The cotton twine he used for mending net bound the lantern to the mast easily, but Carl put in extra lashings anyway, figure eights laid one over the other, pulled taut and finished crisply. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No, but it’s too old to get over another disappointment easily.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A person who quits or gives up easily, especially in the face of some difficulty or danger.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We could never build applications for customers as quickly and easily as they can for themselves,” Marc Benioff, the Salesforce.com CEO, told internetnews.com on April 12, 2005. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now he picked up the receiver, and experimentally let his fingers dial; and sure enough, he found that they recollected easily what his mind had strained uselessly to remember. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a pair of chopsticks, she removed what could be easily removed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ostensible reason was that the numbers were easily changed and falsified. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then I felt Erik grab me from behind, easily pinning both of my arms with just one of his. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long arms reached out, caught Abel before he could move away, and flipped him easily into the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were tracking her too easily, probably using her body heat to pick her out among the trees, like the minders back home. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hiding their guns, the soldiers can easily infiltrate the refugee camp and spy on our activities. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is curious how one can be easily flattered in certain situations by otherwise insignificant incidents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped the rope loosely around Junior’s hands and tied it off in a slipknot that could be easily undone. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

People on both sides spoke the same language and could easily make believe they were Tories or Patriots. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inspector may have feared violence which was more easily dealt with outdoors where there was more space to make an arrest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Theon did not relish the idea of chasing direwolves through the wood by night; the hunters could easily become the hunted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All they needed was one major clue and then they could probably pick up the trail more easily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The informer, Floyd Wells, might easily have invented his story; such tale-telling was not infrequently undertaken by prisoners who hoped to win favor or attract official notice. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He inspired great loyalty in his staff, and he made enemies easily and deliberately, when it suited him or the needs of his staff. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a mess at first, and each time the car twitched my mom would exclaim, “Ay!” but he took to the basic coordination of it surprisingly easily. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

J. is easily offended, bursts into tears at the slightest thing and, to top it all off, is a terrible show-off. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the drill fit in the airlock easily. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Not easily. They’re strong and fast and intelligent. Also, they eat human flesh.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The pressure suits, for example, had been covered with nylon, and that was replaced with something called Beta cloth, which did not burn as easily. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they’ve already seen most of what there is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy could easily slip through into the neighborhood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In spite of the intense cold, Crazy Horse tossed off his buffalo robe so he could handle his weapons more easily. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Toby toed the different pedals, unsure if he was happy when he easily touched each one. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With the mirrors on the ceiling and floor, they should have been able to find it easily. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

How easily the words came out, how loudly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if her face were an open book, so easily did the dwarf read her hopes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer's true feelings on the matter, but once having sustained such a dismissal, I could not easily bring it up again. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The oil won't come off easily, I thought with a pang. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His captor could just as easily have cut his head off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the case came to trial, Goetz was easily acquitted on charges of assault and attempted murder. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faro started retracing my morning’s route, tail wagging, backtracking easily. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I am still absorbing how easily the facts flowed out of me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a hard surface, but it breaks easily, and my finger comes up drenched in white. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tool flashed by, hooked easily on a ladder. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He cast about for some means to defend himself, for he had determined they would not take him easily. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I thought I could peg him easily; were I an actor, I would have all the material I required for my beginning method. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that, unlike the human eye, photographic film didn’t easily handle bright whites and stark blacks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Carter was easily fifty pounds heavier and he was used by the Coach to keep the freshmen squad on their toes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single mistake or error of judgment could easily have triggered a chain reaction that would certainly have led to the deaths of millions of people around the globe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled, raised, leaned forward, found the water, dipped and pulled, rowing as easily as I could. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was more than enough room for me to move easily, but a thorn jabbed me when I got too close. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“And you need to work on not giving up so easily. How about we make a deal? I quit Jon; you don’t quit the program.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I won’t hear of it. We’re not giving up that easily. My child shall not be brought up by a robot if it takes years to break her of it.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But he was fighting on their side, and I couldn’t easily forget about that. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was someone I could easily be friends with. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m scared, but I don’t want to give up so easily. We can’t give up.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Leo built the stables so pegasi could come and go easily.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The concept of a World Wide Web—a system for creating, organizing, and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the Internet—was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Conversely, if it had arrived even one hour earlier, the storm could easily have killed eighteen or twenty climbers—me among them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She backed easily in the smooth water, came around and filled quickly. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until i960 that money was somehow found to pay the expenses of one field assistant — to do work that could easily have occupied the time of four men. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I should have known he wouldn’t let me get away that easily. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“When he knew what he had become,” Edward said quietly, “he rebelled against it. He tried to destroy himself. But that’s not easily done.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Red Jack unlocks the door easily, and it swings open on quiet hinges. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It’s good to have small goals that can be easily attained. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Armin warded the blows easily enough but often failed to return them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, we learned to recognize the shapes easily enough, and when I saw the rat picture I knew straight away what symbols would appear beneath it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mark was two years older than Luke and barely a year younger than Matthew, the oldest Matthew and Mark were easily recognizable as brothers, with their dark hair and chiseled faces. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

While these registers weren’t easily obtainable—the monitors took them back to Miss Emily’s office after each Sale—they weren’t top secret either. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He broke to the right on one carry but had no acceleration at all and was easily tackled for no gain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Verin nudged the assassin aside and moved past him, easily securing his own rope. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That night creatures were drawn to lights where they could be most easily eaten by other creatures was one of those mysteries that gave her modest pleasure. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The whole lot of them have been in Slytherin; he’s always boasting about it. They could easily be Slytherin’s descendants. His father’s definitely evil enough.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The boy he’d been talking to had been cocky, reckless, easily amused, but not frightening—not really. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t cared when she mentioned Redemption, and she’d anticipated that, but it was still a disappointment, to be waved aside so easily. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Tyler solved the equations easily, writing out orderly explanations for every step. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Who’s that?” said the voice of a boy, and while Ama couldn’t understand the words, she caught the sense easily enough. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, “It be’s like that sometimes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harold was good enough to easily win the first two games. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Challenges to the system will be easily absorbed or deflected, and the accommodations made will serve primarily to legitimate the system, not undermine it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tears flow easily from her eyes, but it is okay. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked the wheel and rudder pedals to make it float down slowly and easily. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Luke deflected it easily, but I saw a change in his face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This property allows the neutron to be absorbed more easily in substances with a high hydrogen content, such as biological tissues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Faye was a nice woman, not very bright, highly moral, and easily shocked. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the house key, balancing her book bag on one knee while she turned the key to the right, but the door was already unlocked, and pushed open easily. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Its sharp-pointed prow lifted it at an angle from the stone floor of the docks, and though its shelter concealed him he could still watch the doorway easily. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She did not remember ever hearing his voice before, but what was there to say that the servants of the Many-Faced God could not change their voices as easily as they did their faces? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You can’t get out of it that easily. I know they all like you,” said Rosa, smiling through her tears. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary thought there was a difference between the sounds for he-zalif and she-zalif, but it was too subtle for her to imitate easily. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She kicked him again, and her dæmon growled and tried to seize Asta, who became a bird easily enough and flew up out of reach. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You will also find that you might make friends more easily with other internationals, Koreans, Indians, Brazilians, whatever, than with Americans both black and white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Typical Connectives but, while, however, nonetheless, yet despite, even though One other major coherence relation doesn’t easily fit into Hume’s trichotomy, attribution: so-and-so believes such-and-such. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He relaxed his fighting muscles, stood easily and grounded the butt of his spear Jack watched him inscrutably through his paint. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Nat easily matched her nervous pace with his swinging stride, apparently quite unaware of her desire to be rid of him. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then he drove out his flock, moving back the big block at the door and pushing it into place again as easily as a man opens and shuts the lid to his quiver. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon came around behind him, slid his hands under his arms, and lifted him easily to his feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the answer rose to his lips easily, without effort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A surprise—in this open landscape, where the distance from home to work to a friend’s place could easily be twenty miles, a car didn’t seem like a luxury. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes of dicey, fatiguing crampon work brought me safely to the bottom of the incline, where I easily located my pack, and another ten minutes after that I was in camp myself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, I didn’t, and I was able to pull the experiment package free easily with one hand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nudge my foot against Willem's, and he easily slips the chain back into place, sighing like he's sorry his broken bicycle held us up for so long. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Given how easily Chaol had kept up with her, if Brullo had trained him, then the Weapons Master must live up to his title. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The problem was that it burned so easily. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I can easily track and log wattage with the rover computer, but I need something I can drop off and leave behind. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drones can be most easily found in bagpipes music, Indian Classical3l music and other musics that use instruments that traditionally play drone notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She felt horribly weak and nauseous, but her next breath came more easily. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Although I thought Gwentshe was wrong for disregarding the executive, he was doing a good job and was so firmly entrenched that he could not easily be dislodged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to slap him back, but he is three times my size and could easily throw me against the wall with one swipe of his arm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I chase after her, but she lets me catch her too easily, and we kiss right there as her parents watch us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I easily recognize them—business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men do not give up their gods so easily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was an observation that someone else might easily have ignored. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is shy in bed, easily surprised, quickly delighted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It came away from the wall easily, and looking closer, he understood why. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The dog couldn’t see it, but he could read the look on my face easily enough. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

So we developed a software product called VTR— Virtual Tax Room—to enable these medium-size accounting firms to easily outsource tax returns.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

And he worried about Finn, too, how easily a teenage boy could fall for a wounded bird, an absurdly beautiful wounded bird who didn’t speak much English. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Accidents happen so easily,” said Frank, “even to the most experienced people. Think of the number killed out hunting every season.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was a warrior at heart, and here was something he could easily understand and appreciate. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can easily come after me, but he doesn’t. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He picked up Laura by the waist, swung her down, as he used to swing her, easily, without a second thought... American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to let the Keepers win easily. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve made money at Atlantic City using these counting strategies, and even considered having a specially designed ring made which would enable me to count more easily. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled easily onto the first low branch and balanced there. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But it was a relief to be with someone who was so uncomplicated, and easily pleased. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A few, mayhaps. Most are simply cautious. Some think to cozen him. He is not a man easily cozened, however.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Saving them? Is that what you call it? Is that how easily he’s duped you? This greedy imposter fills your head with rubbish and you become a traitor?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They seemed to come easily to the food, at least the small ones. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princesse was sixteen but because she was very short and thin could easily pass for twelve. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Paula had the air of a real ideologue; she could, Ifemelu imagined, slip easily into anarchy, stand at the forefront of protests, defying the clubs of policemen and the taunts of unbelievers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But after all the anxiety, their first contact with Indians went surprisingly easily. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I searched the audience and recognized him easily. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You were easily tricked,” Count Olaf said, grinning, and the judge began to cry. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The book’s spine bends easily in my grasp, folding over itself. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They found it easily enough: a erode concrete shed with a red neon sign flashing irregularly over the door and the sound of loud voices through the condensation-frosted windows. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Knacks don’t go away so easily as that. When I was growing up in Staup, I knew a young man with a knack. Uncommonly good with plants.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Branches overhead had been cleared away, too, not quite to the top of the bush but almost, so that the sunlight filtered through easily, and soft moss grew on the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit halts, though he could easily continue on through his colleague’s apparition unimpeded. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger. You ought to know that, you of all people." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘Jupiter and Poseidon - bad combination. Nike could start you two fighting easily.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The inside of the Vanderbilt Hotel is easily the fanciest place I’ve ever been. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Coraline stared at the breakfast, hating herself for giving in so easily, but she was starving. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The little boy, knowing that he had offended them by giving in too easily, decided to play their way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can easily push this question back one step. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they kept low they would not be easily seen; the incline would shield them from view of the Institute. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you are far too easily destructible,” Celia murmurs softly, winking at him as Chandresh sweeps by and offers her his arm. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was no need to use the basin downstairs, for she could just as easily wash, as she always had, from the cistern tap. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, as time went on they accumulated more and more things—objects, not easily transportable, that tied them down. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the flat blue sky, he rested easily on the yard, as nonchalant and perfectly balanced as a cat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was far from perfect, and we could easily be foiled by something as simple as the rain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion only wished he could as easily make city walls twice as tall and three times as thick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m very sensitive. My feelings get hurt very easily. So you can tell the Lilliputian that I am not going to move until he apologizes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted her up as easily as if she were a child and set her on the thin Dothraki saddle, so much smaller than the ones she was used to. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He picked an empty teacup off the table with his claw, tossed the cup high into the air, and caught it easily as Baachan gasped. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was surprised by how easily they managed to incorporate me into their cyclical, Byzantine existence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I was in Endovier for a year, you realize. I could have easily forgotten.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I easily take out a strange bird that must be some form of wild turkey. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the other bears paced easily, pulling the fits hurler with them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs pulled and pushed smoothly, almost easily. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If only everything in my life were so easily resolved. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

While weather couldn’t entirely be controlled, it was easily diverted away from airports and out of flight paths. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you think you can beat him easily?” asked Zuckerman gently, pointing out that Spassky was no better than Petrosian, for example. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Lobelia was not so easily got rid of. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The things Laura had done weren’t easily forgotten by the people, but she could maintain a distance between Rocky, who was her pride, and this other, unwanted child. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I believe Cato could easily lose his judgment in a fit of temper. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It opened easily—but except for a family of dead beetles, it was empty. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The trunk of this palm tree must have been about two feet in diameter because I could easily put my hands around to the back. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pride of his youth, he had worn it easily, but now it seemed heavy to him, the metal cold against his skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I said the attackers could easily be found because they were now occupying the shacks of the people they had killed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so blond that people thought I was an albino, and had such thin hair that my scalp sunburned easily. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The poor can see the affluent easily enough—on television, for example, or on the covers of magazines. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned it twice to the right, and then the knob; they both turned easily. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banning was a dangerous game, for one was not shackled or chained behind bars; the bars were laws and regulations that could easily be violated and often were. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the public the choice may easily appear to be one of stark black-or-white simplicity: Shall we have birds or shall we have elms? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My gown slides into a puddle of cloth that I can easily step out of. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The flood was carrying them inexorably into the city, but not smoothly or easily, because the buildings broke up the flow and made the water seethe and surge with turbulence. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Built ten years ago, the arena is easily the largest structure in the Stilts. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Around the perimeter were rows of shops easily identified by the crests over their doors: a cleaver and a pig for the butcher, an anvil for the blacksmith, crossed wooden peels for the baker. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to escape to a place where he could meld science and socialism more easily. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Only later did the alphabet’s easily learned vehicle of private communication become co-opted for public or bureaucratic purposes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others, such as pulses and members of the mustard family, have toxic seeds, but the toxins are easily removed, leaving the seeds edible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the fact that they could pick me apart so easily was crazy. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But then it occurred to me that if I were to do so, I might easily intrude upon her private grief. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Getting out of the house, and as far as this, so easily, had all been an illusion, From somewhere, Hooper had been watching. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I met Dante at the swimming pool, but I got winded easily. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next period is English, and I know that I won’t be able to get by quite so easily. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before he peels away to hobnob, he says he has a thought about another way to illustrate the way attention works, and how easily it can be fractured in the modern world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She found the path easily, passed the dark clump of willows, and saw ahead the deep shining pool that was Blackbird Pond and a faint reddish glow that must be Hannah’s window. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And while Mr. Little knelt in the tub, Stuart slid easily down the drain and was lost to view. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dany tired more easily as the child grew within her; in truth, a night of rest would be most welcome. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Giant reached out and rolled the stone to one side as easily as if it had been a football, and now, where the stone had been, there appeared a vast black hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m amazed at how easily the words come out of my mouth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the war is not so easily forgotten by others. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Latitude could easily be determined by the stars—the farther south you were, the more southern constellations you could see. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Whatever he may say or do he has lived only a short time, not easily. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body is wiry and agile, allowing him to easily climb palm trees for their fruit. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes during these conversations look dewy, blurred, pulpy, easily hurt, like the eyes of blind baby kittens; but also sly and speculative, and filled with greed and deceit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dog was a shambling mountain of black fur, easily as big as a rhino. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their helmets and their gray uniforms were wet and they rode easily, looking ahead and to both sides. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“When all of this is over, no matter which one of us wins, I will not let you go so easily. Agreed?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Hylla grabbed the front bumper of the Chevy and flipped the entire car towards Orion, as easily as if she were splashing him with water in a swimming pool. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Matt thought she would easily sacrifice him to realize her goal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can escape a raid much more easily than I can. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The coffee ice cream slid down easily and I started wondering whether I could survive on ice cream alone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t we direct scarce resources to battles that are more easily won, such as affirmative action? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He burst through, blew past the race leader, and, with his shoe torn open, shins streaming blood, and chest aching, won easily. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the courage that had been awakened in him was now too strong: he could not leave his friends so easily. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We could have killed as easily as we mourned. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esme was at my side in half a heartbeat, swinging me up easily into her arms, and dashing up the stairs before I could gasp in shock. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm saw now that she didn’t mean it literally, but the poor old lady was easily startled, and now she sat down and breathed quickly, her face pale. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was breathing easily now, and I knew the fever had broken because his forehead was no longer hot Sitting up, he said weakly, “How did I get downg ’ere?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inequalities of temper were easily accounted for out there, where men's nerves were continually snapping under the strain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Using fairly straightforward tools of astronomy you can easily enough determine that the bulbs are of equal brightness and that one is, say, 50 percent more distant than the other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most people assumed that meant me, but if I died before I turned sixteen, the prophecy could just as easily apply to Nico. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You converse easily. It seems as if you have...a connection.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t the sort of man who gave up easily either; it might take a few more attempts, but he knew he’d get the hang of it eventually. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And probably that was why, among the one hundred and forty runners waiting at the starting line, Mr. Hupfer was able to find me so easily. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe the bacteria were only in the jars which opened easily, the ones he was now carrying in his sack. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A week later, Carter easily won its third playoff game against Lufkin, 31-7. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forager societies were hardly immune to natural disasters, and suffered from periods of want and hunger, but they were usually able to deal with such calamities more easily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging by her previous associations with Caesar... she hoped to conquer Mark Antony even more easily.' Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

If the decision were based on that, she'd be chosen easily. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He could easily lapse into self-criticism, particularly if there was someone, especially a child, whose life he thought he could have saved in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The virus jumps easily back and forth between them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to do this easily, and in spite of its width and weight his body mass at last slowly followed the turning of his head. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to remember what I would usually say to him, but our normal banter doesn't come easily to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The transition was hard at first, but Mom has always made friends easily. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

People are easily dazzled by Round Tables and feats of arms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he spoke simply and easily of his accident, his hunt for work, his despair— and arrest. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write answers in the boxes, numbers marching easily down the side of my worksheet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She would not begin to be afraid now, she who had stared down a bear and conversed easily with a runaway slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The place of the fiddler crab in the ecology of the world it inhabits is a necessary one, not easily filled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Matulovic may have been a trickster, but he was also one of his country’s finest players, not easily defeated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered himself into the gently flowing water and swam easily across. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The right fielder fields the ball and throws home, but the ball never makes it, and Luis scores easily. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

They go along their own pathways, moving easily through thick tangles of thorny undergrowth. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

French came easily to me in school, and I became fluent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If the words didn’t come easily from my mouth, they would, I hoped, eventually come from my writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He could easily have ascribed the invisible hand to God. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Either Muhammad is easily swayed by art mumbo jumbo or he wants to get back to schmoozing, because he begins backing up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The police forced the door there; they could just as easily do that here too! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By the end of the second month, I could play things nearly as easily as I saw and felt them: Sun Setting Behind the Clouds, Bird Taking a Drink, Dew in the Bracken. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Holding tightly to the paddle, he began to kick his way easily across the gently flowing water in the moonlight. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of the six cast members of Good Boys and True, Courtney is the most enigmatic and easily the most perplexing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists who come across these 110 skeletons may too easily conclude that most fell victim to some natural disaster. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pet kept up with her easily, its strides swallowing up her smaller steps. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In his dark business suits, he looked nice but easily forgettable, like somebody’s nephew at a funeral. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its wonderful crisp yet tender crust and floury bottom, it was easily the most wonderful bread in the world, she thought, when it was fresh. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, America’s aircraft industry was a production miracle, easily surpassing Roosevelt’s mark by more than half. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I easily spot seven women in the room who are related to someone in the book, if not in it themselves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He is very touchie, his feeling is very easily hurt, and so are mine. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ludo Bagman was easily the most noticeable person Harry had seen so far, even including old Archie in his flowered nightdress. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had let it be known how easily I could be selected. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dad’s disconnected the automatic closer so it swings easily and stays cooperatively to the side. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her for everything that she had to do for him, he would have tolerated her service more easily. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though his bones were broomsticks, the kind that snapped easily during the harmattan. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He held me easily, barely noticing my efforts to pull away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

You can easily see what boys look like in photographs or pictures of male nudes, but with women it’s different. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Papa stared at her for a while, surprise widening the narrow eyes that so easily became red-spotted. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the police had easily caught up with the big thug, though he shook off two officers before eventually being tackled and handcuffed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the left of the great arch they found a stone door: it was half closed, but swung back easily to a gentle thrust. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No, despite my anger and disgust, my ambitions were too great to surrender so easily. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name Cheeky would have come easily to her, so it made sense to phase me out. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father was a powerfully built man, standing just under six feet tall, but my mother could easily take his measure. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The velocity required for that was 25,500 miles per hour, or approximately seven miles per second, a distance I could visualize easily because seven miles was the distance between Coalwood and Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had a crew of twenty and was easily the size of a Spanish caravelle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loomis, if he had known it, could have tracked me down easily with Faro’s help and caught me, because I could not run. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had gotten over the border, but only for minutes and those few minutes could easily have cost them their lives. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be struggling with himself, for the words did not come easily and the fierce inner battle he waged had brought the sweat out on his forehead and left his lips dry. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We so easily could have all been killed right there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There was a crisp easily broken shell and the soft sweet meat inside. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even looking at it upside down, Tara can easily discern the A and the H if nothing else. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, really,” I say. ^t was just thinking, I’m surprised the factionless agreed to work with Dauntless so easily. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest suspicion that Herr Hitler, through our dear friend Herr Ribbentrop, has been manoeuvring his lordship like a pawn, just as easily as he manoeuvres any of his other pawns back in Berlin?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luke had lifted him up so easily, as if Toby had already lost something permanent. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She began speaking in the same expressionless voice as before, with lips barely moving, a mere murmur easily drowned by the din of voices and the rumbling of the trucks. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of sliding around it, which they could easily have done, they searched until they found a fragment of wood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Today’s turnstile jumper might easily be wanted for yesterday’s murder. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to believe how silent it all had been a moment ago, and how Biafran markets now thrived so easily in the bush since the Nigerians bombed the open-air Awgu market. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No mourners,” Jesper called as he loped off into the twilight, long legs eating up the distance easily. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She maneuvered the quiver to a good position, where she could reach her meager handful of arrows easily. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sentries at the entrance always raised the barriers to let the women in, although they did not have to, since the women could easily walk in by the sides. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said it so easily that she stopped short. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Qartheen wept often and easily; it was considered a mark of the civilized man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He dreamed so rarely that the dream-telling did not come easily to him anyway, and he was glad to be excused from it. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima slipped easily into the routine of our daily life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Infants, children, older adults, and people with health conditions are more easily affected by Carbon Monoxide and their symptoms are more severe. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had already overtaken the other balloon and could now be easily seen with the naked eye: four of them in line abreast. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how easily it went in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, though, rowing under gray skies, Germany easily cruised past the Czechs and the Australian police officers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He bore the boy easily enough/ though he looked none too happy with the task. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Words that came easily with Keeper tangled in Ivy’s throat. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why that word won’t come easily for me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Department’s excitement about the promise of this method is easily understood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mother can easily speak to a priest in a darkened confessional; can easily make an act of self-revelation using the impersonal formula of ritual contrition: ‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can easily imagine us there, at the appointed time and place, anxious suddenly to reconsider, perhaps even to grant a disastrous last-minute reprieve. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harriet tried to explain why she had come back but the words did not come easily. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have bypassed Texas about as easily as a space traveler can avoid the Milky Way. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I can move more easily upon my journey. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus he showed the world philosophers can easily be rich if they like, but that their ambition is of another sort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain drains easily and even the wind of midwinter cannot penetrate the deeper burrows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crawlers do not need light. But they show themselves to us to let us know they come peacefully. Did you not wonder at how easily you arrived here?” she asked. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His shoes were tan and new and he moved easily over the hot earth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, in the boots she ran from branch to branch as easily as a squirrel. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the girl and her wide staring eyes, how easily Bill shot her, and I have the feeling that something equally bad happened to Jackson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It really is true that you can control other people about as easily as you can control the weather. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The music came easily out of me, my lute like a second voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With Smith watching from the track apron, War Admiral led from wire to wire, winning easily. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plaster had caked hard as the mud walls of the Lamb Men, and like those walls it cracked easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His vision still seemed outsized, but it could not be dismissed easily. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The skins seemed to slip off easily enough for Aunty Ifeoma, but when I pressed one end of a tuber, the rough brown skin stayed put and the heat stung my palms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He put down the thin silver book that he had been reading as he sat easily on a flat boulder. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he soon noticed that practically everyone on board was “souvenir collecting,” pocketing towels, ashtrays, and anything else they could easily lift. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was so much that I couldn’t say; he took offense so easily. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could have easily taken out an army of chickens if they ever attacked her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Jo spoke hopefully, but could not rid herself of the foreboding fear that this ‘little trial’ would be harder than the others, and that Laurie would not get over his ‘lovelornity’ as easily as heretofore. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, the RECOs were not designed to be shut down so easily. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If Anastasia had meant to really hurt me, she easily could have. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once she’s inside, I cross to the other side of the street, then easily and quickly monkey up and over the fence. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the hard times and their pinched circumstances, they smiled easily and openly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And while some are easily guessed as ginger with peach or curried coconut, others remain delicious mysteries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The knife cut easily through the air and opened into a world where they were having a rainstorm: heavy drops hurtled through, startling them both. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In any event, when the hour came to go to the fruit orchard, Mrs. Kidwell declined; a city- bred woman, easily fatigued, she wished to remain indoors. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

How had she let him disarm her that easily? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, she calmed herself and her words came more easily. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I hustled back on D. Armstead’s shooting guard launched a brick that I easily rebounded. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Once I learn the date of a certain event, I can easily remember it by its colors. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She whispers, “We have to announce ourselves so she doesn’t think someone is breaking in. She gets freaked out easily.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Although she was only fourteen, she and her mother agreed that she could pass for sixteen easily. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Ben felt, dead languages could sway God more easily than a language soiled by everyday use. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not as bad as all that,” the doctor said easily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

That way, I wouldn't be easily recognized as we made our way to my house. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He prodded a larger piece with a serving spoon to make sure the meat slipped easily from the bone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If what Bunny really wanted was revenge, he could have had it easily enough and without putting himself at risk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Quarrels of any sort could easily be straightened out in the men’s room of the redecorated United Nations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not a child anymore and I could easily leave Leamy’s School forever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The point is, you can’t easily tell the difference between the two strains by looking. ” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her step so easily into the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the case of springs rich in mineral salts, the cures are easily explained: the salts would help to clean and dry up skin infections. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

"You see how easily it is concealed? Even I can't find it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud looked so solid, I’d have sworn I could jump on it like a feather bed, and yet the plane cut through it as easily as a hot knife in butter. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting the firebox over the doorsill was a small problem, but I remembered a trick of my mother’s: I rubbed the sill with very soapy water, and the masonite slid over easily. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Father said, “I think that can be very easily arranged.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His dark head separates easily from his body. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When a concerned company worker complained of the leaks, the company addressed the problem by painting the tank brown so the leaks wouldn’t be easily noticed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Even after stumbling into his narrow bed, rest had not come easily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pointed out the wind could get really fierce in places like that and our tent could easily blow away in the night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor could the publishers of Bobby’s two books, My 60 Memorable Games and Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, easily keep up with demand for the chess star’s perspective. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She switched easily and immediately to her “Who, me?” look. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

At bayonet-practice I had constantly to fight with Himmelstoss, I with a heavy iron weapon, whilst he had a handy wooden one with which he easily struck my arms till they were black and blue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had already enjoyed two days of freedom, and even on foot it would have easily made Brooklyn long ago. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

So easily she asks such an abhorrent question. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It carried all of us easily, with places for two rowers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His insistence on hope and the potential for mobility, I was coming to see, came from an entirely different and not easily accessible place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, she knew, lost memories and forgotten dreams came back more easily if you put them out of your mind. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything built up over fifteen years here can come apart as easily as an adobe house in an earthquake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she must’ve been secretly pleased that she’d pushed me beyond my comfort zone that day, because I easily circled the high bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The design was fairly simple, and the wood required was easily obtainable from the managed forest on the western side of the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For all the news he watched, it was funny how easily Dad could let the whole wide world slip away. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was lucky to have a heavy timber to hold on to, and I lay in the icy water with my chin on the wood, holding as easily as I could with both hands. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The past few weeks, we have been developing a plan to fight the Erudite,” Evelyn says, her low voice carrying easily. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someplace one could get to easily, and quickly, without undressing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey hesitantly reaches out, expecting his fingers to pass through Marco’s hand as easily as they did before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tells Mr. Banerji that some darn fool scientists are working on a square tomato, which will supposedly pack more easily into crates than the round variety. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Permian was easily victorious with a 41-13 score, but if the outburst was designed to steer the players toward greater discipline, it didn’t work. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average American, for example, can distinguish easily between the verses and refrain of any pop song, but will have trouble recognizing what is going on in a piece of music for Balinese gamelan. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But there was no need for this graceful footwork; the bag was much lighter than they had anticipated, and Milkman made it down quite easily. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the material weren’t so strange, no doubt it would have been easily mastered. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder young people are so easily stereotyped. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a good feeling not to be stared at everywhere I went and to easily blend into the crowds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had many questions, from the everyday: “Owls, transport mice alive?” to the pointed: “How easily does Wolf & Dog cross?” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, she put it up again, modified and edited, ending with words she still so easily remembered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device,” Ignatius observed, a gimlet eye fixed upon the rusting stool. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Mrs. Reilly took her son’s arm for support, but, as much as they tried, they moved forward very slowly, although they seemed to move sideward more easily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Old Charlie Valentine, Finn wished he could turn back the days as easily as a farmer turning a page in an almanac. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Doctors hoped it was within reach of the entry wound and could be easily pulled out with their instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A sweet yet pungent aroma hung in the air and drifted easily from one anxious nose to the other, stopping only long enough to make several mouths water and a few stomachs growl. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could have easily won a fourth term had he wanted it, but he didn’t. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you blame me, my lord? Such a prize is not easily won. A nubile girl, I hear, and not hard to look upon. Good hips, good breasts, well made for whelping-children.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to see everything in terms of tasteless decline—it easily becomes a habit of age. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My lord, I wish you would reconsider. The new men can take their vows in the sept as easily.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could easily get away with the perfect crime. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He reached easily from one end of the sofa to the other. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The kid crossed the street with his bike, which fit easily inside the spacious trunk of the Crown Victoria. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t fight to keep the island, Crow. It doesn’t belong to me. But I’ll fight to stay on it. This,” he said, nodding at the bundle, “you can hand over quite easily.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I was five and was taught subtraction, 03-01 showed me how to weigh the golden chamber-pot and subtract its weight to determine more easily how much I had passed in the day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sharpen their ears to the malicious, hardly audible buzz of the smaller shells that are not easily distinguishable. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We can easily make it cooler, you know,” said Strawberry to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had survived so many military campaigns; how could he have been taken so easily, so silently, by—Con didn’t even know what had taken him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That many particles of airborne Ebola could easily hatch out of a single cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He notices that all three of them are walking at the same pace, staying easily together as a group. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It looked vulnerable, soft, like an easily wounded shin, full of bone but susceptible to the slightest pain. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says not to go back to the ghetto. Not if you can help it. And”—I glance around—“you could leave here easily enough. I think you could...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For she does bear a child— easily, and painlessly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a few months your body will heal, but time won’t heal your mind as easily. Helping others can help heal your wounds of the spirit.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s harder than it should be — keeping track of you. Usually I can find someone very easily, once I’ve heard their mind before.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well you found someone,” he said easily, touching my arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you try cooking again? You could easily snag a good job.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The bark would slip easily from a twig. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these modes can easily be found by playing its one octave range, or ambitus, on the "white key" notes on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I made friends easily, in part because Princesse had gone to the school, but also because people recognized me from choir performances we had held there over the years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In his father’s presence, he was easily offended. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The thing about our electronic gadgets is that they can easily redirect our focus. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a scene that could easily have accommodated, in the distance at least, a medieval castle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t often that Dimple found people she could relate to easily. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Masks can prowl through darkness like this as easily as if they are part wraith. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“No. Actually they are good to eat—the Romans liked them a great deal—but people avoid them as a rule because they are so easily confused with their evil twin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

How did I think I could defect to the other side so easily? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He smiles and says, “Because I can just as easily prophesize that you’ll get thrown overboard by a crewman destined to be rich and famous.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was startling, how easily she slipped into mundane conversation. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I worried about not cutting hard enough, but the blade was sharp and sliced easily through the white feathers covering the bird’s neck. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m not bringing it to you, sir. I’m only displaying it. My baba made it for me, and I can sit easily for hours on it to study. Have a look.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in the third person, and filled with zombie nouns like Extreme Exposure and passives like are more easily affected. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She could as easily have chosen my tree, and then I would have had to risk fighting her one-on-one. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had blended so easily into the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They climbed the six flights of stairs easily—laughing and planning for the dance recital. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incredible how easily a lie can slip through your lips. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even this one easily executed task, retrieving the wallet of a man they’d held in a cage a few yards away, seemed, in the context, an act of great courage and empathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.18: The same hymn in C is more easily singable by a congregation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They aren’t necessarily any friendlier than the pasty-white people who used to run such stores, but the general content of their disapproval is more easily guessed, though not the details. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learn languages easily, so it didn't take me long to feel comfortable conversing in English. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Nor would they be led astray by the packaging for Christian Brothers, or be as easily confused by the difference between something they truly don’t like and something they simply find unusual. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He can feel the entirety of the circus as easily as feeling his shirt against his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I would be angry too if she told me she was leaving this world for another that may or may not exist, so flippantly and easily, like I didn’t really matter to her at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's not a good idea for an escape route to rely on bridges; they're too easily closed or blocked. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cotton was both needed and easily stored, which made it useful as a medium of exchange or status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

It could easily take twenty minutes to walk from one room to another, despite the fact that they were only fifty feet apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She did not like to be disagreed with and she never gave up easily. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They walked quickly and without a sound, passing long shadows and the ominous snicker of the mischievous duendes who could take your rucksack just as easily as they could steal your memories. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a low voice, the judge said, “I’ll say one thing. They don’t give up easily.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not considered how easily my connection to Elsinore might be uncovered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The youngest daughter's temper flared easily with all she'd had to drink and eat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Alice opened Lyra’s garments, mopped her clean, dried her easily in the warm air. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It flew out of her hand so easily—she didn’t have to think about it—and struck the tree with a solid thunk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His walls had been the strongest walls ever built, but they, too, had been easily destroyed by the Jade River. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Will could vanish easily enough, because he was good at it; he was even proud of his skill. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I have finish the work. The problem is the tile is breaking very easily. It is the quality of tile.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As for the damage to the reputation of Ashton Place and of its hostess—that was not so easily fixed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Barbecue, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar, cheddar ranch, flaming hot, and I tried to figure out which would be the one that could be most easily beaten by a stick of gum. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hagrid was so huge that he parted the crowd easily; all Harry had to do was keep close behind him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Certain facets of a child’s outcome—personality, for instance, or creativity—are not easily measured by data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“So if you see a woman holding her nose as she passes you in the street," she went on, “that woman could easily be a witch." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

At six foot two, he was easily the tallest man in the group. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Laziness is one of my best characteristics,” I said easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What, did you think you were going to get rid of me that easily? You should know by now—I’ve got the tenacity of a cockroach.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The social worker wasn’t going to be swept out quite so easily. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The common salad bowl may easily present a combination of organic phosphate insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I made it a chase, he would easily overtake me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone pointed out that the game could easily last until two in the morning, it was rescheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. the next day, Sunday afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States the arsenic-drenched soils of tobacco plantations, of many orchards in the Northwest, and of blueberry lands in the East may easily lead to pollution of water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

To him the ground may be steep and rough but on the whole it is even, and he can pick his direction easily from the top of his moving, six-foot tower. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the impact of ionizing radiation some rearrangement of atoms could easily occur, changing the nature of the chemicals in a way that is not only unpredictable but beyond control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Okay, shocked at how easily that lie came. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the isolation of the desert, in close working conditions at a bare-bones facility with ramshackle dormitories, the Muroc computers stepped easily into the role of junior engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the room blurred, white and hot, until all she could see was Tanin, resting easily behind her desk, her lips meeting and parting, sending words into the air like sweet, toxic smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A big blow could easily move the hulks of the ships as well. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas easily shook off his morning grogginess, excited to begin his training. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But the ruffians could not now be cowed so easily. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The letter came fairly easily then, was corrected and copied fair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could not spit or swallow, he could not easily breathe, and he could not think. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Right there. That’s exactly what I’m saying. You’re way too easily embarrassed. Your father and I are who we are. Accept it.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The long walk would be more easily done with her feet free and bare. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

My search for accommodation did not go easily. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Lecelte, who laughed easily and often, even when there was woe thick about him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fat boy was dutiful and easily frightened, but he loved Jon like a brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe they can’t be easily translated because they refer to a sensation that only Chinese people have, as if you were falling headfirst through Old Mr. Chou’s door, then trying to find your way back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted him easily—a figure walking along the mountain trail high in the distance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After years of searching, how did Minho and I find it this easily? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now he saw that her hands were wrapped around it: a solid silver bust of Christ, the head easily three times the size of his own. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother’s so easily wiped away. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” said Francis, quite easily, despite a slight, stunned pause of maybe a second. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The evidence for predominantly single domestications in Southwest Asia, but frequent multiple domestications in the Americas, might thus provide more subtle evidence that crops spread more easily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, all but the very longest titles could easily be printed in a single codex. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It was a dangerous offer—one that could easily get him killed. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They laughed softly and easily, listening to the commentator’s voice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rainfall, drumming down day in and day out, pounds the top few inches of earth into slurry from which nutrients are easily leached and which itself easily washes away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Enough to convince me that it would be too troublesome to have our corporation attempt to disprove them when you could do so more easily.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Birds are more easily killed by radiation than insects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I expect it will be loose by the morning and then it'll slip off easily." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Duck shifted them easily enough, hoisting them on one shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were surprised to see how easily they got her up, but of course there weren’t any holes in the hull or other damage that needed patching. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He could pick up forks, spoons, and knives easily. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Normally, the rest rolls off his tongue as easily as his own name. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

To this Hwin made no answer, being, like most highly bred mares, a very nervous and gentle person who was easily put down. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Notice, however, that in other places in the music, the melody establishes the meter very strongly, so that the syncopations are easily heard to be syncopations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As time goes on, the boys feel new confidence at how easily their plan is working. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The moon seemed huge from this altitude, the craters on its surface easily distinguishable. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sand could so easily have been the soft top of Ess’s foot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He easily got rattled, particularly when things weren’t going well, and there were times on the field when he seemed as frazzled as a child. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Karhiders cry easily, being no more ashamed of tears than of laughter. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I easily parried and lunged and landed the most fluid attacks on my former coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Atoms are so numerous and necessary that we easily overlook that they needn’t actually exist at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was lightweight and joggled easily, making me laugh out loud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And he said wondering, “Now I should have said you had lived quietly and easily in my courts.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She was surprised to find that she missed the bustle and excitement of the Page Street mansion; she missed being one of many, easily overlooked. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor stood in a perfect three-quarters stance, arms hanging easily at her sides. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

His face contorted with confusion, and she picked up her pawn, moving it diagonally, and easily knocked over the piece. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could read upside-down pretty easily and I saw right away that he lacked organization of any kind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Take care of that easily echoed back and forth across my mind, and when the echo stopped I knew it was not going to be easy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The stuff of life, it turns out, can be very easily made. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we chat easily for a couple minutes, about people and places from back home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought up Little League and warned Mike that the pitchers were going to get better now and the home runs wouldn’t come as easily as they once had. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five or ten Ebola-virus particles suspended in a droplet of blood could easily slip through a pinhole in a surgical glove, and that might be enough to start an explosive infection. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this is a minor point that is easily overcome. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His face had aged so dramatically that, on the twenty-ninth birthday he celebrated that November, he could easily have passed for sixty. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was narrow enough to swim easily. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost wept with frustration, seeing that Hooper might say anything, might so easily make himself believed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Annabeth didn’t give in to despair easily, but as they walked, she wiped tears from her eyes, trying not to let Percy see. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Asylum for those family members left behind did not come easily, or at all. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My fingers stroke the smooth ground, sliding easily across the top. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His fascination with Pet was overshadowed easily by his fear of Pet’s power, of the death chafing just inside it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She could easily step on him as if he were nothing more than a bothersome bug. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Prized by perfumers and alchemists, a piece the size of your thumb was easily worth gold. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These situations can easily be handled by individual treatment of the mounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She blocked his attacks easily, holding her staff steady while his quivered with every clack. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Those are the hands that had looped so easily around my neck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If Doc left Monterey on Wednesday morning he could be there easily in time for the tide on Thursday. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so many years of doing this, I can open up a crack in the skin really easily, so I cover it up with a Band-Aid to try to prevent infection. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can easily make out the shape of constellations. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That would be folly. Our walls are taller and thicker than the walls of Astapor, and our defenders are more valiant. The Yunkai’i will not take this city easily.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid runaways and orphans vanish even more easily than government agents do,” said Mr. Benedict. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday returned to the table, three drinks held easily in his pawlike hands. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then he would know his father easily by his walk. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also wanted a calf with a face I could easily spot in a crowd, so I could easily find him again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

William’s hand went out for the ice pick and he held it easily in his hand. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll find them easily in this moon. It’s like daylight outside. I’ve never seen a moon so full. And where in blazes is Ashton? He’s missing all the fun.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Like me, she was someone impossible to easily peg in terms of ethnic background. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Our boats slid easily through the waves, three abreast, a friendly current bearing us coastward. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You gave up too easily, my lord. For I must marry, all agree.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a wild, cruel face that the Siamese saw, and he recognized instinctively a wanton killer—and one that could easily outclass him in strength, ferocity and speed. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That just proves I’m right. A troll won’t be so easily dispatched.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Thank God Stuart’s in Texas because I doubt I could lie to him so easily. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He sprang over it easily, his new claws helping at the top. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were “circular meccas of neon,” in the words of drive- in historian Michael Witzel, designed to be easily spotted from the road. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

In order not to have our notes read or understood by the authorities if they were found, we devised ways of writing that could not easily be seen or deciphered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I willed the sails to rise as easily as if I were flexing my arm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I drop my gaze to the ground, wishing my pale skin didn’t blush so easily. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The passageway was narrow, but I easily made my way until I faced a rough stone wall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Always. She used to say she burned very easily. I just thought she was being overly cautious.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

All of these features distinguish Jomon people from observed modern hunter-gatherers who shift base every few weeks, build only shelters, and burden themselves with few and easily portable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fangor and Shed could easily leap ten feet in the air, and the sparkling ceiling of the cavern over the beach was not much higher. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas went home the next morning, cheerfully greeted his parents, and lied easily about what a busy, pleasant night he had had. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He whips down the path, outpacing other players easily. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop says that even if the questions are tough, with all the books I read and the news I watch, I’d be able to answer them easily. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“The English government realizes by now that they’re not going to beat us easily.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shocking number of phrases that drop easily from the fingers are bloated with words that encumber the reader without conveying any content. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Music, and the colors it produced, flowed around her as easily as her clothing. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Johnny found one does not step into a great merchant’s counting house and see the merchant as easily as one steps into a shop and sees the master artisan. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muhammad and Mom are easily lured, misled, and taken for a ride. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Had they been said so easily and had she merely forgotten? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m still boggled by how easily she does stuff. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We’ll cross in the morning, drive over the bridge, easily, just like driving to the supermarket. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the sky move against the branches, watch the waxwings above me move easily from limb to limb. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But plainly he was rankled at having been outmaneuvered on a quest so easily within reach. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He tried to bump the cart out of the groove; it was too heavy to be easily bounced. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was removed from the logic that had once made my stories and poems easily accessible. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I read him the letter, working out the harder words easily because I’d already heard them from Miss Maggie, and then waited for him to say something. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he moves easily, caught up in the rush, and other times he’s tense and taut and wants Alex to work him loose and take him apart. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a stranger. He’s easily my second best friend.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This could be done quite easily by bringing up the subject of his car and why he refuses to buy a new one. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As a child Bill was precocious and easily bored by his studies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Joffrey would step down quite so easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her proper name was Alysane of House Mormont, but she wore the other name as easily as she wore her mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Woolf knew he could easily beat the others, but he was beginning to worry that he couldn’t catch Specify. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has painted my tongue blue so that we can easily count the number of whitish taste buds inside the circle of the reinforcement. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I hated the way they spouted water so easily, betraying me at every turn. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, he arrived at Beatrice Leep’s bus stop, and from there he easily retraced Friday’s ill-fated foot chase. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he didn’t know the Bernese dialect, his German was fluent enough to be understood easily, and since it was the U.S. embassy, everybody spoke English anyway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But just what that danger was, and the doom it held in store for Her, She did not know until Beowulf began to speak, easily, boldly, in a voice that made the whole cave ring. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, that’s class,” he said aloud when he saw the one in the bathroom, easily reachable from the toilet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had to actually fall asleep in order to dream, and it wasn’t coming easily, with his mind racing from the mania of the day. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had started early that morning and what happened in the garden had not taken very long, so that Fledge and Polly both said they would easily get back to Narnia before nightfall. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She lights her cigarette, the flame catching easily despite the dampness of the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If Seanie kept such records, he would easily call that piece of info five out of five J. Edgar Hoover’s in off the shoulder sundresses on the Sean Russell Flaherty Ruin Your Life Rating Scale. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, Mom began reading the Harry Potter series to me, and even though I can read easily to myself now, we still read each new book together. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, all minor keys are so alike that music can easily be transposed from one minor key to another. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The door started to slip closed, easily as anything. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I still haven’t figured out why he’s wasting his time on me when he could easily fit in with any clique he wanted. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And I can just as easily sneak back in my room, where there’s peace and quiet. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The issues we understand easily and the fears we resolve quickly fade into the past. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was surprised at how easily she came into his arms, so close that the strong, sweet smell of her perfume made him dizzy in the heat of the crowded room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gary won the first heat easily and had plenty of breath left to boss the organizing of the second. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Apparently the walls ringing and crisscrossing the city were intended for privacy, not protection; Wari was not located in an easily defended spot. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A man might easily be embittered by such circumstances, but Nels made it a point not to struggle unnecessarily with life’s unresolvable dilemmas. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The giant rock being hoisted by that suspiciously scrawny kid could have easily been made out of plaster or foam. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Hope a month ago, she cries so easily she has to carry Kleenex with her anti-depressants in her purse. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was as hot as a greenhouse, too, and Will could neither see nor breathe easily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to say how bad they felt about it and what a shame it was the way life could slip away so easily in Harlem, in our community, on our street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a real possibility that he might not be aware of this bad-looking mole, because it was on the back of his neck and he couldn't see there very easily. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

This seems an extremely harsh way of stating the case—ungrateful, as it were—but the evidence that supports this way of stating it is not easily refuted. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Bridge does not come easily to a mind brought up on Snap and Happy Families; besides, it bored her friends to play with me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the short run this may not seem important, but complications from doing too many can easily arise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He thought about how easily those Igbo words had slipped out of him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They could easily be caught; one farmer picked up several and took them to a spring-fed pool. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jesse’s assets were obvious, but not easily documented, unless the admissions committee wanted to check out one of his pirated music sites and watch him scarf up downloaded CDs. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, Four was not originally Dauntless if he doesn’t shake hands easily. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had one of those fat Seagate drives that damaged easily, and I didn’t want to cut the power and possibly damage the drive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He whistled as he maneuvered easily through the rush-hour traffic, as if the vehicles parted just for him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I guess it was plain jealousy. I gave it another name, but maybe I didn’t want them to be able so easily to go away from me in a direction I couldn’t follow.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the loose ends I will leave will be easily tied up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the end the two words came out easily. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Crab eaters are used as laboratory animals because they are common, cheap, and easily obtained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked closely to see who it was, one hand close enough to the kitchen knives to pull one easily, just in case. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The man in front was easily the most beautiful, his skin olive-toned beneath the typical pallor, his hair a glossy black. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was what he’d gotten when he spoke about himself, when he’d tried to say what he had to say; there was nothing he could easily explain to anyone, and nobody who wanted to listen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She tested in a flight simulator, easily conquering it. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

While the bulk of the group ate and chatted easily, these two were watchful, calculating. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Yet the Communists were easily replacing their losses. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Leo could’ve darted to one side and gotten lost in the plants pretty easily, but he didn’t try. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t be easily comforted by the suggestion that my dad had gone to a better place or was sitting with angels. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Shortly before sunset Herr Thiessen heads west, finding the circus easily as there is a large crowd assembled outside already. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gale doesn’t get off so easily at his old address. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I could take any child off the street and teach them as much. Incomparable is a matter of your personal opinion, and easily disproved.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As Mistress Bright was fond of reminding me, prentices were easily come by and easily replaced. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

People in Washington at that point were talking about a short and triumphant war, one that could be fought and won quickly and easily. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The puzzle of the Hinckley shooting, of course, is how he managed to get at Reagan so easily. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’m eleven and I can easily look after my brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But Tom Black didn’t give up that easily. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles at me in a way that could just as easily be a scowl. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She added that if she could easily communicate with those from the Hereafter, she was absolutely convinced that afterward she would be able to do the same with those of the Here-and-Now. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found some woolen socks and put them on her so her feet wouldn’t be cold, because she was always easily chilled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he struck out fiercely, and after a few strokes began to breathe more easily. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Families want blond toddlers, whose presence can easily be explained away. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They resemble huge wolves, but what wolf lands and then balances easily on its hind legs? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He has the demeanor of a psychoanalyst, watchful and impassive, and his ability to transform his face so easily and quickly was astonishing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

With his own military power and their support, he can very easily put down those who are powerful, and remain complete arbiter of that region. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The thing can easily capsize or be swamped if the bows do not meet the great combing breakers at just the right angle. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She isn't dressed immodestly; she just has the kind of stunning figure that cannot easily be contained. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They’re a work in progress,” he said, and chucked a water bottle at Carlos, who dodged it easily. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

By this time there were two very distinct voices going on in my head, and I moved easily between them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit slips easily through the crowd of circus patrons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With the does to look after, they would not be able to travel in the open as fast or as easily as they had on the way down from Watership. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year Mrs. Peterson kept them in line easily with her pine “board of education.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the child I had pulled from the river could so easily have grown into this child—in three or four years. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"White fur is seen too easily by moonlight-" He turned to Stonesnake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not that I blush easily, but the rest of the article did apply. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed that, like the vault at Gringotts, the room would not yield its hidden objects that easily. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The issue couldn’t be so easily sidestepped, though. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He could have killed it easily, but to take it alive was another matter and he hunted it a whole year before he succeeded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we may easily be doing so now by inadvertence, for many chemicals, like radiation, bring about gene mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu did not quite grasp what it all meant, but it sounded correct because it came from him, the America expert, who so easily said "graduate school" instead of “postgraduate school.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Here it came to hand just as easily as the coin which I now placed on the counter for my breakfast. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that dazzling outfit, she could have easily been a chief’s daughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Further notice” could easily be never if the arguing sides didn’t come up with a compromise. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He tried to kiss her, but she easily swung under his arm and reached for the door handle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hagar easily drew on the skirt the woman brought back, and without further search, said she would take it and the little two-piece Evan-Picone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was also careful not to be seen by the cows, which get alarmed easily and would have warned the rest of the herd with their cries. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how he used to slip the ring on and off his finger easily as if it were greased, and the things he did when it was off didn’t count. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, as he sits there fiddling with some kind of plastic box, he's easily ignored in the presence of his large and domineering companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Any of you. But if you must, I want you to remember something. The Labyrinth exists to fool you. It will distract you. That’s dangerous for half-bloods. We are easily distracted.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He felt a flush of achievement, at how easily fiancée had slipped out of him, a sign of future uxorious bliss. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I then add one cup of sugar, which easily dissolves because of the heat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Will wanted to do justice to their generosity, but the only thing he could easily swallow, apart from the drink, was some flat, slightly scorched floury bread like chapatis or tortillas. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The door to the stairs opens easily, and I wonder if Violet was here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, six, well past the time when most other children no longer easily notice the difference between sounds uttered at home and words spoken in public, I had a different experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just hoped it would go back together as easily as it had pulled apart. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because Arthur was always a simple fellow, who took people at their own valuation easily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn't the kind of guy who opened up easily and talked about it, though. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Periods of want and hardship were not uncommon, child mortality was high, and an accident which would be minor today could easily become a death sentence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That foliage could easily hide a T. rex. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It crossed his mind that if he were to run, immediately and alone, they would probably let him go as he had come, and feel glad to be so easily rid of him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m always okay. You’re the one who lets her get to you too easily. You’re just wasting energy if you try to get her to understand anything. It’s easier to not care.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was easily secured, and, to my surprise, went with the attendants quite placidly, simply repeating over and over again: “The blood is the life! The blood is the life!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Let’s talk about something, Dallas. Make the time pass more easily.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tears flow easily from both of us, and I know we’re both crying for a lot of reasons. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But a lie won’t come, not as easily as it usually does. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? What do you demand of your captain? Are you, then, so easily turned from your design? Did you not call this a glorious expedition? “And wherefore was it glorious? Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She says they could easily have a Heart Attack.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her bright eyes and dark, flawless skin, she easily earned the doctors’ stamp of approval, though later we would learn that she had some serious medical problems. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony could not see her mouth, but she knew its downward curve, easily mistaken for the sign—the hieroglyph—of reproach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She puts down her trombone with a thump and easily catches the extra glove Jax throws her way. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I seem to cry more easily then, she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice from the other table quacked rapidly on, easily audible in spite of the surrounding din. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You could call out to a kid, especially one who blushes easily, and say, “Jeez, you got bad breath, know that? Don’t you ever brush your teeth?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master’s voice rose easily, Ugwu had noticed, and by his third snifter of brandy he would start to gesture with his glass, leaning forward until he was seated on the very edge of his armchair. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first night after their arrival here Dustfinger had stolen into the village, his scarred face blackened with soot because it was too easily recognizable. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This, despite her easily hurt look, her ingratiating ways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With Justin leading the way, we moved through the dark passage quickly and easily. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were caught up easily, Mirren, Johnny, and I—feeling the power he conferred in picturing us at Harvard, the specialness of asking our opinions and laughing at our jokes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I write some there, but even with only my sister nearby the words don't come as easily. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were under the shelter of the cafeteria roof now, so I could more easily look at his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He then carried it up through the city and easily slipped past the palace guards. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Because these tools are delivered over the Internet and written in standard Web formats, they are accessible to anyone who has an Internet connection and are easily interoperable with any business. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is not easily removed without a pair of needle-nosed tweezers, which are often not handy and take some time to procure. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t an outfit for working, by any means, though the woman moved easily in it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I always use my lead leg now, I’m still not getting over the hurdles easily. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Muller’s experiments demonstrated that heredity could be manipulated quite easily: the mutation rate was itself quite mutable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"As it chances, I own this particular establishment, so arrangements were easily made. I am most anxious to keep the Lannisters from learning that Cat is here in King's Landing." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he laughed again and went out from her easily. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And then I wondered why the British soldiers would allow themselves to die so easily just because their king told them to go march up a hill and fight. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Okay, maybe it would have made her feel bad; made her see whatever damage she’d once done to us couldn’t be repaired as easily as she’d hoped. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He accepted affection as easily as a kitten accepts its mother’s licks—and forgot it as quickly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The vicious and easily identifiable demons that had haunted black Americans for three centuries were shape-shifting as segregation began to yield under pressure from social and legal forces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was hadn’t hurt me and I felt—no, I knew—that if it had wanted to, it could have easily done so. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When they see me walking so easily, Aunt Sylvia sheds a tear and Uncle Bill proudly says, “That doctor didn’t fiddle around. I told him to fix you up like new. And he did.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Someone with clear and persuasive words, and I’m so easily tongue-tied. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He never “watched” his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt because she had fallen so easily, and which later she took as evidence of his love. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The secret stairs to his dusty sublevel were too narrow to accommodate great beasts like these, but they slipped down them easily. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The woman’s name came easily now to her tongue. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found I could pull back the bolts easily enough and unhook the great chains; but the door was locked, and the key was gone! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If David had been hungry and there was no food, he could have dealt with it more easily. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that she’s easily the best driver out of all of us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Follow closely,” he said firmly—this child who might easily have been our grandson, “or you will be lost!” and he motioned us forward. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking was difficult, but as she went along, her words came more easily. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Catherine rolls me to my position, makes sure I can easily reach the buttons, then she gives me a quick hug and walks away. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Confident as they had been, the Washington boys were nevertheless surprised at just how easily they had won. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“How else would we catch our food so easily?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The deer for my suit did not come easily. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pamela had peanut butter legs all right,” Art said, his head under the shower, “smooth and easily spread.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers promised to search the river for Imogen’s body, but they also noted that if her body was weighted with stones, it wouldn’t surface easily. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I recognized Billy’s resonant voice easily, despite the years. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were none, but on the other hand the sky was mostly overcast and a plane would not easily be seen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It became clear quickly enough that though I was unequal to Danny in breadth, I was easily equal to him in depth, and this seemed to please Reb Saunders enormously. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We talk about Sarah, easily and without competing, as if we are her aunt and uncle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that the dress was ugly—in fact, the beautiful wax-print pattern was easily the nicest thing she’d ever worn—but her legs felt trapped beneath the rippling fabric. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’s as tall as a trombone, and her hand holds the slide easily. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"I do not frighten easily. Do you plan to fight a torch?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many of the shards were of significant size—two, three inches across—large enough so that the patterns and beauty of the design could still be easily seen and appreciated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a colossal plant, with leaves easily the size of a small mule cart. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But hadn’t he told her that she was easily replaced? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A few men had been keeping watch, but in the dark of night, with the wind rippling through the long grass, the lion could easily have crept close without being seen. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After War Admiral, fuming and frustrated, held up the start for eight minutes, victory in the Kentucky Derby came easily to him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made a few halfhearted forays after small creatures that crossed his path, but they easily evaded him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

History consists for the most part of a complex bundle of deeply interwoven threads, social, cultural and economic forces that are not easily unraveled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He easily outweighed my sister and me put together, and he wasn’t all that happy to see us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t heavy, but it was immensely hard and covered in fibrous hairs, which lay along the circumference so that she could run her hand around it easily one way but not the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was a stipulation from my mother, so that we could stay in touch easily. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

People would be heading home now, some to very comfortable houses where they could relax easily, secure and proud of their community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The cause of death was easily determined: gunshot via a single bullet through the neck. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were quiet sleepers and hidden by the heaviness of the dark, they were easily not discovered. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one end was a vent, easily unscrewed, that led out onto a flat section of roof. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And so she sat stiff-tongued, surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of how to he in the classes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The one who easily handles and strings the bow and shoots through all twelve axes I shall marry, whoever he may be—then look my last on this my first love’s beautiful brimming house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was really tall and easily commanded the attention of the room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In Arabia, you could easily think there were no females. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were barricades around Manhattan General, but in all the confusion, I got past them easily. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They could kill easily if provoked to anger, but not by design, which explained why they could not “mob kill” anyone. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I took hold of the little bottle and using both my front paws, I found I was able to unscrew the cap quite easily. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I was sick and stayed home from school at his place, he would play quiet, soothing music because he knew the sound traveled upstairs easily. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty-six point two miles was more than my legs could handle, but I could easily bike about five miles. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some had bear-paws for their horses too, and the shaggy little garrons wore them as easily as other mounts wore iron horseshoes ... but the palfreys and destriers wanted no part of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can fill out my brassiere now, can't count my ribs quite so easily. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We could go to a place where Amil didn’t see his words differently and I knew how to talk easily in front of people and had real friends. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If the mouse has a good sense of balance, and most of them have, he will get across easily. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Calling to the boy to give her his drum, she hung it on the branch of a tree in a place where he would not be able to get at it easily. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

How easily they woke up now, and with what sense of purpose! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you ever notice the Silkworm? She’s still downstairs! She never moves! She just lies there sleeping all day long, but we can easily wake her up and make her spin!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some commands are more easily given than obeyed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He twisted up in a lithe spring and grappled with Iofur, whose armor had been damaged by the collision and who couldn’t easily raise his head. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some marched in formation, easily falling back into old cadences. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The first key came off easily, but the second one kept slipping. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newcomers, Torres and Guinier explain, are easily co-opted, as they have much to lose but little to gain by challenging the rules of the game. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m just saying that giving up meat is not something that comes easily, at least for me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasions when they are all together, the daughters get on easily with the sons, though there are occasional tensions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I could easily get lost among its spiral staircases. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skull was the size of a house, with its jaw hanging loosely open, easily wide enough to swim inside—not that I wanted to. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was relieved that the flagpole wasn’t as heavy as it looked, and I carried it easily, despite the fact that the night was windy and rainy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He gave it a tug and it slid back toward him easily. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

For these very reasons the danger is easily ignored. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a pinched life the women led, and it easily could have been hers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know I could think that quickly and easily. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I’m pretty surprised at how easily moving in the Sky Sprints comes for me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The night before, sleep had not come easily. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the first few weeks of his membership, Bobby enrolled in a tournament for C players and won it easily. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She gets the first two runners easily, and she’s running like she does in the morning. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The way my mom and Carmen spoke Spanish so easily to each other made me wish I could speak it better. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Redemption dragged the bench over and levered half of it so it was at a right angle, a narrow L. Pet lifted Hibiscus easily with one hand and deposited him in the seat. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was soft and spongy, the kind of toy given to babies because it was easily held on to by tiny fingers. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For the ones who cannot leave as easily as you. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I easily guessed the reason why: the meerkats could travel from one tree to another without the need to climb up and down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus caught me easily and held me, cursing me, hurting me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Who would have to know besides Coin, Plutarch, and a small, loyal or easily disposable crew? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Ford sat in Windham’s shed, its tires pumped up, and with two new dry cells to make it start easily on Bat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The uniform went on easily over the boy’s breeches and jacket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, with the brandy, I rowed easily and steadily. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had green eyes and sharp bones in her face, and hollow cheeks, and there was something brittle in her reticence that suggested strong will and a temper easily lost. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for us to protest, he picked up Annabeth and me as easily as if we were kittens, slung us both onto his back, and galloped off toward the Big House. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Imam Malik grew up in Florida and can easily switch between perfect Arabic and English. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Someone could easily crawl out the hole and jump down into the street below. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It might so easily have been you, I shall worry all the time, I shall never be able to trust you to do things by yourself, unless you promise me.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"I get excited about every little thing very easily," he revealed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Armin seemed cautious, too, recalling no doubt their previous encounter, in which he had been so easily outdone. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wrapped my arms around his back and pulled him up much too easily. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Amil is so wiry and thin, like a twig you could easily snap in half. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Taisin slid into sleep so easily; her body was at ease, vulnerable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They also want me to be in a school where I can easily learn a second language. It’s worth being an outsider to get a good education.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I reached it easily, proudly moving one foot ahead of the other in a gait that was spirited if still a litde awkward. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was oil, or grease, mixed in with beach sand, and it did not come away easily. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was squatting easily, comfortably, in the opening of the tent, the light flaming behind him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both the Christian Crusades against Muslims and England’s invasion of Ireland, “religious” warfare easily became genocidal. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So if we just follow the walkway, we could find the camp easily.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Why would I be dumb enough to use a code that can easily be traced back to me? Why wouldn’t I run off instead of sticking around here?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a ring,” Marco says after a moment, picking the image out of her mind as easily as if she had drawn him a picture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Parker Head had become a curved slope lolling easily and lazily up against houses and over fences, leaving a bare patch now and again to show just how high the snow had reached. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I could easily stand up in it, but Timothy couldn't Not quite. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, almost immediately, I saw how Ruth wasn’t to know that—how to Ruth, who didn’t know the first thing about music, this tape might easily make up for the one I’d lost. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t really believe that I would give in so easily,” he said with a sour edge to his mocking tone. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I knew he didn’t mind taking me back home early since now he knew he could hunt more easily by himself for the rest of the season. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry turned and raced a Bludger toward the goal posts; he outstripped it easily, saw the Snitch dart out from behind Wood, and within ten seconds had caught it tightly in his hand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But a colony could easily be built underneath a dome. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, they would encourage factional strife in some of their subject towns in order to control them more easily. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

They lie just as easily as they breathe. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We played two games of chess, and I won both of them easily. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arrows stuck in the straw men came out easily enough, but it took her a minute to find the ones in the grass. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, naturally and easily, she turned and put her hands on Shadow’s shoulders, and went up on tiptoes to kiss him goodbye, as she had always kissed him goodbye. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But, united by excitement, the professors were not so easily intimidated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

David let loose the ropes—sheets—that held the boom so the mainsail could luff easily and went below for the jib. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Ruth’s room at that centre, it also had these big glass sliding panels, so she could easily see the outside from her bed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pry the sides of the face mask away easily and pull upward. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“A living man can find the sea more easily than a dead one. Let the wolves keep their gloomy woods. We are making for the ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had come to her when she remembered his slicing so easily through the metal of the engine cover. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It may be, in fact, the most dangerous of all the filovirus sisters, because of its seeming ability to travel rather easily through the air, perhaps more easily than the others. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine. One could only wish that you took as easily to diagramming sentences. Now, your arm position, and then your head position, and then we’ll get to breathing patterns.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For if he had known, he would never have slept so easily. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He undid the front door, remarking, "Latch pushed back—so he could get in again easily." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Akin to this first trait is the second, an ever-present, poorly controlled rage—easily triggered by any feeling of being tricked, slighted, or labeled inferior by others. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even Laura, who was littlest, could do this easily in the places where the smallest trees had grown close together. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can share my sleeping bag if you want. We'll both easily fit." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jos found he could answer most of Dr. Darwins objections easily. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian swung his sword, grunting as Chaol easily deflected the blow and parried. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could easily lift bags that weighed more than I did. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the armed riders made little difference because there were miles and miles of fence and two or three hunters could easily slip between them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Bing was only four, easily excitable and easily bored and irritable. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew she wouldn’t give up that easily. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The warrior bonding with him was no guarantee he would escape banishment, but it was something that could not be easily ignored. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had I not been conscious of what I was doing, I could have easily lost my way in the fogbound regions of compelling fantasy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Here was the source of the mistaken strategy—the reason why activists could so easily ignore class and could consider race alone a sufficient measure of social oppression. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got all five pins in pretty easily. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The flap of the rucksack was quite long and could easily spare a patch of the right size. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But none of us were comforted that easily, although by now we had learned not to make a fuss. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I don't believe in phrenology at all. It's easily disproven, the pet hobby of bigots.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Pew report, done in cooperation with several other nonprofit groups, found that nearly 90 percent of teachers said the Internet is creating “an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One of the few healthy businesses in town was the sad trade in divorces, handled quickly and easily in cold offices that had once been noisy saloons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For no less under compulsion do men tell lies rather than the truth, either enduring rather than telling the truth or easily making false accusations so that the torture may stop sooner. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

That's why I worry about Eden, because even though he's easily the smartest of us three boys, he thinks a lot like I do. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She was like a delicate little china doll, special and easily broken. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only resolution that did not pass so easily was the suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He could see the mane and ears and head of his horse quite easily now. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Luckily for Grace’s mom, Grace was easily bribed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t try to dissuade me, though I knew I could have easily stayed longer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep easily, but I don’t sleep well. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She reminds us not to grab any butterflies, because they are injured easily. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Love simply did not come to me that quickly and easily. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s much easier in these days of high-tech weaponry, produced only in industrial plants and easily monopolized by an elite, than in ancient times of spears and clubs easily made at home. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He set it against the joint where it would part easily. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He danced out of her reach easily as she swiped at him again, his lips splitting into a wicked smile. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old knight would not abandon Joffrey easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No, she was tired of being a minor lady, waiting to be married off to the highest bidder, tired of petty politics and easily manipulated fools. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue’s memory. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Human involvement can easily explain why the wave of extinction obliterated the terrestrial megafauna of Australia while sparing that of the nearby oceans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want sponsors to see I can hunt, that I'm a good bet because I won't be lured into traps as easily as the others will by hunger. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I asked, though I could as easily have said, “What struggle?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m supposed to be too powerful or something. That’s why my life can burn up so easily. Iris said I would die holding this, watching it burn.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We kept a bin of driftwood twigs nearby, perfect kindling that caught easily when I lit the paper and blew gently on the flame. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Thor was pleased that she seemed to have accepted the idea so easily. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And she felt that he knew this and inwardly smiled to see how easily, on this part of the battlefield, his victory could be assured. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second half Erin blocks three shots, intercepts two passes, drives the lane several times for layups, comes off endless screens, sinks shot after shot, and secures the win easily. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If our new number were equal to the first number on the list, it would also have a first digit of 3—but we can easily prevent that from happening. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at all the supplies she’d stacked up—easily enough for two people for several days. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She blushes easily—“I could feel my face go totally red”—but felt that Volpe and Krause sensed something in her that would project onstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Red Jack watches me but says nothing, his face a pleasant half smile that could easily mean he’s enjoying a fine tale or he’s planning on stealing someone’s watch. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He squeezed his fingers into fists, but the mullet easily jetted free, leaping once before it rejoined the fleeing school. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke lifted the pot easily, holding it as she scooped the thick mash into a glass bowl. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No longer able to hear the spider or any other being, he slept easily. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He could easily get inside if it was open. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He picked up his own scent easily although it had rained hard. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When your skin loses the pigment, it apparently also loses its ability to protect itself from the sun, which means I can get burned really easily. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She will not be able to break this so easily! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She’d taken a small tin of tar, and as Celaena rose from her crouch in the windowsill, her sticky, black hands and bare feet easily gripped the stone wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

These courses came easily to him as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could easily shoot him in the back as we walk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could everything as solid as the earth my grandfather fought for crumble so easily beneath my feet? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I scrunch up the earpiece wire protectively in my fist and fling the head shackle back in his face with my free hand, but he catches it easily. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn’t be prudent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"I shot him several times, as I wished him to go as easily as possible...Please order out your troops and take possession of the jail at once." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Digby was advocating a much simpler chemical powder which could be dissolved in water and easily carried with one into battle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The result is a scale that plays all the notes easily available on most instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Nhamo watched him stride along the bottom of the lake as easily as a man on a forest trail. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could easily see a gold detective’s badge in his future. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can easily see the difference between the way they deal with Margot and the way they deal with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When it was soft enough, my teeth ground the rice grains, producing a sweet taste that slid easily down my throat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could easily back away from this bear and not a single human being on the planet would ever know. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But though the Nazi government of Hitler’s Third Reich was clearly going to have to admit defeat pretty soon, they didn’t give up easily. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The boy catches it in one hand easily without flinching, though his eyes narrow in confusion as he looks from the cane to the man and back. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The school would be open then, which meant we could easily get in and sneak up to the third-floor classrooms. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They always have those welts, they’ve always done that time, so rumor goes: they don’t let go easily. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fidelity came easily to him; he did not turn to glance at pretty women on the street because it did not occur to him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He spun the water around the fish and easily turned it upside down. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Like the hair on my arm, the grass pokes easily out of my skin like needles through paper, growing taller and taller. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally this wouldn't be a problem at all, but with my extremely rough navigation, I could easily end up at the lip of one of them and have to backtrack. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray moved more easily after his rest, and the two foxes kept up a loping pace. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You could have made me forget, taken it out of my memory as easily as you did with everyone else at the party.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Over our own territory we could get down quite easily, and over the German lines we felt that it was much better to burn up than to be captured by the Germans.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Billy couldn’t carry it very far very easily, which was why he was writing in the rumpus room instead of somewhere else. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger was always surprised to find how easily you could scare the man with a few words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But what people haven’t noticed about my Pumpkin Pasties is how easily they transform into something else . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It all seemed to come so easily to them, and I could only get so close to any of that. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I might not have easily recognised the Square in the photo, except for the white bunker-like two-storey buildings in the background, on all three visible sides of the pool area. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was brilliant, learned easily, and when she liked something, she put her all into it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now remember what I told you. Don’t do anything to upset your father. He’s easily upset on trips,” she said in a soft voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great thing about language is that you can just as easily use it to do the opposite: convince people that they are the same. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I also knew Grandma wouldn’t be as easily convinced. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Anything and everything, words spilling out of mouths easily. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a good bull, a big bull, and with horns, and it turned and recharged easily and surely. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Believe me, I don’t let it go that easily. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And it had been installed on a rickety tower of cement blocks, easily four feet off the ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The woman turned out to be a Washington socialite, but it could so easily have been Elizebeth instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Come down there: we can talk more easily.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the police this time, though it could easily have been. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Challenges to the racial order during these periods are easily marginalized or suppressed, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identity, and ideology seems “natural.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Their minds had emptied to some extent, their defenses were down, so that they were easily persuaded of the absolute authority of the ward sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Apparently he didn’t realize that once a noose is tied, it will fit one neck as easily as another. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Abstract concepts like “slope” and “undefined” clearly didn’t come easily to her. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The ceiling tile slides easily to one side, and I've got my clothes bundle. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d like to think that I wasn’t the type of person to be easily intimidated by other kids—even the ones that were taller, stronger, or better armed than I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Matthew caught Hugo easily and put a hand to the back of his baby brother’s head while fastening his eyes on the two homicide detectives. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I ducked it easily; ducking was one athletic skill I had long since mastered. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to lure Mark Antony’s ships farther out into the open water where they could more easily be surrounded. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

These could easily happen while Iponga held his electric clippers to your head. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

That quickly, and that easily, the fight was over. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The deer eyes are closed, and thank God will not open easily, for they are sealed with blood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leans back against a column as she speaks, smiling at him easily, drinking a glass of champagne. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The agent jumped easily from person to person, apparently through touching and sexual contact. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our immune systems keep it in check easily. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lester had learned easily what I had struggled over, but he came when he felt like it, or he stayed away to earn money waxing floors. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The big house was always open and full of people, but she had lost her ability to laugh easily and was often to be seen staring straight ahead, lost in thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe was made to say in court what the victim remembered her assailant saying to her, but she testified that Joe's voice “could very easily be” that of the perpetrator. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was unaided and easily condemned by a system that was inattentive to the precise legal requirements of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If she wished it, if she reached out and touched her, Taisin would come to her easily; she only wanted a bit of suggestion. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If you could see me, you would say that I don't fit into an easily identifiable ethnic category. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Grandma was shocked because she had worked for the Nichols family and could easily identify him. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother’s so easily wiped away. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

One was a tall woman in a blue dress who could easily have been Blanca twenty years older. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Sweet tea is an art not easily mastered by the faint of heart,” she’d say. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It could as easily be a ‘he,’ couldn’t it?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since one didn’t easily escape from his mother in the midst of planting a half-acre of potatoes, he searched hurriedly for a way to turn the con-versation. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

You just had to let her know she couldn’t make you stop liking her that easily. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he could get lost within his thoughts too easily, and he wondered if he should talk to his therapist about it next month. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

It will be locked, he thinks, when he reaches the polished dark-wood door, but the silver handle moves easily as he turns it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Only the rolling sea and the bars of rich, cool light and the boat sliding up and down easily, as she was meant to, on the gende swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the right seat, I can easily reach over and touch the left wall. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard that there was a steep waterfall someplace, and fallen trees here and there that could easily smash the thin boards he was so carefully tying together with strips of bamboo. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"They're cool," he explained, "and my mother says they wash easily." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Anyone down on the floor of the pass could have seen them easily, but the mountain hid them from the view of the wildlings by their fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At more than three hundred pounds and well over six feet tall, he was easily twice my size, probably the largest person in B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took every effort to ignore it, to focus instead on the elusive thread of energy that had come so easily to her when she had seen that purple flower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even when Celia was asleep—and she fell asleep easily after long hours cooking at the Big House—the rooms felt full of her warm presence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She knew these sharp, gray rocks—knew how they crunched beneath her feet, how they smelled after the rain, how they could so easily cut into her skin when she was thrown down. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The map folds easily along its worn creases. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Younger boys can switch easily into falsetto or head voice, as their voices have not yet begun to change. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Herr Sauer plays more scales, but what I reached easily yesterday is strained and nasal today. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He could see the pieces quite easily, because the metal caught the gleam from outside: seven of them, the smallest being the point itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He got out and walked easily toward me, huge in the dim light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could easily have Uncle Pa for a father. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So he found the stars that formed the shape of the whale, inhaled the deep scent of earth that surrounded him, and began, his voice falling easily into the cadence of the old stories. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her obvious charm and how easily she makes Jupiter laugh and smile after I made her so upset that I’m pretty sure she cried. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. I know the type. Besides, it is a story that would be very easily disproved.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can imagine her life, even after she and her family moved away to New Jersey, easily. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve tried hard, Lord knows. But Ishmael here, my boy Ishmael here—he’s a match, easily, for two lads, for three! We have high hopes for him.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was then that I realized that winning wasn’t going to come easily; I never wanted to see that look of disappointment on my mother’s face again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Cytoplasm will flow easily from one to the other, the nuclei will combine, and it will become, for a time anyway, a single cell with two complete, alien genomes, ready to dance, ready to multiply. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could’ve just as easily been killed by some random shambler in a swamp down south in the Lost States, for all we really know. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If you take a film of this, you can easily tell whether it is being run forward or backward. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have easily disappeared and died there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But the bottom line was that we were far from poor and our future was promising, maybe even more promising for the fact that it couldn’t easily be planned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But still, monsters didn’t usually let themselves get destroyed so easily. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What he had beaten in with his fists he could not supplement easily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Speak, Miss Everdeen. Him I can easily kill off if we don’t come to a happy resolution,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were things that others, with lesser minds, could master easily. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They weren’t armed, but on the other hand they were flying easily within their power, and might even outstrip her if it came to a chase. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grin wasn’t going to let him get away so easily. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We are as easily degraded as any other people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Leo had noticed that Percy seemed to get winded more easily these days - probably because of that nasty acid air he’d been forced to breathe in Tartarus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And the beauty of it was, since they were designed for working on toys, they were nearly all miniature, easily small enough for us to handle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of thought that isn’t easily finished. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not rest as easily, nor would there be much thought of community pride. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Consider the island of Manhattan shrunk to this size: This Manhattan could easily hold nine million viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But August’s face is not so easily fixed, so there will be no elephant act until he looks like a human being again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She ran fast and easily through the streets of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He went home and started writing down his ideas right away, pointing out which American industries could be easily destroyed with high explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Dicey could follow her grandmother’s thoughts easily now, now that she knew what the woman was talking about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must travel in it easily or her own heart would devour her and she would not endure the war unwounded, as she still hoped to do. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In our family, because none of us fear Meng, this role falls to Khouy, who is not easily dissuaded by our charms or excuses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being small, I was easily captured and made to stand in the circle that was called hell, until I could catch someone else and be freed or until Laertes took pity on me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So I stayed closer to trees that I could easily mount to hide myself from these animals. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But they could lie safely among them for as long as they liked, and they could move through them easily and unseen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You seem convinced that I’m easily confused,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin’s keen eye and strong arms helped him to send the “duck,” a small pointed stone, so far he could easily get to the goal and back before the other boys could retrieve the duck. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I glanced around the room and wondered where he would have sat, who he would’ve talked to, if he laughed as easily back then as when I’d known him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I think he would have taken easily to books, but he came home at night too tired to read. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the genetic tracker is awareness during simulations—it’s something we can easily test for, which shows us if your genes are healed or not. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The proles were supposed not to drink gin, though in practice they could get hold of it easily enough. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My grandparents can get into trouble as easily as a fly can land on a watermelon. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Humbaba pulled a tree out of the ground as easily as I would have plucked a daisy. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But there are easily a couple hundred undead moving toward us, many newly turned and moving so quickly that for a moment a dark wave of fear threatens to drown me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Pa gets angry and hurt too easily, and he’s so used to getting his own way! Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand and the citadel vanished, as easily as that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In other words, she easily could be swayed. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Now, instead of an illegal procedure that might cost $500, any woman could easily obtain an abortion, often for less than $100. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She’d been relieved, but also a little hurt: that over and over again, he believed her so easily, that he didn’t think her capable of anything but the truth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He swung a leg easily over the center bar of his bike and leaned the contraption against a dying hedge. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Colonel, half the men are down. If they come again . . .” He shrugged, annoyed, baffled as if by a problem he could not quite solve, yet ought to, certainly, easily. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I were white, I would find him easily, for his other face is there for whites to see. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a dangerous strategy, for we could easily win this legal battle but lose the war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Carver handled us pretty easily last year,” Mr. Nipper said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the guards, sitting a few yards away from the man’s cage, kept insisting that he stay in the middle of the enclosure, where he could be easily seen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That time of year it could easily have been pouring rain, and cold. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not a woman who can cope easily alone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I picked the lock easily and nudged the door open with my toe. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Yet mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Success came easily to Burnham and Root, but the partners did have their trials. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But she wasn’t going to let me off that easily. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was easily the nicest thing Anya had ever worn, and she was afraid of ruining something somehow. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would swim easily in his shadow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How is it you escaped those two back there so easily?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Ser Barristan did not yield easily, and finally the Green Grace had bowed her head and sworn to do her best. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There the root borer is a serious pest of the banana, so weakening its roots that the trees are easily toppled by wind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You do not come by words like this easily; they cannot just be made up from scratch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies, however, bore traces that could not so easily be erased, for more had been stolen from them than their memories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He fumbled around with the name for a couple more days, but it came more easily with practice. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Its beauty and ability to be easily shaped make it ideal for jewelry. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Humans first reached Flores when the sea level was exceptionally low, and the island was easily accessible from the mainland. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nergal threw off the tiger and grabbed the panther around the throat, his massive hand easily encircling its neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A city accustomed to living in freedom is more easily maintained through the means of its own citizens than in any other way, if you decide to preserve it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Clay, you kept saying that you knew things would flow easily between us. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They found, however, that Indigenous people were not easily scared off or conquered. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But things thoughtlessly done are never so easily undone. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet that slim little ingot, the one he had poured but a short time ago, how easily it would slip into a wineskin! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But not much money was bet and he had won it quite easily since he had broken the confidence of the negro from Cienfuegos in the first match. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He let us go too easily,” I said. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The nationwide miasma of anticommunism, however, was not to be dispelled so easily. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No, the memory of the yellow fever wouldn’t disappear as easily as “Howard” demanded. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She could walk to my house easily, so we made plans for her to come over and maybe meet Jennifer, whom I knew she’d like. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was an odd thing with Billy: He could never imagine, even when he shadowboxed, an opponent he could easily beat. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adaon rode easily and skillfully; head high, an open smile on his face, he seemed to be drinking in the sights and sounds of the morning. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the rest of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast pocket of his gray tunic. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had given herself too easily to the false promises of South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Look at this peach. They bruise so easily, they need a Shield to escort them.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stare, amazed that he can turn it on and off so easily, and wonder what the strategy behind it is. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Astronomers can’t play with time as easily as everyone else can. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His oversize jersey and baggy jeans make him seem even bigger than usual, and Rabiya looks like a tiny bird hopping around in front of a beast that can easily crush her. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But no horse, not even a talking horse from Narnia, backs easily. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Television is a great way to reach lots of people, very easily and cheaply. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper was so small and easily hidden that this became a popular way of smuggling out messages. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was satisfied, and mother and sister, who had looked on in suspense, began to breathe easily and to smile. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of time imagining what New York would be like, but the one thing that had never occurred to me was that the opportunities would come so easily. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ceased; he could have been interrupted easily now. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it is nothing, just nerves; I convince myself that I get nervous easily. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper—these could easily evaporate after the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He brings his hand to her face, petrified that his fingers will pass through her as easily as they had with the rose. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tried a window and it slid up easily. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped he didn’t think so little of me as to believe I would give up that easily. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to believe my parents, but my brothers and sister were not so easily convinced. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If he was taking me outside to be shot, and was on his own, I could easily overpower him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Though I expect soreness, my limbs move easily, and I sit up. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He walked all day, about eighteen miles, looking for a stretch of the Tumen that was shallow and easily crossed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Olive was the most easily distractible, and often seemed to forget that we were in serious danger. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They might be as small as peanuts, in which case she could easily tread on one that an antelope hoof had missed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo rode the mare slowly along the fence, looking for a place that could be easily located, even at night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia had arrived home in a state that couldn’t easily be hidden from her mother, who was waiting, as Marcus’s mother had been, to hear all about the visit. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

An Eleanor, she told herself triumphantly, who belongs, who is talking easily, who is sitting by the fire with her friends. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because tobacco seeds require loads of water for them to break ground, many farmers plant nursery beds by the dambos where they can easily water them daily. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She caressed his neck, buried her fingers in his dense hair, and when he slid into her, she thought about Arize’s pregnant belly, how easily it must have broken, skin stretched that taut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was the product of the sugar beet plant located two miles north of town, its aroma carried easily even with a light wind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He dodged the punch easily by bending his neck into a sideways U shape, then coiled his leg around the strangers waist the way Sheed wrapped licorice around his pinky before eating it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I imagine I could do anything,” I said easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Lelia cried easily, but back then in our early days I didn’t know and each time she wept I feared the worst, that it meant something catastrophic was happening between us, an irreversible damage. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I lost twice to the boy whom I had defeated so easily a few years before, I stopped playing chess altogether. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Used to be I could easily fit in with whatever friends I was hanging out with. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I could easily sleep the whole day through,” he said, yawning and stretching. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A child could easily have hidden behind them, but did they provide enough shelter for two grown men? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They could easily have knocked him down, or held him off the floor with one hand, but he was fearless, and his anger was hot and deadly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the policeman came to the back door, Captain Cook was going in and out the refrigerator as easily as if he had lived in one all his life. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

They skimmed along the starboard side of the ship, riding easily through its huge wake, and pulled up next to a service ladder riveted to the side of the hull. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I played a few bars, surprised at how easily the notes came back to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A middle- aged woman, hands in her coat pockets, the legs of her jogging suit bunching above her boot tops, no more bizarre than most and easily forgotten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We climb out on the bank on our side of the canal and watch to see whether they go into the house, for they might easily have been lying. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the dull resistance of its physical presence, felt her hand cleave easily through it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A man stood with his arm draped over his wife's shoulder, smiling easily. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You will learn very easily. My boy will be here for Christmas and he will teach you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The nature of the business demanded that customers be able to find him easily and quickly; if he hid from the other gang, he couldn’t sell his crack. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But Love cannot be pinned down so easily. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I knew that the results I obtained were not easily compatible with our contemporary science,” Mendel wrote, and “an isolated experiment might be doubly dangerous.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Campion and the patrol made off downhill and Hazel, relieved to be rid of them so easily, hurried after Silver, with the others close behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the plane crash-landed nose first, which could easily happen in an emergency, Marina would be crushed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could visualize more easily his mother doing things than his father because he had never been to where his father lived now. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Re-member that the human brain is a very delicate organism, and it can be easily damaged.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word “eradication” still came easily from the Department’s mimeograph machines; this time the press releases were promising the eradication of the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I finally picked out my bag of chips—barbecue, tasty, and easily beatable by mint. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They constructed its base walls with sand- stone blocks, the array interrupted every ten feet by rectangular stone pillars that are easily ten feet tall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The heavy wooden door opened easily and we stepped in. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"He took life very easily, it seemed to me; probably after being in prison for so long he didn't take it as seriously as someone else might have done." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could have easily made friends with stupid Dove, for Dove was lonely and admired Johnny as well as envied him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not? The world was a different world in 1905; they could have kept it a secret much more easily.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugs me back and says, “You can’t get rid of me that easily.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, it could have been an embolism, because your blood clots much more easily when you are lying down for a long time, like when you are in hospital. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were extra careful with the barbed wire that they installed on the top and bottom of the fence, wire that could easily tear them open. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The demand for new garments has slowed, and people have taken to mending their own clothes— it’s one place they can easily cut corners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She read it easily enough on my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had this one for almost a year. A few of them are broken near the filters, but I think this pack could easily get me to my eighteenth birthday.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It slid easily into the wood, peeling off the smallest slivers which fell in a pleasant litter around him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The men were extremely militant, and they did not take to prison life easily. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fabric that feels as soft as velvet beneath your hands parts easily when you touch it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I hate the fact that he had to save us—but the situation could just as easily have been reversed, with me being the one to save the day. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Greek, Roman, it doesn’t matter,” the giant said easily. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But because racism is stupid, it’s easily tricked. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ve had a head start on you,” he said easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But once in the Quarter, under the bright lights of the sky lanterns, I find the girls easily. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The tears mingled easily with the cold water, in the luminous, dripping crimson of my cupped fingers, and at first I wasn’t aware that I was crying at all. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The surface was level and solid and firm, and he easily kept his balance in the strange gravitational field where everything weighed only one sixth its earth weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the people of 2 swallowed the Capitol’s propaganda more easily than the rest of us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of the old, sure smile that flashed on easily and frequently as a photographer's bulb, his face was grave, even tentative—the face of a man who often does not get what he wants. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn’t give it up easily. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to be bought off that easily. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

As a practical matter, sachems had to gain the consent of their people, who could easily move away and join another sachemship. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They easily climbed under the velvet rope that meant that the restaurant was closed to the public. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth packed the red collar and seemed satisfied—too easily, he suspected, dreading her disillusionment. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my mother’s thin blood, the kind so easily forayed by a chilly draft, an unexpected rain. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butler picked him up by the neck, finger and thumb easily meeting around the back. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We entered the woods, and though it was pretty easy walking, I noticed Ruth’s breath coming less and less easily. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A masculine kilo of feminine tomatoes presents a sexual problem easily solved by asking for two kilos of tomatoes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Calculating the pressure distribution over a particular airfoil at a transonic speed could easily take a month to complete for the most experienced of mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It takes me a minute to remember how to open it, but once I find the right corner to start with, the rest comes back easily. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He strode to the dock, leaped into the boat with Neel, untied it, and slowly, easily, began rowing across the river. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lock on the door gave up easily to Kaz’s picks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Teach me your mindspeech,” I said, trying to speak easily and with no rancor, “your language that has no lies in it. Teach me that, and then ask me why I did what I’ve done.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grains dissolved easily in the hot tea, but they clouded the wine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The words had started slipping from my mouth a little more easily. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The problem with you, my friend, is you love too easily and too much. Anybody could see the girl was a fake, looking for the next bigger thing,” Obinze told him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He loped across the grass, easily outraced them all, and gobbled the ball up, sweeping it into his jaws with that huge tongue. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Very early on, the colonizers recognized that smallpox could easily wipe out an Indigenous population, leaving land available for settlement. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s amazing how easily it comes back to mind, this corny and falsely gay sexual banter. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brutal outcome of this collision between the Moriori and the Maori could have been easily predicted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Griffith’s and Muller’s experiments had pointed to a material substance, a chemical that could move between organisms and was quite easily altered by X-rays. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered him saying once, “Only a foolish man will wed her who comes easily to his bed.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They were easily the most eligible young men in the neighborhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That might mean the palace, but it might just as easily mean the treasury. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stared at Dadi, easily the wisest person I knew, just thinking of how many lives I could change if my movies went mainstream. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of the land masses of all the earth could fit easily into the Pacific and there would still be plenty of water left. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom ignores me and says, “I could easily move here.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Only one person can easily play with a model, and so Francis did not try to check my work until I backed away and said that I thought everything fitted. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It is not healthy to distinguish public words from private sounds so easily. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first Reb cannon were in position, limbering up easily, casually, getting the range. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Line has traditionally been admired for its descriptive value, so that its expressive potential is easily overlooked. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could kill the doctor more easily than he could talk to him, for all of the doctor’s race spoke to all of Kino’s race as though they were simple animals. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished she had studied up, but Latin never came as easily to her as Greek. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If he had had the use of his claws he could have dragged it down easily, but with the leather foot covers it was not so simple. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

We had until next Friday, I could easily make it up to her. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the chaos and suffering I’d witnessed were not easily reduced to sound bites. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

No, this tremendous amount of knowledge, collected and preserved by successive generations of wise Brahmins could not be easily overlooked. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could easily show one to Judith, at which point she would confirm that it was me she had seen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

These modes are easily performed on the xylophone and beautiful and interesting in their construction. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He could easily pick me up and toss me into the closet, but I knew he actually wanted me to keep him still and safe. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Any time he rested he could easily make up at night, since he had a flashlight now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But again I discovered that travelers' preparations are more easily accomplished in books than in life itself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I had a natural feel for the beats in the music—could easily sync my movements to the rhythm—but that wasn’t enough. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could just as easily have chosen the sleeping pills. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I guess they saw no need to be quiet, and I was easily able to follow them as they made their way into the city, Otto bumping and shrieking behind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would therefore seem likely that our homicide rate is so high in part because guns are so easily available. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She felt drowsy now, as though she could easily go to sleep. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

However, this was only a light skirmishing manoeuvre, intended to create a little disorder, and the men easily drove the geese off with their sticks. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He breaks his way into the trap more easily than I would have figured and grabs the lobster, who starts waving his powerful claws around. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As a result these powerful substances could easily penetrate the inadequate defenses of the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People who can’t log in easily at home now crowd into internet cafés and bars, their lenses on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas relaxed, returned to a sitting position, surprised at how easily he’d been put back at ease. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They are easily fooled, and wish to be: for instance, with a few gasps and wheezes they can be conned into thinking they are sexual supermen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He marked the shocks with a bundle of straw laid crossways on top so the workers could easily find them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I also knew the problem wouldn’t be easily solved. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thinking. How did you know how to get rid of them so easily?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the end the feathers came off easily. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right,” I said, impressed at how easily Trevor lied to his mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t give up easily even though he was on dry land. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at her friend, who was easily five inches taller in those ridiculous heels. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

All the land masses of all the other parts of the earth would easily fit in it with water left over. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And because he saw how easily the mob could be swayed—he was traumatized by the judicial murder of his teacher and hero Socrates—he didn’t trust rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He picked a little boy close to him—he might have been a Green, but he could just as easily have been a Yellow or Blue. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I clamp my good eye shut, but I easily picture what's happening. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how easily it went in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melanie had a feeling that April wasn’t going to trim easily. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With few ordinary comforts in his life, the attention of women was something Walter did not easily resist. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The tall English driver came around and looked in, “I’ll take it very easily,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It could easily have been you with the gouged eye. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he could see that Water Claire strode easily now along the path, her legs strong and equal, her feet sure in the soft leather sandals she wore. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The empty gasoline Containers rested easily on her head as she walked a few miles to the public water fountains. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The heart fell away from the chest as easily as yolk slips out of its shell. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the tallest and the strongest and the scariest girl in all of the fifth grade was also the fastest, and easily caught up. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We easily parse complex distinctions in facial expression. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

How easily the ocean must have swept him away. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’d insisted I was exceptionally smart, and I always got perfect grades in school easily. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant to having two strong legs. You’ll be amazed at how it feels, at how much more easily you can move around. But it will take a little while to adjust to it.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The weather was warm and dry and they could easily stay two or three days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chew it, soft and yielding, easily molded into a shape that fits down my throat. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I always believed any sin was easily rectified if only you let Jesus Christ into your heart, but here it gets complicated. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian’s eyes glittered with harsh curiosity, like he might gut Percy just as easily as a teddy bear if he thought he could learn something from it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If he continued to behave this way, he could easily spend the next five years in the lab without collecting sufficient data to warrant an honest Ph.D. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Were there traits or habits of personality that we had too readily dismissed, too easily obliged? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate six of them, could have easily eaten all of them and not been full, but a part of him said to hold back, save the rest. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took the lead easily at the start, widened it at each quarter-mile buoy, and crossed the line almost six lengths ahead of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ajay passed him easily in a minute, laughing as he swam by. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The English invaded to silence these questions, and they were sure they would easily win—after all, their army and navy were the best in the world, and they were fighting against mere ex-slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A deadpan was something she’d cultivated herself, and she knew from experience that such a perfect one was not easily come by. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he wondered at the love of old age, which is so fond and so easily satisfied. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"You lie so easily, it makes me wonder what else you aren't telling me." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His leg is so long that he finds a place for his foot easily and guides his body between the bars. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Or at the very least, he seems very easily intimidated by anyone who has some. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Driving, I could easily kill myself, and the car could kill other people if Rufus called me from it at the wrong time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re certainly qualified, and he’s often said he would like to have someone raise the birds in a natural setting. He thinks they would adjust to the wild more easily.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

More likely the worst would happen: the simple passage of time, in which his animal toughness would easily outlast my human frailty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Paul wasn’t one for small talk or gossip, and she didn’t flatter or pass out compliments easily. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

With his blond crew cut and clear blue eyes, he easily stood out from all the colored kids in the Perkins school library. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A month of tribute winnings can easily provide for a family for a year. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in Japan or China, farmers didn’t have the money to buy equipment—and, in any case, there certainly wasn’t any extra land that could easily be converted into new fields. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The earthen shells crumbled easily, but they hit like sledgehammers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How could they put someone they’d cared for aside so easily? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting behind the headlights, Bull speaking easily and unself-consciously, Ben in a sudden blaze of perception realized that Bull had forgotten, at least for the moment, that he was addressing a son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked a little weary, but otherwise he was fine—except for his eyes, which tired easily, he said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Into the restaurant they’ll run screaming, the poor fox running for his life but the monkeys all too easily diverted by the sight of some fresh fruit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d stop and turn back to them, and his skin would change so she could see him easily. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He usually didn’t blow his cool that easily, particularly with someone like Brother Leon. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to hold me back, but weak though I still was, I pushed her aside easily. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could more easily pass for human than Vivi, with the subtler point on his ears, light brown hair, and hazel eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It's where I keep my heart. It's too dangerous to keep it in my chest, what with the sharp edges of bones so easily broken.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, though the ornate dragon’s wings that adomed die helm were splendid to look upon, they could too easily catch a sword or axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In spite of the load it carried, the trolley responded easily to Butler’s touch, gliding across the threshold into the lobby. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

With Lady Meng as a companion, they had easily found shelter for the evening, and they had been riding most of the day. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At a leisurely stroll, this thing could outdistance us easily. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But if the cow-boys saw me running, they could easily catch me in the open fields, and ride me down if they wanted. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It opened easily, and she smeared the healing paste thickly on her wound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not leaving the safety of my apartment that easily. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I curtsied and hurried out of the room, leaving the door open a crack so I could easily open it when I came back with my hands full. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swords were honed, shields polished, helmets daubed with grease so that the monster should not seize them easily to bite off their heads. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We could have burned as easily as we put out the fires. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how easily I could have been her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It isn’t a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hesitantly he puts a hand out to touch the beads, which are smooth and cold, and he finds that his arm slips through them easily, that they part like water or long grass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He could easily have tripped in the snow and hurt himself. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it could easily be reached in the early morning, before its men were about. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really, Mr. Bender—or should I call you Edward?—we both know I can be replaced as easily as a damaged Netbook. Backups are handy that way.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They are not easily tested, nor have they been really monitored. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It all fit easily into the trunk of the cruiser. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Yet he used them as if they had some not easily controllable aesthetic drive of their own. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

For example, I can easily put James in Hitler’s shoes, and our family in the roles of the Jews. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Behind his father’s pulpit, Turner was surprised that he was tall enough to see over it easily. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was running easily and thinking about what he had to do. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that my classmates and I prayed easily throughout the school day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass would bend down before the hide, making a soft cushion over which the hide slipped easily. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But among them all there were some he felt more easily than others, and, already knowing the answer, he cut one through to be sure: his own world again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How’re you doing?” he asked, lying on his side to see her face more easily. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had worked till dark, but when I lay down sleep didn’t come easily. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, we could get Dave to dig us out easily in that time, except that our precious emergency must have thrown him off, and his radio circuit is out.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Cold and wet, but nothing they could not push through easily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The answer lies in finding the right data, and the secret to finding the right data usually means finding the right person—which is more easily said than done. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

One will then see the simplicity with which these concepts lead to properties already known and to an infinity of others which ordinary geometry does not seem to touch easily. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In each of those modes his face would light up accordingly, moving, easily and deftly, from one state to another. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Mr. Mason seems a man easily led. Your influence, sir, is evidently potent with him: he will never set you at defiance or wilfully injure you.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Work still did not flow digitally, and collaboration did not happen digitally, as easily as it might have. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He could not even tan their skins, because their fur turned dark and fell from the hide as easily as feathers from the skin of a boiled fowl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why are the toys all misfits? Square wheels on a train can be fixed easily enough.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

By now you’ve probably figured out that I can burst into tears almost as easily as I can burst out laughing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I come and go at odd hours,” I explained easily as I fell into step beside her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She tried it again, and the laughter came more easily. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I opened it at dusk, and it moved easily in my hand, with no hint of binding. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s got that yoga look. Remember how she got us to reveal all our prayer flaws so easily?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She had noticed him often, his thin wiry figure swinging easily hand over hand up the rigging, his sandy, sun-bleached head bent over a coil of rope. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The dough was starting to form up more, be less sticky, and roll easily. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions. She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Moreover, ice was easily available in much of Europe: in Florence, for example, it was brought down from the Apennines throughout the summer in order to keep fish fresh. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wished I could fix my own life as easily. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how easily she had gotten what she wanted from me: my father’s design for the new junior high. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Almost all the rain falls during the May-to-December rainy season and rapidly sinks hundreds of feet into the porous limestone, from where it cannot easily be extracted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Welsh Green has an easily recognisable and surprisingly melodious roar. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we would beat you easily, and you very nearly beat us. I’m happy to admit my mistake. But do you always fight in pairs?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was really, he thought, very thin aluminum skin over a kind of skeleton and if it gave that easily he might be able to force his way through ... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They watch for telephone wires which hang crosswise over the road so low that they might easily pull our heads off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good reader and skilled writer, Courtney easily masters her schoolwork, except when she is indifferent to it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Normally the Trazon got me through these annoying moments pretty easily, but for one reason or another—it might have been the chat in the stacks with Ms. Banks—I’d skipped my after-school meds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Though he kept his head bowed, the cuts and bruises on his face were easily seen. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Farin insisted he was no thief, and he also knew that the magistrate could be easily bribed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Your questions to Mrs. Hubbard were unnecessary. Locked or not locked, the man could easily get through the communicating door. After all, if a Wagon Lit uniform, why not a Wagon Lit key?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if she pushed, she could easily get him to offer to make her his duchess. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justin climbed easily up the open door of his cage and vanished over the top with a flick of his tail. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

If whoever sent the assassin had been desperate enough to send someone onto the Current of Faith, they shouldn’t have given up so easily. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bailey learned easily, and has always been the better dancer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd gotten her hair cut into a thick, blunt flip that swung easily when she moved her head. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He shrugged again, not as easily as before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Longstreet said easily, “Sorry I had to assign you to old smelly George. Hope you have a strong stomach.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was next to me, easily keeping pace. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could all too easily picture the smug expressions of condolence I’d receive from those who’d been certain of my failure from the get-go. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you see,” she said, “I can betray him easily. I can lead you to where he’s taking my daughter’s dæmon, and you can destroy Asriel, and the child will walk unsuspecting into your hands.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could call him “Char” quite easily, but writing it was another matter. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked through the bright noon, up the sandy road with the dispersing congregation talking easily again group to group, she continued to weep, unmindful of the talk. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father smiled and lied easily, too, about his busy and pleasant day the day before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You could easily love some woman on the side. Marriage doesn’t mean you can’t love other people.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He surged ahead, easily winning every remaining point. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I turn and walk back to the wall, climbing it easily this time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Kinzie had made sure she could break her bonds easily, but she’d still be empty-handed against three trained warriors, and she had to act before they put her in a cage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was a compact gentleman, and one could easily imagine that, in his earlier years, he had been adept at springing and vaulting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, there would be an awful lot of things I couldn’t easily explain about the last few days. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They brought him down as easily as they might bring down a much smaller deer, and they howled their victory. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Just like Ariadne. I’m betting you can see the right path. The Labyrinth won’t be able to fool you as easily.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She carries a small box and holds it like whatever is inside will break easily. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Once her head was out, the first chick, a wet little female, easily kicked herself free of the shell. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Could she trust it now, the hilarious freedom of the upward flight, the blind trust in the kindly grip of adult wrists, when the fifth person could so easily have been Robbie? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He tried to say it easily as one might say, “I have planted the seeds in the western field today,” but he could not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You see,” continued Cutie, easily, “you have merely put together parts already made. You did remarkably well—instinct, I suppose—but you didn’t really create the robot. The parts were created by the Master.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I tugged it free and the window came open easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mattress was thin, and I thought about how bullets can so easily penetrate mattresses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The deep scar on her forehead made her easily recognized. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do this easily but against my will. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the height of summer, it can easily take half a day to cross the park and hours to get anywhere within it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At about this time his cousin began to tire easily and to run a temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While some gymnastics skills came fairly easily to me, it was clear from the start I’d have to put in a lot of extra effort on bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were easily frustrated, and aside from Kanue—playing all out as usual—the players were walking and showing little intensity. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To my surprise the stove came apart fairly easily—the oil I had put on the bolts last winter had done the trick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The monkey has a protrusive, doglike snout with flaring nostrils and exceedingly sharp canine teeth, able to rip flesh as easily as a honed knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could easily slip back into being a kind of sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She’d be willing to sell us the old farming tools, and we could easily resell them at a good price. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder he had dropped the price so quickly and easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand how you simply...lied...so easily...and applied to NYU and now expect us to say, ‘Okay, go ahead’? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There are other people on the list of donors, but they are only names I've heard in passing, not associated with faces that I would easily recognize. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Nailer grabbed a loose service panel and hurled it, but his father dodged easily. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to flow into each other and move as one body, a coupling of flesh that came so easily that it embarrassed Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still laughed easily, his sense of humor whole, but since the move to Massachusetts, he was no longer transparent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Little is known about the medical history of his childhood, but his attendants must have noticed something amiss: that the young prince bruised all too easily, or that his nosebleeds were often unstoppable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her foot could easily fit inside one of them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how easily she assumes they can get permission from Papa. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could easily imagine her carrying a picket sign and bellowing slogans while a swirling mass of angry blacks followed in her wake. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are girls in the Seam, some of the merchant girls, too, who navigate these waters so easily. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But her friend had believed her so easily, and everything was going so well as it was. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He would make no progress in the dark and could easily break a leg. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He chatted more easily with Hazel—not stealing those wistful, mooning glances that had always made Frank uncomfortable. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like a lean, gray wolf, he moved silently and easily. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The Luftwaffe aircraft swooped in low, bombing and gunning the easily targeted empty planes where they stood parked in rows on the Soviet airfields. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By virtue of your everyday experiences with music, you know more than you think about music, and can probably easily answer the questions in Activity 1D. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She was scarcely past the middle of her span of years, and her life would not easily pass from her body, so that she lay dying on her bed for many months. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When this slender bridge had been made, the Company passed over, some cautiously and slowly, others more easily. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Leo wished he could dismiss his feelings that easily. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That had not changed either; he still laughed easily and often. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was also determined about learning; they wouldn’t skip a lesson so easily. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crow was still quite high, soaring easily, to keep pace with him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They might go out to the side a litde, but he could easily be three, four hundred miles to the side. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted him easily and he hugged himself to me', his fragile arms as light as a necklace. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Talk flowed easily and they surrounded me with warmth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not in the ground: and the soil’s so light that we shall be able to scratch some shelter easily when we find the right place.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two branches parted, and he glimpsed a little man moving from limb to limb as easily as a squirrel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Al grabs me under each arm and lifts me easily into the car. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Edward had scooped me up in his arms, as easily as if I weighed ten pounds instead of a hundred and ten. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

You could easily memorize a short pattern of correct answers, and it would be a lot faster to erase and change that pattern than to go through each student’s answer sheet individually. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She could kill him so easily, tear that grin from his face...She could destroy the king as he had destroyed her... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Eleanor clung to the door and laughed until tears came into her eyes; what fools they are, she thought; we trick them so easily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lecture hall is inside and to the right of the main entryway and we easily find our classmates. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was dressed appropriately in a richly colored rubakha, and though he wore it easily, he seemed too rough for it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

How easily it vanished just when you thought it was yours forever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And a dragon large enough to gorge on sheep could take a child just as easily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How easily, smoothly everything had gone in the old days before Johnny got hurt! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, telling my parents was easily the weirdest, most horrible thing about having a girlfriend. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She reached the square, and the horse stopped, and the woman in grey slipped off it easily and stood on the earth, facing them all, the living and the dead of them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she was right, but for sure, accusing someone of “getting all umbrella” could easily end in a fight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore her armour and purple cloak as easily as most people would wear shorts and a T-shirt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You can’t take off the smell of your own elf sweat as easily as clothes.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Tyson could carry three full duffel bags over his shoulder as easily as I could carry a backpack. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they discovered these errors, the saboteurs were angry that Kappe didn't seem worried about how easily the bills could be traced back to them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Dicey told him the address and he found the street easily. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pours from him easily, black letters on white screen. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No,” replied his uncle easily, “but I will eat with you.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The people in Bamiyan had told me I would find him easily— he lived in the only house in the village that had a walled garden. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But if Holly’s successful we shall soon have plenty of does: and from all I’ve ever heard of hutch rabbits, they don’t take easily to wild life. The truth is, you’re just a silly show-off.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall the girl who could do this so easily, who could bound her way down the board feeling confident that her legs would hold her up. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

See how easily slaves are made? they said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

However, irrational numbers, unlike zero, could not easily be ignored by the Greeks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure we can find it easily enough,” Reynie said, but privately he was thinking about Sticky’s words—“half the night.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was amazed at how easily she was able to convey her thoughts in English. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His political advisers easily entangled him in theoretical labyrinths. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

However, Squealer easily convinced them that the veterinary surgeon in Willingdon could treat Boxer’s case more satisfactorily than could be done on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

With Jefferson, however, the colorful epithets and irreverent images did not come so easily. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I always knew I wanted to have something in place that I could easily transition to once my fencing career ended. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She could reach the capstone easily, but she’d have to make her one strike count. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he easily switched the dangling bird from his right hand to his left, freeing his right hand to grab another. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His strict and humble lifestyle made that story believable—after all, someone so powerful could easily have used that power to make himself extravagantly wealthy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Years later, he would shiver at the thought of how easily he could have lost the colt in the driving rain that Howard let Mills know that the offer was still on the table. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is why it is so easily disturbed, and why such disturbances don’t take long to become critical. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Daddy steered the boat around trees to the corner of County Road 2435 and Rural Route 2, where there was no Purgatory Hill and we could get up and out of the grove easily. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could be fifty as easily as she was thirty. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The kids moved easily among the sisters’ houses cocooned in the warmth of a large extended family. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The rollers turned and the heavy block slid forward easily, like a truck on wheels, in the direction of the new hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The discovery that we are, as one investigator phrased it, living in a “sea of carcinogens” is of course dismaying and may easily lead to reactions of despair and defeatism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At that point we could easily have gone ahead to install the ropes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He would not pass so easily with three serving girls in tow, and if the guards looked beneath Jeyne’s hood and recognized Lord Ramsay’s bride.. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No, seriously. It’s so big, you can easily avoid anyone you hate.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We are easily replaced, and those who are late, inefficient, tired, or stupid will be replaced. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But I was crying inside, because I learned that a boy whom I had easily defeated on two other occasions had won. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opening the outer panel wasn't too hard and I identified the battery easily enough. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got seasick so easily, it was more like sea plague. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She vowed that he would not evade her company so easily the next time he came. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Marco catches Celia’s glance with a hint of the smile from earlier before he turns away, fading into the background again almost as easily as her father vanishes into shadows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He hoped Shell would rent it because the oil companies were always the best renters, never complaining about abrupt hikes, paying easily in American dollars so that nobody had to deal with the fluctuating naira. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid, I was only joking,” he said easily. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If only real Weep could be so easily set right. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

People neither of them has seen before join the fun as easily as those who have grown up in the building. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Bailey, being somewhat small, can squeeze through comparatively easily. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get rid of Lyra so that he could talk more privately with the young woman; Lyra could tell that easily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

By comparison, grasslands are easily invaded by tree seedlings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not that I care so much about the League, but I was hurt by how easily my friend would be willing to cast me aside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The path they followed led them easily through the woods, taking them directly to the fence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine how you managed to get it under control so easily.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And between us there was nothing but a thin tarpaulin, easily got round. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She found Crisfield easily enough, way down at the end of Maryland, facing the Chesapeake Bay. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool was not big and it could easily have gotten out and away into the sea, yet it stayed there and slept or waited for me to come with food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his high score, Gligoric was already assured a berth in the Candidates, so he could easily offer Fischer an early “grandmaster draw” and coast to a successful denouement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if everything went well, I could easily be back by the middle of the afternoon, which might even give me time to catch a few shad to show Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really do not think, ” said Roscuro, “that Mig would need much persuasion to use that knife, Princess. She is a dangerous individual, easily led. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Me: “Maxine has been on me about quitting things. She says I can’t just give up so easily. Especially on people.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Why would he go through the complexities of transferring us when he could easily get other Jewish workers for free in his new location? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Your father,” Darma says, her tone lighter than before, “is too impatient. He wants things to come quickly and easily. You cannot farm that way. He thinks money will solve all problems. It will not.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

‘But if we don’t stop this war the entire legion will be wiped out. You said the monster tribes take insult easily?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It turns out he was wrong, but he could easily have been right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I am amazed how easily the lies come out of my mouth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were reading Odenigbo’s article, she was sure; it was easily the best there. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ann’s luggage—a small footlocker and a shopping bag filled with Lydia’s things—fit easily into the cab’s trunk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One example of the way in which a well established racial order easily absorbs legal challenges is the infamous aftermath of the Brown v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But I could easily have been a lot less convincing than I need to be now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s dark, there’s blood on my face, and the mosquito could easily sit and drink without injecting. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of course he’s more a collector than anything else, loving the pursuit too much, easily bored. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That must be why it’s so strange that I could easily belong in three of them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

That way, I could connect easily to the nursery through the bathroom. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easily twice the size of the El Camino and probably weighed ten times as much. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I could just as easily sell her to a cocoa plantation,” he shouted as he seized my arm and began dragging me through the door. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll find it easily: any small boy can take you there; no family has a mansion half so grand as he does, being king. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth couldn’t help thinking how easily those needlelike teeth could sink into her neck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Doo,” “boo,” “la,” etc., are easily pronounceable and fun for children to articulate. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The cliffs here fell away easily to a wide shelf that was partly covered when the tide came in. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And, uh, I used watercolor paint because it can wash away easily, just like the memory of the Ibo revolt unless we keep studying it.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She had never rowed a boat and could easily picture herself floundering, especially if nasty naiads were giving her a hard time. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Captain Wilder could easily order the grenades tossed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a hole cut in the wall between the two adjoining warehouses so we could easily get from one side to the other. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

From there, he could more easily monitor events in the east as they took shape. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They are hard to explain and easily disrupted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“So that child gets punished for his family’s wrong?”I can easily imagine my mom shaking her head in the way that she does, lips pressed together. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

That he was no good or at best just a weak man who was easily susceptible to whoever he was with? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

They slipped easily into the traffic of travelers and traders where the cliff road met the northern road that led to Upper Djerholm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had let go of my mother too easily. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Were not so easily fooled now, though, eh?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You can’t expect me to give up all my secrets that easily.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The courtroom seemed to feel, with some complacency and some disappointment, that it was his great good luck to be let off so easily. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My books are stacked by height and turned so that the titles can easily be seen. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I realized that he must have had some kind of premonition because he could easily buy Epsom salts in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for girls, the more our bodies matured physically, the less easily we soared and flipped and twirled through the air. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was aware at every step of the young man who strode behind her with a trunk balanced easily on each shoulder. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

What Maier found is that most people figured out those three solutions pretty easily. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

None of these things came as easily to me as I would have liked; no one ever said, “Wow, you’re fast!” or “Can you believe she just started?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He failed to hear the prophecy. You know as well as I do, Narcissa, that he does not forgive easily.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The yarn is easily found, a ball of it sits precariously on a pile of books. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mother handled him easily with the casual confidence of a baby nurse, but I dreaded being forced to change his diapers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be able move around so easily, not with that picture in hot circulation. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I drew him away quietly, and he, holding my arm, came easily. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The axes went through the wood easily enough—the canvas made endless trouble. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clambered easily to the top and perched there like an enormous crow, scanning the land in the direction they had traveled. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even when Kenny had asked me, I couldn’t come up with anything easily. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be so easily distracted by him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Aubyn had lived so long with only wild animals for company that he might easily be confused, she added delicately. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got mad quickly and easily, but at least he didn’t stay mad long. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Do you realize this is one of the major reasons why America’s white man has so easily contained and oppressed America’s black man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now seemed like a good time to reinforce that, so I grabbed her arm and said, “Don’t! They’ll be able to pinpoint us too easily!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Gold for the Golden Company, I thought at first, until I saw Ser Roily hoist a chest onto one shoulder. If it were full of coin, he could never have lifted it so easily.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An adult might be very ill from the sting, but a baby could easily die from the poison. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could easily have welcomed Leon with another of her stories, but it was the news that her cousins from the north were coming to stay that had prompted this leap into a new form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

From her parlor window, Susan Kidwell saw the white cortege glide past, and watched until it had rounded the corner and the unpaved street’s easily airborne dust had landed again. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph’s second civil request — that the cats be confined to Theresa’s room — was less easily granted. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agent, meanwhile, only lost $300—a small price to pay to ensure that she would quickly and easily lock up the sale, which netted her a commission of $6,450. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was a foreigner, and although I no longer stood in awe of him, still the secret had been long locked up in my breast and would not come out easily. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experimental psychologists have recently found that visceral organs can be taught to do various things, as easily as a boy learns to ride a bicycle, by the instrumental techniques of operant conditioning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And although Stephen Byerley was one man she could like and trust, she was almost seventy and the cultivated habits of a lifetime are not easily broken. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As I sprang at him he side-stepped easily, but I just managed to kick him as I shot past. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow she had a notion he wouldn’t fool easily. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant swung his hammer, but they dodged it easily. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then she tried a child’s story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spied the prints of deer, elk, and badger easily enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could see easily, for we did not leave the room in darkness; she had placed a warning hand over my mouth, and now she whispered in my ear:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I can easily have you booked for assault.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drogon especially ranged far afield and could easily devour a sheep a day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Later I learned a truly skilled worker easily would have produced twice that number. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony thought he could easily conquer Octavian’s inferior forces. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

And because it was Finny’s idea, it happened as he said, although not as easily as some of his earlier inspirations. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have easily waited for her in his car. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After all, she could’ve just as easily gone left instead of right, back around the pond instead of over the hill... Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slid easily under him, and found the way to hold his neck and head. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The minds of children are easily read, even gifted children like yourself, Reynard.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How easily did he pick up the lute?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Armin lifted Julian's slight body easily in his arms. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was no doubt prepared for any emergency, ready for any one of uie foregoing attitudes, just as he bent himself easily and naturally to the situation which confronted him. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fast spreader, and it could live easily in people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’m amazed by how easily she seems to accept me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wet board folded up easily enough, but it felt too heavy when she was done, as if the water was still trapped between the layers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Standing in long lines, I could easily see how we earned our reputation as a friendly and talkative people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I am not a man easily brought to fury, but how dare the old-guard scythes presume to dictate my behavior? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Of course Digory knew that Polly could get away by her own ring as easily as he could get away by his. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the bottled oxygen conferred other benefits that weren’t so easily quantified. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the goose bumps on her skin, and now I’ve learned another thing about her: she gets cold easily. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But something began to happen, the more she tormented her father—a different kind of division within her, and one not so easily reconciled at night’s end. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For hours, Adina and Duff allowed the waves — also under the sway of the moon — to carry them as they talked easily about life, school, music, family. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then she beat your grandmother terrifically, one last time, so that she might remember how easily she could lose her body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

From the stage, Kammerer could easily identify Mackintosh’s group, about twenty people in all. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And anyway, nobody has any bail. I’m surprised they let me off that easily.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it so easily that I felt like I’d walked into a trap, into something I wouldn’t be able to handle once it arrived. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Once the horse had settled, Ghost loped along easily beside him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Susana. Don’t you cry for me. The doctors say they can easily remove the banjo on my knee.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He walked easily, with a joy of movement and with a feeling of walking in sunlight. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Or most simply, he is representative, easily drawn and iconic, the idea being if you know him you can know a whole people. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily the vegetables had all grown tall enough that we could easily tell what was weeds and what wasn’t. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"As it warms, the substance will flow more easily, like lamp oil." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once again, we can easily push this question back one step further, by drawing on written histories and archaeological discoveries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Cricket comes easily to me, as if Appa handed his skill down to me somehow. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This could easily ruin what I was convinced would be the best weekend of my life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He thought about how easily she suggested techniques in his drills without making a big deal of anything. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even little children here seem to know more than us, just as easily as they speak their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as foreign as a Spanish word I haven’t learned yet, but funny enough it comes pretty easily. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They took turns riding Harry’s Nimbus Two Thousand, which was easily the best broom; Ron’s old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But the wing, instead of being soft and tender, was a bit tough, so the meat did not fall easily off the bone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the statue was reduced into pieces that could be easily carted off, they did just that. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Easily in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He would catch it easily, but how soon? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might easily have died, if the water had come up over his face, or if he had bashed his head much harder. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Instead of sliding easily free it of its scabbard, it came halfway out and stuck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

THE eminent MLK: nonviolent, not easily discouraged, and firm in your beliefs. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh dear, Bod. I have no doubt that your mother will have words with you about that. It’s not as if we can easily repair those pantaloons.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I could have told her everything so easily, and she would have known what to do. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Ulbrickson shouted the start command through his megaphone—“Ready all... Row!”— the JV boat, with Bobby Moch in the stern, pulled away from the sophomores promptly, easily, and decisively. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He came easily, though he sometimes dug his little hooves in long enough to get a big mouthful of something delicious before allowing Anya to pull him along. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I marvel most at having so easily prayed with others—not simply alone. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei marveled at how he did not slip; his hooves burned into the waves of ice, and he ran as easily as if he were on a dirt road. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had seen a lot of life and wasn’t easily intimidated. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Chris seldom contacted his parents that year, and because he had no phone, they couldn’t easily contact him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t close easily; you had to open it wide and then use its momentum to swing it shut. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is such a pretty charade, my dear, that I can easily guess what fairy brought it.—Nobody could have written so prettily, but you, Emma.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

When she pressed there, the panel sprang open easily and silently, as if it were glad to have been finally found. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In that great arena, so wondrously constructed that it could be emptied of its many thousand spectators in a few minutes, doors were easily opened. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Buck learned easily, and under the combined tuition of his two mates and François made remarkable progress. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly half of the people in state prisons are classified as violent offenders, but that statistic can easily be misinterpreted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dining room, where the three of them relished her cooking and chatted so easily about their days, as though they had an endless supply ahead. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It came away easily, and I put it in my pocket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t so sure about that, and I wasn’t a little kid like Rabia or Safa who was easily comforted by her hugs, but with Parvin’s arms around me, everything did ache a little less. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It didn’t need to be big, but something easily attainable—like my parents had always taught me: one small goal at a time. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He would easily put that woman in Rising Sun Bar out of business.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew this part of the tournament would take a while, because the guys who had lasted this long were good—they wouldn’t easily fall into simple traps like the old lift-and-dive, Hassan’s favorite trick. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lies rolled off my tongue so easily, which made the pit in my stomach grow. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Easy and easily confused, eyebrows scrunching like inchworms. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z