wearing a double layer of clothes left one layer in the bathroom for his inmate friend. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Smokies had all kinds of competitions, carrying weights or riding double, but no one was ever that stupid. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I waited half a minute while the man doubled over with a deep chest cough. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never saw one without the other, did you? The number of times I had them in here — ooh, they used to make me laugh. Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They could end up in the Slammer behind air locks and double steel doors, tended by nurses and doctors wearing space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was a small building with double doors hanging wide open. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just in the last few weeks he has improved sufficiently to be able to hobble about doubled up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw a runner out trying to steal second base and we had a double play in both the sixth and the seventh. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The temperatures that we can reach with our furnaces will easily double what your blacksmiths can achieve.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He grinned in double delight at his own correct guess and at Min’s skill. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Joost glanced at his reflection in one of the glass panels set into the double doors that led from the house to the side garden. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"I want order down there," Supercargo boomed, "and if there's white folks down there, I wan's double order." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We paused to net a huge male crab, a true number one Jimmy, swimming doubled over a she-crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got a mind to double it with an aught and two or three others just in case who is that pretty girl standing next to you?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t hear anything else, he put his book aside and decided to search the kitchen to see if he could find where his mom was hiding the double chocolate pecan cookies. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This enabled the berth, which served as a sofa during the day, to pull out into a double bed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I turned around to face the mob, I doubled up my fist, and took a Jack Dempsey stance. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Internet boom led everyone to assume that the demand for bandwidth to carry all that Internet traffic would double every three months— indefinitely. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Second Half Vondie strips the ball at center court, shoots a short pass to JB, who skips downtown zips around, then double dips it in the bowl. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Apa, I call out as I read a sign posted near some double wooden doors. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the station platform Rahel doubled over and screamed and screamed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I apologize for the double negative, but it’s a real double negative of a situation, a bind from which negating the negation is truly the only escape. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A heavy grating sound revealed double sliding doors being forced open. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But the Americans love us Brits, they love the accent and the Queen and the double decker,” Emenike said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He did a double take as he pulled his tarp off our hibiscus bush. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There had been the politeness of his marriage, the elaborate courtesy of the double bed, he had suffered from the cold gap between his permitted behaviour, and his desires. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His off-center Mohawk could make you do a double take, thinking he was tilting his head when he really wasn’t. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-one,” Mrs. Myers kept mumbling over her double chin, “thirty-one. No one else has more than twenty-nine.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was completely disheveled, covered with dust, bleary-eyed, and doubled over from the pain of the contractions with which Alba was pushing her way out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were moles and double agents and possibly triple agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We walk down another hallway and through a set of double doors. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Billy and his wife, Valencia, nestled like spoons in their big double bed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels good to say these words to someone who isn’t my guidance counselor, especially because my guidance counselor also doubles as the track coach, and hates me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I stopped still, clutching my side, gasping for air, doubled over in pain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With almost no intriguing at all, General Peckem had executed a maneuver that would eventually double his strength. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I exercised until it doubled, from fifty to one hundred beats per minute, and then I stopped, because I didn’t want to get too hot or sweaty, with no bath or shower on board. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always been the clown and mischief maker of the family; I’ve always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He held on to his belly while he doubled over with laughter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Rolls-Royce was parked in front of a double garage to the left. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The double shot of espresso at the coffee shop across the street from her office is called the Buzz in her honor. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hand that touches me is lumpy in its northern mitten, the skin of the wrist between mitten and jacket cuff brownish, like coffee with double cream. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took a chew out of my double cheeseburger and reached for my phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sean closed the double doors, moved around to the side of the truck. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He saw himself as another William Sebold, the Nazi spy who became famous for destroying Hitler's spy ring in America by turning into a double agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The wind was whooshing along noisily and steadily at a brisk twenty-five miles an hour, but gusting to at least double that, and from ever-shifting directions. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Friday is really far away, and we have a double period of math after lunch. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The conductor lifts his baton, and I'm invigorated hearing the familiar passages: the drone of the double bass as the heartrending introduction begins, the strings peeling away layers like birch bark. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She could barely contain herself as she struggled to get her double buggy through the door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glances at me and does a double take when she sees my arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was doubled up, firing from a crouched position. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In England, where emission controls barely exist, that rate has doubled. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was trying to speak insipidly, yet everything I said to Tibe seemed to take on a double meaning. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Multiplying something by twenty’s easy, you just double it then add on a zero. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Once they were gone, Sharon Gaines entered through the double doors of the held house with some medication for her husband. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a look that could freeze Hell, then turned and threw open the double doors. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He doubles back, pushing past the rest of us and to the kitchen, pulling open cabinet doors. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Landlords doubled their rents and still enjoyed a waiting list. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We order one with double extra cheese and pepperoni, and one with everything except anchovies. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And there’s this pair of random dudes in front of the double helixes who look a little familiar. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There, squished in between a wedding announcement and an article about yet another double murder at the Coltrane Projects, was a black-and-white picture of the thing that had attacked her last night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I watch in stunned silence as Hideo bids farewell to his trainer, then heads out of the room’s double doors with his bodyguards flanking him, his hands still wrapped in bloodied bandages. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"My fellow magisters have doubled the size of the city guard," Illyrio told them over platters of honey duck and orange snap peppers one night at the manse that had been Drogo's. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The front steps were wide but shallow and led up to a set of heavy double doors that slammed shut behind us as we walked down the shiny corridor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He started toward the cabin door, then doubled back for another kiss, then jogged backward, keeping her in his sights. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Year of the Boar would bring travel, adventure and double happiness. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Growing up in a single-parent home roughly doubles a child’s propensity to commit crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He doubles his pace, if only to get the expression on her mouth out of his periphery. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They learned where the cheapest gas station was—at the corner of Lomond and Lee Roads, always one cent less than anywhere else; where the drugstores were and which gave double coupons. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Ron’s out sick, so it’s just me, you, Marcus, and Lydia. I guess she got stuck working a double today, so ya know, heads up.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It would play a double role: it would provide extra flotation to compensate for the vertical weight of the mast, and it would make for a slightly raised seat for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He doubled in height, and from his back sprung a missile of fur and teeth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were double ovals, with a clunky motor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

For A, T, G, and C to sit in the interior of the DNA double helix, they had to have some interaction, some relationship. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘I think he means gemini like doubled - half man, half snake. That’s what his people are called. He’s a geminus, singular.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

From outside the barn came a cry of men and the double clang of shoes on metal. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway were double oak doors that looked like they must lead somewhere important. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she sees me, she does a double take. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He leads me through several rooms until we come to double doors. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I would have doubled over in pain, except that his weight was plastering me against my seat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Late in the fourth quarter, on a third-and-ten from our own eleven yard line, we sprang a double reverse, and I took it all the way for an eighty-nine-yarder. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Cole crouched before the solid trunk and doubled his fists menacingly. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When we reach a set of double doors, I pull them open proudly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The little snow bunting dæmon lay twitching on the rock as the Specter moved toward the witch herself, and then whatever Lena Feldt had undergone before was doubled and trebled and multiplied a hundredfold. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent most nights curled up at the foot of my parents’ iron double bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, however, a bit of a double standard when it came to romance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Publishing an addendum to his initial paper, he conceded that the true relativistic limit might be double what he originally proposed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His two rooms were furnished only with an upright piano, a straight chair, a small table and an unmade double bed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was offering almost double what Old Granny paid. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, three or four years later she'd got double pneumonia and died. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At the time, he was working double shifts, leading a section deep inside the mine charged with cutting through a massive rock header. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the kids at the nearby tables were cracking up, but Adrian Morse was doubled over. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The main floor of the house was divided into five large rooms with high ceilings, all connected by tall double doors. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or this one: He threatened to more than double her rent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a block down, a set of double glass doors opened and an old lady hobbled out, carrying plastic shopping bags. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That would double their output or, to put it another way, reduce the requirement for 100 grams of daily production to only one thousand tanks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Regaining his balance, he bolted sideways, coming to a stop at the double doors. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She was the only member of her class who sat alone at a double desk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, with double pneumonia, was out of work for weeks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then, the manager burst through the double doors that led to the court and ran breathlessly into Coach Spinks’s small office. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes don't leave the diagram, and he taps the sheet and says, "Get a reading on this rheostat, David. If the dial's out of alignment, that could double or triple the current getting past." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doubles the sleeve back over the socket, then holds the leg out for me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My meeting with the regent had a double effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel doubled over like someone had punched her. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos spoke up as he tried to keep my twin cousins Benny and Brad from crawling all over him while he pushed the double stroller carrying his other set of twins, Brittany and Brianna. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There was a set of locked double doors, which Annabeth managed to pry open with her knife and a fair amount of cursing in Ancient Greek. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had promised. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the creaking, thrumming double bulkhead of the leading zeppelin, the dragonflies were hatching. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The egg whites doubled in size, then doubled again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On May 6, Eisenhower and his advisers doubled down on their cover story, as reporters in Washington began asking questions about Khrushchev's accusations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was fine for 2,400 years as just Socrates without me conjuring him up to help me out of dumb messes like fake double dates with Jeff the leg jiggler. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She marches through the double doors and goes to speak to the one nurse behind the desk. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow her through the double doors where Adam and Kim are arguing with an orderly. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Smitty passes some kind of card in front of two double doors, and the doors open and we walk through them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Plus, I wedged Mom’s dresser against the door for double protection. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“What we need,” said Hermione briskly as Thursday afternoon’s double Potions lesson loomed nearer, “is a diversion. Then one of us can sneak into Snape’s office and take what we need.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Dividing the upland into two there marched a double line of unshaped standing stones that dwindled into the dusk and vanished in the trees. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bast doubled over as if punched in the stomach, baring his teeth and making a noise halfway between a growl and a scream. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The entire gate began to glow, as if the metal had become superheated, and its double doors swung inward, revealing a field of stars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When improvements in typewriters eliminated the problem of jamming, trials in 1932 with an efficiently laid-out keyboard showed that it would let us double our typing speed and reduce our typing effort by 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled 2’s in my head because it made me feel calmer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I swiped at my eyes, trying to force the double image of him I was seeing back into one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She glanced down the long, low-ceilinged livingroom at the double row of women, women she had merely known all her life, and she could not talk to them five minutes without drying up stone dead. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some broke from the mass and charged the double doors that led to the treatment rooms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bit asked, his eyes darting from John John's palm to the double doors. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And he went away and in a little while he came back, bringing tied in a cotton kerchief a double handful of small red beans, mouldy with the soil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then we play the whole thing again, double time, missing notes, ending with a giant crescendo, splattering the keys, and laughing like maniacs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Dressing rather shakily, Kit was compelled to ask Mercy’s assistance with the buttons down her back, and was shocked when her older cousin suddenly bent double in a violent fit of coughing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance hall contained a few last-minute stragglers, all leaving the Great Hall after breakfast and heading through the double oak doors to watch the second task. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Two are double chocolate chip, two are oatmeal raisin, two are chocolate-chip walnut. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“He's bent near double with longing for her, isn't it so?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jack stopped in front of a set of double doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Since the end of summer the little rodents had doubled, tripled, even quadrupled their numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lowest had been four talents and six jots, but most were double that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ropes are thick, heavy—fourteen feet long for double Dutch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After it passed, she told her mother that her salary was to be doubled on November first. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did a double take on a Clorox jug to be sure it wasn’t a shark’s head. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an American pencil, she wrote a word, a felicitous word such as “longevity” or “double joy,” which is symmetrical. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could get over the rise, I could double back without Jerome seeing me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He glanced up sharply when Holly entered through the pneumatic double doors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I sprint across the bridge into Building 2, dodging nurses and patients and doctors, and head through the double doors into the east entrance of the NICU. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

With a backhanded blow he hurled Luster aside and caught the reins and sawed Queenie about and doubled the reins back and slashed her across the hips. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne, but now she resolved to increase the number of bedrooms and double her staff. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A curious warmth floods her abdomen, followed by a tightening so severe she doubles over, gasping without sound, dropping the onion with a thud on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the two men laughed together and the merchant said, “Shall we tie ourselves together with a double rope?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He came to an abrupt stop and numerous people slammed into him, some of them shouting at him to move, others giving him a double take when they realized who he was. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I loved it—the Tilt-A-Whirl and the Dragon Tail and the Racing Rollers—coasters on a double track! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He climbed two limbs up and reached into a gnarled old knot that had doubled as a squirrel’s nest. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She jerked her head up and nearly did a double take. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To her dismay, Father doubled over with laughter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Later, in the hall between third and fourth periods, I saw Digger, and I know he saw me—because I watched him do a double take and then turn a complete one-eighty. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the hockey field I often doubled over, my eyes tearing up, while Coach Stork swatted me on the rump. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The giant double door was on the north end of the room. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The double doors to the town community center are propped wide open, a rectangle of yellow light spread on the sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You been holding out on me, Shady. And I thought we had an agreement. Now, I’m going to need double the amount by tomorrow, or I’ll shut you down.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A double column of guardsmen brought up the rear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He scooted away with his body doubled over and his face contorted intentionally into a nonchalant, sociable smile in case anyone chanced to see him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Other double agents working for Washington were given the cover of “deserter.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a set of double push doors at the end of the music hallway—and it’s funny, because I’m here all the time, but I’ve never even noticed them. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They turned to a closed set of double doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The room could be entered through either the hall or the dining room, and at each of these entrances there were glass-paned double doors. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the far side, an attendant hauled open a heavy double door to let them through, onto the platform of a railway. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Light, and a new set of double doors. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

George Blake had become that most dangerous variety of spy: the double agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As crack and guns flooded the cities and gangs battled over turf, the violent-crime rate for juveniles ages fifteen to seventeen doubled, as did the violent-crime rate for people ages eighteen to twenty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We doubled the batch because she wanted it big.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I halt and almost double back, but keep it moving. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Several heads turned as Gervean Campbell sashayed through the opened double doors, dressed in a perfectly fitted sapphire pantsuit and really high black heels. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Emily waited for James to double over in laughter or compare her family to a traveling circus, but all he did was shrug and say, “That sounds cool. My dad travels a lot, too.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Kaira ordered a double cappuccino and asked for whipped cream on top. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Parliamentarian considered and said, “Since there is no precedent for the treatment of a double apprenticeship, there are no rules as to how it should be dealt with. The proposal is within our guidelines.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The goddess took her double torches from their stands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I paused for a minute in front of a set of double doors — I had imagined and feared the sights beyond them for months on end, but now it was time to face them. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra ducked her head at once under the shelter of her wolverine hood, and shuffled in through the double doors with the other children. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Gordievsky made the lonely and wrenching decision of the double agent: to save his own life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju scowled and Ifemelu noticed how much weight she had put on, the beginning of a double chin, the new flare of her nose. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On either side of her now were great double doors, carved with fruit and grain and living things; all the doors she could see in this house were closed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some did double takes when they saw TysOn, but most just walked grimly past and carried on with their duties—running messages, toting swords to sharpen on the grinding wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the usual number of shows was doubled up—if I’m not mistaken, eight shows a day, instead of the usual four—and Hamp’s pulling power cleaned up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I double over and think that maybe I’ll just stay in this position, but he’s not having it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad he didn’t call a double dare. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the World Championships, a Grand Prix was worth double the points of a World Cup, and therefore a valuable opportunity to improve one’s world ranking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In central Java so many were killed that the price of a cat more than doubled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So the first thing the morpho software did was take each side of your fece and double it, like holding a mirror right down the middle, creating two examples of perfect symmetry. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two Eyes, in gray suits, leap from the opening double doors at the back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the nurses figured out that if she covered my damaged eye with a cotton patch, my double vision wasn’t as bad. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He backed the hearse up until it was almost touching the double doors at the rear of the house. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We just killed people, winning by double figures every time. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spot Simon's family near the dramaturgy display, doubled up on bouquets. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Before noon the wagons did roll out of the fort, through a large double gate. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steward struggled to free himself, but Bear squeezed tighter and tighter, grunting like an animal, until the steward’s sword and dagger fell to the ground with a double clang. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then she carried the line down, so that she had a double line instead of a single line. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He let himself get cajoled into playing, just one, then lost and had to go double or nothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A strong hand grabbed my wrist and doubled my arm up behind my back, like a policeman arresting a criminal. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he just set his teeth in her nose, doubled himself up in a tight ball, and swung on. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kite! Its background blends into the clouds! Looks like it's just the dragon flying up there! What a beaut you picked! I’ve worked out how to do a double loop!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He did a complete and perfect double take. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared barely pubescent but was walking with the dignity of a man double his age. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was six images, six panels, like a double triptych or a comic book, arranged in two groups, three on top, three underneath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mustache made it seem a double smile. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I should have thought better about following them inside the double front doors of the old deli when they started laughing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With her forepaws and sharp teeth she pulled off a part of the husk from the top ear of corn and folded it double to serve as a crude carrying bag. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the third year, the magic doubled again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Good wool, thick, a double weave, damp but not rotted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The motel rooms were doubles, and to my profound relief, my roommate was mild-mannered Gary. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge double door opened behind the counter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of American troops in Vietnam would double in 1966. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Otis joins me, doubled over, clasping his hands to his gut. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The woman rode double with Rory, her son with Tom Barleycorn, the old men with Horse and Satin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bourbon—where they’d sell their cargo for double its cost—or lose their shirts. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled up my right fist and was on the point of hitting Rainie in one of his eyes when I felt my grandfather’s hand on my shoulder. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Mercy, I sit in the waiting room of the E.R. and it doesn't take much to realize that this place doesn't have double locks on the doors or surveillance cameras everywhere like at Jamison. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had feared that her sharp, stubborn mind, caught in her self-made antihelical trap, might dig up irrelevant results that would foster uncertainty about the correctness of the double helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

My throat is sore and there is a double recess going on in my stomach but I say, Dad. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The double shifts and docked wages, all because of your fancy scheme. And here you are, sitting nice and cozy, probably counting your money.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They started at the Box, which was closed at the moment—double doors of metal lying flat on the ground, covered in white paint, faded and cracked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Noah croaks out and then doubles over again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He worked out, she could tell from the firmness of his chest, across which stretched the double front pockets of his fitted shirt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The narrow walls took up his clear sweet voice, held it for a breath and gave it back with doubled sweetness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first floor also has the cafetorium which, obviously, doubles as the cafeteria and the auditorium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above me I can hear furious voices coming from the third-floor window as the soldiers realize they're going to have to double back into the laboratory to disable the alarm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They ate double scoops of Rocky Road ice cream. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"This will take double the troops and military supplies," whispers Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room, it’s no longer my double who stands between me and my goal; it’s Will. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach heaved with the memory, and she scrambled away from Kaede, doubled over on her hands and knees as she threw up. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He reached the end of the corridor then ducked back as three guards appeared, walking together toward a set of double doors. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When the double doors swung closed behind him, June lowered her hand. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

All day they went back and forth, bent double under their loads, sweating and chanting in a tired, singsong way that seemed to get them from one step to the next. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Drive X-Ray back to camp. Let him take a double shower, and give him some clean clothes. But first I want you to fill everyone's canteen." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Standing there with her coat open, she was superimposed as a double exposure on the picture of the middle- aged woman just out of the bathtub, holding open her bathrobe for Charlie to see. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A deep trench has been gouged into the soil immediately in front of the double rows of barbed wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed almost unbelievable that the DNA structure was solved, that the answer was incredibly exciting, and that our names would be associated with the double helix as Pauling’s was with the alpha helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I’m used to seeing my mom on the other end of that handle, so I do a double take so fast I crack my neck when I see my dad standing there. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She was doubled over beneath the weight of a sheaf of hawthorn for the kitchen hearth, barefoot, her head bowed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow after school she would go downstairs to the basement, where Señora Rodriguez, the landlady, doubled as a music teacher. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like a wraith of oily smoke Shadow completed a clever double maneuver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a pair of big double doors on the right, so I headed for those and went through. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At a press conference later in the month, Johnson announced he would send forty-four more combat battalions to Vietnam and would double monthly draft calls to 35,000. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not an ordinary tiger, but one double the usual size. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few moments the size of Tyrion's command had doubled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Montag held his breath, like a doubled fist, in his chest. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had someone tipped off the KGB to Gordievsky's double role, or were they just fishing for clues? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The newly paved driveway curved sharply and doubled back on itself rather than breach the city-county line. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watson and Crick proposed that each DNA strand was used to generate a copy of itself—thereby generating two double helices from the original double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Through double doors and across the banister, where I often peeked, there was a much nicer room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Soon as I know where they’re going, I’ll double back and see if I can’t get a few coin out of Red, Fat, and Wicked in exchange for information about the kids. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once their small suitcases were collected from the luggage carousel, they proceeded through customs, had their luggage inspected, and then finally exited the wide double doors. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, we ended up on a two-track path that the bus could never have gotten out of if the path didn’t double back on itself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And her double points, too, while he was at it, she thought glumly. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now it looks like something that belongs in the suburbs, with its wide double doors, sparkling windows, and tiny manicured lawn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dinner here looks different from meals at my family’s, especially lately, since Mom’s always working double shifts. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Nergal laughed, then erupted into a chest-racking coughing fit, bending over double in agony until it passed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, As we walked through the double doors and entered the cold and scary room at the Holocaust Museum, silence fell upon me as I looked at the death of millions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get it. I offer my best friend an opportunity to double his money, and he won’t even listen to my idea.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Drugs were hid-den in tennis balls painted grass green and thrown over the double rows of twelve-foot fences and into the exercise yards. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And in the fifth, they saw me make a sliding catch in short right and then double off the runner at first. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee stood up in front of him, his tiny fists doubled ineffectually, his stance and position so silly that he began to laugh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the letters was doubled up, I remembered, so I scratched that out and wrote “Carrevagio.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This time I went off toward the west, along the cliff, and then doubled back through the brush, being careful to leave no tracks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little kids play double Dutch in the empty lot, their braided ropes thwacking against the cold asphalt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were pious people, Muslims, who believed the twin babies were a sign of double luck, and they were sure of this when, later in the evening, they discovered how valuable the babies were. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because I had been raised by men; I hadn’t grown up around women and had never been exposed firsthand to the double standard with which Afghan society sometimes treated them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And my stunt double Käthe is going to be pushed to her limits in the next few days. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When he left the room and the double doors closed, Pinkie whispered, “If those prayers get any longer, I’m gonna quit believin’ in God.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other investigators point to the fact that the chromosomes in cancer tissue are unstable; they tend to be broken or damaged, the number may be erratic, there may even be double sets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Today was Tuesday and it was B week, which meant a double period of science. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We shed our black coats and loped through the grass, doubled- over like commandos, until we came to the path that led to the beach. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Springing to my feet, I pushed myself up by putting my left hand firmly down into his nuts, and JP groaned and doubled up, letting go of the ball. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t have to quit light crew. You do better scavenge than anyone on the ship. You could take Bapi’s job in a second, take out slack and double quota.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When a man’s on shipboard, it’s Aye, aye, sir and you obey on the double. But at least when I’m in home port I’m my own boss!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary divided the contents of each tube into two, giving them room to grow, and within twenty-four hours, they’d doubled again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

François called to him a quarter of a mile away and he doubled back, still one leap ahead, gasping painfully for air and putting all his faith in that François would save him. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end up winning the game by a single run, all thanks to heavy-hitting Hennessey, who bats Laury in but gets tagged out trying to make her single into a double. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It had wooden double doors, and each had a differently shaped bronze knocker on it: a horseshoe on the right, and a solid rectangular slab on the left. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Two dracaenae slithered in—snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If you flag the book before you download the clue, you will earn double the points if you reach the book first. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My plan is to double the floor area and double the height. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passage ran straight at last, up an incline; and at the end, wide open, were great double doors, leading probably to deep chambers far below the high horn of the tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He waved at a file of courtiers, mostly women, that wound from the huge double doors to the prince, a small figure at the far reach of the hall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and Noah are both doubled over behind the counter in hysterics. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie kept stumbling in the dark and losing his way, and Arya had to wait for him and double back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Spider finally returned from the hole, the size of her abdomen had doubled to the size of a golfball. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“This is a secret. Anyone who spills the beans has to pay double for their T-shirt. Understood?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The standing ovation at the end is as sustained as it was in Connellsville at the Pennsylvania festival, but with double the number of people on their feet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Well, only to the edge, and then doubled back. I sent the wolves on to make a trail, but we hid in Father's tomb." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sickness didn’t last long, but kept him doubled over for an hour or so and left him weak enough to want to sleep again— and that ended another day. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry thoroughly enjoyed double Divination that afternoon; they were still doing star charts and predictions, but now that he and Ron were friends once more, the whole thing seemed very funny again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I once saw him get a triple double against Pennsville—sixteen assists, eighteen points, ten rebounds. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie Lindo and the others cried over this double tragedy, of losing my mother three months before, and now again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I see the mother of the other family, I think she is Ma.The woman could be a double for Ma! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ada Taylor agreed to meet me at the only coffee shop in town, which also doubled as a bookstore. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The trees around the shore are doubled in the water, the leaves of the poplars are yellowing towards fall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Declared books are flagged for all users to see, alerting every book sleuth to the hidden book that is now worth double points. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her tennis doubles partner’s high five is a slap. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I AM responsible. I’m gonna be eleven. Way into double digits.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe her mother is letting her go, but maybe she agreed because they’re going to double with Rachel’s brother and his date. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do. I double.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I do a double take when I look back up at the sky and see something I’ve only seen on weather shows. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

April and Melanie rose to their knees from their deep bows before the double altars of Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is he? It’s like I’m watching my life through a double fog filter. Nothing is clear.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Each man who did a double take or pledged to love her forever, to take her home with him, to give his life for her, took her away from me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry, Hermione, and Ginny were sitting around him; they had spent all day waiting outside the double doors, trying to see inside whenever somebody went in or out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was gone most of the day, working double shifts. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was selected captain of the team, played number one in singles and doubles and led the school to several important victories against long-standing rivals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his right, just beyond the painted shipwreck, were shiny black double doors that opened into the dining room he’d seen from the street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The next day workers opened a double grave and filled this too with cement, then inserted Holmes’s coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They had only just finished when the bell rang for the afternoon’s double Potions and they beat the familiar path down to the dungeon classroom that had, for so long, been Snape’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Except it was going to be a double spin. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Singer covered the grate with a double sheet of newspaper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A crescent of enemy spearmen had formed ahead, a double hedgehog bristling with steel, waiting behind tall oaken shields marked with the sunburst of Karstark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I curl my toes slightly and imagine walking—and with those double cues, my avatar moves forward. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This double demand is a major justification for the prime directive “Omit needless words.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to promise him beer and a double date with me, you and Justin at the diner next week in exchange for telling Claire that he’s taking you to the midnight movies tonight.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had read in the library about that musician—his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with double e. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He doubled over, his life spilling down his chest, mingling with the rain that still fell, unceasingly, from the sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then my grandfather came walking through the double doors. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Each strand is used to generate a complementary version of itself, resulting in one double helix that splits into two double helices. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They’d heard him banging away on the metal, calling out, but no one could locate a way into the double hull where he’d trapped himself. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s my role, and other teams have doubled Terrell before, but for some reason my jump shot seems a little more off this year than in years past. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The trike wagon will just leave without you, I suppose,” Von Marsh called out as the hallway double doors squeaked open. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was good for an ordinary double, but Mary Hudson got to third on it—standing up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Declaring a book will double the point value. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A jet of silver light hit Malfoy in the stomach and he doubled up, wheezing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She was large, especially broad across her hips, and with a double chin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1989, the number of people executed by the State of Alabama would double. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stormed out, expecting him to follow after me, begging forgiveness, and when he didn’t, my fury doubled. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had a double benefit: more space for our savings, plus it made the offering to Cory look absolutely huge. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Ivy was warm and dry, her parents brought over a double chocolate cupcake with a candle sticking out of the top and a small wrapped rectangular package. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It essentially says computing power doubles every eighteen months to two years. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I didn’t run after him and sock him, he doubled back and looped his arm through mine. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, some Sundays we’d double back to white church for a special evening service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The path down to the double rock pillar chamber is simple. When you reach the four forks in the paths and crawl spaces and have to make a choice, remember: right, right, left, left.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I said,” repeated Greyback, and Harry received a blow to the diaphragm that made him double over in pain, “what happened to you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By now I knew inflation had doubled, which meant the US dollar was even stronger. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I shall have to double,” he thought desperately. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry doubled up with silent laughter as Crabbe did a kind of pirouette in midair, trying to see who had thrown it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She opened the double doors and we rushed ahead in a wave, goaded from behind by boys who crushed against us with their chests and knees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The washerwoman pinned up one of Illyrio’s tunics, large enough to double as a sail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So in order to hasten the serving, a giant double door that led from the kitchen to the Great Hall was opened. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In Block 28 we doubled our living space—four rooms for the twelve of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She does a double take. Many students would just let that fly by. Instead, she thought, ‘That doesn’t jibe with whatever I’m thinking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The pain from this sudden realization is so intense I double over, clutching my stomach. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Very well, Percy. But know this: the Oracle’s words often have double meanings. Don’t dwell on them too much. The truth is not always clear until events come to pass.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And of course Marshall’s hieroglyph was the double crown of Egypt because he was already the boy-pharaoh—and that’s what he liked to be best. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I warned Intelligence he wasn’t clever enough to be a double agent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Major Marais unbuttoned my collar, loosened and then removed my tie, and then, standing behind me, tied it in a double Windsor knot. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what a double martini is, son?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They valued Mary’s help for this task, as she on her own could squeeze into narrower gaps than the mulefa, and, with her double hands, work in tighter spaces. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a double fence, actually—two high chain-link barriers topped with spirals of gleaming razor ribbon and a kind of no-man’s-land in the eight or nine feet of ground between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I need is a coach who can double as a friend for me, or a friend who can serve as a coach for me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, the number doubled, and red, blue, and yellow kites glided and spun in the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the castle, in the royal chamber of the Pele Tower, King Lot and his consort were laid in the double bed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben, find a dude and let’s make it a double date.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The next minute he had dropped his sword and was holding his stomach with both hands, doubled up and whistling. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin’s wife answers the door in Lezajsk, surprised and a little suspicious, but within thirty minutes I’ve made double what I could have gotten at the secondhand shops in Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry forgot everything else: He sprinted out from under the Cloak, running bent double to avoid the curses illuminating the whole hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He doubled over in a fit of coughing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And then when I saw the other one, it was too late to double back. When I got away, I came to look for you and you were gone.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In his final, careless act as a double agent, Ames had left incriminating notes to and from the KGB in his trash can. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I decided to double the size of the garden. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Ugh. Yes, I know I can double major and all that, but I want it all together, all mushed together.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled over, the air whooshing out of me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Seabiscuit took the East by storm, they doubled the fee. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took a picture in our caps and gowns and got in line, double fie, and marched together. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Hand Clap had told me, Lefty bought his ticket home, but the night before he was to leave, he tried to double his money. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This table can be lowered at night and the cushions can be converted to make a double bed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t double the I. When the rain began, Pongo insisted that the Drones’ outing be canceled. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were blazing like live coals and her arms had doubled themselves in length. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annoyed, avoiding my gaze, he slammed down his magazine and stalked through the double doors without looking back. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, past the open double doors, a hob waits, holding the silver bridles of five dappled faerie steeds, their manes braided in complicated and probably magical knots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Grover trotted around with a full plate of tin cans and enchiladas, and his goblet was full of double espresso latte, which he kept muttering over like an incantation: “Pan! Pan!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I blow past him and double our speed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I know his text is going to be the double emoji response he sends all the time—a thumbs-up and praying hands—and that’s exactly what shows up on my screen. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

We’re always quiet before school, because when Mom works doubles, the number-one rule of the morning is not to wake her up. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Just for a double dose of peace of mind. I know you’re probably very busy, but I just wanna make sure.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His outlook infected the entire CIA, making it a place where no one could be trusted, and where potential Soviet recruits were assumed to be double agents sent by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He doubled up in pain as the horde jeered and laughed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I do not know its range at lethal setting, but I had not been far out of it, for I was doubled up like a baby with colic. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And with the new highway going right alongside us its value has doubled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all hated doubles until Dad lost his job. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A sudden jolt of pain made me gasp and double over. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the time I had visited and then watched a serial and a double feature and then been retrieved by my parents to walk around Welch to finish up Mom’s shopping, I was exhausted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were sleeping in the same room with Sitti, who took many minutes to unroll her gigantic pouchy belt, which doubled as a pocket. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As once a double shadow had leapt up against a mountainside, now a similarly conjoined shadow moved across the back porch of the house on Hurlbut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“She’s—” I couldn’t think of the right word—except “double agent,” which isn’t what I meant, though I suppose that’s what she really is. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Miltie,” she asked my father one day, “you bought for me the place next topapou'i” “Don’t worry, Ma. It’s a double plot.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Celeste jumped up, glanced at herself in the mirror hanging over the couch, and did a double take. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Over the sleeping giant of the Malvern Hills, a double rainbow linked the Worcestershire Beacon with the British Camp. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I'd doubled the soil enough that I could afford to leave a little corner of it alone. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We woke rather late next morning, had a double breakfast, and then got in harness and prilled our light sledge right off the edge of the world. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was so hot and steamy out that a line started to form immediately, winding like a DNA double helix. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was handing him the half-sovereign, when something came bobbing up against the window, and Mr. Bilder’s face doubled its natural length with surprise. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

That night, however, we could not firmly establish the double helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Poor old Scragg! What a good weasel! I think he’s still alive. Listen, you lot: carry on and get the Chief home safely, I’ll double back and see if I can help Scragg.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The gourd slipped from her hands as she started to double over, but with surprising speed, the old woman was at her side again, holding her upright. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But I'd had a double dose of the desert version—first when I'd planted it, and then again in the downpour. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We went from a party of three to a double date. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Together they are more than double the size of our ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The door slammed open again, and Robbie, Benny, Cork, and Mr. Ray came stepping out the double doors of the funeral home, carrying the casket, two on each side. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Hold on. Well, come to think of it, we can finish this hand later. Just leave your cards face down and hustle the equipment. On the double now.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard his boots on the steps and the double thunk of him kicking them off onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was as he had put her: her head buried in one corner and her knees bent and doubled toward her stomach. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stand next to my bed, my eyes trained on the double doors, waiting for them to open. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may have been imagining the double meaning in her words. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I doubled the rope and tied it in a loop around the bull’s horns. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the double doors and pushed them open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head with barely a movement, enough that Toby did a double take to make sure he’d actually seen it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I am so—just dead humbled by the risks everybody takes, the double lives they all lead, how they shrug and go on working. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I'm waiting for those dark wood double doors to open and for Tiny to blow through them and start talking. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Cordelia laughs so hard she doubles over and almost falls down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there are what I call mixed doubles: pairs of words and phrases that are routinely confused, like affect and effect. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step to the right to get a better angle on the door, and my double hops to the side, her shoes scraping the dirt, to block my way again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

All we had left was the hustle, and we hustled even harder, taking the bit of cash we had on hand and trying to double it, buying this to flip it for that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We ran into the building and congregated around the double doors in the back. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I double back and jump so that I land on the guard’s stomach. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You could always double it. Use two strands instead of one.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And the disappointment hits me so hard, I almost double over. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I scooped up a double handful of suds and called to my brother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled my herb lore in theory if not in practice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If I gave you a penny and it magically doubled the next day, and those pennies doubled the next day, and so on, do you know how much you’d have in a month?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She straightened the cover on the double bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I went slowly up the wide stone staircase of Danny’s house and through the wooden double door of the entrance. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A little farther along two bears showed up, and the effect was doubled. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Francis was sitting on the edge of an examining table, fully clad, bent almost double and looking miserable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In a double swirl of black and gold, they rounded a corner and were lost to sight. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was tall, double the height of the forest around it, its branches swaying in a breeze that hit only the very tallest parts. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I met the Franks, the stubborn, charismatic father-and-son team who then more or less ran the tribe, in a cluttered office that in my recollection occupied half of a double- wide trailer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For example, if, in an augmented G sharp major chord, you rewrite the D double sharp as an E natural, the triad becomes an E augmented chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That the distributor himself, who craved fresher air, and whose profits had doubled, was opening a second branch in Burdwan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman’s knock of the telegraph boy. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The rooms contained double banks of monkey cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of paradise, free from cars and full of kids playing softball and jumping double Dutch or sitting on stoops, just hanging out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her forehead beaded with perspiration and she doubled over, crying with pain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much to do if all were to be ready for the double wedding that was set for early May. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I double locked the door and pulled the curtains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maine speech is very like that in West Country England, the double vowels pronounced as they are in Anglo- Saxon, but the resemblance is doubly strong on Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they stopped in at the realty offices and filled out applications, they found that the houses suddenly went off the market, or were sold, or doubled in price. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I added that it was apparent the government had a double agenda. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Security has introduced a double as a protective measure to confuse any would-be assassins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what would the emperor want with a stone that doubles rice and dumplings? He has plenty of both!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it was as a doubles team that he and Lutz were famous the world over. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man and a woman stepped into Victor's office, which also doubled as his living room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Glittering shards of crystal flew in all directions: Draco doubled over, his hands covering his bloody face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Double you, double owe, dee, you know, like the stuff they make furniture out of—furniture, you know, and spears, and— well—spears, you know, and furniture.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily waited for James to double over in laughter or compare her family to a traveling circus, but all he did was shrug and say, “That sounds cool. My dad travels a lot, too.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m working a double at the restaurant, so you’ll have to look after Mother tonight.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We came to a rickety wooden bridge—just thick plywood laid over a concrete foundation—over Culver Creek, the winding rivulet that doubled back over and over again through the outskirts of campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he steps into the open doorway and turns to face the viewer, stretching out his arms to hold open the giant double doors.* Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, I have Rufus here to be calculating for me; I guess Last Friends double as life coaches that way. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could double the guard again, he thought sourly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A red double- decker bus propelled by an air bubble floated up and down the silent street. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To sweeten the deal, he agreed to double whatever salary Yardley had offered them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of the country’s thirty million homes had a radio, about double those with a telephone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Once in a while I arrange double dates, through whatever boy I’m going out with. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another Huntsman doubled up and fell, pounded by invisible fists. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We expanded its footprint to twenty-eight hundred square feet, more than double its original size. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The driver’s actually Simon, the boyfriend, earning some double time on Christmas Day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I can think of students currently enrolled in the Arcanum who would be hard pressed to complete a double binding, let alone draw enough heat to ‘blister a man’s foot to the knee.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Persians have adopted that method too, except most Persians use a large kettle and a smaller pot you can stack on top, like a double boiler. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arms around my stomach and double over in pain, falling to the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one slightly lame man alone on a boat, the work was more than doubled. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

War Mountain was not as steep as the mountain out of Coalwood, but its roads were narrower and there were two curves that nearly doubled back on themselves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the double bed, Pop’s suitcase between us, I can’t breathe right. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was back in London only two days before he rang up to say that both he and Rosy found that their X-ray data strongly supported the double helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Then electrified it for double protection against me, stupid weirdo me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I finally stop running, double over and pant pant. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She led us to an open double window at the quieter end of the studio. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I passed through the double doors, the temperature plummeted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mami took in a long, deep breath that doubled the size of her chest and cleared the flush from her cheeks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A soft evening light shone over them from the stars and the luminous double moons of Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would be lovely, Mrs. Murphy,” Mr. Sorenson says, lumbering after her through the double doors. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The green boat tried to double back again. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she doubled over, the knight grabbed her hair and drew his sword, and for one hideous instant she was certain he meant to open her throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She bent him double and put him in her basket, which smelled of weeds and fish, and then she kept walking, swinging the basket and singing, “Nobody knows the troubles I seen.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear was still doubled over in his bow, but out of the corner of his eye, he could see the tip of the cane as it was lowered to the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Cade slowed the truck, or perhaps, I thought, the rain pushed so hard against us that surface gravity doubled on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The pain is almost unnoticeable at first, and then second by second the heat doubles and deepens until you want to claw the burning out of your skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Marina was given a private room with a double bed and flowers, she was disgusted. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A little kid did a double take when they landed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

While radar stops were relatively consistent with the percentage of minority violators, discretionary stops made by officers involved in drug interdiction resulted in double the number of stops of minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was living a double life, and maybe the Mr. Neely we knew wasn’t completely real. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He gave the stack of cardboards a solid-sounding double tap on the desk surface, as one taps a deck of cards, then dropped the stack back into the bottom drawer and closed the drawer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It only takes Kayla saying, “This already smells divine, Mrs. Jackson,” and Grandma’s head practically doubles in size. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Chains and a heavy padlock bound the double doors in front, so Seth moved along the side of the building, quietly trying the smaller doors. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You sure you not going out on a double date?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When farmers first planted hybrid corn in the 1930s their yields doubled or tripled. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

An infinite, explosive moment later, my head hits the stone behind me with a sickening smack, and I’m seeing double. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Either would fit perfectly well into the double helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Well, my walk didn’t matter since I got nailed at second base in a double play. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia and Archer stumbled to the door, doubled over, breath squeezing in and out of their beaten lungs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a great scraping and banging as all the students got to their feet and swarmed toward the double doors into the entrance hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Tochi was unrecognizable now, so fat that even her nose had changed shape, her double chin hanging below her face like a bread roll. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It did not take him long to tell the men what he expected of them, and what would happen if they did not obey on the double. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she would bear the brunt of that poison, not me—I was fully aware of the Afghan double standard that favored my gender. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first time he had admitted the double function of the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

That goes double if he has promised to give it active or due consideration. shattered with grief. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Just till he passes. Just till dark. With luck he’ll think we doubled back into the trees above.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ear was bundled up in thick bandages that doubled as muffs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many fans still remembered that image of Boobie in the Lee game, but they didn’t see an eighteen-year-old kid doubled over in pain on that bench. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight double seats on each side makes sixteen on the left, sixteen on the right. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Tats 2: “No, make that two hundred percent, because any guy who shows a girl his nerdy side right away is, like, double sure she’s the one. I mean, birds?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

If you double the size of the chips in chocolate chip ice cream and say on the package, “New! Bigger Chocolate Chips!” and charge five to ten cents more, that seems honest and fair. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Made from the finest steel, its double edges tapered to a ruthlessly-sharp tip. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Huge re-sources are diverted as a result: California, where prisons are already at double capacity, must build a new prison every year to keep up with the flood of new inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing quietly, he shoved the thing aside and crept toward the double doors that led to the movie theater’s auditorium. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

So just before three A.M., he checks into the Pennsylvania House Hotel, where he is assigned a double room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some had ornate wooden double doors in front, with elaborate metal knockers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a double spiral staircase that wound up to a second-floor landing, also marble, and along the staircase, Grace could see a large portrait wall covered in professionally framed pictures. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The clock went on ticking its solemn double note. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

You’d think I’d get some slack on the price since my face is on the cover of so many magazines, but that only makes the hobgoblin charge me double. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Before we knew it, she’d brought us plastic trays heaped with double cheeseburgers, vanilla shakes, and XXL servings of French fries. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had not doubled their money or even come close, and they did not own the Islander outright. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I made it home I closed and double locked my door and pulled the curtains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That is the danger that he sees, and he has fled back to Isengard to double and treble his assault on Rohan. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We followed the path as it doubled back on itself, continuing up the hill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, whether or not I’m ready to come clean about my double life is officially irrelevant. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The passages twisted, turned and doubled back, but the ginger-haired Hunter, Phoebe, took the lead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was about to intervene when the brothers came apart and let out a doubled scream so loud and piercing I feared my head would break. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Her library card, which of course doubles as a key card for Meeting Room B. Find a way to borrow it.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Ron, who had fought his way through to Harry’s side, doubled up with laughter as they watched Malfoy fighting to extricate himself from the robe, Goyle’s head still stuck inside it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He slammed his rifle into her gut, and she doubled over in pain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The double peak of Mount Pire, far ahead, flashed in the sunlight and Shasta saw they were a little out of the course. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I get a double scoop of pistachio, and Hana gets her boring chocolate chip, and Daddy gets cake batter with cookie pieces crumbled in it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn't sure she’d bought my version of the origin of the boots, but the next day she was wearing them as she chased after Slopper through the huge front room with the double fireplaces. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He doubled back to Hillegass, heartbeat pounding out the words of his puzzlement: What do they want from me? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This time she was long at labor and when Wang Lung came home at evening he found his father standing at the door and laughing and saying, “An egg with a double yolk this time!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Second, if contact was made, he’d never accept the first offer, and he usually named an amount that was double or triple—or more—pricing himself out of the market. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miss New Jersey rounds up the teachers and leads them to the double doors just outside the pool. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sawdust went up his nose, and he doubled over, coughing and retching. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large double windows in Beefy’s room were flung open, his white curtains fluttering in the night wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Alexa says it’s kind of like a huge Filipino version of double Dutch, but without the jump ropes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They could occupy the entirety of the space, free from the signs constricting their physical movements and the double consciousness that throttled their souls. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I chose the last double seat on the side opposite the driver. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were digging trenches for a water system that would double the size of the camp. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even a cappella, even through the automatic double doors, she sounds good. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he pushed open the double doors, Felix felt like they were entering a new world. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They turned to a closed set of double doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hand her my money bag and she hands me my double commission in cash, with an extra twenty-dollar bill. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I run down the hall and out the double doors by the office. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, eight fathoms. That should be enough if I double it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And ‘at this rate’ or ‘doubled’ means multiplication. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Take out your math notebooks. We shall have double period math.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Reported street crime quadrupled, and homicide rates nearly doubled. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The road to the village was full of students bent double against the bitter wind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sisters are double stones of a single fruit, darker than their mother, with rounder features and their father’s inky eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tartar officer, faced with this double attack, didn’t hesitate. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Well, by definition, i2 = –1—a point whose angle is 180 degrees from the x-axis; the angle has doubled. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She ran swiftly across the cool floor to the double doorway and flung the doors open. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I look out the window and do a double take. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The twins were curled up on the double bed on towels spread over a spare sheet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stop to eat my bacon double cheeseburger and watch them. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ma walked the floor with her all hours, so Pa worked double shifts to keep their wages regular. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her doubled voices buzzed like muffled alarm clocks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“My older sister made it for me. It’s a new pattern called ‘double pearls.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll go back where you belong, double quick. I give you one minute before I call all my dogs.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The reason that Dionysus was so different at one time from another was because of this double nature of wine and so of the god of wine. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the TB might just be a punishment for living the kind of double life Buddy lived and feeling so superior to people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The only double letters are the p’s in the middle. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened so suddenly that at first the agent cringed and doubled over thinking the hailstones were bullets from somebody behind or off at a slant below his exposed rear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That left me pulling double duty, which was fair under the circumstances. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were some condemned head-dresses lying in disgrace—strange shapes of starch like candle extinguishers, and meringues, and the double horns of cows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben pulled a 12-gauge double barreled shotgun off the floorboards of the back seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its trunk was bent almost double, and its gnarled boughs were pummeling every inch of the car it could reach. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker has thrown open the big double doors, and I look into the gym, where we will perform. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Instead they sing notes that are exactly double the frequency that the men are singing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Another hour passes, and her stomach is now in great pain, causing her to double over. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was out of eyeshot of her mother, she ducked behind the butcher’s store and doubled back, heading south behind the row of shops. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We rented one half of a double corner house in front of which ran a stagnant ditch carrying sewage. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bent almost double, hefting my straw chest with his good hand as it rested on his back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rope is taut, Chou ties it in a double knot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They beat grade seven, almost doubled their score. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘All of those man-eating giants is enormous and very fierce! They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twig was moving at double speed, and by the time I pulled out my notebook, she’d already organized our materials. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When she’d tagged more than a dozen trunks, she doubled back, the spirits still storming along with her in long strides. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It had black tiger stripes painted on the crossbar and a double water bottle holder. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now my eyesight was better, although I was still seeing double a bit. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m glad I’m here today, even though it’s a weekend, and by rights I would be getting double time if I were on payroll. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They stayed devoted to their Sunday night mixed doubles bowling league and were deeply involved in local politics—which were no less grubby than the politics they left behind in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Both the melodic image and its model pursue him incessantly like a double idee fixe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She simply sank to her side of the double bed and took off the offending shoes and began to rub her swollen feet. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

DNA is a double helix, the two intertwined strands resembling a “spiral” staircase. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi jerked his head up to look at her, and she blushed, realizing the double entendre of her words. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“No need for violence. I’ll double the reward if your son hands over the cub to us. And then we’ll forget this...er, incident...ever happened.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, she grabbed my shoulders and double kissed me, one on each cheek. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Four graceful columns supported the portico, and the huge double door featured a heavy, brass knocker. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He nearly slips on something on the way back, and when he looks down, he has to do a double take. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Stanton ordered troops to turn out into the streets, the guards to be doubled, military forts to be alert, guns manned, and special guards to be posted around the Old Capitol Prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around, I shake my head, like I need a double take. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We pause so the woman can hit a metal button commanding double doors to open and let us into the pediatric ward of the hospital. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I watched her launch herself into the air, do a double twist, and come down running, a big grin on her black muzzle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody in his circle of friends or family knew the truth about his double role—not even his wife, Leila, let alone his two daughters. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"He hit me in the face with a yard of chitterlings!"—bending double, roaring, the whole room seeming to dance up and down with each rapid eruption of laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had put in double glass to kill the noise of the garage. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A short flight of warped steps led up to an empty doorway, where double doors had once granted access. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hank slides a small ring up the dangling end, then stretches out the rest of the sock and doubles it up over the ring and over my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I knew you’d say that. Now I’m double pathetic, right? He ruins my life and I’m still crushing on him.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary is better, not just because of the double D alliteration action, but also because Diary reminds me of the name Darryl, so at least I feel like I'm talking to an actual someone. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was leading a double life, trying to be an American kid at school but coming home to teach my parents English and help them pay the bills. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The van waits in the driveway, its double doors stand open. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had two lids and doubled for cooking and heating. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jane had her hand over her mouth, another had tears, another was doubled over, cramping up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They used a doubled segment of rope and the grappling hook to cross to the roof of the drüskelle sector. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Such as those used to carry rice, only perhaps double thickness, lined with more straw and silk. The vases would be well protected.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I walked with them down the hallway then I doubled back. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A double flat is two half steps lower than the natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Uh ... I’m a stunt double ... for a lot of child actors.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The double doors at the side of the courtroom opened and closed once more, and a hush fell over the few of us who waited. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Books! Salem men have come to a pretty pass when they have to sail by books! Time was they could double the Horn with nothing but log, lead, and lookout.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom was so small that a double bed took up almost the entire floor space. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had double ships and a score of 41,780 points. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was at least as tall as a small tree but doubled over like it was picking something up, bringing its head closer to the ground. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The family in the other half of Santa’s double house was beginning to stage what sounded like a riot. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looped a piece of thread, knotted into a circle between her index fingers and thumbs, and ran the double strand across her forehead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected to see chairs and tables swathed in dust-sheets, and dust-sheets too over the great double bed against the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie knew the sheriff’s deputies doubled as Lewis Hicks’s armed thugs. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

When we send spacecraft to the planets, when we observe double stars, when we examine the motion of distant galaxies, we find that throughout the universe Kepler’s laws are obeyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s just what the card players did, hoping to get out the double doors, jump on their fireboat, and steam off to safety. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, he enabled Major Major to double his output, for John Milton was so much shorter than either his own name or Washington Irving’s and took so much less time to write. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They agree to go to the Film Forum on Sunday afternoon, to see the Antonioni double feature that Lydia and Gerald have recently been to and recommended over dinner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds simple, but the whole procedure took double the time expected, clocking in at more than twelve hours. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I patted the flower that was firmly in place and warming my heart and gave him a double okay. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Another follows with “A hundred and twelve!” and again the others double over. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“So our team handshake should be a double high five,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I really wanted some solo time with Arthur, but a double date with his best friends is way better than no date at all. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Havens found himself a double outsider of sorts. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sohrab held up his red nylon bag, the kind with draw-strings that doubled as straps to make it into a sort of backpack. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The roaches veered into side passages and even doubled back to choose a new route sometimes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we got there, the barn was dark except for a double stall in the corner. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned in his black face and his fists were doubled hard, as though he had to control himself from rushing over and grabbing the food. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Home in Greenwood was a four-room bungalow, comprising half of a double house that sat on a quiet shady road. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking along Dryades, through the ghetto, I realized that every informed man with whom I had spoken, in the intimate freedom of the colored bond, had acknowledged a double problem for the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has to be a house in section D,” Dad announced, and he doubled back to his room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When that fail he make straight for his last resource—his last earth-work I might say did I wish double entente. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We passed another set of double doors that led into a rec room being cleaned by attendants. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Using double or triple sharps or flats may seem to be making things more difficult than they need to be. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This scared piece of me gnaws at my stomach, makes it burn so badly that sometimes I can’t even eat; sometimes I double over, gasping in pain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Within a year or two, he said, they would double their money, own the boat outright, and have enough left over for a land payment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within twelve months its membership doubled and contributions to the organization skyrocketed. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He then ran both of his hands through his curly mop of hair, and that made it double in size. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Under all the bunks except the forward double one were bins for more storage—no wasted space on a boat—and under the double was a water tank which David thought held twenty gallons. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a thousand years, give or take, the word man did double duty as a term for both the male of the species and the species as a whole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point I'm looking at all the money I'm going to make this shift, doubled. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And her double points, too, while he was at it, she thought glumly. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite this, I remain doubled over and heaving until I wonder if it’s possible to turn inside out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The women doubled and tripled up in Hillside’s thirty-three rooms, taking in the expanse of green and mountain views that were part of the region’s iconic appeal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A double bar line, either heavy or light, is used to mark the ends of larger sections of music, including the very end of a piece, which is marked by a heavy double bar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And when she emerged, Less Ellen, who had brought her tea, did a double take and nearly dropped her tray. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Morrison had not just been a double agent who had funneled information back to Hale and his henchmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes. She said she’d never thought about it before because she and Justin were meeting their friends on those double dates they used to take.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I went to the housing office at MIT and found a furnished apartment a few blocks away, with a double bed and a private kitchen and bath, for forty dollars a week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thorn was doubled over, her hands on her knees and shaking. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the same Tipping Point, the rates of childbearing for teenaged girls — which barely move at all up to that point — nearly double. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the control room, I did a double take. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Bobby doubled back closer to me for protection. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d take her double position at shortstop and second base and yell out to the rest of us, “Look alive, you bunch of stiffs.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mark ran toward the double doors of the exit, unable to take his eyes off the scene below, observing it with a strange mix of horror and curiosity. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure I’ll call her all the time,” Lindsey said, double raising her eyebrows at me as Ruth pulled her in for a hug. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She wore her blond hair pinned up under her hat and a double strand of costume pearls around her neck, a neck that reminded him of alabaster. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it counts double for me, since I’ve never had an accomplishment before—despite my many years of trying. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward, Roy heard voices from behind the double doors that led to the area where Mullet Fingers was being treated. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skipped across the passage to a pair of double doors. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mother had dropped the blow-dryer and it had struck the floor, its roar now doubled as it rebounded off the exposed concrete. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But they laughed louder than ever, Lyddie the loudest of all, until the tears of laughter and relief ran down her thin cheeks, and her belly cramped and doubled over. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Children lay on the broad plush seats and slept, while men and women doubled up with their pillows and rested as best they could. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jamal came over and saw me doubled up on the bed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go out with boys now and then, always on a double date or in groups. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He dragged the bags, one by one, to the double doors that used to open to let in the audience. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Center frame, pink-cheeked and smiling self-consciously, while Hudson’s doubled over, cracking up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And so in the spring of 1956, when we were in the fourth grade, I took her out on the first real date of my life—a double date, actually, with my mother and father. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening I waited for Danny more than half an hour just inside the double door of the school before I decided to go home alone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the corner closest to the door I came in, there is an ancient double swing-set covered in rose vines. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s standing first in class. This year he will be getting double- promotion.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubled my speed and burst into the moonlight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I am about to whisper to Max to just stand up, grab the badge, and go when I hear the double doors down the hall swing open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She felt oddly doubled, as if she could see everything twice as clearly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He doubles over and falls to the ground, hollering like an injured animal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for his father’s laughter to die, Ben lowered his voice and said, “Then I’ll have a double martini on the rocks with a twist of lemon.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shakily, he rose to his feet and bent over double, his hands on his knees. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I feel, weirdly, like I still want someone to open the double doors to the auditorium. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Looks like studying’s going to be a tight squeeze working double shifts.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He therefore approached the final lesson of the afternoon —- double Potions — feeling considerably more cheerful than he usually did when descending the steps to the dungeons. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“No. Or yes. I don’t know. Whichever one means I don’t mind. I’m too tired to think through a double negative.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Zach planted students out there to give him bogus directions: “Make a left at the music room, down the stairs, through the double doors, then two rights and a hard left at the furnace....” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When the answer was revealed, “double vision” was correct. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A group of goblins would corner a stray brother dwarf, pin him down, and then the leader would give him the double barrels straight in the face. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I roll a double and look up at Trujillo, trying to keep the glee from my face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The price is doubled, too,” Archie reminded him, enjoying himself now. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say I give you a penny for your allowance on January first,” she said, “and on January second, I double your allowance.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly Bristle sprang up, seeming to double in size. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I push him through a set of double doors, propped open with doorstops. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I curl up with Prim on the mattress, double layering the blankets because the cavern emits a dank chill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She thought they must surely be getting to the end of the warehouse when Kinzie opened a large set of double doors and led them into another cavern, just as big as the first. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Declared books are flagged for all users to see, alerting every book sleuth to the hidden book that is now worth double points. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few nights ago I was coming home from a double shift on the bus, which is what we call the ambulance. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One such double agent was Elijah Hunter, a captain in the American Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since 1940 we have not come off daylight-saving at all, and in summer it is double, which means for a whole month it doesn't get dark till nearly midnight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She twists my hair into tiny double strands all around my head. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Four pushes a set of double doors open, and we walk into the place he called “the Pit.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A dozen times a day they had to stop to free a wheel that had stuck in a rut, or double up the teams to climb a muddy slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He trilled his tongue against the roof of his mouth and turned a backflip and a double spin in the air, accidentally knocking his head against the ceiling. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her eyes doubled in size behind the lenses and were very pale and cold. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what do I need? 100? Every time you double the number, you get halfway to the y axis. But it never gets there...” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I folded my shawl double, and spread it over me for a coverlet; a low, mossy swell was my pillow. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

From the waist down, they had double snake trunks instead of legs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My ears roaring, I dart out the other side of the table and scurry through the double doors back to Ms. Parker’s music room. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The proper wine for essence of brandied pig was in readiness behind the double door that led eventually to the wine cellar. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A double mattress was tied to the roof. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slept under a blanket that held “double its Weight of Vermin such as Lice Fleas & c.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A double wall against the neckers who were waiting right outside the school yard. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Many of these homes had begun life as single-family dwellings and about half remained such, the others having been divided into doubles or triples. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Current was quick, and she didn’t have the double gun decks and the heavy artillery of the Crux. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dana was doubled over, shaking his injured hand. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Henry I wanted a double scoop of mint chip in a bowl. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was gently patting Doha’s mother, who was doubled over in tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Whoosh! went the air out of him, and he sank down on his side with a shrill and ululating cry, doubled up over his knees in chaotic agony and retching for breath. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We stood doubled over and panting in the aisle while astonished passengers pretended not to stare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When they did, they seemed to be studying the gap between what he was and what he should have been: a real twin, a double of Cari. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Poppers sat down while Mr. Greenbaum walked up and down the double row of penguins, looking them over. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only the bamboo leaves clung to the bamboos in the sparse clump to the east of the house, and even though the wind wrenched the stems double, the leaves clung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas flipped up double thumbs; then he and Minho pulled on their backpacks and entered the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She seemed startled by Charles’s order of two double whiskeys and a club sandwich. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not since the days of George Blake's double cross had the CIA found itself in such a hall of mirrors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t be tempted to double up on/’s or c’s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another double cry at the same distance gave him a clue to their plan. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sergeant, a decisive man, ordered that the sound should not be answered, but that the course should be changed, and that his men should make towards it “at the double.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

His smirk doubles, and he gets into my face and says almost in a whisper: “But she ain’t a guy.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You double the recommended dose, it still works.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I stand in the back near the double doors. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The boys dived under tables just as the double doors and the brick wall they were mounted to exploded inward, destroyed by the force of the giant, furry platypus beast barreling inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The double doors that I came in through are eight feet behind him. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

So another shovelful, and I chased him until we got almost to the Big Barn—he was laughing so hard, he was doubled over—and I threw it onto his back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

But when he needed it, there was always this double vision. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even now China wraps double binds around my feet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope he dies, Arya thought as she watched him ride out the gate, his men streaming after him in a double column. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Gee, you New York guys can sure double talk. What does that mean, burn a block down?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered the builder of the Electricity Building to double his workforce and to put the men to work at night under electric lights. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was doubled up with laughter, it was such a funny sight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Modern spymasters call them double agents—spies who work for two intelligence services at the same time, giving information to one service about the other. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled to Celia’s room and doubled up on the floor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph doubled up his blankets and slept to one side of the bed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noted the obvious set of large double doors in the front, along with some smaller access doors along the side. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But now, just to establish himself, he would double past the second baseman, who was playing too neighborly to a second base that was way too close to third. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Opposite, set in a diagonal across a street corner, the wide-open double doors of a pub suggested a theater stage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Matthew nearly collided with a college-aged guy, who did a double take of Matthew’s shirt—the one with five diamond playing cards on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ben and Matthew had flattened the back seats of the station wagon and inserted a double mattress so the children could sleep during the night journey through Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His redesigned tank nearly doubled the energies produced by the cyclotron to 6 million volts and quadrupled the current. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I picked a heavenly blue master bedroom with a king-sized bed and French double doors. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Missing a few questions could easily double your tuition. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If we can double it, and speed up the learning process at the same time, the possibilities are enormous.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On June 10, 1997, I received my gift of life, a double lung transplant that I have waited over two years for. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next I saw her after school, riding double with an unknown boy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On his knees before the double doors is David, a gun barrel pressed to his temple, blood trailing down his chin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It would've had any normal person doubled over, but Jamaal didn't even flinch nor did he wait for me to follow with another shot. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It may be one of the explanations of her double love—perhaps she loved Arthur as a father, and Lancelot because of the son she could not have. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bent at the waist, I shove my shoulder into the double doors, and they squeak across the floor as their seal breaks. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The ground for the new section was so big it would double the size of the camp when it was finished. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two cabinets doubled as benches along its sides. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a chip on his shoulder: it was a sort of black joke he shared with himself, a double entendre, made silently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I took the car and left it in the garage, then doubled back and got the obit to Mr. Greene. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, in her next letter Grandmother had wanted to know how come we could suddenly afford to pay for double the mail load. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman directing the incoming patients catches sight of us, does a sort of double take, and then strides over. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see Darius doubled over, holding his stomach. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He strapped on his belt of power, Megingjord, which doubled his enormous strength. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded as the doctor shook our hands again and walked back through the big double doors. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Where she was once ready and willing to fight any battle, she prefers now to retreat, reinforce her defenses, double the locks on the doors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Schiaparelli had reported during a close approach of Mars to Earth an intricate network of single and double straight lines crisscrossing the bright areas of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took Edna’s hand between her strong wiry fingers, holding it loosely without warmth, and executing a sort of double theme upon the back and palm. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

And that's because the double agent Cherkashin was running inside the highest ranks of the CIA was far more valuable to him than punishing a single renegade KGB colonel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the next floor below are the abdominal and spine cases, head wounds and double amputations. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two tall double chimneys tilted to the right, giving the place an unstable look, as if it might topple over at any moment in a tumble of bricks. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One never saw a double bed nowadays except in the homes of the proles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He handed me my ice cream—a double scoop of vanilla. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With a score of Guerrilla Shrews in their wake the two companions set off for Mossflower on the double. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For example, an American Vela satellite detected an intense double flash of light from the vicinity of the South Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean on September 22, 1979. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled along, doubled back, and passed her before rolling underneath a van. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Ah. Papers. But we will be paid double.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before I left the apartment to log a double shift at BJ’s I tapped out an email to Nicole: Sorry I was an idiot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I jumped over the double walls and landed with swords drawn and knees bent, ready to spring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the crowded room that had been her home—the two double beds squeezed in with less than a foot between them for passage. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Heaven knows what it must have felt like to be hit with a double catastrophe like this. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a double guard stationed at the nunciature gate, but when they recognized Senator Trueba and saw the diplomatic plates on the car, they let them in with a salute. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My darling child," she said slowly, "I do believe that turning you into a mouse has doubled your brain-power!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even more exciting, this type of double helix suggested a replication scheme much more satisfactory than my briefly considered like-with-like pairing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Liquor stores sold out their stock, marketplaces sold their last fresh fish, and bakeries worked double shifts to meet the demand for cakes and pastries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

James and Sammy were to sleep in the small back bedroom that looked out over the yard, in a double bed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top row is doubled—yes, doubled, as in there are two complete rows of teeth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the wall to their right was a wide double door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He did a double take at the sight of me chasing him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What if I offered you the scholarship money or a penny doubled every day for thirty days?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

About six percent of the country’s gross domestic product is spent on education, more than double the percentage of comparable spending in the United States, Japan, or Britain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mike backpedaled out of the bedroom, making double fist pumps the whole way. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He saw the individual stacks of hundred-dollar bills; the repeating face of Benjamin Franklin in the doubled mirrors of all that cash. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If it was a double take, it was undramatic. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dad would sometimes joke that Mr. McCracken lived a double life, working as a dentist by day and preparing for the end of the world by night. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Just a sec—” He glanced up from his screen in our direction and immediately did a double take. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Grandma kept at it, bent double in the boat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slump down onto the mint-green love seat sitting vacant across from Poe’s, immediately gasping in pain as my vision doubles. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Whoever got there first would get the lumpy day bed to herself, and the other two would share a double bed with an absolutely fantastic mattress. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The girls can double up for a few days, Mother,” my father said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who asked you? Get upstairs and into the rack on the double. I didn’t ask you for a speech.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two people have to play, unless you play doubles, which I would never do. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With only one wrong turn that had him double back, he found the beige double doors to the lunchroom. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Not quite. It sheets off—like that—” The last syrup hung over the edge of the paddle, and a great double drop came slowly down. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the throbbing in my head comes back, and the ache in my shoulder, and I feel like my body weight doubles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He found an old sailor who had doubled the Cape, and been to India and through Sunda Strait to Manila. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark doubled over at the explosion of pain and nausea. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Prendergast resolved to double his own efforts to help Harrison succeed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the photograph he had taken care to hold his head high enough to hide his double chin, yet not so high as to appear haughty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You put your feet in first, through a zipper in the back of the suit, and then bend over double. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make it back to our floor, throwing open the double doors and banging on the door to room 315. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She would soon be a biddy, stout, with a little double chin and a three-ply girdle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hope they call us soon,” Genie said, growing more and more impatient as doctors and nurses came back and forth escorting patients through the double doors to the emergency room. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Inej barely had time to gather up her cape before the guard bent double and heaved her dinner over the tiled floor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He tied a sloppy double bow in his opened shoelace and then transferred a lined yellow pad from his desk to his lap. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

From up onstage, it seemed like the school’s population had doubled. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There were three benches to the right of the double doors. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I threw off my double layer of blankets, went to my window, and looked down to the street, nine dizzying floors below. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“For what Tammany gives to the people, it takes from them double. You wait until us women vote.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got a Castro convertible sofa for themselves that doubles as a bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The great double curtain wall still stood, for granite does not yield easily to fire, but most of the towers and keeps within were roofless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then the boys just double over in hysterics. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Thus the universe can double the amount of positive matter energy and also double the negative gravitational energy without violation of the conservation of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a big double handful of the light powdery snow, and then came back to do as the goose daemon said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I enlarged the image and did a double take, rashad is absent again today is what it said, spray painted in bright-blue loopy letters. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s voice booms as the double doors at the entrance slide open. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

From there it slid down and hit Prosper’s arm so violently that he doubled up in pain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Patrick wanted that picture. And what about the picture he sent you? They’re acting like this was all your idea or something. It’s such a double standard!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He found Seabiscuit warm and drowsy under a double layer of blankets, swaying on his feet as the cars snaked over the mountains. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jogged to the end of the hallway and turned right, heading for the double doors that marked the back entrance of the gymnasium. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first meal of the prices being doubled for the fiesta, and there were several new courses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I fell to my knees and doubled over in a blaze of pain. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier hurried over and hit the monkey with a double load of ketamine, and the monkey went limp. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have borne any thing. He might have doubled his presumption to me—but poor Harriet!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Somebody’s grandmother said her hens always started a laying of double yolks right after Suicide Day. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The family room was brightly lit and had double windows that opened into the yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I teamed up with a white South African junior player from Cape Town in doubles; we won our first-round match and lost in three sets in the second. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wanted a real home up front, so Dad built a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen with a double sink. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, bleary-eyed and doubled over in pain, I call Esperanza. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you’re not actually this sweet girl who lives in the suburbs. You have a whole double life where you’re carrying on in a nefarious way...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

First she tried using the lacquer sheet simply as a mirror, but for lack of a silvered back, all she could see was a doubled reflection faintly in the wood. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He let out a grunt and doubled over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Millions of people today buy designer jeans for double the price of equally durable generic jeans—because the social cachet of the designer label counts for more than the extra cost. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case,” I say, digging into my satchel once again until I root out two of the double chocolate chip cookies Mom got me yesterday, “want a cookie?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a musician, I always worried that something might happen to my hands, and my work as an artificer had doubled that anxiety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d just looked away to grab my backpack when I heard, once again, the soft double ding that indicated I’d received a new message, and I turned down the volume on my computer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A black tree with a double trunk—two trees Grown into one—throws up its blurred branches. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made good on his threat and doubled the number of men working on the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Macon rubbed the back of his head while Freddie bent double with laughter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was the one with the S drawn through it, so there would be no confusion about where to start my final double-twisting double tuck, the hardest dismount in the world. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Samupindi took a drag from the nub in between two fingers before stamping it out in one of the several overflowing ashtrays that doubled as paperweights. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He returned to London and confirmed that his most recent crystallographic data, as well as Franklin’s, clearly supported a double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Agent Burger warned Morrison, “Look out for double crossing and traps.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The track was slick, though—a heavy double downbeat you could feel in your gut and clickity-clack rim shots bouncing back and forth like two stuttering ghosts. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His fists came down toward Luke's head—a double overhead blow that would’ve knocked a hole in titanium—but the bear twins intercepted. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They could be witnesses to a double homicide. You think I should have made them hot chocolate and told them to watch cartoons? We had dead people here.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Before long there were twenty late pickups per week, more than double the original average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I double dare you to pick up the phone and dial a random number and have a conversation with whoever answers, like you know them.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After Daddy dies I learn to jump double Dutch slowly tripping again and again over my too-big feet. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“These girls are a bargain at double the price. With your permission, might we increase our offer twofold?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why, so he is your double," exclaimed Queen Lucy. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bigger doubled his fist and struck his solar plexus. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Baba’s voice was low, but they could hear it clearly: “What else can I do? Gupta asked me again to join the hunt. He’s doubled the pay. I’ll go after the children are asleep.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I want a double whiskey, Halley. Put it in something deep so I can get it out of here without spilling it. It's for somebody outside." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione slipped and slid across the entrance hall and through the double doors on the right, Ron muttering furiously under his breath as he pushed his sopping hair off his face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Years later I found out that Smitty had a double assignment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bagman did the smallest of double takes when he heard Harry’s name, and his eyes performed the familiar flick upward to the scar on Harry’s forehead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had doubled down on my anticonvulsant meds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Afterward, they regroup in the living room for board games and goofy improvisation contests, all free of profanity and even double entendre. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Franklin and Deane sometimes sent Bancroft on missions to London, not knowing that this gave the double agent a chance to report in person to the head of the British Secret Service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he found the symbol for the double line on the map’s legend he saw that it stood for an improved gravel road. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On one of the outside courts I found two of them practising: Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, the number- one doubles team in the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the bands came a big cotton wagon draped with Confederate bunting and pulled by a double team of mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I ran to the hollow tree and got my gun, then doubled back along my own trail and moved north, crawling through thick brush and saplings. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They didn’t keep score during open gym, but Felix knew they were up by double digits when they took a water break. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the maid’s room off the kitchen, and it was tiny, with one narrow window and a bathroom that doubled as a closet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On one of the coldest nights of the year, a record number of Iowans had fanned out to their local caucuses, almost double the turnout from four years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They rode their own forebear or doubled or tripled up on someone else’s. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We started to double our money, then triple our money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Salem Police divers did double duty, working regular shifts as uniformed police officers or detectives, but also responding to emergency situations. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go fix it with Martin downstairs. Get him to switch to a double room.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The knight raised a mailed hand, and his men formed a double column flanking Catelyn and her guard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I put on my coat and slip out of my room, booking it down the hall to the double doors and down the elevator to the east lobby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This experience left me with the conclusion that our first president, besides having frizzy hair, a large red hooked nose, and apple cheeks, had a prissy, even old-ladyish mouth and a double chin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuberculosis and double pneumonia were raging in those days, and Mameh had a great fear one of her kids would catch that, because in Europe one of her brothers died in a flu epidemic. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to relax. I promised you I’d double your money, didn’t I? Didn’t I?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the mid-2000s, he predicted, their numbers would double or even triple, unleashing a tidal wave of violence across the nation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jack stopped in front of a set of double doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If I could get to that pool of water, I could double my strength. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Those were the men to judge the book—sailing masters, every one of them—who’d doubled the Cape or the Horn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His smile seemed to double, so we would both have a full share. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There is only the constant moan of shamblers, the swing of my sickles as I harvest, the inevitable double thump when the creatures fall to the ground, head rolling one way, body the other. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Still, Janae is not supposed to be here on a double date. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A noun can be double trouble if it stands for a collection of things. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music room is large, with double doors and no windows. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know the double life I was leading. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The double band drank, the Shaper sang, and then they drank again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reported that kids in other grades sometimes did a double take when they saw them, but everyone was nice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And so the anger of the mob at Mary’s death was doubled and tripled because a Burdow was responsible. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply grins and serves me up a double portion. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Despite my best efforts to convince myself that being a doctor was my destiny, I decided to double major in African and African-American Studies and International Relations with a focus on the Middle East. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His third throw blew it with a double 16. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

By vales and sharp ravines in Lakedaimon the travellers drove to Menelaos’ mansion, and found him at a double wedding feast for son and daughter. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the double doors to the waiting room flew open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross an iron bridge over a ravine of railroad tracks, find the brick walls rising stories above me, go through a set of double doors, and then I am inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But also remind her about the weed ticket. It has to be paid or it will double to six bucks.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I went down the steps and up the walk in the dark, making it out of the building just before it bent me double beneath the wisteria that hung from the trees on rope-like vines. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lost her in the thick woods and they separated in order to double the chance of finding her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Ms. Byrd worked a double shift at the hospital on a Friday or Saturday night, Clayton and his grandfather snuck out to find the Bluesmen here or there, but mostly at Washington Square Park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Rollo groaned and retched, doubled over, clutching himself in disbelief, gasping for breath. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the tournament in both singles and doubles, and unable to visit the black ghettos of Port Elizabeth because of rioting there, I left for Cape Town two days before the week ended. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had expected it to be a double date. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t see out of the back window when you—” His words choked off as he did a double take. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Within one year of the abortion ban, the Romanian birth rate had doubled. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She was heavily powdered, which made the line of her double chin look very dark. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room had no windows, and only one exit—large double doors set into one of the four bare walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My point is, not everybody doubles down on their violations....” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But when you get to Seoul, you have to pay double for this service.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was his treasure to have wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled the size of his flock without spending a cent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, before Gary Drake could put me off, I threw again and got a double 5. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A lot of eyes are on me, but my eyes are riveted to a section of brick wall above the double doors. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even if Sela was playing a double game, he needed the fox’s healing powers to regain his health and strength. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Luke felt like he’d been hit in the stomach again, doubled over and out of breath. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I refer to the “double possessive”, which is evidently a perfecdy respectable grammatical construction, but simply jars with me, and perhaps always will. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He complained of a double standard that made him a second-class person, and noted that his confidant Andy Kim was dating an intern. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Wow...look at that...he’s not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pete had been twisting and screaming all get-out, but those men seemed to double their strength when they seen the lynching rope coming. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing like a double play to make yourself a friend or two. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price of food doubled and doubled again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z