It’s a chain that separates us from our food and keeps us from knowing what it really is we’re eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I’d been eating lunch with Anna ever since being ostracized by Alexia and her clan. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Corporal Whitcomb’s mud-caked shoes were on the chaplain’s blanket, and he was eating one of the chaplain’s candy bars as he thumbed with a sneering expression through one of the chaplain’s Bibles. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was as though something were eating the insides of our stomachs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was sitting there pretty as you please in a white blouse and striped skirt, sipping on lemonade and eating Mama’s benne seed cookies. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It looks like he’s eating her face, doesn’t it?” said Ginny dispassionately. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Taryn and I hear things, even if no one means for us to—stories of humans sleeping on stone floors and eating refuse, believing themselves to be resting on feather beds and supping on delicacies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t always overly keen on eating the apples, and kept giving them to David. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They had barely finished eating before Ifemelu turned her computer back on. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were eating dinner from the nearby pavement cafe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

While Islam doesn’t restrict women from exercising—in fact all Muslims are required to care for their bodies through exercise and healthy eating habits—women face a unique set of challenges with sports. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The trolley didn’t stop so often now, emptied by eating. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vanessa gave another flyer to a woman eating festival food—shrimp sushi wrapped in lettuce. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She sat before her board, receiver around her neck, eating apples and reading the newspaper until the board buzzed with a call to be relayed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Looks like she was eating while carving and somehow slipped out of her chair and hit her head.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What kind of tree is it eating right now?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Char’s just standing there eating a candy bar like she’s at the movies. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He made up games about it and absorbed the character completely into his daily life: “I’m Dr. Bruce Banner,” he’d say as he saw me eating the last of the bologna and cheese. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the soldiers who saved us,” the first man was saying, as if he felt he had to tell his story in exchange for the bread he was eating dipped in tea. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I know that he’s married to a white woman now . . . and he’s fat as a hog from eating hog. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I just sat there eating orange Jell-O while Howard put another hotel on Boardwalk. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As we sat there, eating a snack of cold greasy manioc followed by the slimy leaf in which it had been wrapped, I debated what to do. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

By then, we had been eating sadza for days on end—no beans or even collard greens. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were quite good, although I was annoyed by the way she preached to me about eating healthy foods. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now they are gathered together in great eating camps, where they consume the mounting pile of surplus corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They had a good time eating the Every Flavor Beans. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A week before Christopher’s hearing—which the Town of Marysville was taking its time setting up, probably to make him sweat—my father stopped eating supper with us. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was eating his noon meal with his best friend, Mr. Marston. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Not as much as you. I was just eating ’em to be friendly, so’s you wouldn’t have to eat ’em all by yourself.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find it strange that the sisters’ eating is governed by silence and strict rules. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Mother! Mother! It’s happening again. I taste something in my mouth, but I’m not eating anything.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of my journey I was eating everything a turtle had to offer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This group of five or six colored boys was up the street picking berries off the mulberry tree and eating them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They are unaccustomed to eating cooked meats,” Penelope answered, trying not to sound defensive. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But picking and eating the wrong mushroom can get you killed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I tried eating my soup faster, but it was no use; the other people were now serving themselves chicken and the platter was more than half empty. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They start with what food they are eating in some restaurant. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The leader of the birds fluffed up his feathers and began to sing a special bird song which was all about how birds enjoyed eating the food of foolish people. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He and his friends were always eating my food. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am still eating, but I notice that everyone else has left a little bit on their plates, so I do too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

These he knew because there were some raspberry bushes in the park and he and Terry were always picking and eating them when they biked past. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Brandon approaches, she is on lunch break, reading a textbook and eating french fries—which he leans over and samples without asking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

While we sat eating, I looked around the house as much as I could. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He just stands there eating Doritos and studying us like we are lab mice. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When the barbershop was closed, the men would take over a corner of the meeting/eating room at church. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So we zealously set to work to create an idyll—an idyll of eating and sleeping of course. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spread the tablecloth on the floor and sat cross-legged as if we were eating Mean Lady Ming’s takeout or fried fish from Shabazz. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook saw that I was looking at it instead of eating it, and she misread my expression. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they would not be for eating. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bad grades meant no television; not eating my dinner meant no dessert. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I only remember him eating kebab and ice cream. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was eating a samosa, dipping it into some dark brown sauce on a paper plate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow this Halloween business will be over and you’ll be happy to be the only child in your school without a stomachache from eating all that candy.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Children overall were eating more whole grains and produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Avoiding his mother’s sympathetic eyes, Doha finished eating quickly and raced out of their courtyard and ran for the main road. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to have a problem eating this. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Waves of nausea prevent me from eating anything but saltines and ginger ale. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was the relish of eating my first fried fish sandwich, nibbling at it slowly and hoping that I would never eat it up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a great scavenger, eating anything from gnomes to old tyres. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss the hot sun and sweating all day and the beach and eating cold fresco with my friends and long walks up and down hills and Cola Lakay and deep-fried beef patties. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been dreaming of a fire, flames eating unknown walls, and the siren sounded, and then it wasn’t a siren but the telephone. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his broken wing and lifetime of eating road- kill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Army people sat in their two cars, eating junk food, feeling cold, and hoping that someone would show up soon with samples of monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed taking the food out, working with it and cooking it and serving it and eating it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the solvent spread on the linoleum, licking, eating, under the kitchen door, while the voices took it up in chorus: “Fire, fire, fire!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sleets had a room for eating and it had a great big table right in the middle of it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I realize the entire team is eating lunch, chomping away like horses at feed. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Several facts suggested that the robins were being poisoned, not so much by direct contact with the insecticides as indirectly, by eating earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She finished eating her corn, and so did the others. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the third, several men were sitting around a table, eating, and Ash hesitated outside until one of them looked up and caught her eye. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as I sat on my rush mat, eating the meager evening meal with my family, that I gathered the courage to place my questions into the air for others to hear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At each sat four or five patrons, some eating, some drinking, some playing at dice. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember best going with the younger daughter, Helga, to visit the neighboring farms, eating thick, dark bread in farmhouse kitchens, and learning to wear clogs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you!” said Mary Poppins, meaningly, but the Starling was too busy eating to notice the rebuke. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I watched as about fifty Cuban girls, of all ages, sat around eating their cereal, laughing and talking about the upcoming day. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Whoever thought digging up a random orange root—then eating it—was a good idea? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He’s reading something on his lap top and eating a sandwich. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I do the normal post-breakup things—eating ice cream out of the carton, listening to better-off-without-him music, choosing a new profile photo for my Facebook page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The two men were squat ting on their heels, eating their evening meal, shoveling rice into their mouths with chopsticks, dipping into the large bowl of vegetables and meat that sat between them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all look at him, then look away quick because he is, in a manner of speaking, eating. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl saw me eating the corn in the garden and immediately reported my presence to the priest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been nice, working at Jimmy’s with you guys, eating whatever I want and not having anyone look at me funny or lecture me.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what I was eating; it was completely tasteless. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’m having a heart attack. Open the window, Virginia! I’m suffo- eating!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in the village had thought of helping us out by eating a few before we got here, but Mama Tataba, I guess, kept them warded off with a stick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am not fond of eating horse. Particularly my horse." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We all sat around the picnic table, cooking and eating. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Always talking about eating 'em out of her aunt7s garden when she was a kid and how she wanted to grow 'em someday. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the heron chowing down feral kittens was similar to the herons eating crustaceans, mice, and small birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We sat eating pistachios and breathing salt air. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to be with him, not eating tube cookies and speaking in fairy tales. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Another postal examination was scheduled for spring and to that end I made eating an obsession. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts the plate and starts eating the chicken. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the driveway, the workmen is setting in they truck, eating they own lunches. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So now was he supposed to feel guilty about eating food that should have gone to animals, as well as to other people? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t bear the stillness, the walls, the boredom of having nothing to do but wait for the day’s excitement of eating and going to the toilet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to have conflicts about eating animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Unless I’ve got that virus eating my brain and don’t know what I’m talking about, we’re standing right here. Probably five miles from the place this Berg parks every night.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I visit the family now, I wrap my American successes around me like a private shawl; I am worthy of eating the food. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we move over to the shelter station, Wiress stops and gazes up at the stands where the Gamemakers are roaming around, eating and drinking, sometimes taking notice of us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was gonna set the record for eating the most real ones. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“This is good for digestion and high cholesterol. After eating those carnitas tonight, we all need it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t plan on eating any shrubs or berries. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

After eating we stayed on opposite sides of the fire taking what warmth we could. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Daily she grows more infirm, eating only enough to keep her soul from fleeing in the night. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I sipped from another bottle of Snapple Apple, but wasn’t eating nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mama set out cookies, and after an hour of arranging ornaments and eating cookies and singing and reminiscing about Christmases past, the tree trimming was complete. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After eating these he still felt hungry and told Claudia she could have twenty-five cents more for pie if she wished. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I was sitting on the porch eating a slice of leftover extra-cheese-and-vegetable pizza and waiting for the bus when Mrs. Maxy pulled up in her car and waved to me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table eating the cake with a glass of milk, but I couldn’t finish. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We went to the other side of the lake and returned, half-blinded by the light on the water, to find Bunny and Charles on the front porch, eating ham sandwiches and playing cards. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna give you two gals a couple of days to learn your way round here ’fore I put you to work,” Teenie told them as they finished eating. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were eating grilled swordfish with basil sauce. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Like an ice cream cone you were really excited about eating, but after one lick, it fell onto the sidewalk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She took an active interest, for example, in Nick’s flower garden, often eating the heads off the daffodils and hydrangeas, also off the lilacs and roses when those plants bloomed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you been eating dirt, I ask him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And lastly I talked about all the many things I’d learned from Angelo—things about mushrooms and pigs, about nature and the arts of cooking and eating well, and so much else besides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to stay there resting, eating mangoes, the breeze blowing on me, almost like I was on holiday, not fleeing the only home I’ve ever had. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By now I’d learned eating was a high priority with the Daughters. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Daddy's eating in the coffee shop; I just saw him there." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the candy, he made me finish eating everything I started. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Good eating, huh?” he said, when Pima held out her hand for more. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she walked into camp, she found the others were all eating at the table. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Manman pulled the meat and plantains out of her pocket and started eating a piece to fill the silence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was good to be home, throwing the ball for my dog, eating what I wanted, having a bathroom all to myself again. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was eating a Twinkie with one hand. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well now, if the falling of this bird is a sign of a curse or bad luck, we are in both. So I am eating every bit of it. You can do as you please.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

During the morning meal nobody seemed in a hurry to go to the lake; this person and that always eating one more thing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been living in the woods up near there, waiting for David to come, eating what he could catch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stomach the thought of eating with my insides in knots. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We sit around the table, eating our Christmas dinner. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One story said the king had been killed by a boar while hunting, another that he'd died eating a boar, stuffing himself so full that he'd ruptured at the table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were in the habit of eating with their friends. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant they were all going to the dinner party, while the O-Hall boys would be the only twelve kids eating in the mess hall and then going home. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I crossed the Wabash tracks past the grain elevator on my way to Veech’s garage, eating the dust of the trucks hauling in the beans. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With metal legs eating up the space between himself and his little mistress he charged down from the opposite direction. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But by rights we should be eating fresh cod and lobster, only you need a boat to catch ’em. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t question any more but ate greedily, glad to be alive and eating so well. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we were eating what the grownups called hors d'oeuvres, Mother took Conrad and me aside to tell us that this year Papa Will would not be coming to join us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The sisters were eating less so we’d have enough. They were wonderful.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the flowers are poisonous. I’m not eating the flowers. I’m eating the roots.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I hate it if I'm eating bacon and eggs or something and somebody else is only eating toast and coffee. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Quite the contrary, the marketplace was a perfect place for playing, and so we did, the young rats at least, as soon as we had finished eating. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course there was Eve and the Fall; but there was nothing about falling in that story, which was only about eating, like most children’s stories. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I start munching on my snack of cut-up apples before we even get to the portables, and I’m eating them so fast, I start to choke. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Politely eating everything his mom made for dinner, even if it was something completely disgusting like liver and onions . Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo quickly counted twelve rice balls and handed out one each to her brothers and sister before hurriedly eating her own. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had it read to us every breakfast, as we sat in the high school cafeteria, eating porridge with cream and brown sugar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elders say that eating dog meat increases body heat, thus increasing energy, but you shouldn’t eat too much of it or your body will burn up and combust. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or since he was used to eating supper at Aunt Loma’s, would they both go over there tonight? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Thomas relished every bite of his sandwich and veggies, eating as slowly as possible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be mad,” I said, picking at the rug, “but I’ve been eating lunch in the library.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I'd been in the habit of taping the show and watching it every night while eating dinner. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the barn they scavenged a few handfuls of some grain he did not recognize out of the dusty floor of a metal hopper and stood eating it dust and all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as the dog started eating, the other fella threw the net over the hound and dragged it off, yipping. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t want to weigh him down with too many things. Ya’ll get busy eating,” she said as she set a bowl of potato salad on the table. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had often been told that police dogs ate black people when given the order by white people— were they eating people this time? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner that evening, our mother gives us the news but we keep eating because we hadn't known he was still alive. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This prevents predators from seeing and eating them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

If Mrs. Moss caught him biting off hunks of soap, eating big globs of toothpaste, or drinking from the shampoo bottle, he would get the hot-sauce punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was probably in the kitchen, eating breakfast and watching cartoons. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The next day I actually felt like eating. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being here with my best friend eating Oreos for dinner, wherever the hell we are. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost as satisfying as actually eating and drinking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern squealed as if the little colored girl in the commercial were standing in our room eating buttered bread. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating alone near some railroad tracks when migra agents grabbed him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Tasted so good, I didn’t stop eating till I felt sick. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Doha was sitting on the wooden porch of his house with his sister, eating corn, when his friend Gunwoo ran into their courtyard in tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The stench was overpowering—men unwashed for months and puke and muck and rot that was eating living flesh. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The direwolf looked up at him, nipped gently at his hand, then went back to eating. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was afraid we’d end up eating dandelions, digging wild turnips and grubs out of the ground to stay alive. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were finished eating we were sent back to our barracks, where we found no food left for us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just wish we could use it some—Sonny, why are you eating up my food?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The halal food laws exist so Muslims avoid eating najis things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It felt strange sitting at a table, eating with a knife and fork. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He supposed folks were all in their houses eating, even the children. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was just what he’d been eating. I took it out his hand because I thought it was more respectful. That’s all, Lyra.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Have been rubbing it since that audition, one hand stealing winter coats and eating chips, and the other, it turns out, not letting go of that frickin’ rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And even though I’m not eating or drinking anymore, the man behind the counter hasn’t asked me to leave. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There is a family eating after the theater, she guesses, the two small daughters in absurdly fancy dresses with petticoats and large lacy collars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No “grazing,” that is, eating from food packages that somehow become open; no “time theft.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the tables were set now, and already several were filled with people eating. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

After he finished eating it, he actually sat up for a moment; then he lay back again and said: “I need to find out what made me sick.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the wobbly eyases stopped eating, Chup broke off a bite of duck and offered it to Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maurice had noticed that my sister was very pretty, and soon they were eating lunch together. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A boom box played mellow indie rock as they all sat around their campfire eating and talking and laughing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He admitted that eating without fillings was “uncomfortable,” but it was better than the alternative of losing all of one’s teeth, which he predicted would happen if the fillings remained. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was very different, Bunderson thought, from, say, eating, which no one was arguing was inherently distracting, not creating a cognitive load. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I look down at the Doorman, who’s eating his lasagna with what can only be described as the ultimate ecstasy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We walked to the mercantile together eating the orange. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

While they were eating, Mama did something I couldn’t understand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just...don’t scare us like that. One minute we were eating together, and the next you were gone and the mountain started shaking.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It happened with my parents at a restaurant; I was eating tuna steak with spinach. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what the real problem is, but it’s clearly eating away at her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The older boys went back to eating, disappointed by the lack of a public scourging, but the baby, Jim Bowie, said, “Hi, Callie. I missed you. Where have you been?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“But that means you’ll be eating out a good deal, if you don’t mind.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, sitting on the side with her feet in the water, stopped eating her hot dog and held it at her mouth without taking a bite. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

‘He will be eating them by the bundle.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie and Ernie looked at each other like, I ain’t eating this, but before they could say anything, they heard the crunch of Grandma biting into hers. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Many of the visiting family members lingered at our house, sitting around the big table in the main room, everybody laughing and eating peanuts, peeling oranges, and laughing more. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still alive, despite eating the nameless fruit, so I ate some more for dinner. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Helmuth pushes himself away from the table, doesn't feel like eating. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But without his mother at the table he does not feel like eating. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have evolved over millions of years eating plants that today we would call “natural” or “organic.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After we finish eating, my mom and dad head upstairs to go to bed early before the big day, but Auntie Idris asks me to stay behind to help her clean. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The merchant’s attempts to convince Siddhartha that he was eating his, Kamaswami’s, bread were also in vain. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us people are sleeping, eating, or setting up their areas. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove one-handed, eating potato chips with the other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I got home from the party, I went to the bathroom mirror and started eating a saltine cracker to see what I looked like when I was chewing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the barn they strapped the horse into a muzzle each evening to stop him from eating his bedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was five, Robin liked eating it sometimes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I started eating my baked beans and broccoli and two slices of ham. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the house he found his supper hot on the table and the old man eating. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I handed over the envelope and he nodded, placed it in the glove compartment, and resumed eating his slice. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There they were, though, sitting through it again, still giggling to themselves, eating buckets of popcorn and drinking buckets of Coke. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many wild seeds evolved to be bitter, bad-tasting, or actually poisonous, in order to deter animals from eating them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No longer painfully thin, he was eating well. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My father spent his childhood going on field trips to the historic sites of Maryland, playing video games with his friends, and eating fresh seafood. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I play with my color sticks and pretend I do not see her thinking about eating me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk, were suddenly elevated in status by this man’s misery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fired a displeased look at me as I sat on my bunk, eating my dinner. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Does that mean we are doomed to eating at the end of a long industrial food chain and never know where our food comes from, or what its true nature is? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a stairwell leading to the school basement, a boy crouched, furtively eating his lunch. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After watering both corn groups, he made his way over to the eating area, where Nali was sitting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He doesn't know about the smell of a hayfield and eating beans off the vine instead of from the store. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating like he hadn't had any food since the last time Jazz cooked, which was three days ago. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We were eating our cereal at the little round table in the kitchen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I was still used to eating at home, where we did not use knife and fork. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took more time eating and looking at nature and wasted no time in front of TV sitcoms or “Movies of the Week.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me I'd been eating ravenously ever since I came to. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mom started eating again, delicately picking the capers off the rice with the tines of her fork. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

No one would have cared that I was eating with my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I blew out the candle, and we began eating, with Duuzuu’s enthusiastic help. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I chunked four more big fish and missed on two when Old Flapjack quit eating berries and gave a strange snort. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But to me the hard cartilage is like eating the bones of a fish. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The gods have sent this pestilence to humble me. So many dead... I will not have them eating corpses.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was eating slices of bread and jam, deftly cutting the bread from a large golden-brown loaf with a huge knife, then spooning on the purple jam with a wooden spoon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She suck the grits off the candles and start eating. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Wilson had grown up eating his mother’s fried chicken, pork chops, and macaroni and cheese. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see your mistress doing much work, but by the looks of her, she does a whole lot of eating!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and that what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Eight monkeys in Room F had stopped eating. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he has finished eating, I notice, he sits back in his chair. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon near the end of term, when I was eating lunch in the library cafeteria, I recognized a group of students from my program. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As they paddled, they talked about what they had seen so far, what they had been eating, how they had been sleeping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It appeared Shady could do his eating, bathing, and sleeping all in one place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Been hanging around here for months. Bertha keeps putting table scraps out for him. He don’t mind eating her meat loaf, but he don’t want nothing else to do with her.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A caterpillar, or butterfly larva, is an eating machine. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had a rough scarred face, the kind of man who would be most himself in the middle of a pack of loud men, eating peppery meat, drinking beer, and watching Arsenal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

While we were eating, Dad would keep looking around for something that might be interesting. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe I’d been sitting there thinking of Grandma Smith, looking forward to eating Cream of Wheat and having her comb my hair and cuss, and all along she’d been dead. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You strike me as the kind of girl who’s one day going to be eating roast chicken and those on-fire desserts just as much as you want.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If she knew I was eating cookies for breakfast, there'd be an even sterner lecture. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At the Center, temptation was anything much more than eating and sleeping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle had dared Shin to dream about one day getting out of the camp and eating whatever he wanted. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But as I was eating, the phone rang. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One of the highlights would involve cooking and eating their enemies’ dead bodies. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I want to talk to you about something,” Grandma said when we were done eating. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She dug into it with her fingers, but of course there was no cake, only more flowers, but she pantomimed eating it without sharing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He sat on a stool next to me eating a hamburger whose twin I held in my hand. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was used to seeing Dionysus by the fireplace, playing cards and eating grapes and griping at satyrs, but Mr. D was still away. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The father had given his young son a lecture about Liquorice Bootlaces when he had caught him eating one in bed. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eating lady’s small son switched it on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been inside and knew how small it was—two bedrooms, a tiny bathroom, a small kitchen, an eating area, and a living room. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was already concerned that Bri wasn’t eating when he wasn’t around to supervise her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was eating this stuff up, listening, and nodding, and every once in a while she would say, “Very good point” or “Yes, that’s exactly right.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like not sweeping the floor on New Year’s Day so you would not sweep the god of wealth out of the house, or eating a spring roll so you would roll the money in. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was reduced to eating the pumpkin leaves when every one of the new vegetables was devoured by beetles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was eating breakfast and reading the paper when she began to kick on the back door with her slippered foot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I am cooking any type of European food, anything my master is eating in his country.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Anorak's Almanac, I now thought of it as a normal bodily function, as necessary and natural as sleeping or eating. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s been eating rats,” said the second boy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How long did your dad keep you from eating?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a few months of eating nearly nothing, it takes every bit of strength I can muster to do the little arm circles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat like a tortoise, if you’ve ever seen a tortoise eating. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We first heard the bulls while we were eating our dinner of cornbread, roasted venison, and green watercress gathered from below the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Nothing eating me except five kids and a husband. Y’all driving me up a wall.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the dining-room, at one side, there was a long table of bicycle-riders, eating with their trainers and managers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Off-duty employees are henceforth barred from eating at the restaurant, because “other servers gather around them and gossip.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m accustomed to eating on time, and I was hungry. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear everybody breathing; quiet, measured breaths that came and went with awful regularity, four sets of lungs, eating at the thin oxygen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a chronic problem for Seabiscuit, who loved eating so much that he often followed up his regular meals by consuming his own bedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to be lured off, even by the tasty prospect of eating some heroes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“How interesting. I have my servant here. His name is, amusingly enough, Logi. Would you like an eating competition with him?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When they had finished eating, the hunter stood up and pointed out the window. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It picked up the blin but, instead of eating it, tossed the piece over its feathery shoulder, north, toward where Kin’s house hid in the ravine. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Food tastes better when you’re eating with other people, much better than scarfing down leftovers alone in the kitchen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I get an order for abalones and maybe the game warden thinks I’m using my collecting permit too often. Suppose he thinks I’m eating them.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Fred, Nala, and Scruffy were eating breakfast together in a shady spot on the deck behind Jenny’s house. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Or else: Part of your heart, That's what I’m eating now, Too bad we had to part. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After I finish eating, I’m so full, my pants nearly cut off my circulation. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And in several of the restaurant windows surrounding the parking lot, people have stopped eating to watch. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, to put it another way, at present you can only use your mouths for eating. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Darwin finches kept on hopping and eating. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, okay, then. As long as you’re eating something nutritious,” said my mom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The public bus after school is crowded, and someone’s been eating too much garlic. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“She’s been eating all that bread at that stupid job you got her. She’s not supposed to eat any of that stuff. Idiot.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They called it “eating crow,” and with good reason. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my third day in the Haight, I was in a cafe, eating a banana split. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s on the third night, during our game, that I answer the question eating away at me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She nodded, peeling the skin off each of her potatoes before eating them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the thing was eating up his mind, of course, and the torment had become almost unbearable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a photo of him eating his first slice of New York pizza. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For example, whenever we went to the dining car, all we could do was point to what someone else was eating or to a few incomprehensible words on the menu. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, after eating sixteen raw eggs, he went directly to Catarino's store, where his monumental size provoked a panic of curiosity among the women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Thank the Lord for Ida Peek, else I be eating nothing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“In the stories, you were only immortal so long as you kept eating it, and that wouldn’t have been possible once the shipments stopped.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But she did not answer, for in the corner stall, where a bay mare stood contentedly eating her noonday feed, Ash found the person she was looking for. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to let it cool a bit before eating. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being famous is like eating the best flan in the world. It’s so good, you can never get enough of it. Trust me, you’re going to love being in the spotlight.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

These three looked like they’d been eating a lot of squirrel meat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I picture myself eating my noodles in silence as my parents talk to Thaya Jaan in Urdu about the proper ways to raise children or about Pakistani politics. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re eating dinner,” he says as he walks out, phone three inches from his ear. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And burning our fingers while eating these sweet nuggets, we naturally started to giggle and gossip. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It does sound a bit weird. But it’ll probably go away. It’s probably just to do with the different food we’re eating here.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My little brother, Kia, was sitting on the couch, eating graham crackers and watching cartoons, and I desperately tried to act normal around him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“For me it is all about the eating. Not the ‘sport,’” he told me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I had been eating chicharrones while she probably sat praying for his safe return. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re excited, you know. But we don’t want Clover disturbed into eating them or anything miserable like that.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were forever eating apples or putting them in pies. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fire across the ridge, down the mountainside, spreading inland, tree by tree, burning like massive candles, pop-pop-popping and falling, striking more trees, burning ground cover, eating the landscape alive. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Others sat in booths, eating pizza and drinking sodas. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ceiling, trying to push away the growing panic eating away at my insides. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She had really gross habits, like eating the green stuff in between her toes and sucking on her knuckles. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He said the prayer after meals while we still had food on our plates and then asked us to keep eating, he would be right back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

What was eating at him now wasn’t so much a fear of failing as a creeping sense of loss. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Along with the birds, foxes also may have been affected, probably indirectly by eating poisoned mice or birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My friends now had to change their eating plans for me, and this made me uncomfortable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take it in laps. And stop eating all that pizza. Okay?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We lapsed back into silence as we finished eating. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was a loathsome little creature: he paddled a small boat with his large flat feet, peering with pale luminous eyes and catching blind fish with his long fingers, and eating them raw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And—from Harrison— I heard that they told him I was eating raw meat for strength. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was eating with his fingers, dabbing the ends of his bacon into the egg yolks with one hand, while holding the newspaper with the other. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped eating and seemed to be listening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And just about every day my mother had to get new cardboard to make pallets because the rats were eating those too. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some comrades brought us water, but we never even thought of eating anything. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my brothers are complaining of me now, what will they say when they 're eating snow and acorn paste? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jack interviews Frank and films customers eating while I follow him around with a microphone. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A Peacekeeper named Darius comes up and buys a bowl while I’m eating. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made a demented face as she continued eating. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I was eating it, I turned my eyes toward the back of the house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mona started on a second drumstick, eating just the skin. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digger was down in the dumps that day about his grandfather having to let go of the place, and we could see how it was eating him up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’s eating samosas, an empty bag of marshmallows stuck under her arm. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He remembered lots of little things about life—eating, clothes, studying, playing, general images of the makeup of the world. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re ashamed to take it. God, boy, don’t let a thing like that stop you from taking a dollar and eating.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they talked awhile, they “broke bread”—that was what they called eating—and somehow, just by eating with him, they recognized who Jesus was. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I got back from school the next day, I found Lori in the kitchen eating something out of a cup with a spoon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We took a bowl each and started eating. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are both eating dinner at the same restaurant at the same time. It’s not marriage.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We have to teach her healthy eating habits. And, besides, this was about control.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I started eating the cheese sandwich the librarian gave me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were swimming and eating below the two falcons on the West Branch of the Delaware. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” he said and went back to eating. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We busy ourselves with eating, but neither of us seems hungry. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I would not have forgotten to say grace before eating. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Acid churned inside me, eating at my stomach. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She started eating, but you just stared at your food, your hands crossed over your chest. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Moments after eating, my belly growls for more, demanding sustenance that ain’t coming. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If they ever read my diary, this entry will tell them how their comments are eating me up inside, probably causing more zits. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It tells how he tried to save himself by hunting game and eating wild plants while nonetheless getting weaker. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor was dressed in a gray suit like a picture in a magazine, and he was eating breakfast at a table on the porch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a bunch, standing around the table, eating with both hands, sharing out the beer. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It could be that she was eating for consolation, because of Josef: whatever else might happen, he would never marry her, and she must have known that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few more scattered couples, a full family of six eating dinner in a far corner, and a pretty waitress in her thirties walking from table to table, putting down silverware. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could hear the Odoms inside eating supper, everybody laughing and saying “Pass the butter” and stuff. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mom comes downstairs and I’m reading the funnies and eating oatmeal. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many people have died, mostly from starvation, some from eating poisonous food, others killed by soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least it was Thursday; the twins would be eating pies at Wash’s house and so would come home happy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt easy sitting and eating and walking with them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could tell it was eating him up.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Neither proved very productive, and I ended up eating mouthfuls of slushy snow that left me shivering with the taste of tar in my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Supper was pease porridge and yesterday’s bread, and that caused muttering amongst the common men as well; above the salt, the lords and knights were seen to be eating ham. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dec stops eating long enough to gape at me, her mouth full of partially chewed casserole. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Poppy asked if his family could have individual plates since they weren’t used to eating communally. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don’t want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Polly put her fingers to her mouth and moved her lips as if she were eating. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to bring her face close to the plate to see what she was eating. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, me and my wife and kids, we’re tired of eating stewed tennis shoes instead of meat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We tracked her eating, her hours of sleep, her every gurgle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We could see them in the moonlight, eating the ham and those raw sweet potatoes, breaking open cans, scattering coffee and meal—having just the best time you ever saw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was eating breakfast when I saw Dr. Snydman hurrying up the aisle with Mrs. Carpenter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The puppies may not have been eating, but certainly Amaroq would have to bring Jello some food. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now I had finished eating and was sitting in a corner pretending to be doing homework, although I was listening to all this incredible talk with keen interest. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feared he wasn't eating, but he wouldn't admit to it when I asked him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I noticed, however, that his health regimen didn’t keep him from eating more than half of my food. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We all nod and go back to eating our food. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The harsh light from above grew and swelled, eating the scene. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Jonathan, hearing unexpected kindness in the voice, stopped eating and looked up, puzzled. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I pulled some of our favorites to play over the store’s speakers while we finished eating. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“So what are you guys eating?” she said, plonking herself down on a spare log and lifting her head to peer into our bowls. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Think about eating a third sandwich but decide it’s better to save it for later. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There had always been a wide path of empty chairs immediately surrounding our eating area because other students shunned us during the lunch period. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were, like, twenty-five or thirty cousins there, eating all of our food. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jim would really get to know one another as they circled the earth more than two hundred times, eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, working—all within inches of each other. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we get back, I’m eating everything. Twice.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take me long to see why: Within a few pages he had thrown me and my meat eating on the defensive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nearby a boy of ten stood eating a rat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The table was strangely quiet, Mama and Doc sipping coffee and Jay eating up his breakfast without the usual clattering of his spoon against the bowl. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to push past her but she grabbed both my shoulders and said, “Hazel, you’re eating dinner. You need to stay healthy.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The rains have destroyed much of our work; there will be little eating done this year.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him an eating lady in a green and purple Kanjeevaram sari and diamonds clustered like shining bees on each nostril offered him yellow laddoos in a box. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as bad as the not eating, but it’s weird—cold sweat, all over my forehead, having to be wiped off every two minutes, smelling like skin concentrate. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After eating, we’re free to go outside to the courtyard for the last fifteen minutes of the lunch period. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I resolve to lie on the bed without eating, drinking, or taking my medications. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He says all the nourishment of a potato is in the skin and Mam says it’s a good thing he’s not eating eggs, he’d be chewing the shells and all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe he was telling me to stop eating. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Been eating better since you came, I see,” he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"Though she might never get another one if she doesn't stop eating." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“And remember this when you’re eating beans and washing in the river. I’ll still be here the day you leave with nothing but your hands in your pockets.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shortly after eating foliage coated with this toxin the larva suffers paralysis, stops feeding, and soon dies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then he had another brilliant idea: He suggested that he and I should get more food than anyone else, since we were the youngest and had been eating for the least amount of time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, it’s coming. Watch out for it. And I’m also writing a piece about the princess industrial complex,” I say, starting to feel comfortable and finally eating my food like a normal person. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s rural areas suddenly awoke from their trance and discovered that kudzu was eating them alive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I remember you loved eating fish and veggies on the porch of your tia Darma’s farm. It was the cutest thing.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Hungrily, Andeg dropped and struck, hard, killing the little animal and quickly eating it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s forget about it,” he whispered, eating another cookie, gulping it almost hysterically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a group of old men, two seated across a folding table playing a game of chess, others smoking pipes, eating peanuts, and watching. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: We just got through eating at Johnson’s Restaurant. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama,” I whined hungrily, envious of all those people eating, “may I have something to eat too?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad went through the motions of eating this. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much that they mentioned what the people were eating. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

"If I could fly, I'd be back at Castle Black eating a pork pie,"- said Sam. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was only when they were done eating that Penelope remembered: Her presents for the children were still waiting, carefully stacked under the small Christmas tree of the nursery! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were done eating, he stood and held a plain white envelope up in the air like it was a trophy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a day of digging up and eating raw daikons, Shin returned to the city center with as many as he could carry, sold them in markets, and bought snacks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like eating alone!” she shouted, to no one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Five hours later, we’re eating seafood at a little shack on a North Carolina beach, looking out to sea, licking tartar sauce from our fingers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had finished eating and was standing by the sink, trying to remember what his aunty had told him about opening it to have water gush out like a spring, when Master walked in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"You see your brother every day, Chris, how about eating with someone else for a change?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say much except “It sure has been hot here lately” or “I’m getting fat eating jailhouse food. Ha ha.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to bother my parents because they have enough to worry about, but I’m so hungry and tired of eating nothing but tortillas and eggs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I broke my knuckles banging on the walls, and rode a horse to death galloping off the fury that was eating me alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A happy home had nothing to do with three men in a bubble eating sawdust food and watching pencils floating in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy kept chomping and said, “Fish eating’s like anything else in life, Elijah. If you go at it ’specting something bad to happen, all you gunn do is draw that bad thing to you. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Many people had lost control of their bowels altogether as a result of eating in the Puyallup transit camp, including Fujiko. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I just know that for me, running was like eating and breathing—it was something I had always done, and without it I felt miserable. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’d grown tired of both the bathroom and the library, and enough time had passed that I no longer felt too self-conscious about eating alone. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She started eating pretzel mix from a bowl on the bar. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stand up and rush back out into the hallway and to the lobby, where some people are still hanging around eating pizza. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

While we were eating, she asked me to go to Kellam’s afterward to get some cream and butter. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I has told you before,’ he said, ‘giants is never eating giants, so I is going down and I shall untie them myself before you can say rack jobinson.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to watch her eating breakfast, wrapping a gift, sleeping. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

While I was eating I heard a clock strike the hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried eating a little bit of bacon today because Edmond particularly asked me to but it tasted like pig and I gagged. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were eating leather from the seats and bows of saddles,’’ rims one all-too-typical reminiscence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The boy took the fish, and for the next hour the three of us sat around the kitchen table eating pickled herring and crackers and sugar cookies and milk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But her face was red, just like Will’s when he got caught eating too many cookies. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Being this way was a need of his as deep as eating. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We just finished eating the second box of corn flakes this morning,” Claudia informed him. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were piled on the deck, eating, drinking, the sound of their laughter rising above the weary sigh of the waves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His father eats with his head bent over his plate, flipping through the latest issue of Time, occasionally glancing at Gogol to make sure he is eating as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, yes, we have them back home. I've been eating them for days," she says, popping a handful in her mouth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I made a point of eating in the living room with the guys watching the game. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had not liked eating every meal in front of so many other people. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dinner was a somber affair, with Ophie and her mother eating warmed Heinz baked beans from a can. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Something else was eating at Gregor now that he had his temper under control. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If local food chains are going to succeed, customers will have to get used to eating that way again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I swear, his eating is some kind of performance art. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The San Antonio River. It flows lazy, through downtown. The River Walk, it’s called. Weekends, there’s partying. People in small boats, some eating, drinking by the river. All kinds of music. Mariachi, jazz, pop.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Francie said, “Mama, if you don’t feel like eating, why don’t you play the piano so it’s like a restaurant while we’re eating.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then you are not eating the right food," she says. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Just come round my house this summer! Anyway, maybe it only shows dead people. Shame about not finding Flamel, though. Have some bacon or something, why aren’t you eating anything?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After class, Hassan found Colin eating a peanut butter and no jelly sandwich on the wide stone staircase at the school’s back entrance. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

After swimming, Felix had hung out in Benji’s suite, eating room service and playing video games on their phones until after midnight. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cheryl got up from the ground even though acid was eating away at her skin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The hobbit-children were so excited that for a while they almost forgot about eating. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the days before the operation, Tally remembered, a lot of people, especially young girls, became so ashamed at being fat that they stopped eating. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Are you guys eating lunch in the courtyard?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

One day when we were eating roast chicken, I ripped the thigh from the drumstick with my hands. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But that doesn’t necessarily mean that eating in a car is a major risk that should be illegal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She yawned and opened the refrigerator to see what she felt like eating. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I go to Violet’s early and catch her parents as they’re eating breakfast. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mats and dirty wrappers were spread all over the platform and people were crumpled down on them, men and women and children crying and eating bread and tending wounds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her flustered explanation to Father was, “Whoever heard of a lion eating a cotton sari? I thought lions were carnivores.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself eating three-tiered chocolate cake for breakfast throughout the entire month, staying up an hour after bedtime writing high-caliber stories and poems. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had stopped eating, not because of Arnold, whom I had long forgotten, but to be fashionably anorexic like all the other thirteen-year-old girls who were dieting and finding other ways to suffer as teenagers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One might think that people would stop eating and drinking these huge portions as soon as they felt full, but it turns out hunger doesn’t work that way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And then she turned to Rich and said with much authority, “Why you are not eating the best part?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they also light up when the brain interprets something as pleasurable, even if the behavior doesn’t appear to have the survival value of, say, eating or procreating. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say grace and get to eating before Li’l Man inhales the table.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It was frigid outside, so we mostly stayed indoors, catching up with Heritage and eating bread and drinking tea. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Especially now, when we’re all in a room eating. It reminds me of high school.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A group of boys are sitting at a table, all spread out and loud like they are eating at home in their dining room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sam sat a few yards away eating rice and doughnuts. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We started eating when the food was still hard, gobbling down the kernels and the lentils as fast as we could. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navid was the only one who wasn’t eating anything at the moment; instead, he was drinking one of those disgusting protein shakes. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Quentin’s not eating his supper. Hasn’t he got to mind me.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating fast and talking with one eye out of the door on the operations. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She limps over to the couch where Marisol, the twins, and I are huddled together, eating from our plates. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The usual night-life crowd, who worked on regular jobs all day, were at home eating their dinners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating all the rosewater nougat my mom’s sister had sent her from Iran. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our eating habits were formed over millions of years of evolution. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sitting up in bed eating breakfast we could see the lake and the mountains across the lake on the French side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At least Baby was not coughing so much now; at least Baby was eating. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On benches under the portico, elderly women from the nursing home sat in pairs, in knee-length overcoats with oversized buttons, eating lozenges. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After that, the four of us wander the mall, trying on purple lipsticks and eating sour apple candy slices crusted in sugar that turn my tongue green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Also, stop eating all the ice cream. Leave some for me next time.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Godspeed. If I knew a woman like that I wouldn’t be here eating lunch with the likes of you two.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time we’re at the Lighthouse doing chores or eating or having free time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After they finished eating, the Quaker led them out of the house. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One theory is that our brains evolved because our primate ancestors began to engage in more sophisticated food gathering: instead of just eating grasses and leaves they began eating fruit, which takes more thinking power. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’d rather everyone have the same basic food on their plate,” Mom said, “instead of some rich people eating steak and some poor people eating beans.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had no idea what would come of eating dinner with people like these, and in a way, it was terrifying. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, Omakayas reasoned, as she walked contentedly along, the taste of the sugar would save her from eating every one of the berries she was sure she would find on the path. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

People stopped talking and eating to snicker about it, but no one seemed surprised. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

To save money both of them were eating less. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The five of them had savored it, made a game of eating it with excruciating slowness, knowing it was the last cake they would ever taste. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After Belén gets home from school, she and I wander through the town aimlessly, eating all the junk food that will fit inside our bodies. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I argue, even though I have no intention of eating it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless forms allow us to forget we’re eating animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But to judge by the greasy faces, the meat eating was almost done; and some held coconut shells in their hands and were drinking from them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But apart from eating a piece of candy for the sake of his family and praying for their safety, there was nothing I could do. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yep. He sits in his doghouse all day, watching videos, eating bowl after bowl of Frosty Paws ice cream. I hear he’s very happy.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He liked eating them one layer at a time. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Take him some flowers and tell him you love Plato and he’ll be eating out of your hand.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That day, as I was eating my lunch, I just thought, okay. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The threadmaster was sitting atop his spool of thread, swinging his tail back and forth and eating a piece of celery. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was already done eating too, so I knew why he was there. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Many of us gave him some of our share of eggs and meat, and so he has been eating well for days. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One grows accustomed to eating regularly and the body is not used to being deprived. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that they were eating the same mush, though theirs had milk on it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After eating rice and vegetables, I slept for a long time, preparation for the work ahead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice glared in seething disbelief while her friends regarded him with amusement and kept eating. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nobody knew why I was eating those sandwiches. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hate eating lunch alone too, and I knew that was the polite thing to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing your fancy Saint Augustine’s uniform and eating fancy brunch with your new fancy friends. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone stopped eating and turned to look at me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while we were eating corn, the car was eating corn too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He sat on his picnic bench with his bunny slippers propped up, eating a plate of greasy shish kebab. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We finished eating and got the check, not before Charles had time to finish his third Bloody Mary and order a fourth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Who taught you to sing?” said Miss Lulu when I’d finished eating. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She tole Biddy I was right, and eating my good food would make her lose weight. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t thinking of home, where Ben and Luster were eating cold dinner at the kitchen table. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like cake—love it, in fact—but it wasn’t eating I was thinking about. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Why are you eating that?” said my mom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“They’re making such a huge deal of this. We weren’t doing anything mean or destructive. We were at a diner, eating eggs!” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She stopped on Espanola for a week, eating well and putting on fat for the long flight ahead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why it’s called Egypt?” asked Shadow, when Sam finished eating. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Some go up to five days without eating. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Rats never stopped eating our palms and feet, and we often were unable to walk or handle anything for days because both areas were like open wounds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they went down into the entrance hall, they saw about twenty people milling around it, some of them eating toast, all examining the Goblet of Fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

People watch with mild interest through the glass wall of the Stratosphere crown—well-dressed people eating escargot and drinking radiation as their restaurant slowly revolves—and I realize I’m part of the evening’s entertainment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Otto exacted a minor revenge by eating the two he could catch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of our forager forebears. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish the world were like this, if I just woke up and marked the food I’d be eating and it came to me later in the day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

If his eating habits were a movie, they’d be rated R for violence. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is eating potato chips and they look delicious, by the way. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He growled softly, but the cat ignored him and continued his tearing and eating. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And knows Axel for Pokémon battles in the woods, and playing games with Ms. Dale, and eating strawberry ice pops at the picnic table on hot days, and making silly faces, and being kind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He went on calmly eating bread and cheese. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, they sit at a communal round table, drinking punch and eating cookies, taking naps on little orange cushions on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This would be more than enough, because Grandfather wasn’t eating very much these days. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mint is good because we drink mint tea after supper often, so it tricks my stomach into thinking eating time is over. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We eat lunch at a special table in the cafeteria, and when we’re done eating, we are allowed to roam the caf and talk about our paradoxes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was either hard-driving and angry or, with my garden and messages about healthy eating, I was a disappointment to feminists, lacking a certain stridency. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I loved the carnival atmosphere that day—and especially eating cotton candy and candied apples. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I heard him say was, “Come, let us go to my study. My children are eating.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Technically, this is my room. So Mom’s rule about eating in her bedroom doesn’t apply here,” I say, sawing a piece of thick waffle with the tiny fork Muhammad brought me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

At cafeterias — eating factories, these seemed to him, most advanced and efficient, especially the Automats with their machines lit bright as a stage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed he didn’t like people eating in his car. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I still think about that now, eating off the metal trays in the prison cafeteria. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It took no notice of this remark and immediately began eating grass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She worries that her children are eating too much of the food her sister brings over for Enrique’s grandmother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And there was always the danger that a voracious army of ants would swarm through, eating up their specimens and leaving trees and bushes “clean as the handle of a broom.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Animals were sacred to me, and even if we had to go a year without eating meat, they were never killed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two turned instantly on their own kind and began eating it while it was still screaming. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after that, they were done eating. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

After the meager meals I managed on the bus ride, I delight in eating my fill. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my dad making funny faces at me as I sit at a table, eating peas or something. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But three-quarter ration is hard to maintain, so now I'm eating potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as her mother died, she stopped eating, and started drinking more and getting real sick. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, I discovered the four boys sitting on the couch and eating, what looked like, everything in our pantry. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder about Dutchy—if he’s sleeping in a barn with animals, eating only pig slops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Yes, I frequently watched you eating your breakfast before school. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They sprawled under the park trees eating bread and cheese, but wherever they were, they talked and talked and talked. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They were all men eating in the restaurant. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The children jumped up onto the truck and swarmed like ants all over the giant peach, eating and eating to their hearts’ content. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that until I had worked out exactly how I felt about these issues, I had better give up eating meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was when I learned about factory farming that I stopped eating meat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, my brothers are eating massive bowls of cereal and—miracle of miracles—Mom is dressed. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At last, Loo was talked into eating a bowl of leftover stewed plomms, though most of the fruit seemed to end up on his face. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the outskirts of town, when we pass an orchard, I scamper up a tree to pick guavas, eating the sweetest, prettiest ones myself and tossing down the worm-eaten, half-rotted ones to the Doctorita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also didn't eat dinner together, because my uncle's dining preferences still included eating at midnight with his gin martini and then going straight to bed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I feel like retching at the thought of eating them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, oak trees evolved to make nuts of a size and taste suitable for squirrels, which we’ve all seen burying, digging up, and eating acorns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just something we do occasionally, like wearing 3-D glasses for a movie, like eating ice cream too fast on purpose to see who gets a headache, maybe even like stealing each other’s lunches. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The parts about you eating little kids and having warts,” I said. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Humble slides away; I finish eating the chicken. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tears mix with the food in my mouth; my heart falls to my stomach when all the eight grains are gone and I see that the others are still eating theirs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had real cool covers, there were always drawings of smiling white people on it standing next to cars with wings or sitting in private submarines or eating a whole meal in one little pill. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized how hungry he was until he’d started eating. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only forest around here with caves, and I’m pretty sure the Nightbeast is currently hibernating. Otherwise, it would be roaming around freely and eating witches.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But she had no idea the storm was just getting started, because that's also when she started eating. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to give the rats the satisfaction of eating him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both of us are always on the edge of the couch for every third down, me eating those cheese puffs and him drinking his soda. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe a dress for a girl more confident than I am, who doesn’t feel insecure about eating whatever she wants in public. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They didn’t make up names for you or judge you for how you wore your hair—they just lumbered around eating and pooping and carrying people places. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Generally, he didn't think all that highly of eating, particularly when he was working. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He would make the best out of a terrible situation, and that included eating at Fentons. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No. But you’re not through eating. You want some ham and eggs?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another says, “My dog is life even when she’s eating my shoes.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

He was dressed like one of the rich kids Prosper had sometimes seen in expensive restaurants, sitting stiffly and eating with a knife and fork without spilling anything. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to face the temptation of eating even one morsel herself that could nourish their growing bodies. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Joyce had come over a bit later and gotten the kids up, and now they were all in the kitchen, eating oatmeal, smiling awkwardly at one another, and trying to steady their nerves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Families are sitting around a table of food, eating and laughing. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It turns out the question that’s been eating away at me has only ever had one possible answer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the light of a lantern, they saw half a dozen people, men and women and two children, sitting on the floor or on wooden boxes, eating from tin plates. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since I had felt any dilemma about eating meat, but some things had changed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The bad women bring out sandwiches and pour more beer and when we finish eating they put on Frank Sinatra records and ask if anyone would like to dance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then walks in front of Axel, past the old owl who isn’t calling out, past the turkey vulture eating from a steel tray, past the pair of kestrels resting in the sun. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Because he accused her of eating her own head by thinking so much about what people said. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But, that night, in that kitchen, there were people—people who cared about me, people who might have even loved me—squashed around Fang’s table, eating some tasty homebrewed chicken and rice concoction. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

That she was capable of sitting in a chair in a restaurant and eating food was a revelation to him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can imagine you lying on a carpet somewhere listening to it, eating Oreos, and maybe writing in a journal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That really hurt Mama, and we spent hours thinking of recipes that included cheese and disguising it so Pap wouldn’t know he was eating it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, are you gonna tell me your neighbors weren’t like these people? Fine, upstanding citizens, until they started eating their young?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

By examining the contents of its stomach you can find what the other fish are eating or you can use the internal organs as bait. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A missed connection. You know those posts where it’s like, I saw you on the F train reading Fifty Shades of Grey and eating candy corn.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“We asked for more money and they took from us our eating time.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no time, the nine children were eating a fine omelet and the sweet roasted plomms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The kitchen staff is eating with the guests,” exclaimed a woman. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is spread by eating the brains of infected animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"He's been snooping around my darkroom, going through my things, and eating my chocolates." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was covered with blood but I didn’t know if it was nose blood or blood from after she started eating me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, Momma, he’s just sitting there eating pancakes like nothing happened. I’d be crying my eyes out.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Stop eating them. Learn about their behavior. Respect that they have been here far longer than any of our human relatives,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Vrosera, also called sundew, fascinated Charles for its carnivorous eating habits. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen his fill of people eating and drinking and acting like clowns, jabbering like ... so that's it: jabbering, dropping clues. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My answer seems to satisfy them, but now both of them have been alerted to my eating patterns, and watch my plate like it’s a time bomb. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind waiting a few hours before eating,” he says to me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

After a low-key night eating leftover pizza and watching The Late Show with Marcus and Todd on the sixth floor, I said good night and headed for my room at about one thirty. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I ever looked forward to eating cold mealie pap so much in my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you feel, eating with him and Miss Dalton?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Pot roast, honey, nothing special. But we won’t be eating until seven-thirty or eight—your dad had a late tee time.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eating we stretch out on the ground. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t warm anymore, the bread, but my heart beat faster and my mouth watered at the thought of eating it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I roam around for a while, eating kettle corn and playing a few games at the other booths. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I try to read while eating alone, but the noise gets between my eyes and the page and I can’t see through it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And by the time that cran-apple pie did come around, Mom was smiling and eating and asking Grandma questions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Though Indians used sugar in rituals, they also enjoyed eating chunks of sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was only within the last 11,000 years that some peoples turned to what is termed food production: that is, domesticating wild animals and plants and eating the resulting livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Onion sat and began eating the pitted cherries. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her mother sat beside her and offered her a section of orange, which Taylor couldn’t be certain she was eating. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hope both of you are eating well to keep up your strength. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And those trees are the only ones the draccus has been eating,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he winks at you, laughs, goes back to shelving books and eating his sandwich. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I was not eating you, Jack! I is never eating human beans! I swear I has never gobbled a single human bean in all my wholesome life!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three children, arrayed in size, stood on their stoop in the spring air, eating cakes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’re eating pizza in the living room with an NBA game playing on the TV, but I’m the only one paying attention to it. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We walk out of the store, eating and talking. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m drowsy from sitting in the sun, after eating a plateful of leftover kimchi fried rice from Soojin’s fridge for a snack after school. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They’d had fun, watching movies and eating Mr. Bishop’s amazing food and doing their homework together. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After all, anyone would get tired of eating the same ashcake and fat back, or herring, day after day. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Viola’s already in the house, no doubt eating all yer dinner.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The voice of Felicity Stiles—signifying the end is nigh!—pulls me out of this brain-squeezing conundrum where I’m leaning toward eating the glass. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I tried eating other things, but they felt wrong in my mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We can’t. This room has a dark, broken soul. It would be like eating in an Egyptian tomb.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed utterly unconcerned that someone might overhear him, eating his grapes and dribbling the seeds out onto his lip, flicking them off with a finger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ethan wants to know why Dylan’s parents are already letting him party, and Arthur is just nodding along while eating pizza. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“We need to be eating this chicken before it get cold,” I say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the real question is not how well I did at work but how well I did at life in general, which includes eating and having a place to stay. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been getting sick eating all those ribs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix was sitting at the kitchen table, eating off-brand frosted flakes and focusing on the maze on the back of the box, when the TV caught his attention. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Brannon extinguished the match, Odum began eating his cigar, taking large bites and swallowing the tobacco with the relish of a gourmand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They go back to eating their soft boiled peanuts, saying stories among themselves. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of eating kosher, using different table settings for every meal and eating all meat or all dairy dishes, I just ate what I wanted. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Like making stones fly,’ Leo said, ‘or eating only one Fonzie.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Since Dad thought eating was a form of unavoidable delay, he utilized the dinner hour as an instruction period. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at this a small flurry of laughter swept over the table; they went back to their eating and drinking, as though the matter were finished. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had ordered a salad topped with warm lambs’ tongue, a poached egg, and pecorino cheese, something she swore she would not touch but ended up eating the better part of. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One evening a stranger from one of the houses gave me a piece of meat pie, and I brought it home without eating it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The process of eating poison to build up immunity. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The little black needle was scurrying, an insect, nibbling through time, eating into his money. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, really, this time I mean it...even if it means not eating.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t realize you were eating. I can wait in the truck....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Instead I say aloud the words that have been eating me up inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she wanted to sit with her father on the steps of the wagon eating fruit from the trees. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As much as I get sick of eating Mexican food every single day of my life, if heaven existed, I know it would smell like fried tortillas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stopped eating my meals there and bided my time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we were sitting on the beach eating our stew when Lieutenant Terblanche, who was then head of prison, made a surprise visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't just pile them up; most of them would go bad before I got around to eating them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the Bureau compound, people are sitting in the cafeteria right now, eating and drinking and laughing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Later that day we sat on our beds eating chocolate babkas. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Apparently it’s possible to get tired of eating pizza. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I read the circular, I felt a tight discomfort in my chest like the heartburn I got after eating greasy akara. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without human inventiveness, all of us today would still be cutting our meat with stone tools and eating it raw, like our ancestors of a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I keep eating, but now the pie tastes dull and cold like baby food. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s the matter, my precious granddaughter? What worry is keeping you from eating?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After eating, they’d talk...talk about other things than the saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fancy silver eating and drinking utensils lay in a huge cupboard on the other side of the room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m eating breakfast at the table when my father sits down beside me with the mail. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and smacked his lips like he was eating the sweetest candy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Took me a long time to puzzle out what that could mean—until one morning, while we were eating cereal, he told me that, sometimes, he thinks there isn’t such a thing as time. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We sat in the shade of a sapodilla tree, eating our lunch. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been eating more than his share of the stores and lying idle while we sweat and faint in the heat,” Nathaniel complains. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was too much of everything, and he didn’t feel like eating very much. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then Kino could see that they were eating, and the soft murmur of their voices came to him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a picnic of sorts, squatting on the ground, eating our jungle food, waiting for the bolt that signals noon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed, though I was worried about you not eating. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I grew up eating garbage out of dumpsters on the wrong side of town,” said Dozer, sounding sad. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The three of them lie on cotton blankets, wearing sunglasses and eating potato chips. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Alaska made an O with her lips, moving her mouth like a goldfish eating, trying unsuccessfully to blow smoke rings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Going on foot, stopping off at whatever beach town we’re at before the sun goes down, collecting money for our fake basketball team, eating real food, then going back to the beach to sleep. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They hunt through heaps of rubble, eating what they find. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had hoped that he would run home for a moment during the two o’clock eating period. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last hour I’d been eating the berries to distract myself from the sound coming from my parents’ bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t really heavy—none of us were anymore—but I was already so weak and tired from the march and from eating my bread sparingly that I barely had the strength to carry myself. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

How Madeleine liked to watch movies eating popcorn with cinnamon—but never butter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

We could eat some and keep some for the eggs, as long as we could hold out without eating those, too. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I feel no sense of my own mystery eating a can of chicken soup late at night, or lying in the fluorescent light of the school nurse’s office. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Laying it on the dresser, I felt a wave of grief for Granny, wishing she could be here today, with us eating on the good china and all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Children laugh and play under streetlights, mothers call from doorways, smells of cooking come at us all the way, through windows we see people around tables, eating. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Colors swirled around me, and while I didn’t remember eating, I felt full—my belly, my heart, all of it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was frying some potatoes, and he was eating rice pudding. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The boy who was eating popcorn asks for a key to the bathroom. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For the next two days, Shin scavenged around the outskirts of Bukchang, eating whatever he could find on the ground or in garbage heaps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Low rainfall ruined this year’s crops, and there have been food shortages. Many people have resorted to eating grass. Grass! Can you imagine?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

His earlier efforts to reform his eating habits were halfhearted. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"The cook saw you! What's more, she saw you eating it!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

While the women were eating breakfast, a group of German aircraft descended on the thirty wood-and-canvas Po-2s, firing their machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were in the kitchen of the condo, in the soft flare of morning light, and Aunty Uju, dressed for work, was standing by the sink and eating yogurt, scooping from a plastic cup. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pearl was in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I spot Abby and Nick sitting in front of the games, holding hands and eating popcorn. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The people who lived in them looked up from making tortillas or eating breakfast and smiled at me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the technicians had finished eating and was tidying his tray. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They would have to live well together in close quarters for weeks at a time—traveling, eating, sleeping, and racing without internal friction among them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My older brothers and sisters, meanwhile, began eating with their friends, or eating somewhere blocks away, in the hope of finding better food. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crouched as close to the fire as they could, eating a supper of dried fruit and hard, round crackers that tasted, ingeniously, of cheese. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And eating corn and beans together supplies all the amino acids humans need. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I almost add Arthur won’t be there either, but Arthur not being around for school or anything is a bigger problem eating away at me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He invited them in to complete their business transaction and, before they were done, they found themselves eating a hearty noon dinner with the family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk. Keep eating. As much as you can stomach.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Forty-five million kids were eating healthier breakfasts and lunches; eleven million students were getting sixty minutes of physical activity every day through our Let’s Move! Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nor did they want deer, moose, or passenger pigeons eating the maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His place was wearing dry clothes in a safe warm room, sleeping and eating without a care in the world. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

July 25: I was sitting at the cabin table eating some dried prunes when Hamilton looked over at me from the kitchen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ma laughed at them for eating green cheese. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the evening came, the neighbors in the brush houses sat eating their corncakes and beans, and they discussed the great theme of the morning. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finish eating, Phil switches the playlist on his iPod. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We cut it in half and shared, eating with our fingers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When we were eating dinner, sitting on her bed side by side, she said to me, “This is fun.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you weren’t exactly sipping tea and eating crumpets when I left you back in the cargo room all that time. Ready to tell me what happened?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And now I can feel my stomach roiling, eating at itself. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Three people sat eating breakfast in the kitchen. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve never been beaten at an eating contest,” said Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, he knew the gesture wouldn’t do much against the grootslangs wrath, but maybe while the thing was busy eating him, Koffi could run. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I know, I know, I too was upset to read about the herons eating small birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You look well rested,” he told Calixte, who was eating in the dining room of the guildhall when he finally found it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I ask between mouthfuls, just to keep her talking so I can keep on eating. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Often they stayed late into the night, eating and talking with Grampa and Dad about Gramma. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s the type of thing that would have stopped Lucy from eating here, but Millie doesn’t seem all that bothered. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When the doorbell rang, he muttered a curse under his breath about her stomach swelling from eating feces. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they finished eating, they packed their cups and kettle back into their saddlebags, and the Huntsman snuffed out the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them ate from tin plates, balanced on the knees, eating for the most part with their hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie lay there grinning from ear to ear, eating my cookie. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was on her hands and knees, back arched high, on a bright blue mat on the basement floor, while Ifemelu lay on the couch, eating a chocolate bar and watching her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone gets here around six, and we end up packed onto the scraggly basement couch eating pizza and watching reruns of The Soup. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If I was there, she wouldn’t care one little bit if I went to school or stayed on the couch watching TV and eating cookies for lunch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Could Gale and I have been eating blackberries only this morning? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We ate till we were tired out from eating, which is the way people in South Carolina eat at family reunions. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook his hand, and it occurred to me that because he was always eating my dust, the dumb fishcake had never won a real race and probably didn’t know how. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

His healthy vegetarian diet she considered a slap in the face to her own eating habits. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t really make sense. Delicious totally depends on the person eating. the food.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Percy was eating a piece of pie, which for some reason was completely blue—filling, crust, even the whipped cream. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were roaming around with backpacks and flip-flops or sitting on little grassy hills eating lunch or laying out in the sun on towels with books in their hands or sleeping. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I say goodbye and head back downstairs, where my parents and everyone are still eating pizza. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Kathy made lunches while the three girls sat at the kitchen table, eating and reciting, in English accents, scenes from Pride and Prejudice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

A part of me braces to have to explain to her what she’s eating. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was there, cleaned and ready, and he picked it up with his left hand and ate it chewing the bones carefully and eating all of it down to the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat under a tree with Peewee, eating. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacqui goes back to eating her pastry, speaking with a full mouth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if giving him a good kick in the shins for eating my food would count as an activity? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I glared at him, sitting in the next room eating Oreos and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, blissfully unaware that his sisters might get shipped back to the Islamic Republic. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Get to praying so we can get to eating!” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As we later reconstructed it from what Primi said, Mami's first reaction was anger that we had broken her rule against eating in our bedrooms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I would enjoy serving the dinner,” I said, “more than eating it.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People found out that he had trouble eating without vomiting afterward. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t drunk any water from outside the sanctuary, and hoped I wouldn’t have to ever risk it; so far the fruit we were eating was juicy enough that my thirst hadn’t become too nagging. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Back when we still hung out together, Trevor and I spent a lot of time making and eating snacks, especially chocolate ones. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I'm so nervous, I could be eating coal dust. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In a little bit, both were eating out of the same bowl. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” Theo says, nodding, “apparently, it takes half an hour to get down there, and half an hour to get back, plus all the time spent ordering and eating.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The table was silent except for Jim Bowie, who looked alarmed and said, “Are we eating a donkey? I don’t want to eat a ' donkey. They have pretty eyes.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They don’t snack—you’ll almost never see a French person eating while driving or walking down the street. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My mom interrupts my eating and writing for a variation on our usual conversation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Is it any wonder Americans suffer from so many eating disorders? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t worried about her anymore, because she wasn’t as sad as she used to be and she was eating again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We found a quiet spot by the hammock, where the music was loud enough to hear but didn’t drown out our conversation—though we were both too focused on eating to talk much. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A voice-over kicks in atop footage of the girl doing perfectly normal human things, like, walking and eating. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“There were a good many,” replied Edna, who was eating her soup with evident satisfaction. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

My sister heard they donate money to screw over gay people, and I guess it started to feel weird eating there. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a man in a balaclava sitting at the table, eating a meat pie with sauce. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My chest compresses, my insides gnaw at me, eating away at my sanity. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you don’t have anything to eat, you just think about eating. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year when it bore fruit the neighborhood kids would go and pick berries from it, eating as many as they could and filling up bags to take home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

These may be cases of secondary poisoning, caused by eating birds or mice that have accumulated insecticides in their livers or other organs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then he invites them to come sit in our common eating area around our fire pit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A couple of men approached, eating up the walk with long jaunty strides that caused their heavy silk sport shirts to flounce rhythmically upon their bodies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Repast. Not repath,” I explained, handing him a fork even though I knew he had no problem eating without one. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel any kind of way about eating fried chicken and fries in front of this boy, even as he refuses to look away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the ground floor, people sat at rows of long tables, eating or studying together over stacks of books. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Gladys’s son Gary believed all disease was the wrath of the Lord—punishment for Adam eating the apple from Eve. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I'm wishing for a fire -eating raw rabbit can give you rabbit fever, a lesson I learned the hard way -when I think of the dead tribute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Finally Mrs. Hanratty the kindergarten teacher gets up and tells everyone about healthy eating and the play begins and the people finally focus—their cameras at least. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” I said, enjoying my role as their enemy and big sister, “that’s not food for everyday eating.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he always waited until the apples were ripe before eating them, and never ate more than two or three a night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In a few hours she’d be eating breakfast alongside Shay and Croy, and everyone else she had almost betrayed, almost condemned to the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were family matters eating at him as well. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I understood something about eating without tobacco and having English class. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t get any on Friday at Morse, he had two choices: either to go without eating all weekend or without supper the following week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I only know that the fish at Old Flapjack’s lake sure do think these horseflies are the best eating they’ve ever done. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But the nuns are fasting now, eating only bread with salt and water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When the corn began to steam he took the cans from the fire with the pliers and they sat bent over them with their spoons, eating slowly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Nino Carlitos rubs her back and doesn’t call her lazy when she spends evenings with her feet up on the sofa eating an entire bag of sugary orange wafers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m eating cereal, putting on my stockings, and reading ancient Mayan spells. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finished eating and went back out to the pickup zone where the chopper was supposed to be. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew they’d be eating a lot of it this week; it had been on sale at Save Mart, and his father had bought three heads. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the kitchen stool eating some fresh berries when the phone rang. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Breaded steaks are my favorite, so I’m eating here tonight by myself. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The twelve guardians went elsewhere, leaving through a side door, probably to a private eating place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you’ve spent quite a bit of time on a deserted island eating coconut and grubs, rum will get you drunk rather quickly and thoroughly. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“A few bites? So you’re planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the open refrigerator, I unwrapped a piece of leftover pizza and took a quick bite, like a shark, trying to decide if it was really worth eating. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He finished eating and left the cafeteria without waiting for the bell or asking permission. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the truth is, I’ve always gotten very nervous whenever I see someone eating Life Savers, or if I see a roll in the store. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s avoiding me because dearly her conscience is eating away at her and soon she will be nothing but an oily husk of regret. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They parked across the street and sat in their cruiser, sipping coffee and eating doughnuts. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gregor didn’t feel comfortable eating with her standing there, but he thought he might get her in trouble if he said something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hyena spent a good part of the night eating. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped that the others didn’t notice that he was taking his time eating. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Not to mention all the people and rats who might get sick or die from eating Finkles,” I added. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because grass-fed cows are eating the same diet as their wild ancestors. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Once we started eating, people would perk up and be jolly. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loomis had been telling all this as he lay in David’s bed, having finished eating his lunch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later we were eating our pizza in peace when Mike suddenly looks past me and says, “What’s that?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a tough one,” said Wood, who wasn’t eating anything. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We began eating nourishing meals, and my mother talked about getting some new furniture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda took the knife she had been eating with, and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door, the father keeping well behind the others. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when they were done eating, it would be difficult for them to go outside again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Stop,” he said, and went back to his eating. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they would all be reduced to eating ravens before the coming winter had run its course. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She misses eating what she wants, when she wants. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But they just sat there eating very small amounts of lasagna, not even looking at each other. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He already needed help eating and sitting and moving from place to place. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were back in the field, eating the last of the grain that was left. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

With her girlish, provocative gait, she ran over to Ben’s side of the car and began eating french fries as she whispered to Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This built-in sweet tooth is so strong that we will keep eating sweets even after we are no longer hungry. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A thin, sour-looking woman with tired blond hair was sitting at the desk in the front room, eating a sandwich. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We would then sit around, eating the ears of corn and telling tall tales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed decreased his eating speed by half, just to annoy his cousin. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gregor's small limbs buzzed as the time for eating had come. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d turned it on in order to see what he was eating but also in order to look at his face in a hand-held shaving mirror. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ever since then, I couldn’t stop thinking that I might be eating dead wasps when I ate a fig. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s something—eating. Just to see somebody eat. It’s really something.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two Sundays before Easter, Mr. Chris came early in the morning while Marly was eating breakfast. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They finished eating and put out the fire. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trick to eating on it is to turn the messy side of the cushions up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“She picked it up from a little girl who came to visit who kept smiling at her. Now, say something she won’t like, wouldn’t think of eating....” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The other horses were eating toward the upper end of the pasture, but Nellie continued to rub herself nervously against the post. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was eating a lot of rats. Now they will be into your manioc.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as the men feasted on the dogs, Worsley commented that the piece he was eating had a better flavor than the leopard seal, and Hurley found it “exquisitely tender and flavorous.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We’d be eating way too many of Mom’s famous peanut butter cookies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"They're thieves and cravens, and they have green teeth from eating frogs." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At breakfast, Aunt Pearl would make some comment about his huge appetite eating them out into the street, but she smiled when she said it. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music cast such a spell over them that they forgot about home and eating. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo came out of his cabin then, and I asked him if he’d been eating oranges and juicing them and throwing the peels into the kennel; I knew better, but I asked anyway. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone sits in a circle on the stage in pajamas, eating donut holes and drinking coffee out of Styrofoam cups. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I was working, eating my meals out, buying my own clothes, giving what few pennies I could to Granny to help out in the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he did so, the great snake, fat and slow from all its eating, slid heavily into the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She describes the narrow house, the gas fireplaces, the dank odor of the bathrooms, eating Weetabix and hot milk for breakfast, wearing a uniform to school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating something right out of the witch’s hand. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at her son sitting on the floor of the cookhouse eating mush and milk. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She saw them some evenings sitting under a maple tree eating rice and fish off of tin plates. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sacred doesn’t just take off and leave me when he’s done eating. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The flames were spreading toward the door, eating up that dry old wood in no time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look over at Viola, eating outta one of her packets of fruit. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After we finished eating I made my way over to where she sat with her back against one of the greystones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Malachy isn’t in a ditch, he’s there in our own house eating fish and chips a drunken soldier dropped at the gate of the Sarsfield Barracks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She thought it was from eating too much food; it was the season of golden peaches, apricots, and young com cooked with basil in clay casseroles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another day of eating lunch in the stupid bathroom. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She knew the leopard wouldn’t be a problem until he finished eating the kudu, but he was still out there. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone with Milo later, Major Major felt protest stir for the first time and said he would prefer to continue eating with the other officers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, the lobby was quiet; it was Sunday, they were eating at three o’clock, American-style. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Sir Fig Newton would be his heavy-duty self, napping and eating the days away. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Your father has been learning to cook since I stopped eating,” Lourdes says. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That old head thinks of nothing except his eating and his drinking,” he muttered into the mouth of the oven; but aloud he said nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn't wait for her dad to leave so that she could start eating everything. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to say to that, so I gave him a weak smile and kept eating. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Teenage defectors from the North, when they arrive in South Korea, have told government counselors of a recurring dream: they are sitting at a table with their families, eating warm rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I saw the Great Crusader and Vegetarian digging in, I said, “You’re eating meat.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he sent her a message last night or this morning and they’re off right now, eating popcorn at the movies, just him and V.S.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We’re in Paris, eating dinner in a nice restaurant, and my father is telling a story. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was so hungry that when her husband died from eating poisonous food, she ate his flesh and fed it to her children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the following days eating and drinking and bathing and observing the meerkats and walking and running and resting and growing stronger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day I intentionally broke one of these laws: I talked while eating. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had its head right in the cow, eating from the inside. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elders started to feast first, all eating from one plate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“When did you stop eating and start looking like a dried stockfish?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how much he preferred my company in particular until he came in one night a little drunk and found Alice and I eating together in her cabin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished eating, Slannen said that elves liked to sleep soon after nightfall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

President Truman was on a ship back to the United States, eating lunch with the crew. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring, but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crab-apple tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s like I’m eating to drown something yowling inside me, even when I’m not really hungry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was sitting at a table behind Mr. Cunningham’s ice cream shop, eating from a wax-paper container. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘So much for eating feces! Wait until the rest of the village hears what you have done.’ Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat up, yawned, stretched, shivered, and washed in the chilly spring before eating a couple of dried figs and taking stock of the place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone eating and laughing at how fast we were eating and eating even faster, mashed potatoes flying, Lucas belching, and Christopher belching, and me belching, and my father belching. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is a common sight in Phnom Penh to see people on side streets sitting in rows on squat stools eating their food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped eating, and only when her feebleness became too much for her did she take a sip of water. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we finished eating, about a hundred people had gathered on the sidewalk outside the restaurant, the commotion only breeding more commotion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought she was laying on the flattery pretty thick, but the old guy was eating it up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every time I went in, I saw Papa sitting on the floor, surrounded by men, talking, laughing, eating, and smoking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The family at the table nearest to us had all stopped eating and were staring at Mr Jenkins. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was out there in that trap this very minute eating tuna noodle casserole. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that the pencil woman now sat eating pickles—they were especially crisp ones, too—as she watched the children struggle. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rose and moved around the flames, eating berries off imaginary bushes and catching fish from an imaginary stream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

That, and for eating the most sunflower seeds. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t wanted Ma and Yvonne to nag me again, about not eating so much lately. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The next morning I was sitting in Miss Love’s kitchen, eating hot apple pie and cheese and hoping she wouldn’t pick a fuss with me like she had with everybody else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But after all of Joel’s talks about eating locally and short food chains, that didn’t seem right. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“If you insist on eating bland, unhealthy food instead of home-cooked yummy meals, then sure.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“God only knows what I have got under my skin from being here. I may die of tuberculosis, or perhaps there are worms right now eating me inside.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

No drinking, eating, or gum chewing in a house. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was eating and talking to the television screen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the old Korean tradition, my presence in the kitchen was unwelcome unless I was actually eating, or passing through the room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upswing is that, having eliminated the need for both eating and sleeping, you have a full twenty-four hours a day to spread your charm and talent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After bathing in the river and eating breakfast, the men of the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition lined up and stood at attention. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Crazy for standing on her principles: no buying on credit, no giving up her children, no eating of unclean meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a small man, the kind of little old man who looked as if the passing of the years had shrunk him, eating an enormous, many-scooped ice-cream sundae, drinking a supersized mug of coffee. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I think anxiety is very interesting,” observed Amy, eating sugar pensively. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with the help of a perpetual tailwind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Voices and music float from New Clairmont, where the aunts and Granddad are eating blueberry pie and drinking port. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I was at Grandma’s eating the forbidden cornflakes and milk, I’d ask Grandpa to tell me how he got off the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sat on a bench at the edge of this space, watching mothers and childminders scolding their charges for eating sand out of the pit. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all just life, going over itself, returning and cycling and eating itself to grow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When they finished eating, they rose and went outside to sit in the dooryard where a soft breeze gave them comfort after the heat of the kitchen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, I could do most everything everyone else with arms could do: eating cereal, brushing my teeth and hair, getting dressed, and yes, even wiping my own bottom. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Havermeyer was hiding there in a squat He was eating peanut brittle, and his pimples and large, oily pores looked like dark scales. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Right now he was eating Swedish Fish from a small yellow bag. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas jumped as a terrible crash sounded right outside their door, accompanied by screams and the splintering of wood, like some iron-jawed monster was eating the entire stairwell. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Red circles were eating into the white cloth; then a flare of flames shot out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madoc does not bother to separate off the flesh, eating bones and all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t even think about eating this, Virginia,” she said through her teeth, and then went back to her mourning. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone continued eating and the musicians continued playing without missing a single note, but Esteban Trueba jumped up as if it were an omen. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

CUT TO: Montage of Charlie getting promoted at her PR firm, attending events, going to a concert, and eating dinner alone. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Derek wasn’t eating and Moms asked him how he felt and he said depressed. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Daisies, the bark of a poplar tree that I saw a squirrel eating, and puffballs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went back to eating, and ten seconds later Mike jumps right out of his seat. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the Object was eating cereal and reading a magazine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Walking to school and eating cheap sandwiches while talking about whatever was a highlight for me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The three of us eating on cement blocks, waving away flies that supposedly puke on you every time they land, wearing the exact same clothes and stupid white shoes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We spent the halftime sitting in a semicircle by the far goal, eating our tangerines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got up early in the morning and dragged ourselves to the kitchen, eating cold porridge that the cook gave us with a scowl. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“If you all don’t start eating this supper, I’m gonna”— Trotter stopped, fishing around for a proper threat. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ash went to the cupboard and took out the plates she was accustomed to eating on. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, she wiped her cutlery with the napkin before she began eating. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were probably off eating somewhere, but Hattie would certainly return soon. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks over at Leo, who has abandoned his project with the TV and is now happily eating a slice of cheesy bread. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The lion had stopped eating and was now looking at us. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was done I thought eating wild mushrooms was as dangerous as touching a downed power line. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We are eating our young,” he said to himself. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My first stop is Edgar Street, where the lights are on and I can see the mother and her daughter eating. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If customers didn’t want to talk or share anything, Abuela would leave them alone but would always shake their hands and thank them for eating at the restaurant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Growing food and eating it occupied most of their time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They’d eloped on the Northern Pacific to Seattle—she remembered eating breakfast in the dining car—where he worked for two years in a Harbor Island foundry and for one loading lumber on the waterfront. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The little foxes eating the nice little chickens and baby mice. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t let dinner dishes touch the sink on their way to the dishwasher, once even taking a plate Conor was still eating from. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

All I know is that I looked up at the end of the chapter, and three chickens were eating sunflower seeds right in front of me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I think about eating the deadly nightshade berries from the bushes beside the path. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was a meat eater who was wrestling with the idea of eating meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I spotted some bright red ones and pointed them out, but she got to them first and started eating them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were down to eating biscuits, now, dried hard and nearly tasteless. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ford climbs up, puts his hand in the lion’s mouth and says, “Is eating me too!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She was worried about his not eating his meals, till she found out he was having old lady Davis to cook for him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were eating boar meat, ladled out from an enormous cauldron. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Immie looked fresh and grateful to be eating such a gorgeous meal. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We both sat up there eating and looking out. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to discourage wild animals from eating the other half of his food while he worked, Tree-ear had taken to hiding it closer to the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Since I’m eating my feelings, though, buttery flatbread is not enough. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

People are eating pets, crushing pigeons with bricks for soup. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All I want to do is be outside eating ice cream, looking at the sky, and listening to the sounds of summer approaching. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time we were done eating and answering questions, it was almost midnight. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They’d scrounged up enough change last night for two small frozen pizzas, but even without Luke eating it wasn’t enough. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When we’d finished eating, Chiron made the customary toast to the gods and formally welcomed the Hunters of Artemis. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them lay the berry-hedges—raspberry, blackberry, bilberry—and the strawberry patch where every August sleepy baby creatures could be seen, their stomachs full after eating the pick of the crop. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Seven eyed her toad, who was sitting happily in his travel tank eating a ceramic dish full of spicy flies. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘But you don’t like it that those beastly giants are eating humans every night, do you?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill and I were sitting on wooden boxes, eating our lunches out of paper bags. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had come that close to eating the sadza and relish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hungry, but he wasn’t up for eating bugs yet. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the food industry, we don’t even know what it is we’re eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Yesterday he had come in while they were eating supper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the table, Mom dipped her spoon delicately into her bowl of foraged greens, as though she were eating a gourmet meal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they don’t sit around reading stargazer books and eating Christmas cookies. They fly someplace exotic. On their parents’ private jet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Someone had the idea of quenching his thirst by eating snow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think of how in Pátzcuaro Arturo used to come home at midday and sit at the kitchen table, eating the lunch I had spent much of the morning preparing for him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He feels no hunger, as if he has rid himself forever of the nuisance of eating. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rab had been eating bread and cheese all through their first meeting—and that was long ago. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was eating the sweet cake, I noticed the quote on the walls again: The more you skate, the more you learn. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helped make dinner but didn’t join Mother and Father in eating it, instead excusing herself and going to her room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

One night when we were eating dinner, Dad let out a particularly hideous cry. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re thinking about a burger too much instead of just eating it.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His face was thinner and more chiseled, maybe because he hadn’t been eating. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He found it difficult to bear lying quietly during the night, and soon eating no longer gave him the slightest pleasure. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dashed across the street to the newspaper, threw open the door, and rushed into the telephone office, where a startled Maggie Medlin was eating a sandwich at the switchboard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And if I end up stuck in the storm and doomed to die, I'm totally eating the other earmarked meals. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s food in yer rucksack to last you for a bit but you should make it stretch as far as you can, eating what fruit you find and anything you can hunt.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Not quite,” he says, and goes on eating. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya sat at the table, poking at her stew with a spoon but not eating any. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Constance pointed out that none of them were antelopes eating canteloupes, or textbooks with hexed looks, or cattle from Seattle. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had not people seen him eating with her and Jan in Ernie’s Kitchen Shack? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mansfield stared at Robin meaningfully, but Robin went on eating her stuffed potato as if she had merely stated neutral information. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Shucks, I’d rather sit with the band than with Herman E. Calloway, it would be hard to have a good time eating if you looked up and saw him every time you took a bite. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mama was usually still eating, so he’d bend down and wait while she wiped her mouth, then smack her one, and that’s all there was to it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As I look at their fancy chicken wraps, I decide that I don’t feel like eating a fried bologna sandwich in front of these two. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

After eating, Lefty joined the men smoking at the rail while Desdemona hunched on deck with the women and children, staying out of the wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He bolted his dinner that evening without noticing what he was eating, and then rushed upstairs with Ron to unwrap the Nimbus Two Thousand at last. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The two of them were eating a handful of pumpkin seeds, pitching the shells out the open window into the blackness. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the white people eating in the mezzanine’s cafe at the top of the grand spiral staircase. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I carried my bowl over and stood next to her and kept eating, which, when I thought about it later, seemed kind of messed up, but at the time we didn’t know what was happening. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Satyrs are good eating. You bring me a satyr?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She plugged my phone in the wall and put the sketchbook and pencils on the roller tray-table next to the chicken tenders I now wasn’t going to be eating. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So I just said “Thank you” and finished eating my pad thai. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Going for two or three days without eating was not unusual for us, even those of us who had gone off to boarding school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of all the lives being led down there, people driving on the left, eating crumpets, drinking tea, watching telly. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel hungry, but when our food arrived I picked at my veggie burger with a knife and fork to make it look like I was eating more than I could actually stomach. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sure that Sylvia was snitching, Louie refused to sit at the supper table with her, eating his meals in spiteful solitude off the open oven door. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It won’t just be Todd and Viola, sitting by a river as the sun comes up, eating our breakfast, the only two people on the face of the planet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A man at the information booth tells him to wait upstairs, in an area filled with round tables, where people sit eating their lunch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I bought a hot dog on the street, I'd have to make up that money by eating eggs for dinner or walking fifty blocks to the library rather than taking the subway. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After four years of eating bug-infested rations, sleeping in cold and damp tents, and slogging night and day through thickets and mud, American men had had enough of rough pursuits. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors warn that young people are gaining too much weight from eating sugary snacks; parents learn that kids who drink too many sweet sodas can cycle between manic sugar“highs” and grinding sugar “crashes.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Christmas at home had meant eating Momma’s bread pudding with maple syrup and nutmeg, and reading the Gospel of Matthew out loud whilst Ruth played in Momma’s lap. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see...earlier I was eating ice cream. Right now I’m tossing this quoit ring.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I grew up poor, but there’s poor and then there’s “Wait, I’m eating worms.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the waitress finally brought the food, forks became important for eating and the war ended suddenly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I suppose it must have been quite cold, but I didn’t feel it, because my rage was eating me alive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she had been looking forward to eating the margarine herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

While eating dinner with Mom in front of the TV that night, I kept thinking about the case. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What if I’m eating dinner with my brother’s murderer? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I tortured myself by not eating chocolate for months, hoping that a change in diet would rid my face of pimples. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Charlie got carried away eating the cherries while the cake was in the oven, but luckily we still had enough to cover the top edge. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Bobby tried to keep himself fit by getting enough sleep, eating healthfully, and staying in his room as much as possible, away from the other players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bugs were all over me, eating my skin, starting at my ankles and crawling up under my pajamas till they would end up only God knows where. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s munching on something, and every so often she stops, looks up, then goes on eating again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet hurt, I was light-headed with stress and bad meals, and the idea of perhaps eating real food and sitting in a chair — or even sleeping in a bed! — sounded like bliss. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mushie immediately took one and stuck it in his mouth, and it was only by throwing my body over the pills that I prevented him from eating them all. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In heavily accented, hard to understand Castilian Spanish he described the necessity of eating portions of each of the foods on his chart every day. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the way, guess what I'm eating at this very moment. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I often think, They’re drinking sodas And eating chips Without us. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were eating spaghetti and meatballs, only Dad had cooked, so it wasn’t very good, and the air was thick and heavy with July heat. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Laura looked at him all the time she was eating her hasty pudding, because she had heard Pa say to Ma that he was wild. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy, the younger Fitzgibbon son, had been sitting on the kitchen stool, his feet up on the rung, eating berries from a colander. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of our last class together was spent eating pizza and cake and sharing our favorite moments from the week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The morning before my high-school graduation ceremony, while we’re eating our eggs and bacon in the kitchen, Pop hands me a plain white envelope. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one point when I remember eating a meal and saying to myself, This isn’t so bad. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His head turned instantly Many animals intensely dislike being disturbed while they are eating. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing she recognized was a rack lined with bags and bags of the Hot Mix that Laxmi was always eating. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Amaranta was so scandalized with the plebeian invasion that she went back to eating in the kitchen as in olden days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had thought he was eating nuggets of gold that appeared in her footsteps. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rust was eating away at its paint, but my mother said that in its heyday it had been lovely. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Buying all these fancy vegetables is eating up my whole salary,” Dina grumbles. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Which would be kind of like eating bugs . The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll starve! Imagine eating nothing but warm puppies and raw meat!” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

After eating his porridge, Sam got a bowl he had chipped out of stone and filled it with chunks of pine resin. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some of his permanent teeth had already come—but they were small and blue like he had been eating blackberries. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As in: Mom doesn’t want Dad eating salt, because too much of it increases the volume of blood, which can cause hypertension. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

They had fallen into step back in Alkonost, and taken to riding and eating meals together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Once they are eating, you have to pull them up smoothly but really fast before they fall off. Because they do let go. Ready?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Conor’s grandma had driven him back to her house when his mum had fallen asleep after not eating her dinner. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Women at round tables were eating black seaweed gelatin and talking. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked along, munching the yam, just as suddenly overcome by an intense feeling of freedom—simply because I was eating while walking along the street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Weather like this make anybody sick. When you going to get done eating, boy.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five of the six workers who had been eating lunch in one of the sheds in the North End Paving Yard would be found dead. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She is so thin it is as if her body is eating itself up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters to doctors in England, spent his evenings reading casebooks at the library, gave up eating meat on Fridays in order to appease his household god. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He hopped about the grass, gnawing one piece after another, eating the green tops along with the slices. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tourist traffic on Highway 66 was gone now, and Tayo imagined white people eating their mashed potatoes and gravy in some steamy Grants cafe. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything from eating to seeing something gross is taking on a whole new meaning to me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he gave us credit when we didn’t have eating money, so he expected us to pay without complaining. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said we can’t hide from our fears. We have to be able to talk about them, or else they’ll fester like poison, eating us from the inside.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Browns et in the kitchen so they kept their eating table in there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

What are you guys eating? the neighborhood kids ask but we never answer, too busy shoveling the food we love into our mouths. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ambuya had told her often enough of the dangers of eating uncooked flour and beans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine eating right now, but I don't want to tell him that. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I dared not delay, lest the mastiff finish eating the venison bones and start to bark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Cattle with acidosis stop eating, pant and drool, paw and scratch their bellies, and eat dirt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Or that eating hedgehogs is simply not a civilized act?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I spread out my blanket for her to sit on, and she made appreciative noises over the food as we set about eating. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Amil, who normally eats too fast, makes his pudding last extra long, eating the smallest bites he can. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the food had arrived, when we were eating and I was calmer, the kitchen began to blur around me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine breaking into someone’s house, eating all their food, breaking all their furniture, and then sleeping in their bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He imagined a life of surfboards with groups of tanned people eating medium-spiced corn chips on his seaside balcony. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He just stood there, calmly eating a slice of pizza. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he finished eating, he shook himself again, trying to get the collar off, and then trotted away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden marquee with an old man eating something out of a paper bag, and then the car was out of hearing too. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped ten pounds, and not because he wasn’t eating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t feel like eating until we knew you were okay.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He chewed and swallowed busily, copying the rest of the squad, but it was like eating a banquet of nothing, or like a dinner-party on the stage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were eating toothpaste by the end of it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She became furious with herself for sleeping in the wrong position, for eating meals that were too spicy, for not eating enough fruit, for drinking too much tea. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Who wants to see a big girl eating fries and a burger on a bus? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Today, we were both eating mini pepperoni pizzas. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was eating lunch and reading a pulp magazine. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plaza outside, the people would be eating the food they had brought with them and discussing the Song. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bee didn’t seem to mind a bit,” Hugh said, “so I shrugged and went on eating. Pretty soon I had a whole hive down there.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was like eating pizza clogged her ears. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Imogen sat on a lounge chair, eating and asking him questions. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As if my heart were eating Pop Rocks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Summoning up her courage, Shanti sang an Eastern-influenced riff and broke into a rap about living on an island, eating grubs, rescuing pirates, and eating weird berries. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

You wondered whether the snake was going to wake up while you were eating dinner. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And eventually it would mean the end of chickens, cattle, and many of the other domesticated species that at this point depend on us for their continued existence— depend, that is, on us eating them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He’s waiting for someone, drinking wine but not eating. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of the men saw me and said to Mpandhlani: “Why isn’t he eating?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m happily eating folded-over bread and butter sandwiches on the couch, my book in my lap, my legs across the arm of the chair. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow I had never connected Mrs. Flowers with food or eating or any other common experience of common people. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is at the kitchen table eating breakfast. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Up to now I've been focused on whatever mischief Jackson is getting mixed up with, Mr. Redfern's inscrutable glare, and the food everyone has been eating. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Be sure to draw the proper dose. We’ll start him off on one unit, once a day, either while he’s eating or after he’s finished.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Like, we just met each other and now we’re eating burgers like it’s a normal day.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I could have brought it up, maybe I would have, but it wasn’t till Betty Jean had gone home and we were eating dinner that I got the opportunity. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked up through the chicken yard and saw the quail eating with the chickens. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we pitched our tents and fixed noodles with the last of our water, then sat side by side on a log, eating in silence, facing Waynesboro. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was in there on her own, making her dinner and sitting there eating, and drinking tea. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And yet she felt happy, here where her grandparents were eating so seriously, where the clouds hung like heavy fruit, where the wheat curved into the distance. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

An alternative hunger-fighting technique was to imitate cows, regurgitating a recent meal and eating it again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I cross the street and continue along, eating my licorice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Two or three? Usually they judge from the teeth, but hers are in bad shape because, you know, she’s probably been eating junk food all her life.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He sees himself eating supper with Alma Ember in Pizza Hut when this large man rushes through the door, picks her up with one arm, and smashes his face in with the other. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Was it good to give the potato to a hungry old woman, or bad to take her little brother’s potato when she knew how much he would have enjoyed eating it? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After he had finished eating Adam pushed back his chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was sitting there, looking stubbly and worn-down, eating a bagel without much of an expression on his face. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can smell a city official a mile off. You watch—he’ll have the mayor eating out of his hand by noon.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A few people are sipping coffee and eating yellow and white pie—lemon meringue or banana cream—that matches the building. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look below me and everyone is there, teachers and students, and my dad eating a hamburger raw, holding it up to the sky like he’s toasting me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately, now that they were out of Delaware and a long way from Maryland there would be no green-as-poison curtain separating the colored people eating from the rest of the diners. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he was eating, the King and Queen sat on either side and watched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question was still eating at him later as he sat at his spy post outside Smith’s cottage. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tray with bread and jam and hot tea next to the bed, but Joseph couldn’t imagine eating anything right now. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were going to be eating peanuts for a long while. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s just the one day of the year when everyone in the country is eating a bird, I guess. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was already eating his second helping of pasta, a fact Lucia acknowledged with a deep frown. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emma is buckled in the back seat watching a movie on the DVD player in her lap, eating crisps and pounding a Mountain Dew slushie. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Rex Rollins, eating a Dorito by the piano, looks around and shakes his head, really digging this girl’s answer, and calls to Garret Charles, “I love the simplicity of that.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had the same feeling while we were eating dinner last night—they were back, spying again. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Puffskein is a scavenger that will eat anything from leftovers to spiders, but it has a particular preference for sticking its tongue up the nose of sleeping wizards and eating their bogies. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you stopped eating? All your bum has gone. I always wished I had a bum like yours,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I can’t go home—Uncle Max is probably still there, eating dinner at our family table, talking to everyone like he’s the favorite relative they’ve all been missing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t eat if our guest wasn’t eating. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt as though it was suffocating her, a tension eating away at her very cells. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Everybody stops eating, like we was all froze to death in our chairs. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cullens and the Hales sat at the same table as always, not eating, talking only among themselves. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We hungry,” a ruddy-cheeked man announced to her in overly loud pidgin, miming the act of eating. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gurgi and the bard, however, appeared delighted at the strange turn of events, and set heartily to eating the food that soon arrived at the table. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘I declare,’ she said one day, ‘no business can be run with just a feeble old man and three of the most worthless boys in Boston—eating their heads off.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As before, when she finished eating, she took up her ukulele. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

So they were silent, eating, and this time Winnie licked the syrup from her fingers without pausing to think about it first. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, while I’m eating dinner with Mom and Malia, there’s a knock on our door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Though at the moment I feel more like eating and drinking!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She loves those things, and every night when we're eating dinner, she sits on our couch in the living room and watches one while opening mail and clipping coupons. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When we were eating lunch and I would bring out my jackknife to cut my sandwich, he would say, “You going to use that knife?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or they could have been at Clairmont, listening to the aunts argue and eating beach plum jam on water crackers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She looked at the grotesque eating equipment Alexandra had put by his plate. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Rabia loved eating chili cheese popcorn with extra butter while she worked. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Joey likes to have someone look after him, fussing about whether or not he’s getting enough sleep and eating enough fiber and all those other grandmotherly things. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way I was so hungry from not eating while conked out on the airplane that I begged for rice. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walt reacted the other way, eating compulsively, and gained eight pounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning while we were sitting there eating breakfast, my dad showed up at the door, his face looking like it had caved in, like it was in ruins or something. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Nan and Wynn were up and eating breakfast while I dashed around getting ready. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We stayed in one comer of the cell that night, eating our sandwiches and reading the paper the warder also brought for us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the winter locked in his room eating carrots, without complaining about the cold, and filling page after page with his minute handwriting in black ink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zack is sitting at the kitchen table eating scrambled eggs when I walk in the back door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I can tell Shiloh likes the fried chicken better than he liked the sour cream-frankfurter mess he’d been eating all week. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone else at the conference is eating dinner in the Connellsville High cafeteria. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everywhere we went on the island or on the sea, whether we were fishing or eating or sitting by the fires at night, they were with us. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slices off some fruit, but before eating it, Ma tilts her head to address the woman behind her. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The new Khmer have better words for eating, sleeping, working, stranger; all designed to make us equal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holidays are when I want most for our family to be happy, like the white families on TV and in magazines eating turkey, opening presents, or playing board games. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Vincent's had his teeth fixed; he is eating better; he has energy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I watched them eating dandy grass and green grubs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This guy named Fritz something was eating a lot of Twinkies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With his free hand, he’s eating a blueberry muffin, and he’s eating it the way he always eats his muffins, first the stump, then the top. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She drops the shells of the pistachios she’s eating into a metal bowl. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Shanti's in the kitchen, eating a giant bowl of cookies 'n' cream ice cream—her go-to substance in times of stress. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then we would walk along the highway eating. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was because the chickens had spent their lives outdoors on pastures rather than in a shed eating grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They say hateful stuff about Asians all the time. I’ve actually heard them make comments about Koreans eating dog in front of you. Why do you let them do that?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It is a scene of peasants sitting around a table eating potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And he was eating a bit of rubbish that was an old sweet paper. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was during that trip, perhaps as a result of the chronic food shortage, that C. J. had taken to eating termites. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens; we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We’d never seen colored people eating with them, and here was our mother eating with chopsticks like the Chinese men that I had read about who worked on the railroads. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The trick was eating them fast, before you actually tasted them, and before they turned all slushy from milk. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ophelia had been living among Haitians for months, eating their food and doing her best to speak their language, and who was this new guy invading her turf? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

While I was eating he got up and went and picked up this book, an oversized photo album, and brought it back to the table. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I can almost believe that I am backstage, after a performance, eating mangoes and drinking Inca Kola. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They got company in there, and you in them muddy clothes. You set down too, Caddy, and get done eating.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going through a lot of food. I see the kasha sack going down every time I come here. You can’t be eating that much. What are you doing with it all?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He will remember eating watered-down curry off paper plates, sometimes pizza or Chinese ordered specially for the kids. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not like in training camp, though. Nothing like eating in training camp.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone sits and stands around Malik’s living room, eating sandwiches and chips and drinking just about every soda Aunt ’Chelle has. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I wondered if they were not eating something I couldn’t see—tiny insects perhaps; well, anyway, whatever it was, I decided to fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thanked her, ripped open the wrapper, and started eating. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had never even seen cake, let alone tasted it, and he’d been whipped for eating windfall apples that were more worm than fruit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Through the eating club, she had friends who were white and wealthy, including a bona fide teenage movie star and a European student rumored to be a princess. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I hope whatever’s eating him has a good, hearty appetite. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even eaten my breakfast yet, and the thought of eating a Finkle at eight o’clock in the morning made my stomach feel funny. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I moved you in with us, you were eating rancid meats and hadn’t paid your water bill in three months.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The two of us sitting here eating dinner together. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So I just hung around the store eating my seeds while Mr. Charles went through inventory. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Part of me was acting on tradition; part of me was worried about embarrassing myself and eating the wrong way—and part of me was thinking, I hope they ask me just one more time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all eating and laughing and playing such tricks out of pure frolic as might be the marvel of a king’s court. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I play around with a bowl of broth, eating only a spoonful or two. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

After she had finished eating, he tied her hands again almost with reluctance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t supposed to be eating, because we were going to eat with my dad, so I ran out of the kitchen and found my mom in the bathroom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were in study hall, and Cal was eating a Snack Pack butterscotch pudding. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We were eating a late breakfast when my father came in from feeding the animals. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how do you propose to do that? Wander around until you see a hollow? What then? ‘Excuse me, we were wondering what your intentions might be, vis a vis eating us.’” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The way he went on for two hours about sitting down to the Lord’s great banquet and eating manna from heaven, we had our hopes set a little on the high side. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” my mom said, “it would take more than eating a mouse to spoil this day for me.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But the infection was minor and, since Otto was eating well by that point, we got through it by Monday. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hunger also changes the world—when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are cooking, eating takeaways in the streets. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Do I really want to spend the rest of my life eating salt beef and porridge with murderers and thieves? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We should not only enjoy and appreciate our food, we should enjoy making it and eating it in the company of others. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to eating with thieves in a gross cafeteria. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grandmother was equally delighted by the meal and for a few moments applied herself to steady eating. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The insects were eating everything in their path, including Cherrie’s rain poncho, mosquito netting, and duffel bag. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, we're holding hands and eating Oreo mush, and it’s the perfect lunch. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There weren’t too many animals on the planet that were capable of eating a human and I had conflicting thoughts about this. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Anything was better than walking all day on carpeting, than eating the soft bland food white people ate, than having to sneak a look at the sky from behind ivory curtains. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A happy home meant having everyone under one roof, sitting around the table, eating a peach cobbler or pecan pie. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He went by the Claiborne house and found Todd and Nasser on the porch, eating breakfast. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He sure looks like he’s eating well, doesn’t he? I think he’s actually gained weight,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was not till they were eating a delicate cream cheese that M. Bouc allowed his attention to wander to matters other than nourishment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still think about that now, eating off the metal trays in the prison cafeteria. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“How much we both hate what Mr. Lemoncello’s doing at his so-called library. Do you know what insane game they had us play today? Reading while eating.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s no good eating me, I’m full of bones like a kipper!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re always catching colds when you come home. You must be eating too much yin. Let me get you another quilt.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up or you’ll be eating with the chickens,” he would say. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individual wild animals discovered that they could better survive by hanging around human beings, eating their crops or leftovers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That sounds mean, but if she gets in the habit of eating what she catches, she will go wild.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night we were eating dinner together at the beach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I picture him crumpling the note and eating it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My father shrugged and went back to eating. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I also told him that the variety of corn we were eating was called Golden Bantam. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Because we have no such food culture in America, almost every question about eating is up for grabs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He barely noticed he’d been hungry until he started eating Frypan’s hastily prepared meal of biscuits and tomato soup. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We are all eating well and are in health. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon, around the time the bonobos would have been eating their fruit lunch back in the sanctuary, when I first heard a high-pitched call. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was eating with better appetite than I had had in ages when I noticed that a fourth course had appeared, with unobtrusive magic, at my elbow: mushrooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When we finished eating, Liam set both of our bowls in one of the many plastic tubs floating by. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say much more after that, the arthritis eating into his hips and the agony of the oil field accident that had cost him his leg too much for him now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the drugstore soda fountain, she watched him tuck a napkin into his shirt collar be-fore eating his sundae. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t suppose I really could enjoy eating them, especially Greta and Isabella,” said Mrs. Popper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

While they were eating, teasing, commenting on the soup, flavored with low-growing juniper berries and parched hot summer corn, something happened that disturbed everyone and changed the course of the winter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He went back to eating chicken and dumplings. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I went that long without eating real food, I’d probably end up stabbing someone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was the best food he could remember eating. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

New pair cost seven dollars though, which means I’m on be eating cabbage and tomato till I turn into Br’er Rabbit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By the end of this pilgrimage he was convinced that God exists, and had learned to pierce his cheeks and chest with hatpins and to live practically without eating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Chris and Daddy and Mother and Joe and herself—they were always eating drumsticks, every single one of them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the same instant he thought of eating the fish, it moved off and disappeared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Inside, she found a counter with a chinless, tired girl behind it, and a man sitting at the end eating. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet, with great civility, begged her ladyship to take some refreshment; but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything; and then, rising up, said to Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She glared at me, so long and so hard everyone else dropped their heads and got busy eating. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Aunt Julia sat down at her table, and I sat down beside her and watched as she devoured the cheeseburger like a lion eating a zebra. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Could I live in the woods eating berries and nuts, sleeping out in the cold? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would possess a picture of the two of them, eating fried onions under a magenta umbrella, which he would keep, he decided, safely tucked between the pages of his Russian grammar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He starts eating immediately, working his way methodically through his food. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Slavery just makes good sense to me. Anyway, our slaves are better off here than in some jungle eating bugs and slugs like savages.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they were eating I walked down to a spring and filled the bucket with cool water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was as big as a house because she couldn’t stop eating. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten used to eating my fill now; no longer any need to force away the memories of hunger churning deep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last he reached the bottom, a narrow, muddy trail along the water's edge, Littlefinger was lazing against a rock and eating an apple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He picks up the wrong fork too and starts eating. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Somebody two people down from us is eating Chinese food, and even I know that’s a no-no in a small space. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as late as 1894, when the average English person was eating close to ninety pounds of sugar a year, the average Russian used just eight pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As hungry as Percy was, he couldn’t stand to think about eating with those poor bird ladies watching him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Frodo sat, eating, drinking, and talking with delight; but his mind was chiefly on the words spoken. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were breathing and eating and talking and singing and not at all making plans to die. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Benton Sage, having written only one page in four days, celebrated Christmas morning by watching a rerun of The Wonder Years and eating a candy bar. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Recently we’ve been eating a little extra rye bread because by four o’clock we’re so hungry for dinner we can barely control our rumbling stomachs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I open up the bag and take out the general store food, handing some to Viola and eating what I’ve got. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had finished eating and was sitting looking in my direction. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha is on the couch watching a TV show about a guy who drives around the country in a convertible eating bacon cheeseburgers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I am fine eating lunch alone, but today my cold cheese sandwich sticks a little to the roof of my mouth. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We try to imitate girls we see in the human world, girls in magazines, girls we see on movie screens in air-conditioned theaters, eating candy so sweet it makes my teeth ache. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he descends the stairs I follow and somehow I find myself eating a delicious meal with Coach, Boy21, and the Allens. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked standard questions like “Are you eating?” and “Are you getting enough sleep?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I kept eating, too, wanting every last fold of her, the taste brand new to me, or, at least, a reconfection of what I knew. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit at the kitchen table with our coats on, eating our sandwiches and drinking our milk, and waiting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just looking at them reminds me of Christmas and the sticky feeling after eating too many, the surfeit and glut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day they met, Rossolimo was sitting on a sofa, eating a bagel with lox and cream cheese, and he spoke to Bobby with his mouth full. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were sugar-frosted flakes, and after eating nothing but onions for more than a week, he had trouble adjusting to the flavor. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She puts them back in her bag and we stand there for a minute eating. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

While Izzie keeps eating before my eyes, I feel like I’m suffering and dying. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I remembered Margie and her mother and imagined them in New York, wearing beautiful clothes and eating bright yellow eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Time Daddy finished eating, nothing but a pile of bones left on his plate. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The dining halls were open, though at that hour of the morning there were no students, only cafeteria workers and maintenance men eating breakfast before their shifts began. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our idea of a splurge was eating out at Burger King and renting a video. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Living in San Francisco and not playing Book Scavenger was like living in a chocolate factory but not eating any sweets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And today Livotny & Associates is a growing firm of twelve full-time people, which specializes in thematic restaurant design, what I still like to call “theme eating.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been getting sick eating all those ribs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were two younger children, a girl and boy, sitting on the floor eating with their fingers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For here are suitors eating up your property as long as she holds out—a plan some god put in her mind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still early in the morning, but Jinjoo had raced out of the house without eating breakfast. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sally often came back from the market without meat or vegetable, and we all fell to eating Dr. Trefusis’s diet: biscuits and whatever broth could be won from the bone. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No one says anything and Dad finishes eating. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut me a pole and was soon perched on a stump, fishing and eating fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After that, he put it down on the table, some distance away from him, and went on eating his cornflakes, not looking up. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When I finish eating my donut, I give Fuchsia’s bright pink, Sharpie-covered sneakers a kick. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Living with the poor miners’ families, Fannie had become weak from working so hard and not eating enough. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She focused on the nausea eating away at her stomach, trying to forget why she was here. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mike was sitting at a table with several men in their shirt-sleeves, eating from a bowl of tuna fish, chopped onions and vinegar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Unperturbed by the near riot around him, Seabiscuit began gently plucking flowers off the wreath and eating them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up, you big slob. Did you pay for that weenie you eating?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food was set out, steaming on the tables; but nobody felt like eating it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s just tired,” he explained to me when we were eating dinner at the Gold Spike, just the two of us, because my mother was lying like a statue on her bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students packed the benches, sharing stories and eating lunch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

That white crinkly paper underneath my body means that I literally can't shift a muscle without making the same noise as eating potato chips. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I never thought I’d actually miss eating Pakistani food for lunch. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mostly, my cousins did the talking and Aunty Ifeoma sat back and watched them, eating slowly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Kim, if she was eating all of this wonderful organic food in Nigeria, why would she come to the U.S.?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But somehow they figured out that eating wasabi kept them healthier. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Stealing Kleenex and eating underwear is not as much fun without you,” Malcolm says in a Bit voice. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the other performers grumbled at him because, they said, he was eating more than his share of the food. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can go to the Savoy Cinema now, pay sixpence for a seat down front where there’s a better class of people eating boxes of chocolates and covering their mouths when they laugh. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I start laughing, and I am eating ice cream, and I am not afraid. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating mostly liquid supplements, with perhaps a bran muffin tossed in until it was mushy and easily digested. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the big house on the comer, Blanca, Alba, and the servants were sitting in front of the television, sipping tea and eating toast. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a poor meal, even with all the paper they couldn’t help eating as well. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But I could tell something was eating at him. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first, I just thought that maybe they were out getting gasoline for the car or eating out, but not to see me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I always complained about eating Iranian food growing up, and now I’d do anything to eat it at every meal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The elfin scholar had picked up the half of his chicken pie that remained on the table and was eating it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I found Hassan sitting cross-legged at the foot of one of the trees, eating from a fistful of dried mulberries. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Mid-Atlantic team, led by a skinny kid from Maryland named Elliott Schilpp, who could do some serious damage to a plate of food, scored the Eating It Up medal for reading while eating. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He turned to the first blank page and, after reaching up to grab a pen off his desk, drew a picture of a woodpecker eating a hamburger. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She sees Kat sitting at that back table of Essential Baking Company, reading and eating an almond croissant, drinking green tea as Annabelle makes complicated coffee drinks for the other customers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And headed back toward the bass stands, eating the jelly beans as I went, so lost in thought that I almost tripped over Mouse, who lay sunning herself on the path. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The act of eating was a comfort to his shrunken belly, although a false one—the clover wouldn’t strengthen him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, if you could actually see my boy Rondell sitting here looking all happy as hell eating his third Quarter Pounder. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had been avoiding the cafeteria, eating my sandwich alone in any safe place I could find. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bought hamburgers for supper and took the bus to his home, eating on the way. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing how we had the place to ourselves, we hung out upstairs for a change, eating cereal and watching a bit of mindless TV in the living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had seen her making supper, and had known that he wouldn’t be eating anything. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The third course was my favorite. Though the duck was a bit overcooked, in my opinion. And eating in the kitchen area isn't ideal." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I had been eating cereal in the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Blanca and Alba were sitting with the journalists and guardsmen, eating roast pig with their fingers and drinking mouthfuls of red wine straight from a bottle that was being passed from hand to hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

So,” said Wood, at long last, jerking Harry from a wistful fantasy about what he could be eating for breakfast at this very moment up at the castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

No one had ever invited me to play soccer or hang around on rooftops or stand around a Ping-Pong table eating lettuce. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Trying to win extra food rations, children told teachers and guards what their neighbors were eating, wearing, and saying. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They might already be captured, or eating at the snack bar, completely unaware that we were being surrounded. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When everybody had returned to their seats and finished eating their meals, Chiron pounded his hoof again for our attention. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, mister, if you was to drive kind of slow, I guarantee you we can pick us up a big piece of change. That’s what me and Johnny been eating off. Refund money.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The King gets sick, all the wives would be letting their hair go and eating sweets day and night to wreck their figures. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not go back to eating regularly, and he would spend the day walking through the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I’m by myself I revert to the times when I would forget about eating, stay up all night working, go until I felt an odd sensation I’d identify after some thought as hunger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got potatoes and root vegetables in the oven,” he said in a low voice, “for those principled ones among us who don’t particularly feel like eating dead meat.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then Richard adds in a lower voice, “Like a kid eating ice cream for the very first time.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He hurried with his eating, saying nothing; he wanted to get out of the kitchen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it Lily and Nathan were back and we were sharing my towel, eating the sandwiches, and watching the waves rolling in and out. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So by looking at the type of carbon in our cells, scientists can tell how much corn we have been eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She assumed that Betty and her helpers were still eating dessert in the kitchen and would not know that the dining room was deserted. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he pressed the metallic bar to his lips and started blowing and sucking, moving the harmonica back and forth like a cartoon character eating corn on the cob. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’s busy down there eating everything that falls inside, running around like a chicken with its head cut off, the head on the floor, munching food of its own. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw . . . beautiful white tablecloths and crystal on the tables, and food, people laughing and enjoying themselves and eating,” he said later. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Time stopped in this small grove of trees, and he wanted to believe he could spend the rest of his life sitting here drinking soda, eating whatever he wanted. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It took all his will to keep from eating another one as he moved them, but he got it done and when they were out of sight again it was easier. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll be staying in the dorms, eating meals at the school cafeteria, watching a play, and taking a tour. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Frisby got home, Teresa, Martin and Cynthia were eating supper, as she had told them to do if it got dark before she returned. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Doorman keeps eating—a beautiful individual but a useless guard dog. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Shirley’s talking so much she’s barely eating, and I’m thinking how cold her eggs, bacon, and cheesy grits are going to be. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I’d never believe it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, but I swear that python was eating a pig. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever they were, they were rough, hardened men who looked like they’d been living in the jungle for a long time, eating what they could scrounge, sleeping on the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was eating a steak dinner, my book propped against a sugar shaker, entirely content, when I glanced up to find Katz stalking towards me across the restaurant, looking alarmed and furtive. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I spent several days eating mutton that tasted like sawdust, picking bugs off my blanket, and sleeping. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got enough trouble keeping you and Peggy and Cal from eating them all up, and now you want to bring even more mouths around.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the half dozen or so times he’d gone to a game with Papi and Carlos, sitting in the bleachers, worrying, shouting, eating, thrilled to be there with his father and big brother. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

The quiet that suffused the doctor’s house then, broken only by the murmur of the women eating sunshine cake, was only that: quiet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

That in itself is mind bending since we don't really have any rules to speak of except don't step off your circle for sixty seconds and the unspoken rule about not eating one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He sat at his desk, eating oatmeal, the instant kind you mix with boiling water and eat out of a cardboard cup. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Against the doc’s advice, Captain Cat insisted on eating dinner in the great cabin that night, though her man Harye was still laid up in the sick bay. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even though I’d grown to love military school, I still had mixed feelings about being there, and they were eating at me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I looked at Helena, eating biscuits much faster than was polite, and shook my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, I’m here, eating instant noodles out of a pot, wondering how I’m going to survive until the police announce another bounty. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There they were, four pigs milling beneath an oak tree, eating acorns off the forest floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She’d come back bragging about eating at a fancy steak restaurant. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, I have to admit it, at that point I didn’t know if I could go for their manner of eating. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firestorms were getting closer, eating their way across the grass. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Anastasia waded through the pond, pulling shoots up from the muddy bed and eating them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bob English draws next to me, eating a sandwich from home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Bottomless pit eating us out of house and home.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

That puzzled Mama and me because, when we remembered back, we realized that he hadn’t been eating anything we’d fed him for the last several days. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our eating habits are mediated by a mind-boggling collection of such items, from spoons and glasses to genetic engineering labs and gigantic ocean-going ships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, they cruised around town, talking and eating Krimpets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach was grumbling from only eating my bagel at lunch, not my kimchi. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Is it just a coincidence that I am eating a ten-year-old’s snack and simultaneously feeling like a ten-year-old because I’m talking to my mother? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad swallows hard even though he’s not eating anything. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I focused on my sandwich—picking at it but not eating. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Back there, a few kids were eating the last of the ice cream sandwiches, while a bunch of the men had lit cigars, and their long smoke whispered up into the golden trees. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe some day he would be eating in jail. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s eating you, Hank? Have I said something—” He took her hand and walked her around to the front of the school building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Bernabe smelled of fish, her body smelled like mint, and both their hands were stained red from the wild raspberries they had been eating. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rare icy cold winter day as Connor, Zion, and I sat outside the office on the sidewalk eating our lunches. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She said the only time he actually talked like a normal human being was sometimes when he was big tired and they were eating dinner before he went to bed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking in the streets with Pa or eating noodles with Ma at the shops, I would sense that we’d run into a certain person and we would. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of the grim ceremony had been so real to me that I was surprised to look up and see Momma and Uncle Willie eating by the stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skip eating breakfast, as Mom fell asleep on the couch. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We all go back to eating aubergine casserole. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Since there are no other kids, my brother and I are stuck eating with all the adults in the dining room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Meet me in the back room when you’re done eating, if you don’t mind.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He’s probably eating himself up alive over Freud, I thought, hoping his father wouldn’t lose his temper. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I loved imagining all the far-flung people eating food that grew from the earth behind my house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You look sick. Have you been eating junk at school?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had finished eating the main meal and she was enjoying a turtle-shaped cake filled with sweet and soft red bean paste, a taste not known to her before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tucker finished the last few crumbs of a cookie he was eating—a Lorna Doone shortbread he had found earlier in the evening—and licked off his whiskers. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita glanced at the wall opposite the table where she sat eating. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Yet he was fat and with hair as slick and shiny as a dog eating three square meals a day. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He loved rather to take his roll of bread and garlic to the field and stand there eating, planning and thinking, “Here shall I put the black-eyed peas and here the young rice beds.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to find a happy medium, taking his insulin regularly, eating thick steaks, and reducing the extra weight off. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we taste some foods we are struck down, in punishment for eating them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were open to eating lots of different things, wouldn’t that make your life easier? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The big fat guy always sits there eating marshmallows at his desk. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yours looks all right. I’m eating mine even though it’s vile”—her tongue licked a speck of cereal off the corner of her mouth—“because I need nourishment to take charge on our journey.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mark and Linda used to joke about how much food he ate, so he took the hint and scaled back on eating. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queenie fried a chicken and cooked up a mess of vegetables for dinner that day, but I don’t think Papa knew what he was eating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And it felt different, waking up to it instead of hearing it while I was making tea or eating lunch. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Since eating has always been a given for me, he treats it like breathing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Tendai found himself eating as though he hadn’t had anything for days. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care about eating at a counter with white people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Faro did not seem to mind much; he gave a shake or two and then went back to his eating. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘All the “great secrets” under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Bridge and Tab stood in Tab’s small kitchen, eating mini-marshmallows and waiting for the Stove Top to cook. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Across the nation families were eating dinner in the dark, the way we used to do on Seminole under one lightbulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At supper she’s been eating nothing but chicken broth, and I feel bad for her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I miss you, bud. I’m eating cake tonight in your honor.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The next morning, though, the creature had been there again, making a large hole in the fence of thorns and eating up more plants than before. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to cook, but I’m gonna be eating real good. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It looked at her for a minute, then moved off a bit and started eating seeds again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Our arms would be touching if I’d stop being such a weirdo and start eating, but instead, I take a couple gulps of my iced tea and just sit. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He saw his friends eating die heads off chocolate bunnies and tossing handfuls of jelly beans into cavity-rich mouths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jackal slipped out of the hole without difficulty, but when it came to Hyena’s turn he was so round from eating the fat sheep that he could not get through. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He wondered where Uncle Jet was sleeping and if he was eating. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Piety, Cat, Courageous, Sceptre, Red Raven, Harridan, Faithful, Fury, they had all gone up, Kingslander and Godsgrace as well, the demon was eating his own. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In addition to the extra HFCS, Americans are eating more old-fashioned cane sugar too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It seems he tried to poison himself by putting paint on his brushes and eating it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They are not poisoned, if that is what you fear,” said Cristiana, eating the figs herself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Stop talking and start eating your share, before I eat it for you.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the American customer service can be so annoying. Someone hovering around and bothering you all the time. Are you still working on that? Since when did eating become work?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was eating some corn chips at the time, so I was using voice commands to operate the image-analysis software. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For whatever it is you rather be eating. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I passed the day eating, resting, attempting to stand and, in a gen­eral way, bathing in bliss. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was so good that Ash had no trouble eating it all, and the huntress seemed pleased that she enjoyed it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my paper plate and can of lemonade and hurry to a bench where Rabiya and our friend Dahlia are eating their pizza. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

His cleaning woman tries to take care of him, but he gets worse and worse: he stops eating, then stops speaking. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe she means “what a night” with Frank and the not eating dinner, and she doesn’t even know about the new plans for the house, or the problems with the eaglet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They showed them acting in every way as human beings did; walking, for instance, and eating, as Earth and Heaven obviously did not. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he would start bleating, or worse, start eating the linoleum. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Many had people sitting on them, eating, reading. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was what happened to me that was eating him. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wished he were grown so that he could decide when to eat, or whether to bother eating at all. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was eating jam and baguette toast at the table. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When she had consumed the parts she considered her share of food, she stopped eating. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As always, Ms. Byrd stopped eating, wiped her mouth with her napkin, glared at her coworker, and took the telephone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It has been eating away at my soul. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so she finished eating her eggs and resolved to stop faking the American accent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the awful part about lunch was the eating part—school food. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll sit up and make a joke about eating too much pasta or swooning too hard over Anderson Cooper, and ask if I want to go get a late-night milk shake with him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It falls to Haymitch to check on me, make sure I’m eating and using my medicines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Florah couldn’t bear the agony of seeing her friends all dressed up, playing and eating, and she burst into tears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been a month since she stopped eating, and already she’s lost thirty-four pounds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran licked his fingers and assured his benefactor that they had been the very finest mushrooms he had ever had the privilege of eating. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Most are eating pea soup, you see, but that would be quite challenging to transport,” he explained. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then the crop of crickets appeared and Frightful hopped all over the meadow snagging them in her great talons and eating them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many, the idea of eating in the other’s company was still unthinkable. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My eating came back around: first coffee yogurt, then bagels, then chicken. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a woman sitting at the desk eating a sandwich. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The woman sat down and began eating again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little before dark I passed a farm-house, at the open door of which the farmer was sitting, eating his supper of bread and cheese. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He saw the wildflowers in the heavy grass, and he saw the red cows against the hillsides, moving up the easy ascending paths and eating as they went. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress comes out with our food, piping hot, but suddenly I don’t feel like eating. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In spite of himself his eyes strayed to the food Heqet was eating as he walked. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Less talking and more eating. Good food is hard to come by.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a family of peasants sitting around a table eating. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One night when the laundry was so busy that the whole family was eating dinner there, crowded around the little round table, my throat burst open. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as we were turning onto the main road into town, I saw a black horse out in a field, eating grass and swishing its tail at flies. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I know about queen ants, and about the female praying mantises eating the males. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As an alternative to eating cake while watching television, she turned to pistachios, and then ate a pound in a single sitting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had spoken wearily, as they sat in the living room, eating boiled corn and ube. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I figured she was grossing me out as revenge for not eating her chicken dinner. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her convent is a place of chaste simplicity, with none of the luxuries whispered of in some nunneries: eating from gold plates, drinking wine, entertaining men, and neglecting the hours for prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Behind the restaurant was a small beach, and when they were done eating they walked for a while along the shore, into a wind so strong that they had to walk backward. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We had bought on the way a hand of plantains, of which four remained, and as we had not eaten since morning I brought these out, giving two to my husband and eating two myself. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all of the eating, talking, praying, and being among family, the house finally fell quiet. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mark and Linda were in the kitchen downstairs, eating breakfast and reading the paper. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then we talked about our San Francisco excursion, and eating all those dumplings and fortune cookies. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You got to keep eating them. One oyster w-w-wouldn’t keep a sand flea alive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It scurries about,” I continue, “eating every last leaf to fill its little round belly, except...” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Forrest insists on having her meals in her cabin with her husband instead of eating from the communal cook pot with the rest of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The table goes quiet and we get back to eating our good luck for the year. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Along with walking and eating and—” He looked around the walls of books. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"We never are. We're always eating off our knees and watching the telly." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus, Park thought, only Mr. Stessman would make a chubby girl read a poem about eating on her first day of class. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Working with Akhi felt like having a gourmet meal after eating a steady diet of gruel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For dessert we dip chunks of fruit in a pot of melted chocolate, and Cinna has to order a second pot because I start just eating the stuff with a spoon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We soon found out that cameraderie of the road really means eating somebody’s dust. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the counter, eating a sandwich wrapped in greasy white paper. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The pig was so aroused by the scent that he came out of the kraal, following a trail we had laid, gradually made his way to us, wheezing and snorting and eating the sediment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, regular dog eating has been a last resort of meat-deprived human societies: the Aztecs had no other domestic mammal, and the Polynesians and ancient Chinese had only pigs and dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To see what they are eating, and after seeing they are boiling the same leaves and giving their children to drink. It is stopping kwashiorkor.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it evolved toward eating just one food, it didn’t need to think as much. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Terrible deflection, by the way. You could have said, ‘Because I felt awkward eating too much at a family gathering with people I’ve never met before,’ and been done with it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my robe and, eating an apple I’d found in the house kitchen, walked downstairs in my bare feet to see if any messages had been left for me by the phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He went back to eating, and everyone relaxed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was conscious that other officers tried to avoid eating at the same time, and everyone was greatly relieved when he stopped coming there altogether and began taking his meals in his trailer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The women had been sitting in the garden, eating from a platter of fresh mulberries that Wajma had picked from the tree in her yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to keep my mouth shut, but since I’m not eating, it isn’t easy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it more important to be happy than to follow some thousand-year-old law about not eating meat? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pigs had their heads down, eating acorns. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Hers had both the cooking area and an eating area, which hadn’t been set up for eating. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last meal I remembered eating was that long and heavy dinner in Shusgis’ house; they must have fed me in Kundershaden, but I had no recollection of it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For now, she busied herself with simply sleeping on silk, eating on gold and being the single most feared and admired woman in Florinese history. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Justin’s upset, it doesn’t stop him from eating a gigantic serving. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’d even found this dog, which was now happily eating food at Todd’s feet, on a roof and had taken him in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ranofer tucked the third loaf into his sash for midday and went on, more slowly now, toward the shop, eating as he walked. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, sitting cross-legged, devoured his food with so many outcries of pleasure and loud smackings of his lips that he seemed to be eating twice as much as he really did. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what else to do, so I started eating lunch in the library, alone. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I followed him through the rows of big green leaves, and we eventually settled down to feast, burying our faces in the huge wet heads of lettuce and eating until our stomachs ached. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the day under Mack’s bed happily eating up his shoes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was particularly glad that she always put her victim to sleep before eating it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jones leads a life that Ashoke’s mother would consider humiliating: eating alone, driving herself to work in snow and sleet, seeing her children and grandchildren, at most, three or four times a year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I tried ripping off the bottom of the page and eating it, but she got to it first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Around the small round table, every one of my sisters stopped eating, stared, and then smiled at me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A girl like me simply shouldn’t be touching these luxury linens, eating this expensive food, sleeping in this room larger than any home I’ve ever been in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I love pizza, meaning: Even when I’m in the middle of eating pizza, I wish I were eating pizza, but I wouldn’t jump on Dad’s train even if Michelangelo were on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“If I had his hands, and one quarter his wit, I’d be eating off silver plates inside a year.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Candy Dance was a humming, skipping, foot-tapping, eating, smacking combination that overtook us when we had sweets. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one contained the exact words spoken by the various guests, and they all began eating immediately with great gusto. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not the eating kind, but the metal kind that sit at the end of a screw. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The salt went on eating everything with its mil­lion hungry mouths. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Point is, even games have opinions. But I can’t even put on weight when I want to. The ghost is eating all the cookies.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He winks at me and I keep eating, but for the rest of dinner, I am careful to watch what Maxine does. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jaja had not put much cereal in the bowl, and I was almost done eating it when the door opened and Papa came in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a shallow excuse, for he did not believe in eating meat either. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are my memories of Rob: I remember— —Spending the night at your house, and staying up all night watching cable, eating the pizza that we ordered at 3:00 a.m. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Henry were eating their dinner, from room service—lamb chops, bottle of burgundy, yellow rose in a bud vase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman with the helmetlike hair was eating her collard greens with her fingers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It is said your uncle and his wife are eating. How else are they living and with strength enough to walk about—they, who, it is known, have never had anything?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They were in the living-room eating their suppers on their knees in front of the telly. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be eating your words and everything I cook, baby sis, because I’m about to throw down. Food Network doesn’t have anything on me.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then, very soon afterwards, the rain had come down with such ferocity that for a moment all the guests seemed to stop eating just to stare out of the windows. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Well, our family has a history of heart problems, she says, so we’re going to start eating better. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The cobs of the corn they had dried and eaten and they stripped the bark from trees and all over the countryside people were eating what grass they could find upon the wintry hills. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The Souls practiced during activities hour—that portion of time between eleven-thirty and one o'clock that was not devoted to eating lunch. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt funny eating alone, and offered Henry a piece. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat across from Isabel Reyes at breakfast, eating a bagel and sipping from a carton of orange juice. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once he’d dragged me out of Birdsong Creek when I was about to drown and another time he’d given warning in time to keep some raiding Comanches from stealing and eating our mule, Jumper. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Mom are both eating smoothie bowls for breakfast, too. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They would flit and rush around and click and fly from one eating spot to another. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants. Me and Sophie is the only safe ones because I is hiding her if that happens.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z