Tomorrow might be different, but this day had ended well. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Judge Joseph Wapner, most famous for being the judge on The People’s Court television show, ended up refereeing the depositions, Moore figured no one would take the case seriously. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like so much else, heraldry ended at the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I saw we had ended up on a rutted dirt road near Isteqlal Mid­dle School. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only in this case what had ended wasn’t a life but a livelihood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I ended up telling some other kid to come in for me so my dad would have to leave the court too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t so graceful, though; I fell off my bike at the bottom and ended up sprawled in the dirt as Chris crouched down behind a group of thistles. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“When I ended up living on the streets of Tarbean I took care of myself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had not seen them since last June when school ended. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Theirs wasn't the only love story ended by the gods, but it was the only one that ended the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Miles ended up winning the majority of our rounds, but I told him that we have to do a rematch sometime. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as school ended, Gale and I hit the woods, because I wanted to get enough to trade for a present for Prim. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He could have ended the beatings by running away or succumbing to tears, but he refused to do either. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She always ended up back on the street. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Keller shape-shifted into Mr. Rodrigo, who pounded an auction gavel, and the dream ended with Mom and me skydiving into Washington State. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was only planning on spending a few days with Henry—I was back at work for Dr. Roland the following Monday—but I ended up staying until school started again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to glower at Sohrab, but it was impossible, because he was squinting again and I ended up laughing instead. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were only two cars in the lot since school had ended hours before. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But since Hudson’s the one who kissed somebody else, it still feels like he really ended things. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The match had started on a Sunday morning and ended on a Monday morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant we of course ended up in a tickle fight like we were six years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The story poured out of Naima like water from a pitcher. “...and it was all my fault,” she ended. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the ceremonies had ended, Nat walked slowly out into the sun again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the other hand, I don’t even think she ended up applying to Georgia. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

So that’s how I ended up sitting on a church pew with T. J. Rainey, listening to Miss Rhonda talk about forgiveness and kindness and goodness and grace and all that stuff. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"And the days after, until school ended and all through the summer..." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I ended up forgetting my wallet, and she had to pay. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Maggie ended up being another saving grace for me that summer. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The war ended in November 1918, and soon after, the mine operators nixed their end of the contract, in which they had recognized the United Mine Workers Union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They all sat transfixed until the song ended. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t want my father to find out, which is what would happen if I ended up in some emergency room getting my head sewn shut. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Finally the corridor ended in a doorway filled waist-high with old lumber. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But somehow I had ended up in this place called Birmingham, in a room full of machines, with only the green teddy bear at my side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Four o’clock!—depend upon it he will be here by three,” was Mr. Weston’s quick amendment; and so ended a most satisfactory meeting. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and it's all thanks to your excellent driving. If you'd missed that pothole, she never would have ended up in my arms.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If he had not, if he had not been there in the room to wake me up in time, I do not know how it would have ended. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of “Long live Animal Farm!” and after the singing of Beasts of England the animals were dismissed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I ended up having to lace them doubly tight. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path ended in a small clearing with a stone bench. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When school ended for the year, Link and Marty and I went to one of the moons of Jupiter to stay with Marty’s aunt for a few weeks. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burbs ended suddenly, a last band of parks fading into the transport ring, where underground factories stuck their heads aboveground and cargo trucks drove concrete roads all day and night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I ended up backbending on the bar, and next thing I knew, I was spinning around on my neck and flying off the apparatus. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Celestina ended her song on a very long, high-pitched note and loud applause issued out of the wireless, which Mrs. Weasley joined in with enthusiastically. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“We started off on each other’s nerves. We ended up despising each other. But that was a long time ago.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife went on afia attack some days before the war ended, and we have not seen her since.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once camp has ended, hopefully my brain will be supercharged enough to come up with a plan to raise more than enough money for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Eleven: My performing career effectively ended the day my drug dealer moved to Georgia to enter a treatment center. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And as they hustle around for work, they have been constantly reminded of the one thing that stands out on their resumes: the education that ended with a high school diploma. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I did my best to make a cool design using the Defenders' colors, but it ended up just looking like bright blue with orange squiggles. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

What if he was sorry about the way things had ended? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But one night, when work was ended, Florence invited her to share a cup of coffee in the all-night coffee shop near by. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My day started out with incredible news, but ended in tragic defeat. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Someone—I can’t remember who it was—claimed after the lesson that what Miss Emily had said was that Norfolk was England’s “lost corner,” where all the lost property found in the country ended up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disturbing call was answered by a stronger howl, closer, that ended with a cackle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All the bullying, or harassment, or whatever I was supposed to call it, had ended. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she wasn’t speaking to her cousin, she spoke to her husband, shorter conversations, in which she ended up arguing about whether to have chicken or lamb for dinner. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Guy Greco ended the music, howls of protest greeted him. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Probably they fully agreed to accept their guilty love as ended. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You secured the princess. You did what was needed. Plus, it seems our favorite knows just where to go when lost. She ended up in the right hands." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward, when the firing ended, they would blink and peek up. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she ended by telling how he had spent six months in the hospital. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was a long, rolling clang, as though the washtub had been flung across the yard, and then a confusion of angry shouts which ended in a yell of pain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She began to cry, her bottom lip curled out so that Theresa could see where her lipstick ended and her inner mouth began. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our days began before the sun came up and ended well after it retired. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Dodgers were 7½ games ahead of the second-place Cardinals when the dog days of August ended. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The piles were decayed and the planks were green with slime, and there was nothing else; nothing beyond it; the path ended where the jetty began, and where the jetty ended, the mist began. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first time, out by Tri Binh, it knocked me against the pagoda wall, and I bounced and spun around and ended up on Rat Kiley’s lap. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cheering and applause ended, he spoke again. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I ended up suckling greedy Leah at my breast and giving Adah the expensive bottles, both at the same time; with twins you learn how to do everything backhanded. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Army truck hit a land mine in France and he ended up blind. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His dreams ended as he faced that ashen, foamy, dirty sea, which had not merited the risks and sacrifices of the adventure. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The flight of Apollo 11 ended a remarkable part of my life. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the pathways ended, they curved into others or circled back to the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Given the rise of machine code breaking and the general decline in smuggling, the “usefulness of my section was therefore in my opinion ended,” she stated. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was almost a full head taller than Seth and could usually handle him in a fight, although if they ended up wrestling he was pretty squirmy. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a very long time ago that she had tried to do a good deed for Isabelle and ended up writing a letter of complaint instead. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was the one who ended the silence. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And that was how Baba ended those humiliating food stamp moments at the cash register and alleviated one of his greatest fears: that an Afghan would see him buying food with charity money. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our corner was also where a lot of minibus drivers ended their routes and turned around to loop back to the minibus rank. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He ended the subject by quoting the poem he believed in like a prayer: “Love each other or perish.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His short flight across the junkyard ended with a bone-shattering crash as the crane deposited the car on the iron shelves of the crusher. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He ended by cruising down the slide,” I added. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It rarely ended well for the person she was mad at. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She ended with a cry, and the goddess heard her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Juanita ended up bringing in the dead man by herself. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the years since the war ended I have met former Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bade his daughter good luck, and ended his speech by saying, “If your man is a wizard, you must become a witch!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slavers brought him to an island off the Georgia coast and hid him there till he got bought for Mr. Bubba Tate; that’s how he ended up in Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Had Fischer not done as well as he did, his story might have ended right there, surrealistically, in the quiet back room of a chess club. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They used hot combs to straighten their hair, his aunty had said, because they wanted to look like white people, although the combs ended up burning their hair off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ended up taking second place that day in Bologna, earning my first individual medal at a World Cup. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was deeply suspicious, still trying to parse how this man had ended up in their cage, and what his intentions might be. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Their coach ended up in such a bad mood, though, that he made them leave the social early and get back on their bus to head up to Seattle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dead and their bones ended up in a tiny graveyard next to the abandoned church, at the foot of the volcano, where there is now a proper cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was looking to get Vonetta’s goat, but I only ended up losing Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real tears were blurring her vision, and it was impossible to see where one rope started and another ended amid the complicated array of knots and loops. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Would I, in whatever endeavors I ended up undertaking in America, succeed, and would I do so nobly? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took a TO and did whatever we wanted to do, which ended up being a lot of nothing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He got agitated then, when I reminded him to call my boss, and I realized I was so stupid to have ended up in this guy’s kitchen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her fairy wings around us, and for a few seconds, we came together in an awkward embrace that lasted a second too long and ended in more giggles. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Molly continues her story—how her father died and her mother couldn’t take care of her, how she ended up with Ralph and Dina. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I felt bad about how our first encounter had ended, and I waited for an opportunity to extend some sort of olive branch to the two samurai. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Buckley’s voice boomed in Bigger’s ears and he knew what the loud commotion meant when the speech had ended. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She yelped and ended up with a mouthful of dirt as she sprawled next to the boy on the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neely clapped along, beaming at their jam sesh, and when the music ended, he introduced our experiment of the day: washer pendulums. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Moss laughed at that, a full roar that ended when he clamped his hand over his mouth. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was some meaningless number that ended in two decimal places. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

More shots rang out from the sanctuary, and then another sound, a sort of wet slam that ended in a hush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

All that ended abruptly the day his father returned from a sojourn in King’s Landing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the war in Europe ended eight days later, it was overshadowed by the news from Baltimore that Caroline had been accepted by the Juilliard School of Music in New York on a full scholarship. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The two chocolate Labs ended up with some friends of ours, nice people who run an Italian restaurant down in Marathon. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soon after the desegregation battle had ended, he got himself into criminal trouble, reviving a past way of life that he had worked hard to bury. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d ended up on some small, nowhere road—which probably shouldn’t have bothered Stokumites such as ourselves, but seriously, the thing hadn’t even been plowed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They ended up at the bottom of the hill. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We made several laps around the kitchen island and ended up in the living room, where we collapsed on the couch, laughing so hard that tears streamed from my eyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I began this book naively believing the Vietnam War had ended in 1975. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Duke vigil ended a few days later when Wright Tisdale, chair of the Duke trustees, announced that a minimum wage of $1.60 for nonacademic staff would be phased in over the next several months. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had the best educations, a thousand chances, a thousand connections, and still they’d ended up unable to support themselves. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But my work there ended up being the reason I was taken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The summer ended quietly, and that was fine with me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the search for him had ended, the Boston Vigilance Committee sent him on to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be ended, and so would Sarai, and dreams, and hope. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If I was successful, who knew how the fight would’ve ended? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then, as suddenly as it began, the terrifying assault ended. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the Sunday night broadcast ended than the demands for government action began. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a complete jumble of things, and when I tried to write about any one of those things, I ended up writing about my mother, because everything was connected to her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

All the names ended with a 7, since there were but seven astronauts in existence, and they wanted to emphasize their unity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By happy coincidence, a cute sophomore named Lara ended up sitting on my lap. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He ended by saying that he was looking forward to resuming a quiet life of researching and writing, with much less attention from the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The two, the Queen and her lover, had reason to know that wickedness cannot be ended by wickedness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the game ended, the not-so-subtle whispers started that the Midland High Bulldogs had the stuff to take Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other is that no piece ever really sounds as though it has ended properly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His father was a factory worker whose education ended at the eighth grade; his mother had some factory jobs, too. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I ended up selling them a car, and we had to get it from, I want to say, Rhode Island. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Anya let out a laugh that ended with an audible chattering of teeth, and Misha said, “I’m sorry. Let’s get you back to the castle.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Over time, William’s team ended up with a stash of about a thousand Purple messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The service ended and Granny rushed to the front of the church and began talking excitedly to the elder; I saw the elder looking at me in surprise. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, rejoicing in their good fortune, believing the war ended and Athena’s favor restored to them, they went to their houses in peace as they had not for ten years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of those secrets ended up floating down the Nansemond River just down the road from us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager offered to give her a ride home when his shift ended, a half hour later. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eventually visiting hours ended, and we had to say our goodbyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were too many nights when jumping down to lend my steel would only have ended in my own demise. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The curse of the House of Atreus was ended. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made it through the morning, but I was beaten in the semis and ended up in third place. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The parades ended by converging in the park across the street from the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They ended high above where the ceiling should have been, as if they held up the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“She got her wish, didn’t she? The war ended before I could fight.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell where the shreds of his saturated coveralls ended and the ragged flesh began. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Both people had to be in the same place at the same time, and both people had to remain still so that the kiss ended up in the right place. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Our meeting ended shortly afterward, and when we were walking back to our cells with the major, he said to me, “Mandela, were you struck by the behavior of Bram Fischer?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The revolution had ended; there was nothing for them to scare off anymore. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We ended up in a big bright kitchen, where a wall of windows overlooked a landscaped backyard. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It ended only when it had run out of targets and almost every habitable Pacific island had been occupied. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to end up at the Ambassador East, where I had reservations, and, true to form, ended up lost. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time we went down to the bodega to get a donut, Calista always ended up talking to Hugo forever. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were dark patches in the red gravel where the pavement ended, and she drove the car over Mr. Healy’s blood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“There was a war. I was a baby. I ended up on a cartload of orphans. That’s all I know.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had to spend a good thirty minutes convincing her that I hadn’t turned into a racist, and when the conversation ended, I hung up, thoroughly demoralized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was afraid for a moment, until he remembered how that story ended. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He groped his way forward for twenty steps or so, and there the tunnel ended in a securely locked door—he couldn’t see it, but he felt it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken us all for a walk and had ended up at a garage where the car had been parked. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, too abruptly, the clip ended and we were suddenly back on T Wharf with Sookie and the newscaster. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

What I ended up bringing in means something to me, but now I’m not sure the class would be nice about it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I ended up prying it from her damp hands. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The song ended and the news came on. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He also read an account of Nazi general Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a leader of the SS who ended up being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials and executed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the first half ended, Winchell had thrown nine passes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what was of immediate note was that the trail ended, abruptly and disconcertingly, at the water’s edge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1940 we didn’t do much for my birthday either, since the fighting had just ended in Holland. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the fall, the season ended for the Salt Lake Bees. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When her job ended in September 1946, she was more than ready to move on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew -just like your mother -I was a goner," Peeta says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He tried to close his eyes and sniff as well, but he ended up sneezing instead. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

No matter where Alex ended up, he wasn’t going to miss New York. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As the meeting ended, the chief guard said he wanted to talk about lice, a chronic problem in the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You ended up having a ball at that dance.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights went up as the play ended, and Joseph his lost felt as if he was coming out of a trance. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As the evening ended, he asked, would they join? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, he stabbed him in the chest and ended it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Once the war ended, which side would be the right side for a Pole? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Where the stone steps ended, a rickety set of stairs made from two-by-fours— more like a ladder than a staircase—took you up to the front porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“For real. He got bit by a radioactive spider. You ate jelly beans. You both ended up with superpowers.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Dedicated her life so fully, in fact, that when my dad’s work in Congo ended and he had to go back to the States, she’d stayed on and they’d divorced. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One ended up running a small department store in Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was shot off my cycle and ended up in a prison hospital. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But I swore I wouldn’t grow up to be like him. I ended up having friends of every color at school, and I knew that none of the stuff my dad said was true.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

That night, I found myself staring out the window at the sky and counting by 7s for what ended up being a new record. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We could sleep in the car until her shift ended. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The notes that ended up as the background music to her murder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We ended up by the seal tank, but it seemed like there were no seals inside it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I always knew I wanted to have something in place that I could easily transition to once my fencing career ended. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

However, one day, as Jade Dragon ended the rain and moved the clouds away from the land, she overheard some villagers' conversation. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When his reveries ended, he was still in a filthy, threadbare, lice- infested uniform in a miserable camp crowded with starving and dying prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it all ended with the stock market crash in 1929, Harlem had a world reputation as America’s Casbah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neat pencil mustache divided his upper lip horizontally into half and ended exactly in line with the ends of his mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended up pushing them all away and just nodding. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had to wonder how many adventurers, crossing the desert without the benefit of threave hawks, had ended their quest in jaws like these. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, he ended up bending over and setting the jar down on the ground. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tony ended up in a shoot-out with a few of the corner boys. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There’s no scenario I could’ve imagined that would have ended in this moment of perfection. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The game, which turned out to be the longest of Bobby’s career, ended as an interesting draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The entry ended there, in midair, without punctuation, after a sketch of a circle with squiggly lines extending out from it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was so interminable that she was unprepared when it abruptly ended in a vast chamber as large as a cavern. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I ended up with probably somewhere between thirty- five and forty cans of coffee. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that didn't keep him from sending me an aerogramme every week, which always ended the same way: Come and visit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before the meal was finished and the story ended there were three friends instead of two in the little green-walled chamber. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I should say something about Rue, and Thresh, too, really, but every time I tried to write it at home, I ended up with a blank paper staring me in the face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not five feet away, where a wall ought to have been, where a wall would be in a proper dungeon, the floor ended and the sky began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Abby and I started off walking and ended up racing down the sidewalk before busting into the store in a fit of giggles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The evening ended with the cracking of branches in the forest and the pounding of rice in mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She usually chose to celebrate the birth of our Lord by going on a good long bender, one that started a couple days before Christmas and ended well after New Year’s. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After minutes of noisy crunching over glass, there was sudden silence under their boots where the road ended in fine sand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A sharp crack revealed a small victory, but any elation ended when he realized that the momentum of his swing was now pulling him back down to land right on top of the creature. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The Pathfinder mission ended because the lander had an unknown critical failure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother drove us toward San Francisco over the big white highway that would not have surprised me had it never ended. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these paths ended at a clod with a natural hollow underneath it In the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to get too excited, but I ended up running all the way down the hill to the lion’s cage. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear—until Kevin reached over and yanked the same earlobe. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Even as the program ended, others remained unaware that it had been a Mischief Night trick. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After today, when the caps have been thrown and the parties have ended, we will all begin our journey into the next half million hours of our lives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wherever those conversations ended up, they started as honest exchanges. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The matter ended in one of them always sleeping on the floor, where he frequently caught cold. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would leave in the confusion of congratulations when the ceremony ended. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation ended when both began to smoke, but Lupita stored what they had said in her memory. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Benton Sage said, louder than necessary, to a local in Awasa, Ethiopia, where he had ended up one afternoon after he realized he was in over his head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The conversation took a downward turn from there, and even though none of them said what they were thinking, the evening ended on a grim note. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Several farmers had only parts of their land bought, so that they ended up with farmland but no house or a farmhouse but no land. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly, the disabled, the weak, and the sick were sent to the left in a line that ended at the gas chambers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ran off to Mexico to avoid his pregnant girlfriend and ended up in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s brother—we ended up transferring him from Doolittle because of the way kids are—kids can be very cruel! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was it—my dream in the car must’ve never ended. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

No wonder it ended the way it did. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news was broadcast over and over, and each time it ended many of the neighbors joined the voice intoning, To save Biafra for the free world is a task that must be done! Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would like the opportunity now to educate people on what is happening in my "America" because until this "undeclared war" has ended, I am not free! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She says it was a sad day Prohibition ended because Dad gets the drink going around to saloons offering to sweep out the bars and lift barrels for a whiskey or a beer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mom pulled me away from the center of the market, and we ended up next to a big oak tree. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I tried to rush to your aid, but ended up sprawled on the kitchen floor. Your grandfather reached your side before I did, and he is no athlete.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the camps would last until the war ended in Sudan, and nobody knew how long that would be. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been weird this whole semester. Really since before the season ended...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s all you got out of this? That a bunch of kids ended up famous?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But it was the Haldar baby who ended up getting sick. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I bring up McCandless’s hubris and the dumb mistakes he made—the two or three readily avoidable blunders that ended up costing him his life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If R.C. skipped town or ended up in jail, she’d be left alone with her dad. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The police were notorious for keeping very poor records and were often unaware when bans ended. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was proud to be Slash's girlfriend, and once prom ended, we would be inseparable through the last weeks of school and all our graduation festivities. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sixth man, Samuel Blair, who had been carried out of the shed by the molasses wave, had ended up on the beach close to North End Park. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When the performance ended, he marched right to the box office and bought tickets for the next night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That was how our home movies ended, with a prank on my birthday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Those moments never lasted long, and they always ended with Deborah asking me to promise yet again that I’d never hide anything from her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the night ended without an all-out race riot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up gettin’ my license revoked until I’m twenty-one, and a two-year suspended sentence. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny but last year the Sex Pistols ended up doing the same thing with a photograph of Queen Elizabeth on the cover of their God Save the Queen single. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How fortunate that you ended up where you did, then,” says Tobias coldly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It ended by their remaining there for a whole; week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Tucker left with the crowd when the game ended. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He leaped from the box and ended up, somehow, exactly where he did not want to be: in the middle of the monstrous hair. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It ended up that Lelia was the only person I spoke with. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked as if her world had ended. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, the evening had ended rather differently. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“That was the afternoon of June twenty-sixth, 1876. That was how the Greasy Grass Fight ended, also known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hence Eurasia ended up with its 13 species of big domestic mammals and the Americas with just its one very local species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the only way to avoid chaos. The chain of command started at the very bottom and ended with Hitler.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been preparing for this season the moment the last one had ended eight months earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within the year he ended the old feud, giving up half the disputed lands to the Domain, of Stok. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the cabinet meeting ended, the president followed his usual routine: receiving visits from friends and job seekers, reading his mail, and catching up on paperwork. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You ended up dying in a mud bank. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once Japanese banks, now Korean independent banks after World War II had ended. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It too seemed to be endless; Minli could not see where it began or ended. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

That long and noble line ended and now began again with me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers stroll past, looking like they’re still on duty when everyone knows the war ended a year ago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Immediately after the session ended, I speeded back with Duma Nokwe to find mother and daughter doing extremely well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school year has just ended, and on my top-secret final exams I scored the second highest in social studies and the highest in science, out of the entire eighth grade. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared mournfully at his shoes and I recognized the joking part of the conversation had ended. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sudden wave of his hand, Hamlet ended the rehearsal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Bright tracer bullets scored the heavens just as the song ended. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Institute’s gray stone buildings were so similar to one another and so closely packed it was difficult to judge precisely where one ended and another began. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the invention and widespread use of machines made the further direct enslavement of men economically impossible, and so slavery ended. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The contest or quiz, had apparently ended, and Reb Saunders was smiling at his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A week after our dinner, Gus ended up in the ER with chest pain, and they admitted him overnight, so I drove over to Memorial the next morning and visited him on the fourth floor. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, I ended up on a hunger strike, too. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he licked her father, instead of the other way around, this romance ended in the fireman marrying Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence ended during the early months of John F. Kennedy’s presidential term. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That was especially nice, because it reminded me of the vacation we just came back from, which I wish never ended. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up playing soccer with them for the entire year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But before I can manage any of that, the tick-tocking silence is ended by a ringing, from my pocket. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sarah Collins, Addie’s sister who survived the restroom blast, ended up losing her right eye and retained just 30 percent of the vision in her left eye. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At least, if I disappoint them, I will please Auntie! m After I started school, Djo, my kite days ended. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe that ended as of last week.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days before school ended, Doon had found the worm on the underside of a cabbage leaf he was slicing up for dinner. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cole ended by telling about his eagle dance and what he had learned. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t stop wondering about how the Grievers’ enraged cries had ended as they fell from the Cliff, and how he hadn’t been able to see them plummeting to their deaths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I always ended up with four stacks of them. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could barely move as Connor looped a leg around his and rode him until the period ended. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The thing was roughly man-shaped, but that was where its humanity ended and its monstrosity began. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My father used to bring scraps from work, but now that the factory was doing so poorly, that luxury ended. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But the fun ended abruptly late one night shortly after the United States entered the war, when Dr. Tuve discovered Merle copying down Morse code in the attic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He ran up the stoop and they all greeted one another as if a hostage standoff had just ended. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I hated how things had ended between us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “Do you know how bullfights ended?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

So he ended up with about half the bag, and me, Junior, and Tariq all piled up in the other half. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They usually ended up in a heap with Mom, because she had the bigger body, and they were cold, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up with a great meal, a satisfied audience, and more money than they started with. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped when the world ended, she would die terrified and alone. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Or, I didn’t remember if she was, but it was how every conversation ended. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That’s Dad’s personal life motto, even though he ended up alone and working the night shift, collecting tolls at the bridge, where he needs neither talent nor a good work ethic. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many places the non-European locals never got a chance to acquire guns and ended up losing their lives or their freedom. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors became increasingly worried, and I ended up spending five long months in the hospital while they tried to beat it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

To tell them how I ended up hiding Sandy and keeping the whole thing a secret. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But long before it ended in the anchorage—havoc and slaughter—I had drawn my sword and cut my own ship’s cable. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ended with two of the Zeno-lovers talking her down in the back of the room along with Ms. Steck promising that the class wouldn’t hurt her GPA. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Moments after the Gran ended the ceremony, the Oracle swept through the square, their long holographic cape billowing in the night breeze, their crystal ball suspended in the air beside them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

So he ended up on the ground, wedged between the two front seats. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I think she even dated the editor for a while, but he ended up marrying the girl who did his dry cleaning. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I ended up choosing a corseted sapphire dress lined with tiny diamonds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The stairs ended in a long, flat surface, and then the crowd bottlenecked through a pair of narrow doorways. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Reg shuffled in his chair, his right hand massaging his thigh just above the spot where the gauze ended. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The third quarter ended with Permian still ahead by two points. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In October the dry season ended and it began to rain. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But after cross-country season ended in early November, she also just ran for herself the rest of the year. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He ended up behind on all his schoolwork, and his parents levied all forms of punishment—which they promptly forgot to enforce—one of the perks of being the lettuce. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He ended by saying that he was startled and disturbed to learn that in spite of my own position in the Thembu royal house I did not support the principle of traditional leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything she said ended in an exclamation mark. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And when the last one ended, the audience responded with a standing ovation. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Before I know it, the first chance I’ve ever had at making a friend is gone before the first class period has even ended. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, Fern got up and went home. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only by the time I reacted and went to bump it, he had switched to a high five and we ended up with his hand wrapped awkwardly around my fist. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As for the slave trade, the sooner that despicable traffic was ended, the better for everybody. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even though school would have ended by now, they have to finish the year. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The war” will always mean the Civil War, not the World War that just ended. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song on the jukebox ended, and for a moment the bar fell quiet, every conversation at a lull. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

But then, the bushes ended, and they came out abruptly into a clearing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Owens sang all that before she discovered that she had forgotten how the song ended. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was a confident and satisfied group of friends who shook paws as the meeting ended. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Eight of us who left Hailsham that summer ended up at the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beto kept his eyes closed tight for a full second after the prayer ended, and Naomi saw that he held on to Henry until Henry pulled his hand away and started serving his plate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even here on Gold Mountain grateful couples bring gifts to my mother, who had cooked them a soup that not only ended their infertility but gave them a boy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Effective immediately, your candidacy for the Sons of the Six has ended. You are dismissed.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So anyway, he ended up switching to Our Town. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was almost ended when a strange thing happened to Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Stares at him the way a person looks when a terrible storm has finally ended. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Gradewise things went pretty well and I ended up with a high cumulative average. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he would not be able to go much farther, for he would reach that point where the roof ended and dropped to the street below. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Telling ’bout getting beat so bad you ended up buck-nekkid was too embarrassing. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Descendants of those societies that achieved centralized government and organized religion earliest ended up dominating the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Berg had taken them a lot farther from home than they’d thought, and they ended up camping in the woods for two nights, resting just long enough to feel strong again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

‘If I could have set a spear in rest, riding before my men upon the field, maybe I could have felt again the joy of battle, and so ended. But I serve little purpose here.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Ivy just shrugged and smiled so she wouldn’t blush, but she ended up blushing anyway. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had shown up when they ended like he’d never had any doubt I would go try out. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His tone was dismissive, and when he turned his back to me I knew he'd ended the meeting and was now eager to get me out of his office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The poor people at Levy Pants were lucky that they hadn’t ended up in Angola. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we all laughed, a bit nervously, and I think I ended up glaring. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At the back of the garden, where the footpath ended, a cave opened in the side of a grassy hill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One day they were working near where the beans ended and the sugar cane began. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The red iron rims had no nets, and since there was no real give on the rims, every shot ended as either a silent swish or a high-bouncing brick. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They had ended up at the museum a lot, just the two of them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a comfortable, pashmina shawl that was normally very easy to wear, but I fumbled in the moment, feeling flustered, and somehow ended up shoving it onto my head. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gentle snow gully Fischer and Lopsang had been gingerly descending ended here amid outcroppings of loose, steep shale, and Fischer, like Gau, was unable to handle the challenging terrain in his ailing condition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he meant we—he could no longer draw a line where he ended and the Frog began. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr slid in snake shape through the hole in the mountain until the hole ended and he found himself in a huge cavern. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was difficult for the armorers who had to load these guns, too, and the women who ended up doing this work weren’t at first particularly interested in bombs or guns or even in engineering. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The service ended and we filed into Sunday school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But no matter what he did he always ended up getting beaten and hurt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell where one serpent’s body began and another ended. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I ended up in a hospital, where they kept me for months after I arrived back in New York, staring at a wall, stunned silent, frozen rigid with anger and grief. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than seven decades have passed since the bloodiest war in history ended. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Galina noticed that they flew over three airfields they could have landed at before the flight ended in disaster. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Bath minister was probably wishing that the service had ended with the last prayer. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But it ended not with a wall but with a sudden huge nothingness that made them gasp and step back. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ended, “...and when I turned my first pay over to my mother, the tears stood in her eyes. Yes, sir, the tears stood in her eyes.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Class ended before we had time to test my pendulum. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the authorities soon discovered their mistake and ended the subscription. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those factors still don’t explain, though, why the New World apparently ended up with no lethal crowd epidemics at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the sound of it, had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The war had not ended until the day she and Lysa had been wed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I want to ring Anna up and remind her that Assia ended up with her head in the oven, just like Sylvia did. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never should have got leave to go, I am sure, but for Mrs. Joe’s curiosity to know all about it and how it ended. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s how I ended up back at Twig’s house this afternoon, playing Whose PANTS? and having no idea whatsoever about our assignment for class. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I scored my fifth TD just before the first half ended. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Woman to Woman’s second Money Matters workshop has ended, and the guest speaker is bombarded by all the mentees rushing to meet him. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The smell was the boat and Owen, and David could not tell in his mind where the boat ended and Owen began. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see what was going to happen, and I wanted to reach down and take him out before he ended up in a blind alley. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I climb out of the forecastle, the storm has ended, as if a switch has been thrown. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When the semester ended I returned to Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It ended when they lay down in the grass to signify their deaths together. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The glass ceiling and boarded-up walls ended, and whatever lay ahead was covered in silence and blackness. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

What everyone agrees upon, strangely, is that somehow Luke ended up on the front lawn, his leg in a garbage can. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them—four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Headbands made her chin-length hair fan out weirdly around her face so that she ended up looking like a frilled-neck lizard. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Look, I just wondered what you ended up doin’...you know, with that drill.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He thought he knew how this story ended. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Funt ended all of a sudden and I was in the country. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet in the grove and there was the sound of the raindrops continuing to fall from the trees although the rain had ended. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that ended, the mumbling and high laughter started all over. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted nothing except to have this torment and terror ended. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many in the village, and the separation of male and female was so great, after childhood had ended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the contest of wills ended after officials agreed that if Bobby would play this time, they’d make the pairings in public the following year. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, “I reckon some will. But I like how my story ended, my boy. And I’m tired...so, so tired. Figure I might just rest for a bit.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Which is how I ended up being part of the first annual Beecher Prep Coat Drive. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The bobcat hunting season ended last week, but I still want to find some sign of it. Something to prove that it’s really there.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, Louie’s aspirations had ended at whose kitchen he might burgle. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Welfare reform legislation signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 ended individual entitlements to welfare and provided states with block grants. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I ended up not where we’d come from, but in an unfamiliar neighborhood that nevertheless seemed familiar because it looked so much like a neighborhood I knew my mother would want to live in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had ended up being assigned to Coddi, who was then a junior. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now as the voice ended I sat looking down at Mr. Norton's feet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to regret this mistake, however, when the winter term ended and I went back to my comfortable little room in Monmouth House and all my old incompetent ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A truly dangerous opponent would have killed his dæmon at once, and ended the matter there and then; this antagonist was afraid to strike. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His dad bought him a bunch of supplies the week school ended—lengths of two-by-four, pulleys and screws, and sheets of weather-treated plywood—but Charlie didn’t choose a tree for three whole weeks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad always practiced what he preached, and it was just about impossible to tell where his scientific management company ended and his family life began. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, she ended up with nonsense. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ended up having to work overtime, digging a new trench, cutting into the pipes, and attaching the main water line. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day ended up being pretty much as bad as the beginning of the day. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The pupils were as integrated as they could be given that apartheid had just ended. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the living room door was a narrow space that ended in the frosted-glass door of the front entrance through which a diffused blood-orange light embossed the beige and olive wallpaper in fiery honeycomb patterns. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mustafa ended up staying home too, and we both helped to spread the word about the meeting that Mama and others had set up with county officials. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Narcissus tried to push Echo away, but she misjudged where the camouflaged girl was and ended up shoving several other nymphs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took a while sawing at the cloth with the clumsy shell, and she ended up ripping the cushions quite a lot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A rumble, as though of distant thunder, told them that the feast had just ended. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I ended up in the foster home years after them.I give myself some distance, as if privacy actually matters, and make sure I stay out of the light coming from the exit sign. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The mast, so called, ended hardly a few inches above my head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Epidemics sometimes devastated the village, but they always ended, not far from where they began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you see Tony just ended up in the hospital, right? Be thankful for what you got!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, he had ended up as Secretary of The Vigils. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa used to joke that if he hadn’t met Mama he might have ended up a senator. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the error can be forgiven—the pilot project, which ended in 1997, had the same name, Minnesota Family Investment Program, as Minnesota’s much larger, ongoing welfare reform program. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prior to that, our attempts at several “dad” activities had mostly ended in failure, or worse, disaster. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow an archaeologist’s wife ended up with this huge stone eye in her bedroom, and in the middle of the night it exploded and a big cat started biting the archaeologist’s wife’s neck. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sam leaned against the doorjamb as the screeching song ended and a slower but equally loud ballad began. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On his next swing, the darkness prevented Thomas from seeing a new wall looming in front of him until it was too late; the corridor ended and turned to the right. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Cobb is required to challenge anyone entering or exiting Washington, but the truth is that, since the war is almost over, the formal restrictions on crossing the bridge after curfew have ended. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was once used to house the slaves the men’s college owned, but it’s empty now that slavery—the kind that ended with the War between the States, anyway—is no more. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We ended up in an area off the kitchen that had a small, round table and four chairs. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wynn had attached the basket, and a matching aqua ribbon wove its way through the basket’s top lattice and ended in a bow right in the front. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

That stage of Loomis’s life ended with World War I. At the age of twenty-nine, he enlisted in the officer’s corps, where his mathematical skills, honed at Yale, were promptly put to the test. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The sickness didn’t last long, but kept him doubled over for an hour or so and left him weak enough to want to sleep again— and that ended another day. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Frank’s first ever post ended up getting a ton of likes and comments. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’m pondering this when Austin texts me to say he ended up having a great day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Did I ever tell you about howl ended up in the city?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley ended her speech with a stern look, as if it had been Harry suggesting that it was natural to miss spark plugs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dear Lucy, I saw your mother the other day and she told me that you’d written me several letters to apologize for how things had ended between us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

You might be surprised to know how many pigeons roosting in the eaves of Atlanta’s Public Library have ended up roasting over fires in Grant Park. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chuck had ended up in another room, and for some reason Thomas pictured him huddled in a dark corner, crying, squeezing his blankets to his chest like a teddy bear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We were seated in alphabetical order, and as luck would have it, Ham Knapp ended up way back in the room, in the very seat he had chosen for himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second, in the turban, had his shirt off, and he was pale except where his sleeves would have ended and the skin was burnt pink. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And that worked out fine, though it ended up being only Wednesday nights because Saturdays I had too much going on. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“You might have ended up in a graveyard.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if the Command game is ended forever, but I’m not going to be the one to tell on anybody. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I try to block out how the last invitational ended. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After his humiliating captivity ended, Atawallpa seems to have believed, the ground would be clear for his rule. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were so good that I nearly ended up walking into the pond on the wrong side of the common and got to school only just on time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother, having cast herself in the role of peacemaker, made no headway whatsoever, and the situation finally ended in a draw. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This hardly means that discrimination itself has ended—only that people are embarrassed to show it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of things ended up going his way because I’d get bored with the fight and give in. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It would get quiet once more, but even so, somehow I always ended up feeling a teeny bit guilty. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Years later, I would occasionally meet her at events in other states, and I ended up spending a little time with her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The killings had ended in 1891, nearly two years ago, but the killer had never been found. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I agreed with Mac, and the three of us simply ended up having our teeth examined. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rest has been relatively uneventful. I married Jim, and ended up here.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Lewis had two marriages that ended in divorce, and in 1918, in her mid-fifties, she was raising a ten-year-old adopted child. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now, I don’t know when that war ended, all I know is they never came looking to free us.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The boy who I once considered to be my closest friend had only ended up in Chicago because he’d stowed away on a train from Grand Central Depot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Someone asked for “just one more,” and somehow we ended up unwrapping all the gifts. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

These tests confirm that the same ancestral peoples either ended up extinct, or returned to living as hunter-gatherers, or went on to build complex states, depending on their environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to twist his mouth into a disappointed expression, but it ended up looking like a smirk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Teenagers drove their pickup trucks slowly along the streets of the town, looking for something to happen, wishing that the summer had not ended. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a hugger, and whenever you did something good in her class, it ended up with her pulling you close and telling you just how good you were. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I roll the boy from District 1 onto his face and take his pack, retrieve the arrow that ended his life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After the service ended we set out seven hundred strong, the regular winter throng of the Devon School, to hustle through our lists of appointments. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is what ended up happening, after all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The party ended with a toast and everyone singing “God Save the King.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But when practice ended, Coach asked me to come to his office instead of showering with the rest of the team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When the velvet ropes that had guided the crowd by creating a narrow street within the room ended, they found themselves going down a staircase to the main floor. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was worried about Mom a lot, and the twins ended up coming early anyway. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the students I was close to at Hailsham ended up at the Cottages that summer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And this ended, or is it still going on?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hatun ended our time together with words that I couldn’t have prepared for properly even if I had known they were to come. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Erlan’s parents brought out folding chairs, but there still weren’t enough for everybody, so a bunch of us kids ended up sitting on the floor. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At sea I was reading all those great books and ended up thinking I had nothing great to offer in return. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He said he looked forward to the moment football ended and he could spend all his free time “working with Jesus, working with Christ.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I ended he shook his head in disbelief and muttered a curse in German. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the pots and pans died out, and the song ended. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There had once been missions to colonize Mars, to explore Jupiter’s moons, and even to launch to the stars beyond, but every mission had ended in utter and disastrous failure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Back at Ford’s Theatre, the manhunt for Booth almost ended before it began when one man, an army major, rose from his front-row seat to pursue the assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel ended up five feet away from Frank. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I tried to enter school that day, I ended up experiencing the worst thing I’ve ever gone through.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But their Christmas ended in late afternoon on Christmas Eve—I saw department store clerks working against time to replace a holiday window display with deathly white piles of towels and sheets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little paragraphs between the pictures ended before the letters had a chance to get cocky and wiggle about. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I ended the mental letter but left out one detail. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She ended the performance with a mournful shriek more than a little off pitch and looked around, grinning for her family’s approval. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up with a bag full of treat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You ended up giving her the seat after all,” Rishi said. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A little girl traveling to New York from Chicago had gotten on the wrong flight and had ended up in Miami. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The parade ended with a tableau, or silent play, staged on the steps of the U.S. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They would realize that yesterday’s triumph had ended when the moon rose, and that today new battle lines would be drawn, and that the fighting never stops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately the Inka ended up with strong sheets of metal that glittered in the sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He towered above all in the chamber and his beard flamed around a face so scarred with old wounds it was impossible to tell where one began and another ended. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Last year Bren tried to shave his head like Pitbull but ended up with just one side of his head shaved because his mom caught him before he could finish. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The current song ended and a new one started. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So when the course ended, I didn't sign up for more classes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t fair that I ended up like this,” I groan. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the flickering ended and the lights stayed lit, people just took a breath and walked on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eva’s plan was the same as the rest of ours—trek to unoccupied Germany and reunite with family after the war ended. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the war ended and the twins were ten years old, they too left school to work. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, once the West embraced zero, mathematicians began to tame the infinite and ended Achilles’ race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A few days after basketball season ended, I e-mailed Rowdy and told him I was sorry that we beat them so bad and that their season went to hell after that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That's why we ended up building the school. To hold all those babies.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Aureliano told her, Pilar Ternera let out a deep laugh, the old expansive laugh that ended up as a cooing of doves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The codes arrived in my inbox a few minutes after the auction ended. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He liked the way they always ended with the right thing happening. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And late Friday afternoon, one copy of The Landry News ended up on the desk of Dr. Philip K. Barnes, Principal. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I think she ended up in some asylum. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Why had he ended up in Lily, Arkansas? Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We did some curls and half squats and then some wind sprints before the practice ended. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pa writes to him, too, bringing up a tragic example in their family: one of Ma’s brothers had fallen for a woman of ill repute, and his life ended disastrously, presumably by his own hand. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But he also was impatient with the second-guessing of a decision that, as he saw it, ended this war and, conceivably, all war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

So ended the raid, and no news of it came ever back either to Mordor or to Isengard; but the smoke of the burning rose high to heaven and was seen by many watchful eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His picture had been all over the news two months ago when the trial ended. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two women walking their dogs stopped for a nibble and ended up staying an hour. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Aaron, who ended up in eight out of my nine classes, got a 100 on the start-of-school reading quiz. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They wanted to say “I love you” one last time before the world ended. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We ended up in the main part of the station, which had a coffee place, newsstand, and several ticket machines. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And then we foxtrotted some more, until the song ended. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

How had it ended and where were they now? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the daylong dusk ended and true night came again they had crawled and stumbled to its very feet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was the first step of how we ended up in Oklahoma. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Drink had destroyed his mind, and so he ended in that mutilation—fool that he was. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not fight again until the relationship ended, but in the time of Blaines stoniness, when Ifemelu burrowed into herself and ate whole chocolate bars, her feelings for him changed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We ended up filling a couple of soda bottles with the cloudy brown brine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That’s why his right leg ended at his knee ’stead of at his foot. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I knew I had been harsh, but I did not want to capsize the whole ship of negotiations, and I ended on a more conciliatory note. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended with a tribute to the fallen president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“If he was happy, he would have never sent that letter. If he was happy, he would have ended up with Siobhan somehow.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We ended each session panting and spent with rage. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seanie and I ended up on opposite teams, playing sevens, which, like I said, is a much more wide-open and fast game with fewer pile-ups. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘Almost exactly what I felt myself; only, only well, I don’t think I’ll say any more,’ he ended lamely. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Not even a year between them and so close, you could hardly tell where one ended and the other started. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was still grey and dark when the meeting finally ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If the Taliban had caught him, he would have ended up in jail, or worse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

If she had ended up with nothing, there wouldn’t be tears in her eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We ended up with more fabric than we could carry out ourselves, and Holly gave us two yards of the mum fabric for free. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After the ovation ended, Dr. Blackbridge went down the list of things he had successfully predicted in the past. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a little better each day, though: Each sleep ended to reveal a person who seemed a bit more like me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The stairs wound down and ended at a doorway without a door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We headed back toward the tracks and ended up at a weathered establishment that appeared to be a safe distance from the respectable part of town. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

King’s life ended, but his dream of freedom lived on. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before the soccer match ended, he grabbed his shirt and slipped away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belet ended the call and dangled the phone between her fingers, clearly not happy about what she just agreed to. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Had no one else noticed his expression as the game ended? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Long Walkway ended in a courtyard flanked by red-columned buildings, their dignity belied by the distinctive noise of snoring. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

So that is how it ended for me and Katz—with a six-pack of cream soda in Milo, Maine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s the toasting fork, with Mother’s shoe on it instead of the bread. Beth’s stage-struck!” cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun slanted directly downward through the chinks in the roof when the sermon ended. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The German army’s blockade of the city of Leningrad, which had begun on September 8, 1941, finally ended in its defeat there on January 27, 1944. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Whatever game had been in progress had ended when Gregor arrived. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

How, instead of being freed, she and Rowan had ended up with Scythes Curie and Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We ended up sitting together, dissecting our evening with Captain Carroll and the fragile peace that had settled over Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The first two times it always ended up a tiny, little, jacked-up knot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, Elizebeth’s work offered no more moments of nail-biting suspense, just endless tedium. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But he had ended up working on the railroads, and he didn’t regret it, because now he had a small pension. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A couple of days after spring break ended, Mom found out that Via hadn’t told her about a school play that was happening at her high school the next week. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If anything had been moving they would have seen it immediately: and where the turf ended, the sky began. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bathtub was raised off the floor by four stubby legs that ended at four feet with claws on them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aleer gave a few details about how they had ended up in Uganda and closed with his phone number. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phineas sat behind the table in a heavily carved black walnut chair; the arms ended in two lions’ heads, and the legs ended in paws gripping wheels now sunk in the snow. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father, who had been a public official, ended up running a “teahouse” in Hiroshima—something like a cabaret. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path had ended, but we kept running until the sky swallowed the sun and gave birth to the moon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Many such plants around Atlanta ran twenty-four hours a day, and many refugees, starting out at the bottom, ended up taking jobs on the night shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The last time he was getting let out, I guess they ended up making him stay another year at the last minute, which would be a disappointment, I’m sure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended every sentence she spoke to his uncles with “sir.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He ended the game with a drive down the right side and a behind-the-back pass to Art when Art’s man moved over to challenge him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I were all for strengthening the character of black youth across America, but we also needed rather desperately to get to Water Tower Place before the K-Swiss sneaker sale ended. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Still, they remained bound by a memory of a fleeting intimacy that had apparently ended with no bitterness and perhaps even some hidden warmth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Carroll advised him that he had some sick prisoners the local hospital refused to treat, so he had ended up buying the medicine himself. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the first edition, Charles had ended the book: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long story was ended, but the audience sat silent, entranced by the tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never happened, and instead it ended up being me saying to myself, Oh God, I'm tired. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now, that last paragraph ended with a cluster of punctuation marks I have never seen together—in that order—in my life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That ended what he had to say; he drove in silence. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gloria spoke as if she had ended the discussion by using words the school used to describe children such as herself. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of course they always ended about the same. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ilya let out a soft laugh that ended in a sigh and lingered at the cavern mouth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It ended in an outdoor passage to a tower. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yule was a subdued affair, for the King and his eldest son were away on a military campaign far in the south, and because of the harsh weather the hunting season ended earlier than usual. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bang, bang, bang, as if each floor was falling onto the other, and when it finally ended, there was nothing but smoke. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Which is how my great-aunt and I ended up in each other’s faces, both of us hot and unyielding. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They played a few more rounds, and Ivy ended up winning. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But when the auction finally ended, the tablet wound up selling to the Sixers for almost two million credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The teacher promised to print a key chain for each of us to take home before the week ended. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As he joined them and swung off his mount the storm ended. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The rain has ended,’ she said; ‘and new waters are running downhill, under the stars. Let us now laugh and be glad!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fair had begun with death, and now it had ended with death. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The meeting finally ended, and I watched the villagers streaming out of the hall. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Two stableboys followed, and one of the guards whose watch was ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I missed how the story ended, my eyelids too heavy to keep them open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Did you know she is actually one of the Chesters, of Chester County, Virginia? She ended up in Baltimore nearly destitute because her stepmother is a dastardly woman.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The board walk ended and he moved a little ahead of me as we descended a sloping path toward our first class. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up late, took too long in the shower, and ended up having to enjoy my breakfast in the passenger seat of my mom’s minivan at 7:17 that Wednesday morning. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She was arrested and taken to Namwon. When I finally found out where they took her, I begged the Governor to release her, but he refused. That's how you ended up being born there.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s no wonder that the Friedmans ended up turning Yardley’s offer down. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To Francis’ dismay, I showed little tendency to concentrate on DNA when my summer holiday ended. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He ended up turning on his car and playing it for me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“When Castor died,” he says, “Pollux missed him too much, so he made a deal to share his immortality with him and that’s how they both ended up in the sky.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I just took her porch steps in one leap and was off, not stopping till I ended up with skinned knees and elbows in the alley beside the post office. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the summer ended, I returned to BYU with only two thousand dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On August 14, 1945, the very same day that World War II ended, an American citizen and Soviet spy named Elizabeth Bentley cautiously approached the front door of the FBI offices in New Haven, Connecticut. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the end, when all of those separate and idiosyncratic chains were completed, half of those letters ended up in the hands of Jacobs, Jones, and Brown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How simply it ended—my father writing his permission. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way or another, it always ended in blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, there was a blind girl who lived in this house during the war. My mother told stories about her. As soon as the war ended, she moved away.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Billy got sick. He ended up at the clinic where Marcus and Frankie’s mother works, and after he died . . .” “The story stopped?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even if the war ended in six months or a year, a much higher salary even for that brief time would bring Dorothy that much closer to assuring her children’s future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But her answer ended up on the cutting room floor. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Her father is some sort of math professor and sent her to East Prussia where she might be safer. She ended up working on a farm.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At whichever such “lab” the seeds ended up, they tended to come from only certain individuals of edible plants—namely, those that we preferred to eat for one reason or another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m worse. Dad never ended up in jail.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The short service ended, the casket was lowered into the cold ground. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But big mammal domestication virtually ended 4,500 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The suit guy ended up spending four days in intensive care with all kinds of injuries, including a fractured skull. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

That was the year that the cold war ended, the year the Berlin Wall came down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The talk around the fire was about the new overseer, about the com crop, about the weather, but it ended with the subject of freedom—just as it always did. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She talked of nothing but the dance on the way to Spanish, continuing as if without an interruption when class finally ended, five minutes late, and we were on our way to lunch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t seen the last part, but now—too late—Reynie realized how it must have ended. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The instant the hymn ended, the choir coach began to give her lengthy opinion of people who can’t keep their feet still and their lips sealed tight during the minister’s sermon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even worse was when Mom said how cute it would be if the two of us ended up dating. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was deadish for three whole days, and ended up missing every last performance of her dance recital. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It should have ended there, this seamless day that had wrapped itself around a summer’s night, it should have concluded then with the Humber disappearing down the drive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was floating in utter darkness, unable to see even where the water ended. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’d been accepted into five great colleges but ended up not going to any of them because his parents couldn’t afford the tuition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I ended up with only two minutes to eat my food before the bell rang. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After what might have been long hours, and might have been only minutes, it ended, and Tristran sighed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Also, one time, when I was a kid, we went to Orlando for a long weekend, but Mom ate a bad piece of fish at Magic Kingdom and we ended up coming home early. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the marriage ended in divorce, and Florence returned to Pennsylvania. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He ended his e-mail with these words: It’s strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen her since school ended, back in June. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the meeting ended, Connor and I led a group of villagers, including all the councillors, to the hidden grove. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I ended up next to the family and the park ranger, who were all screaming now, trying to pry open the emergency exit doors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie ended up getting more polish on her toes than on her toenails. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The song ended and there was a burst of laughter and clapping. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His stomach still hurt, though the memory had ended. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Standing next to the president's bed, Tainter moved the detector above the right side of Garfield's abdomen, where his doctors believed the bullet had ended up. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My sister and brother ended up sniffling all the way to Houston because they wanted to go back home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had no idea where it ended, if it dropped off into space or came to rest in a snowfield. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure which came or ended first, the God or the sin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He moved into the tree house when school ended and spent a lot of his time leafing through motorcycle magazines. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She managed to kick the ball straight through my legs but slid on the wet grass and ended up on her backside. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Yet it seemed that the war had ended too soon and he had not contributed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He felt the warm sand on his toes and knees; he felt her body, and it was as warm as the sand, and he couldn’t feel where her body ended and the sand began. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So our game with Watch Officer Williams and the Atabrine ended with him winning the final round. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drill ended with a grand finale: With perfect precision, they marched into an intricate formation that spelled out “Adolf Hitler.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

During his time in office, which ended in 1964, Khrushchev attempted to improve the lives of ordinary Soviet citizens, but with little success. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I spent my whole life thinking it ended that way, up until I did this abridgement. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could have ended up in some kind of group home for all those weeks. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t smoke because each time I tried to, I ended up feeling nauseated and dizzy, and would vomit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the prayer was ended, the thanks repeated and the goodnights said, Rachel saw her guests to the door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was originally planned to stand in Boston Harbor but for some reason ended up here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every code talker would probably have ended up with malaria if Watch Officer Williams had not found out somehow about what we were doing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a sagging face of black rubber, with wide glass portholes like eyes that were frozen in shock, and a droopy snout that ended in a perforated canister. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Just then, the current song ended, and the club grew silent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the cartoons ended, he followed her to the kitchen, and stood by her side as she made more coffee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A hand dropped on my shoulder, and I ended my closing statement, balling my hands into fists. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His right hand described the circle of the hills, the sloping fields and the mountains, and ended at his hat again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t get far. You were too drunk to back out of the driveway. You ended up in the neighbor’s yard. You crashed into a telephone pole. Luckily, no one was hurt.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The two sons of Atreus, Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek forces at Troy, and Menelaus, the husband of Helen, ended their lives very differently. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it is ended; there is my last victim!” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old woman ended the contest by leaning out of her window and emptying a bucket of slops on the heads of the combatants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That didn’t stop me from wanting to push Diego into the house and kiss him until the world ended. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She ended with a farewell and the largest flourish of all—Hattie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus ended the call, and Redemption dropped his mask, his face sliding back into a cold and hurt anger. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Every experience he had had outside of his own mind had ended in frustration. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were seven tiers to it, each one a little smaller than the one below, and it ended in a slender spire. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I didn’t have Fina, could I have ended up the same way? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, and the audience clapped for us, I stood and took a bow. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He often ended up by picking lots of small, soft, leafy twigs to make a pillow. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The race season soon ended, and Luther was forced to leave his friend’s side to accompany his trainer to another track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them died, but they all ended up in the hospital. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The song was ended before she reached the door. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, the walls ended, and Nathan was able to see the next obstacle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“On Mondays and Thursdays, Yakov’s final stop ended at the Stockyards.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It ended like someone pouring water on our fire. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them ended abruptly only a few miles in; the longest followed the river Nir north, and then ended just south of where the Nir intersected with the Kell, which flowed east. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In our house, the new year began much the same way the last one had ended. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But we ended up with nothing but the taste of real things on our tongues. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Martin-Tolliver feud, in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the mid-188os featured three gunfights, three ambushes, and two house attacks, and ended in a two-hour gun battle involving one hundred armed men. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, the hunters bowed to the gathered people and reclaimed their horses, then rode out of the square, the horses’ hooves clattering loudly on the paving stones. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,’ he ended sadly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And with a brief, firm handshake, Mrs. Granger ended the interview. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended with: Thank you again for the lovely earrings. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some looked like worms and lizards, some like cute versions of bugs, and others that ended in a puff of fine feathers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We went around again, this time trying to be more intelligently selective, but we still ended up with clearly too much. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said now that maybe if he’d set off at twelve, he would have ended up staying in California instead of going to Iowa with his family. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the experiment hadn’t ended after ten minutes, who knows how long they would have stood in the hallway, a polite and patient smile on their faces? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In any case, the visit ended cordially enough, and Smith returned to Maine and then England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, Marcus and I both collapsed on the couch with big, identical smiles, and I felt grateful and happy and full. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of its members had hurled bottles and rocks during the recent demonstrations, but when the marches and rallies ended, the Klansmen contented themselves with their weekly doses of ritual and vitriol. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thanked Coach Val for all her encouragement, and we ended the call. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ji-yong and I had arrived early, but we still ended up sitting near the back of the factory cafeteria. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ended up looking like a coal stove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed hard enough to cough, then ended the message with, “Bring me some real food next time you come, okay? Love you, knucklehead.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Meeting always ended with the singing of Beasts of England, and the afternoon was given up to recreation. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

William ended up at the Army’s flagship medical center, Walter Reed General Hospital. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Soccer ended up being the good bonding experience Dad had always wanted for us. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Food Network ended up canceling the show. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought you two ended up getting on each other’s nerves in Europe.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He held the plate out at arm's length, over the edge where the cell ended and the sky began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of Bobby’s adapting to the teachers or the administration, the staff ended up adapting to him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And this wasn’t the way hers had ended either. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our days-long journey finally ended at a house that seemed huge to us, with a big open kitchen and dining area with windows all around that let the outside in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only that it began and ended with us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we paid for everything we threw our old group-home gear in a Dumpster and wandered around some more until we ended up walking into this hoop gym in Venice Beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The on-again-and-off-again clouds got to be always on and they ended up blacking out the moon two nights later. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He intoned a prayer and ended by sprinkling holy water over ElViejo. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her marriage ended, she had no guidebook to turn to, nothing that plotted a future course for a woman whose husband declared himself gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, those kids ended up right back in jail. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Down the way, from where the parade had ended, another parade of sorts was beginning. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was only when we were entirely alone that Bear ended his dancing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tortoise told Dog he would tell no one as long as Dog took him to the sky every day until the rains came and the famine ended. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance’s Christmas party had ended in such a free-for-all of destruction that a whole fleet of servants working ’round the clock for a month would be hard- pressed to put the house right. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When the flight ended, and the spacecraft plopped into the Pacific Ocean, I felt both great happiness and sadness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up taking on almost one hundred new cases following the court's ban on life imprisonment without parole for kids convicted of non-homicide offenses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And as the singing ended and folks sat down, I stood up. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how she ended, or even if she did, because 1 never saw her again. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the evening ended, 150 people had been stabbed, beaten, or shot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Dad left just as soon as the game ended. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to hurry back the way I came, but the road I took ended at a blackened field. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I rose and went to the door; a comrade shook his head, warning me that I could not leave until the trial had ended. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each attempt he made to right himself ended wrong. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I think this is why I was the one who ended up carrying all the pots and pans down to the stream to wash them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If I were caught, at least my misery would have ended. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief when the movie finally ended. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said once he would have ended up a lawyer, and maybe so. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It started with boiled meats, moved on to grilled meats, continued with fried meats, and ended with cheese. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, gracious! What shall I say?” cried Sallie, as Fred ended his rigmarole, in which he had jumbled together pell-mell nautical phrases and facts out of one of his favorite books. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, “I don’t remember. The day ended and there was Mike and there were the ore cars, mostly empty.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But when the Observers met, the boys always stayed in the room below to run errands for them, and it was always Rab who mixed the fragrant punch with which the meetings ended. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Herod never went to school and he should have ended up unemployed, unable to read or write, like the rest of them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Steam was practically blowing out of Mom’s ears by the time the service ended with a rousing rendition of Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he ended up with about half the bag, and me, Junior, and Tariq all piled up in the other half. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thousands, maybe millions, of hungry mosquitoes massed so thickly that in one breath Salva could have ended up with a mouthful if he wasn’t careful. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock, after her classes ended, she went to work again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s with me, but he hasn’t forgiven me for how we ended up here. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mamou stood, I leaned in and tried to hug her, but it ended up as an awkward half hug. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They’d chosen the place, and that was how Felix had ended up at Red Lobster for the second night in a row. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The year of their happiness ended with Arthur's return—and almost immediately collapsed in ruin, but not on account of the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

While wiping at his clothes, my father spoke kindly to the man and ended by resolving his grievance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both Brandon and Tori had warned her not to eat two chili-cheese dogs, but the smell overrode her common sense, and she ended up scarfing them down. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He started with Abilene and then went to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

In the treaty that ended the war, France turned over all territory in North America east of the Mississippi River to the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Once it ended, I joined the Mayflower volunteers and crossed the Niger with food....” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His first trial ended in a hung jury, but in the second one a jury convicted him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when Shirley thought the ordeal was ended, Señora Rodriguez left the room and returned with a green bird in a cage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She led them down a tunnel that ended abruptly in a wall of trash. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stories, when they were shared, inevitably ended with, I mean, can you believe it? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grace ended up driving them to the bank because Joaquin didn’t trust himself behind the wheel. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not that her mother cared if she got killed or ended up a raving lunatic. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Finally I banged her head against a brick wall. She ended up needing stitches.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The plain truth of the Terman study, however, is that in the end almost none of the genius children from the lowest social and economic class ended up making a name for themselves. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When the day was ended, she disappeared on the arm of yet another boy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The reason none of us was doing so was that Project Mercury had ended and Project Gemini had not yet begun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up with pants that were too short and a shirt that was too big, but I was lucky to get a pair of wooden shoes that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where they ended up. North, I guess. We never heard.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to hear David talk about it, it's like it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That didn’t work, though, because she ended up leaving the party early. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I say . . .” he began; but the sentence ended prematurely in a squeal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the money his father gave him ended up in the pockets of the impoverished people he cared for in the hospital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a strong expectation of his coming soon after the marriage, but it ended in nothing; and I have not heard him mentioned lately.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The world had ended, and I was the only person who knew it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terman's gifted children, in short, rarely ended up being as special as they initially promised to be. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

No one has the faintest idea how or why Yellowstone’s ended up beneath a continental plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cora had started braiding the girl’s hair on the mornings when her mother left for work early, and the last few days Molly had reached for her hand when school ended. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I ended up pretending I wasn’t feeling well, just so my mother would stay at home and monitor my health with me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

What I ended up grabbing was a round, mossy-topped rock—or so I thought, until the rock started speaking. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Usually it all ended within a few minutes, when Lucas would realize that he had gotten himself into an awkward position and made others around him feel uncomfortable. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They parked their VW bus in a meadow where the road ended, helped each other into their packs, and started up the trail. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A powdery, colored breeze lifted her hair and blew it like a rippled shawl around his armless shoulder, that ended abruptly, like a cliff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As in past tense. That all ended after the election, didn’t it?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“This is where the battle started and ended,” he said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Each ended with an argument, and with Nathan being forced to go back to Phoenix. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the path, the same path he had always followed, ended abruptly at a swamp that had never been there before. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They had met at a party Nosa took him to, and he ended up, that night, in her bed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The stairs ended in a long chamber lined with uncurtained windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Funny thing, how many of the people my brother cared about very much ended up in a worse state than if he’d left ’em well alone.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lancelot ended by being the greatest knight King Arthur had. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once school ended I decided to sort this whole thing out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The boys are very serious about this, Mr. Turner,” she ended. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The majority had careers that could only be considered ordinary, and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Did you know about the game? You knew it ended here?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Most went to the Caribbean, but a few ended up as far away as North Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He never asked me for my real name, or why a first-ranked initiate ended up in security and instruction instead of leadership. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Robbie elaborated upon his circumstances, then ended by asking politely about the parents of the other fellow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We both ended up acing the test, but that episode kind of took the excitement out of climbing and pilfering tests and pretty much everything else. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Charles ended his letter with another hope, a most heartfelt prayer: “We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert woke with a shriek that ended all discussion. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broadcast ended with a feature called “The Weak in Sports.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d ended in old Rome with Leo breaking a cookie and paying a price much worse than an eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Richard made some eggnog from a German recipe his grandmother gave him, and they all ended up singing a lot while I wrapped presents in my room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We ended up fussing at each other almost every single day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They didn’t make sense because the way things ended between us was not the way they were supposed to end. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was fifty years old when his second term as president ended. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t quite forget that the last time Dobby had tried to “help” him, he had ended up with no bones in his right arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was windowless, like all Egyptian dwellings; but just over the level of Ranofer’s head the walls ended, and widely spaced wooden posts rose from them to support the ceiling several feet above. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Life ended up being a little rocky for Shanon, because as she grew older, she got caught up in drinking and drugs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No, that last one ended, we went back to school and then they started another one.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I told myself I hadn’t purposely ended up here, but I knew I was lying to myself. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It always ended with me jabbing playfully at her face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They complimented each other’s photos and ended comments with “hugs.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Its executive director, Joe Puma, was initially wary, but we ended up having two long conversations. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corridor ended in a circular chamber with two black doors on the far side, and to her right, an archway revealed another corridor that turned a corner to an unseen destination. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked her how Thallium Dogs II: Assassin's Blade ended, and she had to restrain herself from slapping me across the mouth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle, aunt, and cousins laughed so hard that they couldn’t stop for hours, even after the story had ended. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They ended in unanimity or not at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that time on, this was how she ended every one of her letters to Robbie in France, right through to the last, which arrived just before the order came to fall back on Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They patched up their quarrel, but inwardly she knew something had ended. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We probably would have ended up with one of our aunts with papers, like some of the kids at school, or we would have gone back to Mexico with our parents. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The storm ended the next morning, and they emerged to find that the world’s colors had been transformed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By the final tally, after the two days of marching had ended in early May, more than 2,500 people had been arrested. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I just hope no one tells the police that two black boys at this party started all this mess and it ended in a fight. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After the gala ended, they all went to a small party in his honor at a nearby restaurant. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Why, out of all the zillions of possibilities, have I ended up a servant? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fawnda suggested the guidance counselor might try something that started with “F” and ended in “Off.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Rudolph bothers me, because there’s something wrong with him; but at the same time he gives me hope, because he ended up beloved. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You seem like a hard worker. At my old school, I was the one who always ended up doing all the work.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So that’s why the rejuvenation course ended all of a sudden.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

So now I knew where the emails ended up, but where had they come from? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In the end, Marcus’s conviction was overturned, and that other man ended up being found guilty of the crime. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If Hamilton had presented his distinction between personal and political criticism earlier, the affair would most probably have ended before it began. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking around the area on Google Street View to figure out exactly where we ended up today,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His voice trailed off, and she thought, Either he is beginning to tell me something extremely important, or he is killing time until this conversation can gracefully be ended. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'd ended up having to wear flip-flops for weeks; they were the only thing that fit until we scavenged a forgotten fishing lodge and found the boots I wore now. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Time is ended now, she thought, all that is gone and left behind, and that poor little lady, praying still, for me. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was a tedious assignment, as they ended up waiting around for days and days with nothing much to do. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Everything ended up working out okay so far. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She told Mister Lochana that she wouldn’t be using his services anymore, but we ended up on his speedboat again the next week because the ferry to Saint Thomas was too expensive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And 1 sat on the sand, just where the shadows ended and the sunny part began. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiredness ended, the bones stopped aching and I had no more nosebleeds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved through the shots in around-the-world fashion, starting in the right corner and moving to my left, taking a shot every yard or so, until I ended up in the opposite corner. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The song ended and Lily flopped down on her little bench in front of her vanity and began to scrutinize her highlights. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When class ended, I played a game with myself. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl ended up staying until my parents came back with the pizza, but then he left. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the dance ended, the Daughters stood panting in a half circle before Our Lady of Chains, and what they did next took my breath away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the call with Hideo ended, the first thing I did was rush down the hall and knock on Mr. Alsole’s door. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had tried to have a kid for years; then Tariq ended up putting his energy into adopting a blue-nose pit bull from the local shelter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, the four Allied powers could not agree on how to treat Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hearing ended the next day with no action being taken. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Schooler did this experiment with a whole sheet of insight puzzles, he found that people who were asked to explain themselves ended up solving 30 percent fewer problems than those who weren’t. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Harry’s musings were ended by Professor Dumbledore, who stood up at the staff table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Turns out they both ended up in the perfect places. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the fire was dying; the guns ended like sparks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a week later, his apprenticeship with Chian ended abruptly. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Despite its name, the school accepted older children for its summer camp, and the program provided a place for Bobby to go once the school year ended. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a weird thing to do that breakfast ended. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I found out the boy ended up in the hospital for a week. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It ended some time later with him breaking down in tears on the floor, clutching at my leg and begging me to forgive him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I ended up getting my own room after all. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t know about that. I seem to remember a night when the navigator took a wrong turn and we ended up in eastern Tennessee instead of western North Carolina.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another famed oilman in Oklahoma quickly burned through $50 million and ended up destitute. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jonas prepared himself to walk to the stage when the applause ended and the Chief Elder picked up the next folder and looked down to the group to call forward the next new Twelve. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The smith’s prentice grabbed for his iron rod and ended up knocking it to the floor where it rolled in a wide arc and came to rest under a table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She ended each namaz with her head hung low, hands held before her face, palms up, muttering a prayer for God to bring victory to the Mujahideen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Ema came into this shop for a reason. She ended up asking me to be her tattoo artist. That has led to you being here. Do you understand?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“No, really. You’ll love it. When the play ended and everyone clapped and cheered for us, I felt like I could do anything. I even thought maybe I could have a career as an actress.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A fairy tale that started with “once upon a time” and ended with “happily ever after.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She ended by saying that she signed the papers because her attorney believed that would give you and Luke a better life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Giving Egypt Back to the Ptolemies When the Alexandrian War ended in 47 BCE, Caesar’s victory made him the conqueror. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Many of them ended up, as they always seemed to, in my neighborhood. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was the person folks called for advice, prayer, and practical help when someone got into trouble or ended up in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The trail ended, and they walked to the root cellar. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t supposed to foul out of a game that would determine whether our season ended or kept going. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He got out before the Cold War ended, before missile shields and global warming and September 11 and a second President with only one vowel in his name. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pignati had to explain the whole story over to me again because it was too complicated to get the first time, but I ended up listing the guilty in this order: 1. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the song ended and the crowd started cheering, Faith stood up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

How you ended up at that table is completely random: Maybe there wasn’t enough room at the table with the girls you really wanted to sit with. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Birds in their little nests agree,” sang Beth, the peacemaker, with such a funny face that both sharp voices softened to a laugh, and the “pecking” ended for that time. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Skiz fight and my dust bomb, the three of us ended up camping out on the balcony of an old library. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then she made a break for it and ended up with Lettie and me beside her, peeking in the front door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The music has ended, and townspeople start to trickle from the big top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Maureen had graduated from high school and enrolled in one of the city colleges, but she never really applied herself and ended up living with Mom and Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing as how the dream hasn’t ended yet, it’s pretty clear that just having it isn’t enough. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Before the extensive newspaper coverage ended, it reached far more people than those who heard the broadcast on Mischief Night. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He ended up in George Soros’s Manhattan office, where he compellingly made his case. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Often we ended up with some very strange combinations. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The tug of war ended almost before it began as the sack ripped and articles of clothing spilled everywhere. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The roll call vote on that question ended in a tie, 48 to 48. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She reached for the telephone and dialed the number of the hotel where the Hartliebs had ended up. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When an injury ended her dance career, she turned to acting. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But it seemed to Gregor that there must have been some way to fix things so that everybody hadn’t ended up dead. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t been bounced from one foster home to the next, she wouldn’t have ended up on this island—and met Jack, and through him, Vivian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was where it had all started for me, and where I had ended things. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, they hummed the tune quietly, over and over and over. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their battle never ended; they never bought a home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They might be thrown out of school, their careers ended before they began. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy had put herself and the children on a separate path forward, whereas the cycle of Howard’s life, despite the extensive travel to the exotic locations, still began and ended in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It ended in a seperation between Mom & Dad & Mom took us kids to San Francisco. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks before his training ended, war was declared. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Celia understands now that a cycle between them had ended, and a new one had not yet begun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the afternoon ended in Butte, we gave a TV interview, all four of us—me, Barack, and the girls—which was something we'd never done before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid my equipment conversations nearly always ended up like that somehow, with the talker retiring with hurt feelings and a piece of formerly prized equipment cradled to his chest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We never got anything to eat until the workday ended. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Food aid from China and the World Food Program was also flooding into state coffers—and some of it ended up in street markets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She ended the game by drawing an outline of her hand on paper and filling it in with black crayon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millard was right—the skies were quiet, the battle had ended, but rolling drifts of bomb smoke still mixed with the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She wondered where the rest of the stuff from the old house had ended up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She ended this deep perusal by tying a green ribbon in her hair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If your last name ended in “berg” or “zog” or “stein,” you lived on the north side. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tell His Grace I did my best, he ended. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We ended up moving to Washington right after our traditional Christmas holiday in Hawaii so that Sasha and Malia could start school just as their new classmates were coming back from winter break. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I ended up throwing a bunch of them at some bottles I set up on a fence. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But laced through it all was the dark feeling of utter hopelessness, like the world had ended for him, had been wiped from his memory and replaced with something awful. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As we ended our conversation, I asked Rao what he is up to next. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

My nightly wanderings more often than not ended well, and I learned a lot from the shamblers I watched. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We moved out of our house right after first grade ended. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise, it would have ended up on him.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their magic elixir might have ended my quivers and shakes, but a wicked sadness was brewing inside. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Daylight savings ended yesterday, and now evening rushes into the place where afternoon used to be. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I promise you, gentlemen, that before this sale is ended each one of you will have the number ‘fifty’ inscribed in that final box, signifying that you have done your part for Trinity . The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tense time for everybody, Sanders said, but for Rat Kiley it ended up in Japan. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you trying to tell me? Your test isn’t the reason you ended up Dauntless?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” ended too abruptly, though, or maybe that was the point. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Robin Hood ended up getting most of the pasta in his dog bowl. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was meant to be a punishment for Mr. D’s bad behavior on Olympus, but it ended up being a punishment for all of us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Remember Stan's funeral? How we tried to bail and Dad ended up directing traffic?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Because of that, we ended up not going to Paris over winter break. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I got news for you,” I told him, “the season ended three months ago.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Many ended up in the Chicago River, the city’s main commercial artery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We ended up on this bus-stop bench a few blocks down and Rondell wolfed down anything and everything I pulled from my bag. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lodgers had already ended their night meal, the middle one had pulled out a newspaper and had given each of the other two a page, and they were now leaning back, reading and smoking. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was no good tonight—somebody sang popular songs that all ended in the same way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Smith wasn’t there, so I ended up talking to one of his deputies. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The song ended, and then a slow one came on. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to avoid fights with Richard, especially the kind that ended with the two of us rolling on the floor, him pulling my hair, me dragging my fingernails through the softness of his face. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the demonstration ended and the marchers turned to head back to St. Joseph’s, C.P. alerted his men to get ready. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Battle of the Bulge ended about the middle of January, with the newspapers reporting seventy-seven thousand Allied casualties and one hundred twenty thousand German casualties. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The boat trip just ended but might as well have been decades in the past. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But as the Taliban had gained more power, they had banned photography, so that had ended their forays outside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I think we were unofficially trying to find some common musical ground or something, because we ended up going back to all the stuff we’d grown up on, all the songs we knew by heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Once the fighting had ended and the master had been served his meal, I took a cool compress and mug of cold ale up to Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is not questioning his father’s sexual identity, whether he really is gay—just commenting on his lonely life in the years since his marriage ended. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It ended up being a present for Isa’s twelfth birthday, and Jessie had spent nearly all of June working on it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

What kind of landowner ended up sweeping stairs? Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Which, shortly, also ended up in the ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The last person I told ended up turned. And I'm not about to endanger another Miss Preston's girl.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The rebellion would have been ended on that day, with one more hour of daylight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

About how I thought his mom was dead but then she wrote him a letter and then he punched kids that he didn’t even know and ended up in a police car. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He ended up pitching a more permanent camp near the footpath, where the beach met the hills. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We brushed the dew into the center of the tarp and sail with our hands and ended up with a mouthful each. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The competition ended, and Principal Lawrence took the stage again, holding three envelopes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The trial ended with a hung jury, so Beecher faced no legal consequences. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, this cheery view of life ended each day at the threshold of the ranch. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended the song, and people clapped and shouted their praise and filled their golden cups. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Rowan kept a tally of the lives he temporarily ended, but as the days passed, he found he couldn’t keep up. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It had been so good seeing him again, loving him, knowing his exile was ended. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, he ended up making money from the project—after the printing, shipping, and advertising costs were deducted. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He groped for words, and ended up shifting in frustration back to Common Tongue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So Jason’s contest was ended in victory, bitter to King Æetes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I offered to take him home, and I ended up carrying him piggyback. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The surrender led to talks that ended the war in 1783. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to find an interpreter job, and I ended up in an office with the occupation army.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He chased her, and they ended up in a splash fight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But no, it ended up with the judge shaking Mama’s hand and hers too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs melted from under him and he ended up in a heap on Mrs. Holton’s stoop. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When evening ended the battle, the Trojans had driven the Greeks back almost to their ships. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the semester ended, I told him I was going home for the summer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My dance ended as the clock struck the quarter before ten. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They learned to write their new address: 18434 Winslow Road Up, those two little letters ensuring that their mail ended up in their apartment, and not with Mr. Yang downstairs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

De la O and another infantryman ended up next to each other. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He kicked the ball back to the Cardinals, but they fumbled it away, and that’s how it ended. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think Jackson got it to scandalize me, since the red velvet cover was decidedly lurid, but it ended up being a very good story. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His grandfather—Toby had only met the man a handful of times before he ended up on the wrong side of a knife in a bar in Startown—had taken his chances in Nashville. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Our reason for working together has ended, and I still want so much more from Lily. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The gathering ended and the men left the house at alternating intervals, some through the front door and some through the back. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At the tournament he made the ceremonial first move and played a mock game with President Marcos—one that ended in a mock draw after eight moves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The track ended, and there was a steepish drop, down between two banks, covered in bracken and fern that came waist high. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The bigger ones had the collar, much thicker chains, and chain-like arms that ended in open manacles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My dad ended up directing traffic for the next five minutes while people gawked at me and my mom and Fang, trying hard to look cool inside the Taurus. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I held out my hand to the other boy, who had lost the genetic lottery and ended up with the dreaded Persian Unibrow. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wondered how a girl with a Muslim name had ended up in a Catholic convent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red for the world to see meant that our mourning period had ended, that we were beyond our grief. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When the grisly trip was ended, Johnny took Tilly home, feeling that his was the responsibility of explaining. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, they had ended up in the perfect hands. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't tell us kids about the divorce till after it happened, and when they finally mentioned it, they claimed it was a small price to pay if it ended our immigration struggles. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I ended up spending the rest of my Christmas vacation in retreat, doing research. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She thought suddenly of those moments at the restaurant, after the dinner rush had ended and things were quiet, when Bebe sometimes rested her elbows on the counter and drifted away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It started with a discussion of van Maaren and ended in a general argument and tears. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But none of these pleasures did Wang Lung know for himself, since his feet crossed no threshold except that of his own hut, and his road was always ended at a gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Yet when I received Norman Bowker’s letter, it occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After living together for so long, the two of them alone in one tiny room, they’ve ended up looking like each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

After breakfast ended, Papa would start getting the food ready for lunch. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Zack ended up in the hospital because he caught something from me? The only thing he caught was your boot!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

These discussions ended abruptly, though my mother remembered them on other occasions when she complained that our ‘big ideas’ were going to our heads. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we ended up going to the ancient palace at Abomey, instead, which was the only tourist attraction for hundreds of miles around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day ended, and the night passed with cold rain whispering over the sea all through the dark hours, and a grey dawn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were lured off the street with the promise of a hot meal, and here’s where they ended up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mayor Grabarek ended the meeting by postponing any decision on the Bacon Street project and appointing a committee to look into black demands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The school year finally ended, and I threw away my final report card resolving to do better the following year. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why I ended up having to take the level seven test twice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That is, fully half of the people who came down with it ended up dying, and quickly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up there in the throng under the thatched roof and I almost screamed when I realized the hand I held was not my mother’s but a thick brown claw, a stranger! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The score stayed locked at 7-3, and we ended up winning the game. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Emerson ended his essay with “to be great is to be misunderstood,” it made me think about how many people have always misunderstood me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was anger in his voice, and he touched her chin where the scar ended. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

‘But the Rohirrim made a great burning here yesterday,’ said Gimli, ‘and they felled trees for the fire, as can be seen. Yet they passed the night after safely here, when their labour was ended.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I don't know how Max and I ended up doing what we're doing together. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had ended a relationship in which she was not unhappy, closed a blog she enjoyed, and now she was chasing something she could not articulate clearly, even to herself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These goof sessions, which almost always ended as earnest talks on civil rights, often went on until Mommy got home from work. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police ended up taking me into custody for assault under the influence. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Feast or no feast, this was where Cora ended up every Sunday when their half day of work was done: perched on her seat, looking for things to fix. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As the commercial ended, Mrs. Bramble entered the lobby. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

His service as wartime governor of Virginia had ended disastrously when British troops burned the capital as Jefferson galloped off and into official disgrace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was sorry we ended up like this, spinning wheels at a McDonald’s. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They rushed to him, caressed him, and quickly ended their letters. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up with only one class together, language arts. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

So did everyone else, even ‘Croaker’ as the girls called the old lady, and the unfortunate dinner ended gaily, with bread and butter, olives and fun. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Seattle General Strike, the Great Steel Strike of 1919 ended with the complete defeat of the unions. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, I ended up choosing most of the props and costumes because Sahil kept going for these totally creepy, Victorian-era-esque masks and things. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The princess ended up in the plaza below with a full head of steam, and she carved down and around the wide paved street, using her kierie as a rudder. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When dinner ended, we cleaned up and prepared the restaurant for the next day. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Just before Christmas vacation ended, Francie told Mama that she wasn’t going back to school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once, when he felt that he could pump out no more breath, nor force his knees to bend again, the stair ended. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And then I tried to say the refrain from “Tere Bin,” but it came out wrong, and I ended up saying something about burning lentils. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In September, with my bans ended, I decided to take advantage of my freedom and get a respite from the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, Og took a bow, then queued up a slow song. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mini seemed so shocked by the idea that she could have a plan that it ended up sounding more like I’ve got a plan? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was one small good thing that happened right after the boycott ended. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It rose and fell, and ended on a high piercing note. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fifty years after the decade had ended, the movies, music, games, and fashions of the 1980s were all the rage once again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One, from Djibouti, said little, lying and staring at the ceiling as though retracing the journey of how he had ended up at a holding facility in Manchester Airport. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she gave an account of how the dinner ended with the twins’ note, and the search parties going off into the grounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At last the ocean ended, and the ship hiccupped to a halt at the harbor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

If the discussion ended in agreement, fine, everyone would move together. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attempted revolution was ended by force and false promises of amnesty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If you’re on a cell phone, you might hear a short beep, have a message appear that the call has ended. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She didn't speak a word of Farsi and ended up married to an Iranian man who was in his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It had a peaked roof, hardwood floors, and a tiny backyard which ended in a sun deck and a fire pit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the village population changes every day because the Angkar constantly moves people in and out of the village, which is how we ended up in an empty house. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both groups had panicked, and the encounter had ended with the Indonesians shooting several of the nomads. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Mo in my head: They came here to start afresh, and this is how it ended. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And then, as if that had ended the conversation, he strode out ahead of the children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“So you think Don Pedro ended up all right,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was impressed by her, and whether or not I ended up taking the job, I was excited to get to know her better. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And he has been considering the example of his future father-in-law, Daniel Chalmers, a Baptist missionary to the Philippines who ended up building power plants there and making a small fortune. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The feast was over, and the beautiful dream had ended with it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After the movie ended and the lights came on to illuminate the murals of Tuscany and the painted classical galleries around us, Leper still sat amazed in his folding chair. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean Thomas, who, like Harry, had grown up with Muggles, ended up closing his eyes and jabbing his wand at the list, then picking the subjects it landed on. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The song ended and the nurse returned and sat down. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Activity stopped as the people ended the day’s work. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I ended up standing next to a man who looked familiar to me, but I couldn’t place him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gwen had been speared from behind—possibly after the game had ended. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

New York City at least, Elijah Muhammad’s unquestioned rule would be ended. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of its tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Our journey ended here, where different strangers, different Christians, hate us — but they take our money. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a chance her plan wouldn’t work if the information she needed Redemption to see, whatever it was, ended up in her pile and not in his. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The transfiguring power of the Holy Ghost ended when the service ended, and salvation stopped at the church door. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt ended up sending a couple of men from his team home before they reached the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Panicking was how the people in the movies ended up getting themselves killed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bing Crosby had long been deeply impressed with Howard’s racing success—he once suggested to his wife that they name their son Seabiscuit—but every attempt to emulate his friend ended in spectacular failure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up carrying her to the sledge, making room for her among their tents and blankets. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Coach drove through town, and eventually we ended up at Martin Luther King Park. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

All of August was spent running errands and watching Jason after his summer camp ended. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And if you thought this ended happily, then you haven’t been paying attention. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She looks like she took a wrong turn and is wondering how she ended up in this mausoleum and if she will ever see her loved ones again. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I carved the Singer’s staff while Kira did the Robe. Maybe you don’t understand about the Gathering, but it’s just ended, and it’s a really impor—” “I know about it,” the man said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after the newsreel ended and the movie began, she forgot about being an adult. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And so, glancing once more at Frightful, he strode down the trail, wondering how the peregrine of the Delhi Bridge and her eyas had ended up in a box on Sam’s mill-house roof. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The war ended the Nazis’ rule, but the hollowgast emerged stronger than ever,” Miss Peregrine continued. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Lee’s counterpart on the Union side, Ulysses S. Grant, had an admirable career after the war ended. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Baba ended his speech, people stood up and cheered. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But then Mike came along and Fred ended up in a shelter. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s from Nazi shrapnel! I was a war correspondent and ended up attaching myself to a British tank corps going up the Rhine! We were ambushed one afternoon, toward the end of ’44! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just fine, I tell him, and since my dad ended his days in an Alzheimer’s facility I feel almost at home—which is, creepily enough, the truth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It finally ended in defeat in April 1939, when the patent office rejected the claims finally and decisively based on the prior publications by Cockcroft and Walton and by Lewis, Lawrence, Livingston, and Henderson. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He shook his hips left, then right, while doing this marching step that ended in a hop or a kick. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The paragraph ended at a drawing of a sprig of mistletoe, and Anya looked up at the woman. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Gradually the passageway began to widen, until it ended in a circular room with a large hole in the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to form the words to explain to El that not only did I get my first kiss, but it ended up being a full-on make-out session. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The gridlock in the parking lot was so intractable that, even though the races ended at 6:30 P.M., it would be well into Sunday morning before everyone got out of the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much to my relief, the conversation was ended. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My back stood straight, and my sentences now ended with “sir” or “ma’am.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

December ended; January came and passed; February began. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, were going to talk to Deacon Draper,” Brandon said once church service ended. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Eventually I ended up at a Waffle House. The waitress came to take my order and said, ‘What’s on your mind, Sunshine?’ and I smiled for the first time in weeks. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And she invariably ended the recital with a note of pride in her voice, as she said: “And I never run my train off the track, and I never lost a single passenger.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could make out the point where the cottages ended and the lane turned into open country again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No one would talk about it much, but I gathered that earlier, abortive attempts to include Marion in the activities of the group had ended in disaster. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In Russia, serfdom only finally ended in 1861, two years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is not now the time but I will not lose these thoughts, I will keep them, shut them away until the war is ended. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always time, after the battle ended but while the music was still going strong, when people from the crowd would form cyphers—impromptu breaking circles—and blow your mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She ended up being more than an hour late. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She ended by saying that we’d already had a woman president during World War II. That Eleanor Roosevelt ran the country when her husband, the president, was sick. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My grandma ended up marrying my grandpa, and Grandma Nellie’s friend ended up marrying Grandpa Ron’s brother! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The boat cut through the water, leaving the shore behind, and just before the destination came into view, the vision ended. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kendra roamed until she found another fairy, and ended up with an identical reaction. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Heaven, the place I was supposed to go, but instead I ended up here. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It stood in a crease of land where the desert ended and the mountain began, forming a wind tunnel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maya came but ended up asking her parents to come get her that night. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The announcement from the Ministry of Plenty ended on another trumpet call and gave way to tinny music. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Turtle began with the purple-waves story, went on to the whisperings, the bedded-down corpse, the dropped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and her mother's cross, and ended with the twenty-four dollars she had won. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dari lifted a hand like he was going to comfort her, but ended up stuffing it into his pocket instead. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I applied the brakes, which I did every few feet, brooms and mops ended up in the front seat. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Yeah, that Eugene, he was a positive dude even as an alcoholic who ended up getting shot in the face and killed. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bit into my hash brown, but it was so greasy, I just ended up shoving the whole thing in my mouth. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"I felt his return to Germany had been something of a boyish lark and he had ended up trapped...still there was something serious about him." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

After the program ended for the day, we stayed out as long as we could. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended triumphantly, though part of her wondered what she had meant. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not own country homes or have relatives or friends outside the city who would be willing to put them up until the fever ended. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I think she means that I would just have ended up an Avox, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He ended up shaking hands with a number of the other guest scythes—some from regions as far-flung as PanAsia and EuroScandia. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They ended up in the noisy, chlorine-scented wing of the athletic building where, through a wide window on the fourth floor, they watched swimmers crossing from end to end in glaring turquoise pools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Candice had always wondered if her parents had moved into their five-bedroom house thinking they’d have a lot of kids, and if they were disappointed when it ended up being only her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With unusual awkwardness he grabbed a juice pitcher, lost his grip, and ended up sloshing an entire quart of juice all over Kate’s feet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The forest ended abruptly at the bottom of a cliff. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Gayle may have ended legal segregation on the buses, but it did not end racial prejudice. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

People only went missing for that long in sitcoms, which always ended happily, or horror movies, which rarely ended happily unless you were white and chaste and not gay. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Did you know about the game? You knew it ended here?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One after another, five more French cities held fairs, until the last one of the year ended in Troyes in December, and then the cycle started again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Our argument ended in a draw; we agreed that the passage was obscure and that as it stood it could be explained either way. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Democrats are not eager to find flaws in the period of “unprecedented prosperity” they take credit for; the Republicans have lost interest in the poor now that “welfare-as-we-know-it” has ended. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand jump shots ago he had ended his career as an Atlanta high school junior. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the music ended, and Jeffrey went right on screaming, his face bright red by now, his neck bulging. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom was gravel—spilled out by the rapids—but then it ended. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although the borders remained sealed to tourists, life started returning to something a little closer to normal after The Occupation ended, which was soon after I left. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I couldn’t get an accurate reading. And she called in a harness bull, which ended it.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder how I ended up in this class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun rose the next day, the attacks had ended. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira exclaimed when the song ended, and the audience laughed and applauded. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the two months ended and I was finally given the option to disable the fitness lockout, I decided to keep it in place. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of the parade was ruined by worrying about JT, and when it finally ended and I climbed off, guess who was waiting for me? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each musket ended with a wicked round eye—watching him so it seemed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bad kind. We ended up with a pair of rollers.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire ended up taking her food home in a box as well. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Her mom fell and hit her head, so she called me. My parents and I ended up at the emergency room with them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As the days passed and the mice stayed healthy, our spirits rose, and finally, on August 10, 1969, the flight of Apollo 11 ended and we were released to the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver reached over and pulled the lever—and ended anyone’s hope that this was a short pit stop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He saw a place where the great panacea of school integration had turned into a numbers game in which the blacks and the Hispanics ended up paying the greater price. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begged her mom to let her do her room over, so we all ended up with new rooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The debate had ended with me getting a cup of lukewarm tea dumped in my lap while Raizel’s parents watched on in utter horror. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Trojan War would have ended in an honorable peace, leaving both sides unconquered, if it had not been for her hatred of a Trojan who had judged another goddess lovelier than she. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way he parked the car was all wrong, in one fast motion that ended too sharply. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Without him I would most likely have ended up along one of those dead-end roads many black youngsters found themselves on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With eight other Mexicans he did not know, he crawled through a sewer tunnel that started in Tijuana and ended on the other side of the border, in what Mexicans call El Norte. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She ended up being hospitalized for two months, losing one eye completely and retaining only partial vision in the other. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our hands were caught between us, and for a moment I had the uneasy sensation of not knowing where one of us began and the other ended. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was hard to become an old, seasoned trouper when you painted poison on yourself every third day and ended up raving mad by the time you were twenty-five. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like, a few times, she'd come over to Park's house on the wrong day for her hair appointment—and ended up in Park's room, trying to find something for them to talk about. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, the Japanese and Italian prisoners of war interned at the Greenbrier went home, but Howard Vaughan stayed on, continuing his summer work at the grand hotel alongside Joshua Coleman. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I hated to imagine where I might have ended up if I hadn’t seen the Black Madonna’s picture that day in the Frogmore Stew General Store and Restaurant. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janie wanted to hear the rest of the play-acting and how it ended, but she got up sullenly and went inside. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few guys crashed with them, and we ended up with not much more than forty or so kids, so—I mean there could have been more—it wasn’t bad for a cocktail party. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about the cattle and how they had ended up on Floyd Lee’s land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell where the sky ended and the ground began, if it began at all. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if you remember how the film we saw at the Petersburg Battlefield ended as though the fall of the Confederacy were the onset of a tragedy, not jubilee. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Walker ended up with seventy-one yards on fifteen carries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell where his nose ended and where his lips began. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It took a couple of trips, but she ended up bringing out the sewing machine, most of the tools from her first class, a square template, and an iron. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The storm had ended; the sky glittered with stars. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The post-office job ended and again I was out of work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As each verse ended, the contrabands threw up their hands and shouted, “Glory! Glory! Glory!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still he went on measuring, and still he ended with, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Romances began and ended there; children kissed at the verges of fields or walking home through the woods. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It ended as Johnny might have guessed it would. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More words were exchanged, hot words and dark, and the whole thing ended with the arraignment of the three black men, and an appointment to appear in civil court Thursday next. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many days the children ended up fighting for space and air, and often fighting each other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After inspecting the site itself—a wet, peaty bank strikingly unlike the sere desert home of Folsom and Clovis—the archaeologists ended up at a dimly lighted cantina with the appropriate name of La Caverna. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When USC’s spring semester ended, he collected his class ring and left campus. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“For sure. They started from the state of Missouri, went by here, and ended up in California or Oregon. They did that for twenty years.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Often, they ended up being recruited for jobs that had nothing to do with what they were good at, just because there was a gap to be filled. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Didn’t no one want to be a slaver ’cause we always ended up killing ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As the goddess ended, Dawn came stitched in gold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren ended up as doctors and lawyers as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hicks, finding the girl slow to move, jumped from her bed, seized an oak stick of wood by the fireplace, and with it broke the girl’s nose and breastbone, and thus ended her life. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

None suggested itself, and 1951 ended with the issue still unresolved at the AEC. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“But you’re saying she ended up working in the fish place.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To put that in perspective—World War II ended eleven years before the first female pilot for British Airways was born. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To the northeast the rolling mountains ended in a steep escarpment. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That boy ended up starving in an alley. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the time the party had ended, Dusty wasn’t thinking too clearly. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each of the major strikes that took place in 1919 ended in defeat for the workers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Two days in that freezer with the lineup replenishing itself every time it ended. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They had both been aiming at him, but with the Jeep suddenly out of their sights, they had ended up firing at each other. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had somehow ended up running in the same direction. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how, but somehow between my friend’s house and the beach, we ended up in Las Vegas. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Kids from school. They started picking on me a month ago. Then school ended.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They got so angry that they ended up throwing hot dogs at each other. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Again, the man shuffled and Ned watched as the shell with the seed went left, then right, then around and ended up in the middle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Lady ended her song and greeted them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think if they had been, the situation would have ended sooner. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had been friends for a long time, because they’d gone to school together before the war and had both ended up in Jerome. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At last, just as the class session ended, Pauline stepped away with a nod. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, our love for each other and Dolly ended up running deeper than one song. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And that’s how I ended up with my new after-school job. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists who tried managing energies of the necessary magnitude often ended up with equipment blown to smithereens and laboratories littered with glass shards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The summer basically just ended. And then when school started, it was like you were next.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the session ended, I asked him if he wanted to have a drink with me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d written down details about her class, like what time it ended and what building it was held in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He left the road and took a trail that cut directly to the cliffs, winding up the chalky gray hill where the mesa plateau ended in crumbling shale above the red clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I figured maybe she had ended up staying in the camp longer, now that she was a counselor. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair was long; each of the braids that hung down to her neck ended in a soft fuzz. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The game show ended and the news came on. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, this is how it ended up. The sandy earth absorbed the volatile fluid.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As the film ended, Ignatius cried, “Under her all- American face she is really Toyko Rose!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up in my parents’ bedroom, he in an easy chair and me sitting on the corner of their bed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

My Strawberry Shortcake T-shirt ended up on Luke, although it was way too big for him. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The moment her protected status ended, Mendigo would be on her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The steady stream of words has ended, and she looks spent from the effort. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Mom showed me where the property started and ended, with rows of bushes like fences. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as the lunch shift ended, I took my bag and shoved my dishwasher shirt inside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the stories ended with somebody going to jail. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Thirty percent of those who stopped by the six-choice booth ended up buying some jam, while only 3 percent of those who stopped by the bigger booth bought anything. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were prisoners packed in all around me—roll call had long since ended, and it was the middle of the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aru dramatically flipped her hair over her shoulder, which was a bad idea, because it was still damp from whale spit and ended up smacking her in the eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jon reached to shoo the bird away but ended up stroking its feathers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even craning my neck backward, I didn’t see how that scene ended. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When the packinghouse strike ended, the pre-strike configurations settled back into place. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Franny would still be gone, and our friendship would still have ended how it ended. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But she always ended up in the big tent, her eyes trained on Jacques-Paul as he defied the odds, grabbing through thin air at nothing, finding temporary safety in the bar at the last minute. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Morning, French. I see we ended up having a slumber party last night.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, the second part of the battle ended here,” Grandpa Nyles replied. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, he may have been in and out,” Callie says, “but I think his first time never really ended.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After three years at our junior high school, in a ghetto neighborhood that in-cluded many Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and other white migrants from the south, we had ended up close to being social equals. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear began hopping about their little den like a rabbit, dodging Crane-man’s jabs and swipes, his shame forgotten for the moment, as the day ended in laughter. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to pay my father rent, but more often than not, he ended up lending them money. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The silence in the church ended when Brother Elisha, kneeling near the piano, cried out and fell backward under the power of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Thousands of dead people have come through Snowberger’s and have ended up in either the “Rock of Ages” or the “Everlasting Arms” section of the Snapfinger Cemetery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People like France, so that ended the conversation, even though the French kings pooped right in the hallways of their castles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Yes. And it tripped a Yankee base runner. Changed the momentum of the entire game. The Red Sox ended up winning. Didu's face showed up on the big screen and the entire stadium booed." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don't know how my first composition notebook ended up in my hands, long before I could really write someone must have known that this was all I needed. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her voice trailed off as if she had ended that sentence with a comma and not a period. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope she stays, that woman!” said Parvati Patil when the lesson had ended and they were all heading back to the castle for lunch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The tour ended in the foyer at the front door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to make sure this war ended, once and for all. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Fog was so thick, they were selling it by the slice. Genuine State of Maine Fog. Very popular with the tourists, if you could find one. Many got so lost, they ended up in Pennsylvania.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The spider silk ended before the rise of a large dune. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When Sula imitated her, or tried to, those long years ago, it always ended up in some acdon noteworthy not for its coolness but mostly for its being bizarre. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

What I ended up doing that morning, I went over to old Mr. Billy Whisnant’s, next to the schoolyard, and knocked on the door. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s what the people who were forced to be slaves—my foremothers and forefathers—ended up speaking after they were first brought here to the Carolinas hundreds of years ago. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The song ended and she swore at him. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He'd grown up on a farm in Kentucky and ended up in Washington, D.C., after finishing law school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As indentured servants, people agreed to work for employers for a set number of years, after which the agreement ended and the person was free to find other work. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the war finally ended Mother and I sold the tavern and moved out to Pennsylvania where new lands were opening up and surveyors were much in demand. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been exciting at times when Conrad and I had gone to Miss Lisa’s house with Grandma and ended up playing with her children while Grandma cleaned and cooked a meal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So she ended up a daylight lover, and it was only once actually that Sula came home from school and found her mother in the bed, curled spoon in the arms of a man. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When ail the vacation Bible schools ended, I would watch Mama Lessie sew at her old sewing machine. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The morning commute ended at Mrs. Vaughan’s office in the Aircraft Loads Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your last name ended in “elli” or “ini” or “o,” you lived on the south side. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When the credits ended, the monitor went dark for a moment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All Alex told his sisters was that the city was under a quarantine and once that ended, the convoys would be running again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

By the time the Carter Cowboys were scheduled to face the Marshall Mavericks in the quarterfinals, the hearing hadn’t ended. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a marble stair that spiraled up from the mud and ended jaggedly in air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, she ended up getting brain cancer—the exact kind she was doing the study on. The probability of that was like one in a million or something. How’s that for a coincidence?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The room situation ended up being one of the best lessons of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He just ended up looking like my father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up knocking on a bunch of random doors till someone answered. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I ended up working nine years as a housekeeper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Dad got too drunk, she ended up behind the wheel, but cars never seemed to run right for Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s story ended very curiously in a suburb untouched by fire and explosions. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up taking first on vault and balance beam in my junior session, and third all-around, with a final score of 53.650. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Locals gleefully took them away—one bowling-ball-size mammoth molar ended up as a doorstop. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She ended up tipping over and plunging, headfirst, into an overflowing bucket. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mandy hadn’t made the rain, but she could have ended it. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She just usually ended up covered in dirt, or upside down, or trapped under or inside something. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With no hope of funds, an age was ended; the Novanglian College of Lucidity was to change forever. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I listened politely to the rest of her story which ended, as I knew it would, with Judy being pyrotechnically ill behind a hot-dog stand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We ended up picking dead fish and garbage off the Stokum “beach” as part of the fall cleanup organized by my mom and the rest of the Lake Erie enthusiasts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He starts singing and he’s just got a terrible voice, like an albino Jamaican frog, but we chime in as best we can with our voices and whatever instruments we ended up with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two months earlier, the long, tragic Great War ended and hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were at last coming home from the battlefields of Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Some nights I ended up at Baby Tell’s house—she was my mom’s best friend, plump and short and always happy to see me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A few days after Cherry’s trial ended, my friend Mrs. Alpha Robertson—Carole’s brokenhearted mother—quietly passed away. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But soon after her description of the incident, the interview ended. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The idea was that teenagers became obsessed with the game, somehow lost contact with reality, and ended up killing themselves. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The film ended, the lights went on, and the judges proclaimed Stargirl the winner. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Overall, this measure ended up undermining the suffragists, because the low voter turnout suggested that women were apathetic about voting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The street ended at the next corner, where there was a stop sign. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My uncertainty about what to expect ended when the officer reached above my head and began to pull my left arm behind my back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We were all quiet and angry in the ruins of the village, where it seemed our journey had ended. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Scholars have long debated the beginning and end of Reconstruction, as well as exactly when Jim Crow ended and the Civil Rights Movement or “Second Reconstruction” began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A few years after the war ended, Elizebeth made a surprise visit to one of her neighbors—a woman she barely knew, who was ill. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I always wonder who wore these clothes before they ended up here, why and how they got discarded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Exercising extreme caution, I continued descending the tightrope of the ridge, but fifty feet above the oxygen cache the rope ended, and I balked at going farther without gas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And after far too long a time the beating ended. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The designs were due on March 31,1981, long after the semester ended. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The wood stood all round the hill like thick hair that ended sharply in a circle round a shaven crown. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the semester ended, I stayed in Utah. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times he did this, he always seemed surprised that he ended up with nothing in his mouth, and the unharmed stream was still out in front of him. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached the top of a steep slope, where the path ended in a curtain of green goo. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nearly every attempt to domesticate a mosasaurus, he went on, somewhat rudely Magdalys now thought, has ended in dismemberment and death. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ere the half-hour ended, five o’clock struck; school was dismissed, and all were gone into the refectory to tea. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I ended up getting 100 on my driver’s test, even though the tester covered my backup camera with a sheet of paper during parallel parking. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

Joseph thought of “The Little Match Girl,” a story he’d read in school last year about a girl who ended up dead in the snow after a freezing night filled with beautiful visions. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were such a dark brown that it was difficult to tell where the color ended and the center blackness began. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She told the story of a young wolf who had brought the lost girl a shank of meat, and ended the performance with a Kapu-like caper. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re lucky the way we all got dropped there, the way we all ended up in Ms. Laverne’s class together, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When the Korean War ended in 1953, Milton was stationed again in Norfolk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was the guy who fell on Mr. Ray and ended his career all those years ago. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yeah, all things considered I should have ended up in the hospital after the previous night. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The comics had ended up in the wrong hands. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

All began in Orlando and ended in Hollywood, California. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Coups begat coups, he said, telling us about the bloody coups of the sixties, which ended up in civil war just after he left Nigeria to study in England. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up stationing Styx in the flowerbed outside our bedroom. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her class ended at eight, but I wanted to see the room where—not so long ago—I had struggled over simple reading and writing and learned to count change of a dollar. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now this new riot ended even that trickle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corridor we were in ended in a back stair, surrounded by doors that opened on more corridors, all more or less alike. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, for all the hardships and prejudice, most Indians decided to stay in the colonies even after their contracts ended. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael’s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

On warmer, happier days, after school ended in the afternoon, Shin’s class would sometimes march into the hills and mountains behind the school to collect food and herbs for their guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Naturally, I found his fears and insecurities totally irresistible, and the night ended in careful, slow, and awkward sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In spite of the wives' agreement that such malevolence was beyond credibility, the dispute ended in a short struggle, and both wives were lifted kicking into the night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We ended up coming home with two kids from the neighborhood, and they joined us for Christmas dinner. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I often talk about being from here, but something I don’t often talk about is how I ended up here.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We didn’t stay in either place very long, and ended up at the River Café by noon. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first storm of winter ended my hopes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

These outbreaks ended, for most of us, at the end of the second month. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We ended up with more of the chewy exterior than the adzuki bean filling, so I took the extra dduk and made it long and stringy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I was showing off my new knot-tying skills, and he somehow ended up at the end of the noose,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Valerie had reserved twenty minutes on her schedule to talk to me that day, but our conversation ended up stretching for an hour and a half. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the film ended, we immediately began to discuss its meaning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole day ended on a strange note after that. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was Friday, which meant that she ended the day with the shopping. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana sighed as the song ended—the final note lingering in our ears—stood, and shuffled back to her room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sister Mukumbu was right there and ended it before it grew into anything to stop. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy ended up wanting me to expose myself to him, saying he had never seen a Negro naked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its term began after harvest and ended before planting time. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once before he had had a long talk with his father, and it ended up with his being driven further from his mother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended up buying a fifty-dollar car for seventy-five dollars out of a young man’s yard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite this research, Dr. Gazzaley believes this is a very open- ended question, and a crucial one. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a brown nicotine ring around that room that ended about a foot from the ceiling, like the tide-line in an old bathtub. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“The sock clung to him in my story,” she said, as if her answer ended the discussion. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody came over to talk to Luke when the meet ended. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, my mom pressed the stop button, let her arms fall to her sides, and looked at me as if I was supposed to say something. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even good old Earl Shaffer ended up as a recluse in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting ended with Eisenhower tabling Stassen’s plan, ostensibly for the moment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When my shift finally ended, I ripped off my headset and visor and walked back to my hab-unit as quickly as I could. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To the left the Regiment ended, a high boulder there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then once it ended, maybe he tried to walk back home, but got confused. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All my serious thinking ended when a rock ricocheted off the tree just above my head. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

If Goeth had seen me, he surely would have shot me or ended my life in an even worse way. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I ended up hanging out with Faith a fair bit over the next couple weeks. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I decided to use ink instead of pencil, which made the whole process nerve-racking, but I ended up with only one tiny blot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Like when she and my mom had the big falling-out that ended their friendship, it was like Crystal tucked her head and tried to plow my mom right over. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I ended with: If you could please send me a new picture of you so I can show my friends how nice you are! I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the end of the act the rehearsal ended temporarily. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I followed the highway east, and then south, then west, then north, and then east again, until I ended up at the same Meridian Street exit where I’d started. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Round and round he went until the song ended with a shout and he stopped, his finger pointing at a child Milkman could not see. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, for exam-ple, I made a special phone call for him because, instead of going to the hospital, he had somehow ended up at the School Building and missed a medical appointment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Crenshaw was about three years ago, right after first grade ended. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once manual labor ended, I had much more time for reading, but the books I had been using were now out-of-bounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up feeling really sick on competition day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ve kept the races separated for a long time and we don’t intend to change now,” was what Grampa or one of his friends usually ended up saying. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’s crying full-out—sobbing like the world has ended and Noah hasn’t landed his ark. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then, sitting in her dark living room a year and a half after Cofield’s lawsuit ended, she finally began reading and rereading the full details of her mother’s death in her medical records. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two breaks later, Minho finally slowed to a walk as they headed down a long corridor that ended in a wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Each of the four singing parts had its own duration-value sequence that started and ended at a different point, creating an overlapping lattice of notes of different lengths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I always ended up scrounging bicycles to go exploring. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I wondered if she might have been pregnant, and then ended it.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cordate leaves were large and broad, and ended in a single point. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he ended up walking and hauling his supplies in the wagon-trunk, which he had made himself, out of bicycle parts and a big, light plywood carton covered with polapoly. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I forgot to put Vaseline around my face and I ended up with black dye stains dripping down my face for about two weeks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That one word brought down Father’s sermons every time, as he ended them all with the shout “Tata Jesus is bängala!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the second time in our relationship, as a kind of closing frame to our first meeting which had ended in my flight out of the classroom, I fled up the stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Right. And what's really interesting is she ended up marrying him once she healed from the accident. Not right away, but a few years after." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Threads of silver ended almost at my waist in a woven pattern of silver studded with tiny pearls. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ended up in a veterans hospital in New York City, where he had a slow, difficult recovery from severe head pain associated with his war injuries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It ended as it had begun, with another roll that left him dizzy and more jouncing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He gave nine before the match ended, not counting brief comments that were made jointly with Spassky after each game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My story started on a calendar day—July 2nd, 1977—and ended on a calendar day—February 14th, 1978—but in between there was no calendar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess that’s how we worked our way into full-time-stoner status, how we ended up where we were at that moment, sitting in Fang’s basement, smoking up on his refugee couch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They walked silently past the Baby School, and there the pavement ended. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the hymn ended, she held Turner’s hand and walked behind her husband’s casket as the deacons carried it out of the church. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Soon after the spraying had ended there were unmistakable signs that all was not well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The story that began with Once upon a time, two sisters ruled a magical land, and ended with Viji and Rukku, always together. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t restrain a smile, and he apparently misunderstood, because he stood up and ended the conversation abrupdy. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

My fear must have provoked a serious self-defense adrenaline surge, because I ended up pinning him. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

How he ended up with one foot near the top and his head just below. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Through the middle of the synagogue ran a narrow aisle that ended at the large podium. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Somehow the war never ended after all, it just broke up into pieces and got scattered, it gets in everywhere, you can’t shut it out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In our day the Soviet Union disintegrated after drought caused a series of bad harvests in the 1970s and 1980s, but nobody argues that climate ended Communist rule. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Brutus's excitement got the best of him, and he ended up knocking the ball just past the length of the chain restraining him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The man was listening and apparently not going to interrupt him, so Milkman ended his sentence lamely with: “Can you help me?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were leaving our friend, or as my grandmother would put it, “His temporary journey in this world had ended.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She got to be so sincere in the deception that she ended up by consoling herself with her own lies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tattoos of snakes that spiraled around both of his forearms ended in snake heads in each palm. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Coach Rockford dropped me off after practice, and since it ended a little early, I still have time before I get the text from Mom or Dad asking where I am. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He ended up paying Sneaky two whole dollars for that Snickers. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Not wishing to make things worse, Curly didn’t mention that his pistol had somehow ended up submerged in a portable toilet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them would confirm or deny these rumors, and no one seemed to know what sort of dispute had ended their long friendship. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I hated the idea of needing something and not having it with me, so I usually ended up carrying enough equipment for three gunters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The night had barely ended; the first streaks of dawn rose above the glade. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My first trip had ended as soon as the boy was safe—had ended just in time to keep me safe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The debate was over and ended, and, without so much as a show of hands, had been decided. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Every meal began and ended with an offering to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands on her hips, she made sure that what belonged in the living room ended up in the living room, what belonged in the kitchen, in the kitchen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the song was ended, once more the Hall rang with shouts and cheers. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Right then the record ended, and everybody turned their attention to picking a new one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Thomas Forester set his chin and there the matter ended. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now, as I was saying—it definitely isn’t me. I do, however, have a theory on how and why it ended up in your letter box.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She ended up kneeling on the small of his back, careful to avoid the spikes along his spine, squeezing and kneading and applying pressure in diverse ways. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His strong hand ended the furious civil wars and brought about the Pax Augusta, which lasted for nearly half a century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up hanging out together for hours, listening to music and talking. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It still said “parsecs,” the figures still ended in “1,000,000” and the indicating needle was still pressed hard against the zero mark. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I walked for a long time, more than an hour, and ended up all the way back behind the barn again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

My journey ended before I even found anywhere to go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We ended up pushing it all the way to your place.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the school day had finally ended, I walked to the parking lot without enthusiasm. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the silence all the flighty spirits of the morning ended between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been several months since the Fair had ended. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And even though Noah wouldn’t take off his armband, it ended up being torn off anyway and Principal Trask made him throw it away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The night felt very long, but it ended as all nights do, and Sarai called her moths home. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Weep would be ended, along with everyone in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stayed where I was until the program ended and music started to play. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had to figure a way out before he ended up in jail. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I decreased the magnification on the map a bit, then pulled back far enough to confirm that the northern edge of the hill ended in a cliff of sand and crumbling gravel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She halfway believed in things not true and didn’t know where fairy tales ended. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

However painful it must have been to predicate the harsh word dead of a beloved sister, no euphemism—has passed away, is no longer with us—could have ended that sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Angelo, is that all?” the patrolwoman asked, eager to get to a nearby school before the morning speed zone hours ended. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I ended up helping her,” Seth said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Barack had originally planned to spend the months leading up to our wedding finishing his book and working at his new law firm, but he’d ended up putting most of it on an abrupt hold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"He tricked Humbaba into lowering his auras, then cut his head off with Kasusu. Thus the giant ended up in the netherworld." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was too worked up to sleep, but not bored enough to do homework, so I killed an hour on the Internet, which is how I ended up stalking Marcus’s SnowFlake page. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The war in Europe had ended and the railroad cars piled high with dead were a distant clamor, though it had not quieted down entirely. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I ended up just lying in bed and replaying the whole picnic with Augustus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her formal studies had ended after the ninth standard. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The stairs ended at an opening in the stone landing above our heads, through which I could feel the snapping chill of night air and hear the whistle of wind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till class ended that I realized Mike wasn’t sitting in his usual seat next to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She ended, however, by reading each one including those Sweetness had not bothered to tear open. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby contended that it was always worth it, even if it came with danger and ended in doom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“We both ended up with gum in our hair.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Her childhood had ended, she decided now as she came away from the swimming pool, the moment she tore down her poster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He and many others believed that the German government ended the war too early and was "stabbing" the German people in the back. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When it ended, we formed into a loose line and swept east through the village. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we didn't speak was English, so we had identification tags on our jackets to make sure we ended up in the right place. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And I remembered how that little boy scratched and kicked me, and that we ended up so far downriver before I could finally drag myself toward the shore. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They ended up weeping together and Aureliano felt for a moment that the pain was over. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Players rolled their bowl—a heavy ball you could just barely hold in one hand—so that it ended up as close as possible to a smaller white ball, called the jack. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“If I hadn’t decided to get married and have kids, I probably would’ve ended up in Milan or Paris.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“When I was 8 years old, I was struck by lightning. Part of my brain was injured, and I ended up with super number abilities.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He came down with dysentery and ended up in a grubby hospital in Port-au-Prince, on a floor that lacked a toilet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was one challenge where Ruby had to make pie, and she ended up in the bottom two. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody was there after dark when visiting hours ended, when Cole was left alone with his thoughts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“And...I kind of ended up saying that Emily liked Justin. I didn’t mean to. Honest. It just came out of my mouth.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I suddenly want to tell Peeta everything about who he is, and who I am, and how we ended up here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then the song ended and we stumbled back to our seats, and in the lull that followed I felt the mood change. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was other people with us, but we ended up kinda hanging back. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And after Theo returns to The Hague, Vincent has another New Years chat with his parents, just as he did the year before, when he wanted to quit Goupil’s and ended up being fired. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Above the rock step where John, Stuart, and Lou turned around, the fixed ropes ended. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Retreat” ended, and the soldiers folded up the flag, and the Institute people continued on their way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask what he thought I should do to get her, but the conversation pretty much ended because the sudden sound of sirens on another block drowned out everything we were saying. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so he loved baseball,” he said once it ended. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother had frowned with mild disapproval at first, but eventually, the three of them ended up laughing uproariously in front of the hearth that whole evening. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over the summer the virus underwent some strange transformation and over the next six months ended up killing between 20 and 40 million people worldwide. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed it, but it ended too soon and was followed by a program about a cake factory. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

That my walk across London ended at the church on Clapham Common, and that a cowardly Briony limped back to the hospital, unable to confront her recently bereaved sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They weren’t sure whether to hug or shake hands or just wave good-bye, so it ended up as an awkward combination of all three. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And that was how our whole seventh-grade science class ended up on the playground behind the school at the end of day on a Monday afternoon. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Soon after the first issue was printed, the Revolution’s benefactor, George Francis Train, went to England and ended up in a British jail with a one-year sentence for speaking out in favor of Irish rebels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His musings were ended by a soft rap on his door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Since all the convenient hotels were either booked or required multiple pounds of flesh in payment, we ended up off the beaten tourist path. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was dawn before the pain ended and, in six voices, his older brothers welcomed Septimus to their ranks. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The street ended at a wall of scrub pines and Ricky hung a sharp left into my grandfather’s driveway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Fern tried to kick Vonetta but ended up kicking me, and then Pa said, hard, firm, but not loud, “All right, girls,” and put an end to it all. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the song ended and Papa and Dadi started reading again, as if nothing had happened. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The ceremony ended with Candice and her mother unveiling a plaque that had been fastened to the red brick outside City Hall. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow Id ended up on my back, because I found myself staring straight up at all the junk floating in the sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of teenage boys weeping uncontrollably over a segment of their lives that they knew had just ended forever. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they ended up fooling around right there in the basement. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, seventy miles outside the city, an hour and fifteen minutes into the heart of the journey, the rosary ended and Colonel Meecham asked rhetorically and unspecifically, “Who’s on duty first?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the CD ended, Fang exited the spa, hit me with a killer look, dove for cover under the red velvet and snapped off the rickety lamp between the beds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the work in the post office ended, I was assigned by the relief system as an orderly to a medical research institute in one of the largest and wealthiest hospitals in Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe one time we ended up in Staten Island, and there isn’t even a subway line that goes there. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Back in Connecticut he had sometimes watched the one-sided fights of cats and mice in the meadow, and unless the mice were near their holes, the fights always ended in the same way. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ended up ditching the steak house and going to Patsy’s that night, and I picked at my slice. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mellower sometimes said that, but more often he ended with “and they lived happily ever after.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There the pavement ended, and rutted dirt roads began. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the sixth day, when the storm had ended, I went to the place where the canoes had been hidden, and let myself down over the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the welfare man sent me to the first foster home, and again when I ended up with the Swerlins in Mason. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had ended my schooling shortly after I turned ten. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like it went on forever; both the sky and the sea were so dark you couldn’t tell where one began and the other ended. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, it was my dad who ended up causing the trouble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But that would have been better than what I ended up wearing. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Islam’s march into Europe ended in 732, when the French defeated the Muslim armies at the battle of Poitiers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But when he left the game, my street royalty status ended. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His job was to save lives but he’d ended up shooting one of his fellow Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him casually wipe his left eye with the back of his hand as he ended his prayer and the small crowd began to disperse. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I ended up here because my country was not really my country. It was just where I lived. Where some of us were less than others. Where it was sport, to hurt us.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the Ice Ages ended, Blackwater Draw slowly dried up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess you ended up with pretty good seats after all, didn’t you?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the more we washed them the worse they looked and Dad ended up going back to the Yankee Store and buying some brown-and-white seat covers for the front seat. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the afternoon we’d all ended up down by Beaver Creek. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But since a dog doesn’t live as long as a man, they’d ended up being old together. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I yanked at the stick again but it was stuck real good and I only ended up with splinters in my hand. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path abruptly ended at the edge of a clearing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The song ended, and I dropped my arms. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two of the Atlas’s last five sallies had ended in failure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for him and Marcy to joke about how they ended up with such an athletic son, but altogether different to hear it from others. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I pull away from her—maybe the first time in my life I’ve ended a hug—because a level of eye contact is required. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the way, I ended up getting straight A’s this whole year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was to give it to Paul whenever and wherever his mission ended. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. van Daan hadn’t gotten the jars hot enough when he was sterilizing them, so Father ended up making jam every evening. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And though their conversation had ended minutes before, Lucas approached her once more in the parking lot and asked her a surprising question. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Aru knew, deep in her bones, that this was where the Kingdom of Death ended: on the brink of new life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He searched her face to see how the conversation had ended, if it had ended; why she was out here. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always a perfume or cologne that was supposed to help but ended up taking stink up to stank. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’d never forget the feeling of looking over the railing, down at the roiling, dirty liquid as it slowly ascended, thinking that his fife had almost ended in its depths. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The blaze spread over to her lips where the kiss had ended. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could never hate people very long because he always ended up finding out something sad about them that he had to factor in. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You're not going to get pregnant"—all his lessons ended with the same point. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The second half started out the same way as the first half ended. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After Burkhart’s admission, the campaign to fire White and his men ended. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His bet was that most of them ended up teaching in programs like this or working in advertising, neither of which appealed to him on any level. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the first song ended, he lowered the volume and asked, “Did you enjoy the game?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Guest-teaching at the Temple in Boston, I ended, as always, “Who among you wish to follow The Honorable Elijah Muhammad?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to stutter, but I couldn’t help it, and ended up drooling. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“That’s why his will leaves everything to Tua—he thinks he’s going to be remembered as the man who ended death.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I liked the way his story ended with someone else. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

His story always ended as a stowaway at the trainyard and began as a thief in the Levee. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It ended with our packing and moving that night into another frame house on the same street, a few doors away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cheerful one-armed man with salty skin and a shoulder that ended abruptly like a cliff emerged from the shadows of the jagged beach and walked towards her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One anonymous pilot’s future husband proposed to her among the ruins of Berlin just after the war ended. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He ended up in solitary confinement for several days and wasn’t permitted visits or even allowed to leave his cell. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The story of how Fischer went into a swoon in the tournament’s first half, tying for last, yet ended up in the penultimate round tying for first with Spassky, has been told many times. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Lafayette’s maneuvers helped set up what would be the battle that ended the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the course of this showing off, one of his buddies fell to the ground and ended up scraped and scratched. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What everyone later remembered was not so much Huxley’s long scientific argument but how he ended his speech. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After briefly training a few of Irwin’s old horses, he ended up working as a foreman for an old rodeo trick rider turned trainer named Harry Walters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, something ended up raining on my parade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always got happy talking about the good ol’ days, even though most of his stories ended with people getting messed up. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Susan had slate-gray eyes, the kind of fair skin that belongs on a Victorian queen, and a laugh that often ended with a mischievous snort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We thought that if the restraint was ended, so would his straggling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Con and Kaede walked to the edge, they saw that the ice field ended in what seemed to be a sheer wall of white. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She never told Elena when she was pregnant, so how could she tell her the pregnancy had ended? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, the iced walls and floor ended. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn’t adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

These troubles would have ended as an interesting footnote but for one thing: these infinities and zeros are the key to understanding nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“What are you cooking up, Jinx? The last time you were this interested in my courting Pearl Ann, I ended up smelling like a glacial skunk.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But this time the silence was gentle, like a pause in a piece of beautiful music when one melody has ended and another is yet to begin. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I ended up with my face buried halfway in the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The demonstration ended with another short prayer service and then the crowd drifted off slowly, the mourners reluctant to separate on the sorrowful day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Shadow had had any doubts as to whether his wife was dead or not, they ended then. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After the game ended, the trophy commemorating the win was held aloft, a golden football mounted on a pedestal. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than three months later, on July 27, Robespierre himself was dispatched in the same way and in the same place, and the Reign of Terror swiftly ended. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My foot slipped, and I ended in an awkward split with one foot out of bounds, losing the point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

‘Everyone loved them and enjoyed them. But when the reign of Tiberius ended, his poems were forgotten. The words you’re hearing now are those of your son in the military.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brief flurry of fighting ended as swiftly as it had begun when Bronn sidestepped and slid behind the statue of the weeping woman. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Plus, I'd end up in New York, where all the writers ended up. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Somehow, during the long night, my head had ended up against her granite neck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The meeting ended without bloodshed—and with the council creating a Human Relations Commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think of how I ended the last chapter of the story, with Ivy lying alone in the snow, waiting to disappear. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The commercial has ended and the show is back on. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up with much better than a C average. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Despite our attempts to put a positive face on the matter, the convention ended the second day in a stalemate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was supposed to be the end of the game ended up being the last game of Tigo’s life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She ended the conversation by telling me I had landed the gig, and she hoped her children would get the chance to meet me one day because she found my story so inspirational. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By making sure that all workouts ended at the finish line, Smith taught Seabiscuit that he needed to be ahead of other horses by the time he crossed the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended, and strode on silently, and in all the wood, as far as ear could reach, there was not a sound. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When the song ended, I cleared my throat so I didn’t scare her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I accidentally slid the door shut on my fingers, really hard, and ended up sobbing for ten minutes in pain and shock that the door had betrayed me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jamie ended up with two aces and twelve cards more than I; the game cost me thirty-four cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each ended with a male Nigerian voice, theatrical and loud, saying “Grab your copy now!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We ended up not speaking through the whole entirety of Cameroon and most of Gabon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meet ended by three and that meant maybe six good hours of daylight left, six and a half if we counted twilight, which seemed far darker from inside the hospital. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He ended up losing his leg just below the knee. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable coloration. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was so out of touch with his sons that every conversation he had with them ended in a shouting match. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got on like she was lost and ended up there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I did not hope to have visitors again so soon,” laughed the witch when her song ended. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It would never end unless someone ended it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everything started became nothing finished, and all her projects and my homework and hobbies just ended up in piles collecting dust. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You disappeared before the game ended. Again. Why do you always do that?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Before them, the shadow reached out and ended in knife-edge abruptness into an all-but-unbearable blaze of white light, that glittered from myriad crystals along a rocky ground. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Where they ended, the late-afternoon sun made the poppies glow with a golden light. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen little of the dwarf since their journey ended. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

American wizards once kept Clabberts in their gardens to give early warning of approaching Muggles, but the International Confederation of Wizards has introduced fines which have largely ended this practice. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of standing out as something superior, I ended up just being one of the phonies. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This sparked a money-throwing war, which ended when Miles paid for our food, passed the drink carrier and bags to me, and then folded up the ten dollars and wedged it under my thigh. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We ended up at school with the cream of the American crop, the Hoover girl and the Hanes twins and the Scott girls and the Reese kid who got incredible care packages once a week. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A third ended with a cave-in of tangled wood and soil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z