They had only been in the bar for fifteen minutes, but during that time, the big blue sky had become a big gray sky. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The ceremony took place fifteen miles from Macondo in the shade of a gigantic ceiba tree around which the town of Neerlandia would be founded later. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I know the way it works, Benton. I’ve been on nearly fifteen missions myself. I’ve been all over the world. I know how these things go.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Six feet high at the shoulder, fifteen feet long. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After fifteen minutes the door pulls open again, but I don’t look at her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You were supposed to be home fifteen minutes later. We were going to put a bow on it like in the car commercials.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Rachel is fifteen—or, as she would put it, going on sixteen—and cares for naught but appearances. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited for another ten or fifteen minutes with all the Tigros posse calling us suckers and stuff like that. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly’s mom looked exactly like Kelly if she spent the next fifteen years crumpling the skin of her face and smoothing it out again like a sheet of paper. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes they came abreast of the drifting boat and Abel turned back the throttle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Who would want to sell me or buy me? I am just a girl who has seen barely fifteen summers. I have no skills.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get to eat lunch in my classroom. In exchange, you have to spend fifteen minutes every day doing math with me.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started counting them down, “Nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen ... Twenty, nineteen ...” Each time he hit fifteen he reset back to twenty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had only been together for about fifteen months. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Some of these convicts haven’t seen a woman in ten or fifteen years. I think you’re old enough to understand what that means….” I was only gone two minutes, three minutes, maybe. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only fifteen minutes, but it seemed like an eternity. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minutes passed very slowly: fifteen were counted before the library-door again opened. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“About fifteen. You may have to wait. I’ll get there by another way. Are you sure you remember everything?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“And my break’s only fifteen minutes, anyway, so that would be a really cheap date. You shouldn't date me—I’m obviously terrible at it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I was still thinking about my marriage: fifteen years of living in Ted’s shadow. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“General Coleman is waiting for us. We needed to be in DC fifteen minutes ago.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It took fifteen minutes to clear a path wide enough for Seabiscuit to get out of the winner’s circle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something like fifteen minutes later, Powell said lifelessly, “Let’s go through the ship again. There must be something to eat somewheres.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A village in China of fifteen hundred people might support itself entirely with 450 acres of land, which in the American Midwest would be the size of a typical family farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He finished high school at the top of his class at age fifteen and went on to Indiana University in the early days of the Great Depression. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s at least a dozen of them. Maybe fifteen.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A group of fifteen or twenty people sat huddled around a small fire. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One conductor says the officers, fifteen at a time, stop the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

No making it in fifteen days this time. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reacquainted myself with the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Jackson who died fifteen years ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

First there was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, “Percy is my brother?” like he'd just won the lottery. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I calculated that I had sworn my allegiance to king, Mussolini, party, constitutions, and institutions at least fifteen times.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A good fifteen minutes of scrubbing and it felt like I had turned every inch of my skin inside out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“How about fifteen dollars, with that old jar?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Imagine being fifteen years old and feeling as though your own mother could care less about you. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The photograph had been taken fifteen years ago. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have been more than fourteen or fifteen and seemed to have as many piercings in the cartilage of each ear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He hugged us both again, smoothed the back of our necks, and asked us not to forget to say the full fifteen decades of the rosary during the drive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They found him in the middle of the chasm. You think he tripped over his shoelace and . . . whoopsies, just stumbled fifteen feet forward?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It takes about fifteen minutes to walk there from my school, and I stay until Mama picks me up, usually when it’s closing. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The merchant had been asking ten pennies for half a pound of salt, fifteen for a loaf of sugar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The orientation is in fifteen minutes. Hurry. We can’t be late.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“There are three fives in fifteen, and five fives in fifty. The answer is three over ten, which is three hundred, right?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Pick you up about six fifty, the show starts at seven fifteen,” Lucas said, walking away in reverse. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The group of about fifteen black Cavalettes got together mostly to socialize, eat cookies, drink punch, talk, and dance to records we played on the portable record player. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The logging companies hired full-time hunters who fed entire logging camps, taking ten or fifteen deer each week and fifty wild turkeys in one month. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Jeremiah added another with a cannon shot from fifteen yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I keep playing the events of the last fifteen minutes over and over in my head, and the more I let the mental merry-go-round spin, the more I realize that Garrett had the right idea. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Katie sighed and said, “So soon? You’re just thirteen. I didn’t think it would come for another year yet. I was fifteen.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And you are fifteen now. Fifteen, and leading a host to battle. Can you understand why I might fear, Robb?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wake up, and I’m not four hours away from her, or one hour, or even fifteen minutes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Partly it’s because my own normal work is sedentary, so that the housework I do—in dabs of fifteen minutes here and thirty minutes there—functions as a break. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached up for the hatch and was driven down once more by a wave coming through which must have dumped at least fifteen gallons of new water in the boat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huygens had always suffered from ill health, and although he was based in Paris for the next fifteen years, he twice had to return to Holland for lengthy periods to recuperate from sickness. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“About half. We still have quite a nest egg. About fifteen million dollars at today's market prices.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“My son’s fifteen!” your father says to the head pastel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One night, I was on duty when it was pouring rain, and I caught quite a few students — perhaps fifteen or so — relieving themselves from the veranda. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s got a good fifteen pounds on our squad’s heaviest flyer, so working out with her makes lifting those chicks easy as pie. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His auburn hair had grown shaggy and unkempt, and a reddish stubble covered his jaw, making him look older than his fifteen years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are fifteen or sixteen others with me, men and women looking as lost as I am, gathered around a desk with the inevitable German and the inevitable stack of folders and forms. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The postmark on Miss Peregrine’s letter was fifteen years old, but by all accounts she’d been blown into the stratosphere back in 1940. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes flat, all that will be left of a zebra is the skull, which may yet be dragged away and gnawed down at leisure by young ones in the lair. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then a boy who looks about fifteen or sixteen comes up to me and holds out his hand and shyly asks, “Excuse me, senorita. Will you dance with me?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held Emma’s new friend’s face in her hand and said to her sister, Miss Duncan-the-second, “Dot, I know you waren’t but eight and it been fifteen years, but who this child bring to mind?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Both numbers are tallied for the final event score, with anything above fifteen points usually in medal range. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was in now, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The last time that they had helped her calculate her age, during the time of the banana company, she had estimated it as between one hundred fifteen and one hundred twenty-two. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Day finally told her, all he said was that Elsie was deaf and dumb and she’d died in an institution when she was fifteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was left with the desolate certainty that her father would have done again what he did fifteen years ago. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"It's not out of the question. He drove to Pathfinder's landing site and back. That's over fifteen hundred kilometers." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violence in the country was worsening; the death toll of 1990 was already over fifteen hundred, more than all the political deaths of the previous year. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really supposed to be fifteen percent, but it depends on how much you like me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes the space heater had the place positively tropical, while in the toaster oven their five-pound Thanksgiving chicken was already beginning to brown. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why she knew something was wrong even before she looked at the clock and saw that he was fifteen minutes late. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He ran forward to a boulder, ducked, looked out: dead men, ten, fifteen, lumps of gray, blood spattering everywhere, dirty white skin, a clawlike hand, black sightless eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny lived with her two children, Uncle Piet, thirteen, and Aunt Bush, fifteen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, ’bout fourteen or fifteen if all goes well. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then, less than fifteen minutes later, the name “Shoto” appeared in the fifth slot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The addict who is “fished” up knew personally that the Muslim approaching him very recently had the same fifteen to thirty dollar a day habit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen going on fifteen, she had finally outgrown her dolls and was two, three, who knows, ten years away from her own babies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner we were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks that had just been finished a day or so earlier—although finished was hardly the word for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Slow as their material and technological advance had been, little as they valued “progress” in itself, they had finally, in the last five or ten or fifteen centuries, got a little ahead of Nature. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She hurried along the sidewalk and found her own bus, number fifteen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At twelve, I was considered tall for my age; most folks thought I was fifteen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, fifteen minutes for Spanish, and then we’ll study in the tree.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The University itself consisted of about fifteen buildings that bore little resemblance to each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Archer had already killed fifteen boys, but still Serakeen wanted more. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Soon, Herbert found his unit, about fifteen in all. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Very gradually, in tiny slivers, dawn began to break through the fog, and from my position in the brush I could see ten or fifteen meters up the trail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one night, she was saying very mean things about how he didn’t stand up to the class bully when he was fifteen or something like that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Granny Tipper died of heart failure eight months before summer fifteen on Beechwood. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The school is made of this phony stone, and the mortar joints are deep and wide, and it took him all of about fifteen seconds to get to the second floor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had taken him about fifteen minutes to do his homework that night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the biggest stops, with anywhere from fifteen to twenty kids waiting every day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I looked at the officer who was pointing the gun at my head less than fifteen feet away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Kentucky they lived in a real town, ten to fifteen houses on a single street, with water piped right into the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But summer fifteen, when she had that short haircut?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen goblins there—jeering athletes who were clearly used to fighting. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We lie there in silence for fifteen minutes or so, and then, out of nowhere, Russ says, “Tell me what happened to your mother and I’ll tell you what happened to my parents.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hamilton’s reference to “fifteen years” turned out to be a precise estimate of their history as political antagonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She spent fifteen hours on the floor, shivering, hungry, in excruciating pain, calling for me, while I was passed out cold in the next room.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, she and the others had survived in hiding, trapped in this citadel of murdered gods and scraping a meager existence from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But now, at fifteen, well, things are a little awkward. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He recalled the worst of the predictions before the storm: if the levees broke, there would be ten, fifteen feet of water in some places. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Macon hated tobacco; Milkman tried to put a cigarette in his mouth every fifteen minutes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the 588th’s airfield—about fifteen minutes’ flight away—there were only three small lights to guide the returning Po-2 down to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“You are ten or fifteen years younger than I am. What could you see to attract you in a man like me?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When fifteen minutes are up, you have my permission to order a shake. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She feels that things might have gone along well enough if I’d just done something about a fifteen- or twenty-minute scene in which she blows her nose several times—snipped it out, I gather. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, they ransacked the apartment, taking whatever the first band had left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the time you receive this letter, your brother Robert, our King these past fifteen years, will be dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From 1:20 to 2:55, she hung up fifteen times. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

We had been in prison for more than fifteen years; I had been in prison for nearly eighteen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The wax dummy in the coffin had been molded in the former image of Sam Westing as he had looked fifteen years ago—not as he looked now. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted another fifteen Mississippis before he opened the doors. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket and pull out fifteen one-dollar bills wadded up in a ball. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“This one shows main highways. Shows a lot of rivers too, and in eighteen fifteen there were probably not many bridges.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was waiting outside of my house fifteen minutes later. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Actually she looks younger than she is, which is almost fifteen. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The needle zoomed up and wavered between fourteen and fifteen pounds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Can I sit down? I’ve been standing here about fifteen minutes waiting for you to wake up.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Other times, you have your legs on and operate the way the world intended, except when you stumble or your legs start aching fifteen minutes after you’ve put them on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In 1950, fifteen years before my parents moved to South Shore, the neighborhood had been 96 percent white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bell wouldn’t ring for fifteen minutes, so Toby leaned back in his seat and thought about Lily. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One was elderly, at least sixty-five, while the other was a teenager, of perhaps fifteen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I, at fifteen years old, stood up with them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And on all fifteen tests, the six correct answers are followed by the same incorrect answer, a 4. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

For maybe fifteen seconds, I'm in darkness and then I can feel the metal plate pushing me out of the cylinder, into the open air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Enrique, now fifteen, gathers his clothing and goes to his maternal grandmother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes, so many people had shown up that the room got hotter and more humid and even smellier. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By the time I was fifteen, my shape was that of a woman. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"Foundation, powder, eyeliner, eye shadow, mascara, lip liner, lipstick, blush. Eight steps, take you fifteen minutes tops." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t see Ashley or Shelby anywhere, but fifteen or twenty guys are sprawled on the floor playing a drinking game. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mind retraced my three weeks of training in fifteen seconds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was young, perhaps fifteen or sixteen years old, her cheeks still chubby like a child's. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen, pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby, pregnant with a vision of freedom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her eloquence would earn a standing ovation from the dazzled spectators, who would find it impossible to believe that this mere girl of fifteen was not a trained lawyer. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A group of American girls of fourteen or fifteen had dressed up as much younger girls—with pigtails and teddy bears, wearing pajamas and kiddie clothes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the bus was supposed to come at eleven fifteen, and Aunt Sophie and King didn't get to the house until 11:09. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Now the bus would be coming in fifteen minutes, and I was worried she was trying to miss it on purpose. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You could hire maybe fifteen people from town to work on them, building the frames, laying foundations, making adobes—” “I’m not sure I follow.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are mirrors on two sides, and they skew my ability to figure out square footage, but I figure it’s twenty feet by fifteen feet, tops. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And boy howdy, I was fifteen years old! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The manager types the number into one of the gray computers; $3 buys fifteen minutes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When you know how to get there, downtown Wayne is only fifteen minutes away from campus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The rain eases up but it’s a full fifteen minutes before it stops completely. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys are sad, of course, but Pascal and Patrice at fifteen and thirteen are nearly men, with men’s ways of coping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price always starts at five when it’s just sprinkling, then goes up to fifteen when it’s really pouring. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In order that Tucker could keep at least one of each kind of coin, Harry Cat figured out that they should bring over one half dollar, four quarters, one dime, five nickels, and fifteen cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By his own accounting, around fifteen hundred lashings were inflicted per month, not including those he meted out himself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pull up to the stables after another fifteen minutes, his security close behind them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He remained on the other side of a table some fifteen feet away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how old Jason is, maybe fourteen or fifteen, but even though he’s almost grown, his mother stays with him in the waiting room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked high school age, fifteen or so. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She paused after fifteen paces; they would stop here for ten seconds, in front of a Turk-owned deli, enough time for Kwang to make a comment about ethnic fellowship and shake the proprietor’s hand. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a pavilion of colored silk, the Elf King was being dressed for his meeting by fifteen servants. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

If she wins a second speed round, the Winner’s Circle is worth fifteen thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I jump when Imani calls my name, and I don’t notice that fifteen minutes have gone by. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell much about him under the helmet, but he looked stout like a wrestler, maybe fourteen or fifteen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Those records are sealed, but whatever they contained led her to give him a sentence of only fifteen years out of a possible thirty. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That meant that she left home at fifteen and went to live in Salinas, where she could go to secondary school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That summer, he and Marcela bought fifteen yearlings at a Saratoga, New York, auction. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen, about five feet three, a medium brown color, and definitely wrong. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Astelle came back five or ten or fifteen minutes later, she stood in front of me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On June 16, 1976, fifteen thousand schoolchildren gathered in Soweto to protest the government’s ruling that half of all classes in secondary schools must be taught in Afrikaans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were lights on in the houses and boys our age, fifteen and above, sat on the verandahs and stoops. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, Hitler spoke to the boys and girls, praising them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered benches and tables along the trails look miniature from where we stand at least fifteen meters above. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I asked Doreen about this she said the tipping percentage might well have risen from ten to fifteen per cent since she was last in New York. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was a good runner, and would quickly open up ten, fifteen yards between him and the rest, maybe thinking this would disguise the fact that no one wanted to run with him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only fifteen, but I knew Chisamba Singles was considered one of the worst slums not only in Mutare but also in all of Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Haydn taught the world, apparently effortlessly, how to organise and develop melody in such a way that a piece of fifteen or twenty minutes would sound unified. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The boy was about fifteen or sixteen, with shaggy dark hair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ethnic Korean pastors gave him cash, as much as fifteen dollars’ worth of yuan. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to serve fifteen years to life in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would spend ten or fifteen minutes searching the room, squinting past the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Big Daddy, fifteen, of the Mara Salvatrucha have settled on top. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My guide, on the fourth tier, gestured me into a compartment that contained about fifteen people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snapped about fifteen quick pictures of them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“About fifteen minutes ago I got a call from the police. Charles is in jail. He has been arrested for drunk driving. I want you to go down and get him out.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cahokia represented the first time Indians north of the Rio Grande had tried to feed and shelter fifteen thousand people in one place, and they made beginner’s mistakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Which gave him an excuse to walk right past me and talk to Dolores, who was fifteen and pretty and still didn't look pregnant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four hours later I was eager to return to the campus, although after fifteen minutes of the usual cottage commotion, I wanted to be back with the Courters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

By the time he was fifteen or sixteen, he was beating me regularly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she breaks the rule two or three times a day, driving ten and fifteen times the one-mile distance. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said: “After you’ve pushed ‘send,’ and you’re waiting for a response, fifteen or twenty seconds may pass before you’re fully back and have regained your sense of all vehicles around you.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes of Bugs screaming the joint down they said they were going to have to take him to the emergency room to get the roach out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Inside wait fifteen pastries, separated by squares of wax paper and stuffed with strawberry preserves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with being a good host? Giving out goody bags? Back home we always welcomed our guests with a treat, no matter how old they were, fifteen or fifty!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Here's fifteen, and if that lazy son of mine gets a job soon, I'll come back and give you and your pretty bird more." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don’t know what any of us might have to show them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I took a quick peek. It looks like someone made tribute videos for a number of past coaches. The videos are short—only ten or fifteen minutes long each.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was rougher going now, but fifteen minutes later he reached it: the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s first big chance was now fifteen years in the past, long enough ago to assume that the die of her life had been irrevocably cast. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You said fifteen minutes seemed awfully slow for two trains going full speed. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

One Sunday fifteen years ago he sent word to his wife by way of a Negro boy from his fishing camp on the Tensas River that he was staying down there and not coming back. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It 1 sit in carriage D, which I usually do, and the train stops at this signal, which it almost always does, I have a perfect view into mv favourite trackside house: number fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left after about fifteen minutes, but neither the garage door nor the front door opened again for an hour. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Brother Jacques used the word “environment” five more times in the next fifteen minutes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About fifteen or twenty miles, nothing a determined person cannot do. We will carry our Nigerian coins and buy salt and garri and then walk back to the lorry.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sevens is a scaled-down version of rugby where there are only seven, as opposed to fifteen, players on a team. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The average speed of trains was fifteen to twenty miles per hour. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the County Road, she speeds up to fifteen and grips the wheel like we’re doing a hundred and five. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And the Enola Gay was loaded with extra fuel and the bomb—fifteen thousand pounds more cargo than the B-29 was designed to carry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had followed me in the press; I said I had been told of him, and we talked for fifteen or twenty minutes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sled plummeted fifteen feet to the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucretia immediately went to Garfield's bedside and stayed alone with him for about fifteen minutes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

About fifteen paces away from him, I stop and stare, willing him to greet me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where else but in a prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen years of their married life they had called each other just plain Biff and Alice. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They ran like this for fifteen minutes or so, at which point the boys began to clap in rhythm with their strides. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to repeat the experience, but the water was cold and after fifteen minutes he’d had enough. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I smack my forehead; there’s totally a charging station with retractable cords in the dugout, but even going back to charge for five minutes would add fifteen to my mission. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that your sister, Marissa Ferguson, was gleaned by Scythe Curie today at one fifteen p.m. I’m very sorry for your loss.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They shouted at each other for fifteen minutes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three bookshelves with five rows each is fifteen rows of books. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dowdel, I feel I must tell you that Mrs. L. J. Weidenbach, the banker’s wife, has offered fifteen dollars for that stovepipe hat.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By then, Ptolemy XIV would have been about fifteen—old enough to demand equal power and old enough to become a rival. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It made me feel less helpless to be a girl of fifteen doing what many regarded as a man’s job. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fifteen years old and they had known so long that they were sons of a wealthy man that the feeling was hard to lose. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had worked the railroads for fifteen years, making enough money to build his wife a house on a nice property of a hundred acres of land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was killed in a motorcycle accident when he was nineteen and she fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, summer fifteen, Gat tossed pebbles at my bedroom window. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I finally videotaped about fifteen minutes of him sleeping, which I thought would settle the issue. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we found a half-dozen people and security records that proved that Mr. Hinton was locked inside a secure supermarket warehouse working as a night laborer fifteen miles away at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Typically, they cover five to fifteen acres, but some encompass seven hundred or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"This is just like the time you left me at the bottom of that lake in Wales. I had to wait fifteen hundred years to be found! The humiliation." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Why does the clock in the corner say fifteen?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At fifteen, Penelope was much too old for a ba-ba or a noo-noo, but the truth was her poetry book served a similar, comforting purpose, and she often kept it close at hand. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was the face that had disappeared fifteen years ago, not the man. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was because he thought he killed me fifteen years ago.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So I’m sailing along in my bubble of happiness, and we’re almost at number fifteen when the door opens. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a moon, they see only what the insectile headlamps illuminate: fifteen feet of granular, ice-blue surface, crisscrossed by tire tracks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I ruined my life fifteen different ways, but the suit still fits perfectly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That really means fifteen minutes, so I go back to doing what I am doing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was no way Gideon would publicly call me his girlfriend if I didn't pluck the ten to fifteen hairs that were ruining my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Eight isn't so much younger than fifteen, and I'm the heir to Winterfell, after you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You got...what...fifteen minutes left on your shift? You can go ahead and go. I’ll clock you out regular.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

From fifteen to closing time he was a fixture in the Chestnut Tree. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At that moment I was just arriving at the tents—probably no more than fifteen minutes in front of the first members of Beidleman’s group. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to leave the tent unguarded, even for fifteen minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were huts laid out about fifteen meters from each other. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he looked even younger than his fifteen years, despite his mail and sword and the stubble on his cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was put into the big wooden icebox in the back of the store and sold by the chunk or into smaller pieces that sold for fifteen cents each. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stepfather hit that dip at fifteen miles an hour in his ’64 Pontiac and I bounced high in my seat. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get there, the meter says eleven sixty-five but she gives me fifteen and tells me to keep the change. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Our colony thrived and grew to one hundred and fifteen. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Simon Cordoba, a boy of fifteen, has written a number of short stories considered to be antirevolutionary. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the basketball program, fifteen of the thirty-nine players were black. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price of the meal was set at a deliberately hefty fifteen shillings to discourage those whose qualifications were merely cerebral. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You still have about fifteen or so minutes until the first bell rings. Stay as long as you want. But can I ask you two what’s wrong?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

About fifteen feet away I stop and turn around. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Before, you said that they weren’t more than fifteen” came an angry voice. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lake Windsor Middle had about thirty kids on its team; Tangerine Middle has fifteen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Eight or ten tonight, but give me a little time so I can feel about a bit and I can furnish fifteen or twenty.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This goes on a good fifteen minutes, before Morrie finally breaks in with a whisper. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lord, I don’t know....In my time, there was about fifteen or sixteen....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This furniture is a clunky imitation of the early Scandinavian furniture of ten or fifteen years ago, now drastically out of style. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After fifteen minutes the Earth Men began walking in and out the kitchen door, with nothing to do. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes we'd met them all and soon knew the whole band of regulars. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he has the reinforcements he recruited—fifteen others are here with him, digging in the dirt. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But I was fifteen now, and wise to her. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Angel and Kiara, dressed in matching jeans and shirts, walked back and forth to the refreshment stand ten or fifteen times, giggling and hoping they were being noticed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I treasure tales of escape, be they from Alcatraz or Nazi concentration camps or the dungeon in which Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo was unjustly imprisoned for fifteen years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A seventy-year-old lady does gymnastics as if she’s fifteen, then a man sings a rap song while dancing like a robot. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The casing shattered, circuitry crunched, shrapnel tittered on the floor as the fifteen millimeter-thick calculator turned into a three millimeter-thick calculator. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If the apartment had any kind of heat, he would have stood by the front door of his building for five, but since it was just marginally warmer indoors, he opted for fifteen. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The woman was a good fifteen years older than me and clearly disapproved of my teaching methods. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It rumbled off in a new direction, and fifteen minutes later we were ordered to jump out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey was picking me up to go to Calypso Highs winter carnival in fifteen minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She sat paralyzed on the bed for fifteen minutes before springing up, suddenly decisive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There were about fifteen children sitting at desks scattered around the room, busy writing out their one hundred sentences. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Like you said, with a bit of courage, creativity and fifteen”—I eyed the pink and mauve striped drapes in the living room—“thirty-five yards of upholstery fabric, anything is possible.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Their entire visit lasted less than fifteen minutes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

North American researchers tended to scoff at the notion that some mysterious non-Indians had lived fifteen thousand years ago in the heart of Brazil, but South Americans, Pena among them, were less dismissive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We spent the next fifteen minutes looking for Chas around the gas station, even walking both directions away from it along the road, but we couldn’t find any trace of him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s a saying. It means a lot. Actually, something like fifteen million birds will fly through here. You’ll see how people from all over come to see them. It’s like a people migration, too.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For fifteen days Verrazzano and his crew were the Narragansett’s honored guests—though the Indians, Verrazzano admitted, kept their women out of sight after hearing the sailors’ “irksome clamor” when females came into view. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had been fifteen years since they had seen an owner, and they had simply assumed that there no longer was one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids who work on the News noticed that about fifteen years ago Mr. Larson was chosen Best Teacher of the Year three years in a row. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Why those children hardly worked fifteen minutes out of the hour, just taking off the full spools and replacing them with empty ones. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This demand was satisfied by another catalytic event: the rollout of Windows 95, which shipped fifteen days after Netscape took its stock public. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The first letter of each word spelled out fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"You did not tell me that. You said five bucks a throw. You said fifteen bucks till noon, all right, but I distinctly heard you--" "Open up, chief." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Krystal pushed forward while I stayed about fifteen steps behind her, passing Lu and Ghost, who'd pulled over on the sidewalk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In fifteen seconds, he was leaping directly toward the two humans in an unsteady canter. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve known Peaches all my life, which means for fifteen years, and I hated to see her sad. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With us, the matter is a question of life and death, at least in fifteen States of the Union. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The tank he was in was huge, at least fifteen feet deep and twenty or thirty feet long. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe ten or fifteen pounds went in through the slot. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When it’s only about fifteen feet off the ground, I see a boy aiming his Roman candle in the same direction. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had been parked on the street for about fifteen minutes listening to Sly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

War plants and shipyards demanded birth certificates, and mine would reveal me to be fifteen, and ineligible for work. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a kind of bonsella, a gift. Imagine! They would pay for her food, books, everything. I was so excited. I sent her off at once. She was only fifteen.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticking with my plan to be a strong, educated woman became much harder when I got to be fourteen or fifteen. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t gone fifteen or twenty minutes, but when I came out, I found I was not alone. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The voice says, “Shoppers, the store will be closing in fifteen minutes,” and Mr. Kellerman goes, “Sorry I can’t help you with your speech, Bobby.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He got excellent exam results and—here’s an amazing coincidence—at the age of fifteen he actually found himself sitting next to a boy who would grow up to become prime minister of Great Britain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Aint the sign of it laying right there on that bed. Aint the sign of it been here for folks to see fifteen years now.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking into the library, I took in my breath sharply and stopped: glass-fronted bookcases and Gothic panels, stretching fifteen feet to a frescoed and plaster-medallioned ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There she had helped out now and then, but now she had fifteen bedrooms on the second floor of the motel to clean by herself! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

From beginning to end the whole process took about fifteen minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lay on my back for perhaps fifteen seconds before the engine growled to silence and I heard Dad’s heavy step. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Luke was fifteen when he asked Mother if he could have a birth certificate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now he had to get up out of bed, walk twelve feet, open the bedroom door, walk forty-three feet and open the front door—all in fifteen seconds. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auk XXV peaked out at the predicted fifteen thousand feet, neatly falling downrange, landing with a solid thunk near the end of the slack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Where had it been for those fifteen years? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then fifteen minutes into World History and in came Bo with a yellow folded piece of paper. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So instead of Bodega getting fifteen to twenty for selling drugs, he only got five for possession, then got paroled in three for good behavior. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A two-liter bottle of water was enough to keep the water wall’s music going for about fifteen minutes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Lightning were awarded a free kick from fifteen yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Ice Ages drew to a close about fifteen thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then she spoke words that she never had, not in all these fifteen years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The airlock tumbled across the surface for a further fifteen meters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On May 19, having traveled no farther west than the Toklat River— less than fifteen miles beyond the bus—he turned around. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had sixteen campers, fifteen Hunters, and half a dozen satyrs left in fighting shape. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are fifteen million hogs in Iowa, so a lot of manure to manage. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They became friends, and except for the fifteen minutes he spent with her, each day seemed that it would never pass. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am fifteen when Mrs. Nielsen finds a pack of cigarettes in my purse. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

About fifteen feet forward-ship from the first row of deck chairs, and eighteen or twenty rather sun-blinding feet overhead; a young man was steadily watching him from the Sports Deck railing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

One hour before post time, fifteen minutes before the deadline for scratches, they decided to go. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the first note of the first song rang out, the Spencer family, all fifteen of them, made their way down the center aisle. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The part I didn’t tell about Bluefield, I was only fifteen. I ran away.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Career advisors had asked me, at fifteen, about my intended major in college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I walked and worked, worked and walked, me and Victory, fifteen miles to Palestine. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cesia is fifteen, but she doesn’t look it, and we are in a small space. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Your brother has called me, like, fifteen times,” Zach Oh says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Convicted at the age of fifteen, he had served ten years in a combination of juvenile and adult penitentiaries on charges of arson and second-degree murder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

About fifteen hundred people were lined up at the foot of the building’s white marble steps, hoping to get one of fewer than two hundred seats available to the public. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He walked for fifteen minutes before he came to it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only a single light bulb hanging, and it shone maybe fifteen watts. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her boys—fifteen, thirteen, and seven—were at home alone with an infant. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The best story was about when she turned fifteen, and her parents threw her a big quinceañera party. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It only took me fifteen minutes to put a controller on a reserve power line, then another hour to go outside and run the line to where the battery used to be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have an issue that requires your intervention. The land you granted me fifteen years ago is being encroached upon by my brother’s son. I need you to help so there’s no bloodshed.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, the darkness had disintegrated somewhat, and he saw, some fifteen feet in front of him, a man stirring in his sleep. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was proud of Sasha, who turned fifteen that same day and was counting down the hours to the Beyoncé concert she was going to in lieu of a birthday party. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She is young and innocent, too—only fifteen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The volcano with a bright halo at the rough center of the disc was observed in eruption just fifteen hours before this image was acquired: it has since been named Prometheus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On November 24, 1859, on a wintry Thursday morning, Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection appeared in bookstores in England, priced at fifteen shillings a copy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I hear Will Hamilton is telling around you made fifteen thousand dollars in beans. That true?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing surreptitiously at her phone, Molly sees it’s 4:15—only fifteen minutes since she arrived. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Straight on the panicked horse galloped, past the milestone lodged in the earth at the roadside, heedless of the letters graven in the stone: “Redwall Abbey, fifteen miles.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She just asked people between thirteen and fifteen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My media fast lasted fifteen minutes before I forgot that I was fasting and checked my phone.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was newly raised: the raw earth was covered with fresh-cut turves: about it were planted fifteen spears. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In this city of fifteen thousand shrines, each shrine was more splendid than the next, but he was pointing to the great mosque of Aurangzeb, where the city’s Muslims worshiped. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mina is only fifteen, and her head barely reaches my shoulder. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave you two alone. But you don’t have a lot of time. The sanitation trucks leave in fifteen minutes. You have five in here.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Hey, why do you look like you got fifteen minutes of sleep last night? You okay?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It’s seven fifteen, so it’s gotta be Mr. Watson, the bus driver. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I have nightmares for the next fifteen hours straight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Young man,” Xan said to the schoolmistress’s son—a nice boy, fifteen, probably, whose skin seemed to glow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Next day, late July of summer fifteen, there was a lunch at Clairmont. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

During the next fifteen minutes, radio listeners throughout the country heard the frightening updates. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He told us that his mother would give us a ride if we paid a fee of fifteen pounds sterling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t see more than fifteen or twenty feet ahead, often not even that. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to get Lily to treat it, but Lily balked, saying she hadn’t practiced medicine in fifteen years and that she had never practiced that kind of medicine. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Although he was at least fifteen years older than his wife, his alert determination to make her happy and his qualities as a good lover compensated for the difference. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As it is, they let pass a diffuse, smog-colored glow, which crosses about fifteen feet of open space on each side before it reaches the metal, which it does not warm. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his fifteen years of teaching, he had never let anything get in the way of his work. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was at the head of the line, at 23,000 feet, fifteen minutes in front of guide Mike Groom; I decided to wait for him and talk things over. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had brought Mom to Welch for a brief visit fifteen years earlier, right after they were married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I have no idea what she's pointing to, but then, about fifteen feet up, I make out the vague shape in the dimming light. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hear people today complaining about the time their children will spend riding the bus, but I remember the time when minorities had to walk fifteen to twenty miles to attend school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t remember like half our summer fifteen.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mkonyanisi” — an affectionate term for son-in-law in Xhosa, which is what she always called me — “you have made a serious error because Zindzi is only fifteen.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you get your meds and then there’s a smoking break, and then maybe you have fifteen minutes to yourself before there’s some kind of activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hell, a girl who, up until fifteen minutes ago, wouldn’t even look at me, let alone talk to me? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Grace had seen it once when she’d dared herself to pick up a parenting book, in a bookstore fifteen miles away, where no one would recognize her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It took another fifteen minutes for the cab to get us to Davis Square, which meant we were ten minutes late to meet Trevor’s mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Even here, fifteen miles away, like an earthquake sent to rip the world in two." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next fifteen minutes he stood there working busily, at what I could not see but only guess. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time the hearing began she had lost the extra fifteen pounds plus ten more. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He liked to say that he could run his program with fifteen kids if he had to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I take off the zeros and see fifteen over fifty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It got down to fifteen seconds and I reached my hand up like I was going to push the guard again but instead I swiped after the ball. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A few seconds. There were no more than ten or fifteen seconds between the time you went and the time you called my name.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our column had only some fifteen steps to go. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s ten or fifteen trees and lots of bushes and stuff along the edges. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, D.C., the Public Allies founders had mustered a fledgling class of fifteen Allies who were working in various organizations around the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As usual, the target was only about fifteen minutes’ flight time from the airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The targets weren’t much more than fifteen minutes away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Yes, I'm seventeen, and my sister's fifteen," Starry answers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Along with his parents and three sisters, who were nineteen, seventeen, and fifteen, he hid under the bed during the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had fifteen thousand more reasons to want Barack to win. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bernabe asked, his voice trudging down the fifteen miles of telephone wire like a funeral dirge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got out fifteen minutes before closing time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have one, about fifteen years old, that still runs about as good as Secretariat when she was in her prime. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re sad and angry, and I get it, but we should probably run for the T. My mom is going to pick us up from Davis in fifteen minutes.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jam was fifteen when she told Aloe she wanted surgery, and her father sat and wrapped his arms around her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At the supper table, she wanted to throw her plate fully loaded at Jem, a superior fifteen in adult communication with their father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Something about fifteen or twenty feet away looked up at me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t have to tell me I had a nightmare. I remember just how it was. And I’ve had the same dream for about fifteen times before.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get a move on,” G’ma says as if the previous fifteen minutes never happened. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It took fifteen minutes for the elfin emissary and his escort to reach the Maw-Gate. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Large grassy flats west of the village were filled with nearly fifteen thousand horses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, I know that going to a night party where there will be boys is unusual for a girl who has not yet turned fifteen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re right in the middle of serving the main course. Go grab a seat in the greenroom. The speaker’s done using it. I’ll hook you guys up in about fifteen. Cool?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He was still fifteen feet away, no doubt wondering what I was going on about. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It might call more attention to us, the missing children, and fifteen miles was a long, long way to walk. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It would be fifteen minutes before the sun went down and Bunnicula woke up. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Bibi arrived in the storage room wearing cracked plastic slippers and a housecoat whose hem stopped some inches below the knee, a length we had not worn since we were fifteen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of the sixteen shells on the river that day, George Pocock had built fifteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How her grandmother had the love of fifteen mothers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He came out with fifteen slips of paper, folded over. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Whatever accounted for the unnatural stasis that had kept her a child for fifteen years, it was beyond the reach of reason or persuasion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t much taller than I, but she was fifteen and of course she was smarter than I was. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winner received plaudits from the crowd and his life from Caesar’s upturned thumb because the fight had lasted fully fifteen thrilling minutes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cain hooked his long rope around a leering gargoyle’s neck and swung across an expanse of flat wall, landing on a balcony ledge fifteen feet below the flag. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a hazy summer evening, a month before I turned fifteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He knows all about every leg of goose within a radius of fifteen miles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than the Young Wolf’s murdered brothers, fourteen or fifteen by the look of him, and his eyes were older still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Across the alley behind our house, there was a mini housing community called Euclid Parkway, where about fifteen homes had been built around a common green space. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This did not prepare me for the unique sort of heat that one encounters fifteen miles south of Birmingham, Alabama, at Culver Creek Preparatory School. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

During his fifteen minutes of prayers, he spotted Diana walking by, as well as two teachers clearly on their way out of the building. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But I did not think it fair to avoid reporting the prefect and mark down the fifteen others, so I simply tore up my list and charged no one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inauguration Day was bitingly cold, with temperatures never going above freezing and the wind making it feel more like fifteen degrees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now that we're in fourth grade, we have tests, and for our next test we have to memorize fifteen different people who helped map the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I stopped counting at fifteen.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon he produced his pocket-book: “Here,” said he, offering me a note; it was fifty pounds, and he owed me but fifteen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stannis had come north with no more than fifteen hundred men ... but if he told them that, his mission here was doomed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At two o'clock Westing Paper Products sold at fifty-two dollars a share, its highest price in fifteen years. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four to fifteen single lashes and expulsion from the University.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out of the fifteen pods that had been there, only two were left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In about fifteen minutes, the monkey became still, and they dragged it out, and it went the way of the other monkeys, carried along in the flow of material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave him ten to fifteen years for attempted murder. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina reached the age of fifteen, the wind changed again for her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I should know since my mom has led the planning committee for the last fifteen years. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I staggered out of the bathroom ten, fifteen minutes later, Astelle was leaning against the wall, one leg tucked up under a short plaid skirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Less than fifteen minutes later the shooting started again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Oh our port side, a spiky green dorsal fin about fifteen feet long curled out of the water and disappeared. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes, they call my name. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Running along the entire length of each shed was a grassy yard maybe fifteen feet wide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Piper jumps up and blows Maniac away, killing him at least fifteen times. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying facedown beyond the pile of earth was a boy of fifteen or so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I can see maybe fifteen yards in any direction. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For much of his fifteen years as Virginia’s president, Casteen has focused on raising money and expanding the university, the most prestigious in the state. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All fifteen thousand men would concentrate, finally, on a small stone wall perhaps a hundred yards wide. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is why she lost her home village and did not reach her husband for fifteen years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heart beats regularly for another fifteen seconds, then stops altogether at ten seconds past seven twenty-two A.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The strikebreakers’ pay was fifteen times higher than the strikers’ had been. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Say you do A.U. one, raising the inner eyebrows, and six, raising the cheeks, and fifteen, the lowering of the corner of the lips,” Ekman said, and then did all three. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’d just turned fifteen and I met this guy on the beach, much older than I was- thirties, probably, possibly even early forties—and he invited me to go sailing the next day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched helplessly for fifteen minutes as she struggled to haul herself up the uppermost brow of rock, too exhausted to manage it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The younger, no more than fifteen, had an even longer braid, dyed a garish green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were only fifteen now, and Eduardo felt a cold lump in his stomach. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the funeral home were maybe fifteen people. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Okay, so it was probably more like fifteen, but still. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We share with three families: fifteen people in one tent. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘There was a door south-west of Caradhras, some fifteen miles as the crow flies, and maybe twenty as the wolf runs,’ answered Gandalf grimly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Last season it had taken him his first four games to get three touchdown passes, and he only had eleven the entire season in fifteen games. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, I would gamble all of my tips—as high as fifteen and twenty dollars—on die numbers, and dream of what I would do when I hit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Brother Leon arrived, they totaled the sales together and discovered that fifteen thousand and ten boxes of chocolates had been sold thus far. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at the elevator with our bags, we plan to meet for the picture show in fifteen minutes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harris was quiet for a full fifteen seconds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So I follow Finnick about fifteen yards into the jungle, where he finds a good tree and starts stabbing to make a hole with his knife. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had no watch, but it could not be fifteen yet. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Faith Temple, a former movie theater which had been converted fifteen years previously, could seat a thousand in its auditorium and another seven hundred in its basement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we walked into the library fifteen minutes later, Grandma said, “I’m going to see what’s new in the mystery section. Want to meet back here in an hour?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m fifteen years old and I wish I were a better person than I am. But I’m not. Do you want to hear my pathetic story?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not seen Lola since that summer, so the figure she imagined at the altar was a spindly girl of fifteen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mamani had gotten married at fifteen, became a widow at fifty-three, and spent the rest of her life on her own in an apartment in Mashhad, a city on the far eastern side of Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had to remind myself that he had not seen me in more than fifteen years, and that my appearance had changed even more in the past months. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All casual, he told a TV reporter that the jellyfish he was holding contained enough venom to kill fifteen humans. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, at twelve fifteen, a lone Union officer and his Confederate escort arrive to see Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The track over the gym in Stuyvesant High School was so small you had to run around it nearly fifteen times to go a mile. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a three-by-three grid and the numbers one to nine, the solution was always fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jimmy would sometimes come in and make him get off, but fifteen, thirty minutes later, they were back on. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tata had been in Brooklyn more than fifteen years, and if her blood hadn’t thickened by then, I worried about how long it would take. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Here are fifteen general principles that are good for all kinds of writing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen seconds, she stands still, as her idea of the room switches places with reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She got to the bus stop fifteen minutes early. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“What would be the good in beginning now, when you’ve been destroying them for fifteen years?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out fifteen minutes before the top of the hour and smoothed out a big area of dirt. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know a place up Carmel Valley where there’s fifteen hundred in one flock.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story I heard was that fifteen minutes later Shawn wandered onto the site. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because fifteen minutes is ten minutes longer than it should take even the slowest person to walk there from school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“He’d get decontaminated and sit across the room, far, far away from me and only for fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes at the most.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten or fifteen feet of water would be a possibility. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was annoying but helpful, and fifteen minutes after entering the room, Thomas examined his finished product. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was three fifteen p.m. when Red drove off. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled out a check, to me, for fifteen hundred dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At four fifteen in the morning on May 9, Egil Krogh was at his desk in the Secret Service command post across the street from the White House. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And though she would live the first fifteen years of her life within walking distance of Herat, Mariam would never see this storied tree. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, smoking thoughtfully, he listened to the radio and allowed his eyes to drift half-assedly around the landscape as he drove the fifteen or so miles to Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he waited fifteen years to tell her? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He claims that the knife fell through a hole in his pocket sometime between eleven thirty and three fifteen while he was on his trip to the movies and that he never saw it again. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise you. It’s just a shell now. It’s been empty for fifteen years.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We were down by two with fifteen seconds left. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Second, Booth reminds the group that the murders of Seward and Johnson must also take place at ten fifteen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But he never completely lost his balance, not even a decade had taken that away, and in fifteen minutes he arrived at the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A foot-high fence surrounded an area that was maybe fifteen feet by fifteen feet. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In 1853, at age fifteen, Victoria married a twenty-eight-year-old physician, Canning Woodhull, thinking he would be her ticket to a better life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

To avoid tiring themselves, the Boss decided they should make a brief halt every fifteen minutes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen, black, built big—looked like I did. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was fifteen years old and I was exploring my hometown. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bought a set of encyclopedias, too; it was fifteen years old and way out of date, but I would sit and pore through those. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I get 10 liters of C02 every fifteen hours now that I souped up the pump. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the drawer was a super Swiss pocketknife with a tin opener and screwdriver attachment, and this notebook—a school exercise jotter dated fifteen years ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“And they’re fifteen and seventeen?” she said, deliberately getting their ages wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I slid fifteen feet on my belly across one such slick. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, that's going to be one of your jobs. These here gauges have to be checked every fifteen minutes. You ought to be able to do that." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since many of my students are fifteen, and Zlata is fifteen and Anne Frank was fifteen when she died, I think the parallels between age, alienation, and teenage angst will really hit home for them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The call light’s been on for fifteen minutes and I’m just sick of waiting. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At this point, the fire was barely fifteen minutes old. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes he finally gathered enough energy to get up and go to the kitchen and start cooking supper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then he told about one time ten or fifteen years ago when the southbound train ran over a bull yearling on a curve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And Reggie was running the whole show, with at least fifteen people reporting to him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I can see what she’ll look like in fifteen years, if she isn’t careful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were only about fifteen miles down the road from where we’d started in El Sacrificio, but it was far enough that going back there wouldn’t be too smart. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In Europe alone, the fall of the wall opened the way for the formation of the European Union and its expansion from fifteen to twenty-five countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The under-fifteens’ fifteen hundred meters is called, and she stands up, brushing dried grass from her shorts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In 1963 alone, another fifteen thousand were imprisoned, and one thousand desegregation protests occurred across the region, in more than one hundred cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His name was Steven Pendergast, and he decided to get his fifteen minutes of fame by sharing his “discovery” with the media. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was in the second group, so I didn’t have a chance to find out what was going on when the first group returned fifteen minutes later. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Enrique can count on one meal a day for fifteen days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My phone said we still had fifteen minutes to talk to her. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Bud,” he said, “my name’s Mr. Lewis. Now if you were about fifteen, twenty years older you could call me Lefty. But you’re not, so you can’t. Mr. Lewis will do just fine.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not until almost fifteen minutes had gone by did the bell ring again, just as softly as before. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My sole duty was to make an entry, every fifteen minutes, describing what Morales was up to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been a squatter for almost fifteen years, and the city had finally decided to sell the apartments to her and the other squatters for one dollar apiece. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The car with the motor running waited fifteen minutes and then they left. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t used it in years but just kept hold of it, until about ten or fifteen years ago, someone stole it from me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sister just died and you want to throw me a party? I’m already fifteen!” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Helpers stop serving breakfast in fifteen minutes, girls!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Could one reach back in time and expect them to be as merciful as it was possible to be fifteen years later with a mind and body unviolated by gods? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had fifteen miles to travel; master of his team, navigator of his route, he felt proud and exhilarated by his freedom and sense of adventure. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d have enough music to entertain them while they drove fourteen or fifteen miles home and unharnessed in the dark and fed the stock and milked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting the boards on my feet cut fifteen pounds from the awful load on my back and made the going faster besides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Research on inmates would come under scrutiny and start being heavily regulated about fifteen years later, because they’d be considered a vulnerable population unable to give informed consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I told her to expect us around six fifteen tonight, if that works for you?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

To forestall her, he said, “We’ll give you fifteen a week, starting...” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes, I’m sold out, and I go home that afternoon with a heavy pocketful of change. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked for four hours in all, up and over three hillside towns, across fifteen miles of beach, before they were finally close enough to the rock to touch it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Today, our first day, we walked seven hours slowly with breaks, so we probably did around fifteen miles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was higher than a basketball rim, maybe fifteen feet. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It only took me about fifteen minutes to figure out the “rules” of the game and to sort out how the scoring system worked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ian's appointed lawyer encouraged him to plead guilty, assuring him that he would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have dared to bother the man who could do what he did with “Daydream” by asking him for fifteen cents. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than fifteen thousand people, it turned out, had come that day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He did not appreciate that I wanted to read books and that I saved money to buy an easel when I turned fifteen and that I would spend the afternoons painting pictures of trees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen feet away from the child, her dog—a young dachshund, wearing a green leather collar and leash—was sniffing to find her, scurrying in frantic circles, his leash dragging behind him. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

So fifteen years later, when I was selected to integrate Central High, Grandmother said, “Now you see, that’s the reason God spared your life. You’re supposed to carry this banner for our people.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand over his left side, just behind his front leg, and counted the number of heartbeats in fifteen seconds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We know now that our universe—or at least its most recent incarnation—is some fifteen or twenty billion years old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Baba didn't get the chance to tell you but I got married fifteen years ago.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the sixty-six elite wrestlers fights fifteen of the others in a tournament every two months. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

An average-size human being jumping out of an airplane will reach 99 percent of terminal velocity—approximately 122 miles per hour—within about fifteen seconds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the previous fifteen years, violent crime had risen 80 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As Matthew Stirling and his team were dodging ticks and unearthing stelae in Tres Zapotes, they found a cache of fifteen upside-down pottery bowls tucked into the ground six feet below the surface. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like forever, but was really only fifteen minutes, the bright train lights finally came flooding around the corner. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The cheering rolled over the track for more than fifteen minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Save me fifteen percent on my car insurance!” shouted someone else. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They say in the wintertime, with water close to freezing, you ain’t got but ten or fifteen minutes before your heart quits beating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would take us another ten or fifteen minutes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At fifteen you should know that you need to be responsible for what you are doing in school. Do you want to transfer?” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mami’s mother had been one of fifteen children, and Mami had endless aunts, uncles, and cousins in the barrios that stretched like tentacles from the wide avenues and shady plazas. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were at least fifteen of them, at ten thousand feet, little dots in the blue, circling above the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were probably fourteen or fifteen rabbits—no more—who set off with Campion, some time before ni-Frith, to try to retrace the long journey they had made only the previous day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It started simply, with the words “My name is Calliope Stephanides. I am fourteen years old. Going on fifteen.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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 they step out of the squad car and stand on the street, McMellon and Carroll are no more than ten or fifteen feet from Diallo. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was fifteen, and painfully aware that I was “just an observer in life.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, whatever, just give me another fifteen minutes,” Mom said, not looking up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Still, upon sudden impulses, just to play safe, I would abruptly move from one to another fifteen- to twenty-dollar-a- week room, always in my favorite 147th-150th Street area, just flanking Sugar Hill. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what Milkman could tell, after fifteen minutes or so they were going up to high ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to wait for fifteen minutes after your last drink before we test it,” I said, having downloaded instructions for the Breathalyzer off the Internet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I told him that in America you could step into a grocery store and buy any of fifteen or twenty different types of cereal. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the dealers offered her fifteen dollars for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen years old and six-one-and-a-half and too old to cry but tears blurred his vision, as if the room was underwater. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes we were on the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It took me like fifteen minutes just to turn the thing on, but eventually we were both logged in. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a splendid custom and he gave me fifteen points in a hundred and beat me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’d need a high score—a twenty-seven at least, which meant the top fifteen percent of my cohort. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Somehow, he would find the courage to finish what he had started fifteen years ago, and free his people from this last vestige of their long torment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now she fought head winds from tack to tack, and some day’s sailing did not take her fifteen miles nearer home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, if you wanted to see the atoms in the same drop, you would have to make the drop fifteen miles across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Covering five square miles and housing at least fifteen thousand people, Cahokia was the biggest concentration of people north of the Rio Grande until the eighteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The windows of number fifteen, reflecting morning sunshine, look like sightless eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two goes into fifteen seven times with one leftover—me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They chose a spot on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, near the Finnish border, and set to work with the hope of drilling to a depth of fifteen kilometers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was fifteen feet from the light when the footsteps started running. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Another birthday has gone by, so I’m now fifteen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Prices were cheap: fifteen cents for a large opossum hide, twenty-five for a good skunk hide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a proper pendulum swinging underneath it, and it chimed, too, every fifteen minutes, loud enough to make you jump if you weren’t expecting it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

In my phone, favorites four through eight and twelve through fifteen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s ten or fifteen buildings this time but even from a distance it looks scrubby and run-down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I must’a stood there for at least fifteen minutes, one hand grabbing my ladder, the other hand gripping the top of Blaze Tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later they were down among them, plodding on a level road with white walls on each side and trees bending over the walls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s been fifteen years, his death haunts her every day of her life, she says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The picture showed a skinny girl of around fifteen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile into the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The FTP employed nearly fifteen thousand writers, actors, directors, designers, and stage technicians. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I put Fielding to bed, but fifteen minutes ago his car disappeared.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, hey! Will you look at that? It’s almost eight fifteen,” I say. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen minutes before we saw it again, flying serenely and very high. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was feeling grumpy, I could tell, because some days she’d let me watch for way longer than fifteen minutes, pretending she didn’t notice that the timer in the kitchen had gone off. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he had steeled himself against replying, Gregor thought of the last two years, seven months, and, was it fifteen days now? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have almost no memory of him until five years later, when I am fifteen, and he bursts into my life at a critical moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Hauled in fifteen bushels. Mostly females, though,” he said, disappointed. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our high school, which had about twenty students at full strength, was down now to fifteen since two had graduated the previous spring and three had gone off to war. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want it to be true that his wife and children were fifteen hundred miles away and might by now presume him to be dead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had been a scrawny, starving boy of fifteen who was the size of a ten-year-old. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The fire inside the Atashkadeh had been burning for fifteen hundred years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turned the boat to the north, and in no time they were speeding along at fifteen knots, heading for the Golden Gate Bridge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Read all about it! Titanic survivors in New York! More than fifteen hundred people dead! Read all about it!” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped through a side door and wandered through the hospital for about fifteen minutes until a nurse intercepted him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there are like a hundred stories in the whole fandom. Abby and I were able to narrow it down to fifteen possibilities.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve done the calculations and have figured out that from the ages of thirteen to fifteen, I’ve spent about forty-five percent of my life grounded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If you’re in a lot of pain, you can push this every fifteen minutes.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In another fifteen minutes he was approaching the end of the valley, and the beginning of the deadness beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Those three divisions . . . will give you fifteen thousand men.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The homeroom period would be over, but I was only fifteen minutes late for the first class. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Apparently so were the other fifteen people sitting with us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The game was down to fifteen seconds and we’re losing by a point,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the same stuff that’s on the back of postage stamps. Mix a little of it in your powder and add water. Let it dry. I think it’ll burn. That’ll be fifteen cents.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This sister had in her housing project apartment about fifteen of the maids, cooks, chauffeurs and house men who worked for the Hartford-area white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t look big enough for fifteen people,” I said, looking at the framing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was four and he was fifteen and we were taking a walk. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sookie’s fifteen minutes of fame had been extended by two seconds. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He is resting peacefully in the slave burial grounds and we made certain he had a Christian service and paid fifteen dollars for a marked grave. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A few empties were scattered in the dirt next to a garbage can about fifteen feet away. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was fifteen, after I’d started wearing mascara and lip gloss, Shawn had told Dad that he’d heard rumors about me in town, that I had a reputation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They got within about fifteen yards of the gun. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She’d arrived fifteen minutes earlier, dragging her camera and equipment with her. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I had only just turned fifteen and didn’t have a driver’s license yet, and, anyway, Jim had girls to take out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks for dying, Tariq, so I could get my fifteen minutes of fame. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Socios en Salud continues to support nearly fifteen hundred MDR patients, as well as provide clinical, nutritional, and psychological support for more than a thousand people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time since he was fifteen, Pollard was deprived of the intoxicating rush of riding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen miles the road climbs through a desert landscape almost devoid of settlement and prone to fog. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Charles was a man, and a dangerous man, even at fifteen, and when Adam was sixteen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes into the show, popular ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wooden dummy Charlie McCarthy finished their comedy skit. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My husband was, in all of this, a complete nobody—a humble state legislator who’d never stood before a crowd like the one of fifteen thousand or more that would be gathered in Boston. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Behind the dog a boy about fifteen or sixteen came with an armload of firewood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He returned home at about three fifteen in the morning to find his father dead and himself arrested. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like that I can drive fifteen hours from home without the world changing too much. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 2004, Reuters had grown its Bangalore content operation to three hundred staff, aiming eventually for a total of fifteen hundred. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen men, with half a dozen guns between them, and they opened fire as soon as they got within fifty yards. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And for a second I wish she went to the same school as me instead of living fifteen minutes away in Bay View, in a quiet tree-lined neighborhood almost identical to ours. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I watched for what seemed like an hour but it was probably only fifteen minutes or so. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a secret,” she answers and then closes her eyes, her sweet elixir doing its job for another fifteen minutes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At twenty-four, he’s not that much older than she, at fifteen, and he is very handsome. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"I'll give you fifteen minutes," he said, then left the room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The cold continues and I am braving temperatures of minus fifteen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wait a full fifteen minutes, both to give August time to find Uncle Al and Marlena and also to let the other men move the rest of the animals far enough away. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes went by while Marcus looked at the floor, the dentist paced, and I stared out the window. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I want to be alive when I’m fifteen and I want the shilling tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

About them were packed some fourteen or fifteen people—the hut could hold no more. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody talked about it, but by the end of the first day Salva had become the leader of a group of about fifteen hundred boys. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes he’s knocking on my door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I taught myself how to count to ten in fifteen languages!” said Mini proudly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I give him the address and he says he’ll be here in fifteen minutes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wraith vanishes, the smoke dissipates, and the barracks go still, as if the last fifteen minutes never happened. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Rolls must have turned my head, because the car when it came—fifteen minutes late—was a disappointment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I’d called the police back when I was ten or thirteen or fifteen, would Charlie be alive now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She has been talking to him privately for fifteen minutes about the small cut on my knee. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see a boy of fifteen or sixteen, crouching nearby. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the raft secure he climbed on top of it and lay on his back for fifteen minutes, resting and letting the sun warm him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen minutes later, our launch set forth on its final leg, leaving dock and bloody ground behind. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I access where I am, and discover I’m only about fifteen minutes away from Rhiannon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before we were even fifteen minutes into the game, a brawl had broken out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But everything began to change in the last weeks of January 1996.1 was fifteen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They lapse into silence and walk for a solid fifteen minutes before Scoob realizes he’s missing a golden opportunity to get some of his questions asked. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, true! That he didn’t die fifteen years ago of typhus or sleeping sickness or malaria or the combination. I’m sure his hygiene went to hell after Mother left him.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most radar transmissions are for military purposes; they scan the skies in constant fear of a massive launch of missiles with nuclear warheads, an augury fifteen minutes early of the end of human civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s probably ten or fifteen years younger than me, twenty- two, twenty-three, and she’s real pretty, but why’s she wearing all that goo on her face? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After fifteen minutes of growing anxiety, I finally heard the clanging of chains on the other side of the door. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I showed him my talent pipes and bargained for a pleasant fifteen minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But what about the letter from Miss Peregrine—postmarked Cairnholm—sent just fifteen years ago? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was fifteen, starting my junior year at Stuyvesant, and I was lost. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Now a golden sovereign for two nights was more than a fair rent, in the days when a farmworker might hope to make fifteen pounds in a good year. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took her fifteen minutes to find the old pictures, printed on thin, flaky paper and nestled between heavy book covers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly fifteen months after my first night at West Street, I would be released. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve been sitting on the sofa listening to Baba ask him a thousand questions about his health for the last fifteen minutes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I have coughing attacks every five to fifteen minutes that last about five minutes each. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was saying that it only weighed fifteen pounds and had everybody lift it to check it out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I texted Auntie Buzz a message that took fifteen screens because I needed 1,974 characters to explain what I’d done, that I was only trying to help and that I’d fixed everything for her. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once over the mountains they saw a herd of about fifteen deer in a high open meadow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Webb piped: “John has a great-great-grandfather, and he’s a hundred and fifteen years old!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She did a quick glance around the room, then added, “Ten, fifteen minutes?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

What for instance was he doing with two women fifteen years younger than himself? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We returned to the green fifteen minutes later. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The story was in the paper the day after the shooting, on page fifteen of the Stokum Examiner. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The fifteen days on his meal cards pass quickly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Took me fifteen minutes to skateboard to the mall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

By fifteen, she was pregnant with her first child. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The counter on my display had only fifteen seconds remaining when I deactivated the Beta Capsule. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are at least fifteen other underage people here who we don’t know, and some have already been picked up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A young woman who looked about fifteen stepped forward and held out her arms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the way she held the harp between her legs made me think of... well, the things that every boy of fifteen thinks about incessantly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I must have knelt there for at least fifteen more minutes before mass started and I had to join Mamá and my sisters at their seats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Spencer, our quiet neighbor, donated a check for fifteen dollars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The guy's probably a stunt driver for the movies, the kind they hire when they want six near-misses every fifteen seconds. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to be able to read and write again, and I didn’t mind it at all that my first reading and writing in fifteen days was being done over final examinations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’d learned how to swim well enough to make it about fifteen feet on my own. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dinka boys of fifteen or sixteen must go through an intense ritual of initiation. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen years after the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and fourteen years after the Civil Rights Act, but this Birmingham company still had an almost totally white workforce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Almost four decades had passed, but in an instant, I was fifteen again. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I only had to listen to him instead of fifteen voices, maybe choir would be okay. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I had twelve to fifteen kids in that class, and they needed more than that. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liz and Mark’s older son, Matthew, who is fifteen, asked a lot of questions about killing chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

By game time more than fifteen thousand fans had emptied into Ratliff Stadium, where a full moon, luscious and plump, sweetened the languid desert night and turned the sky an incandescent blue. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found more children below—at least fifteen, maybe more. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"My sixteen-year-old grandson was murdered fifteen years ago,” she said, "and I loved that boy more than life itself.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’d lasted fifteen minutes there before the Oakland PD kicked them out for the exact same reason: lack of a permit. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, me either. Mama made me swear. And if I disobey, I have to go live with Aunt Ida and her fifteen cats in Atlanta.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once lunch started and Mr. Harding and I spent fifteen minutes on x and y and solving for the unknown, I felt like a new person. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Letters from him trickled in, once or twice a month, with half the words blacked out, calling her “Sweetheart” for the first time in fifteen years. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“But it was because of his efforts to ensure this community had a library that this branch was built fifteen years ago. It was named in his honor.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

June of the summer I was fifteen, my father ran off with some woman he loved more than us. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It would take us all day to make fifteen miles to our next stop, Father’s friends south of Mohegan. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to be on Zoom at ten fifteen.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I text Emery to see if she wants to meet up for coffee, and she texts back pretty quickly that she'll be there in fifteen minutes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It takes about fifteen minutes to make the pizza, so I only have fifteen minutes to get it to the door. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I was fifteen. Yes, New York. But we lived in London before that, and briefly in Ghana. And first in India, where I was born." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sit on the curb for fifteen minutes—challenging myself to keep still for that long. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

With me, it’s regular checkups, new filter every fifteen hundred miles, and new oil every three thousand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This doesn’t make any sense. I’m already fifteen. Who’s even heard of such a thing?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Principal Hornstein had sent the school secretary to call both of them into his office fifteen minutes earlier. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I check the clock on the dashboard—it’s only two fifteen. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In about fifteen minutes the crash trucks from the airfield arrived to fight the fire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I close mv eyes tightly and count to ten, fifteen, twenty. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great column, all down the front page, and an awful blurred photograph of Maxim that must have been taken at least fifteen years ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from the noise, there were fifteen to twenty people trekking through the forest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But after we had been under way ten or fifteen minutes, someone would announce that he had to go. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a soft, chestnut-colored face and huge umber eyes that still hold an innocence even though we’re both fifteen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We sat there for maybe fifteen minutes with downcast eyes and finally got up and walked home. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the oar came to his chest, and with his back inclined about fifteen degrees toward the bow, he reached the full extent of his “layback.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I considered myself lucky if, after subtracting lapses from new business, there remained fifteen dollars that I could call my own. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boys put smut on me. It’s my birthday today. I’m fifteen.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I always can tell when you on your way, Old Flapjack get worked up ’bout fifteen minutes ’fore you gets here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And for about ten or fifteen minutes there in the car, I felt great. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every thirty feet or so there is a neat, paved driveway going fifteen or twenty yards to nowhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of what remains are texts on monuments, murals, and pottery—about fifteen thousand samples of writing, according to one estimate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen minutes before one o’clock in the morning. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The huge pot of porridge for fifteen that none of them even noticed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I often watch television while doing my chores, making sure to turn off the set fifteen minutes before they come home, so it has time to cool off. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should say so most assuredly. Pierre Michel has been employed by the company for over fifteen years. He is a Frenchman—lives near Calais. Thoroughly respectable and honest. Not, perhaps, remarkable for brains.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Links bought their first home fifteen years ago in what was then the master planned community of Clear Lake City, Texas, now a part of Houston. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes, Mrs. Suzman — all five feet two inches of her — came through the door of our passageway, accompanied by General Steyn, the commissioner of prisons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Each batch of bricks bakes for fifteen hours, sending clouds of black smoke into the sky. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the same kind of uniform as the first guy but was ten or fifteen years older and a whole lot trimmer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finding the next hole took almost fifteen minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I give her her fifteen cents already today,” Mrs. Cripe said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Radio-sodium had a gratifyingly lengthy half-life of fifteen and a half hours and gamma ray energies that Ernest calculated at about 5 million electron volts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Apparently reflexive verbs gain a new importance for certain girls at the age of fifteen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lucky for you,” a girl's voice said and I nearly fell fifteen feet to a nest of fractured bones, “I'm not a teacher on patrol, Taylor.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The savage stopped fifteen yards away and uttered his cry. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then, after about fifteen minutes, Harry heard the deafening roar that could mean only one thing: Cedric had gotten past his dragon and captured the golden egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen again, and his mother was dying, and she was trying to tell him something very important, and he couldn’t understand her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even when you’ve recently turned fifteen without a birthday cake, it’s hard to be that mature about Christmas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sister told her to lead fifteen men up to Beatrice ward. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, by the end of 1871 fourteen out of fifteen state suffrage groups had left the National and joined the American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The judge issued shorter sentences—ten to fifteen days—so that hunger strikes wouldn’t be an issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In reality there were about fifteen or twenty of them, all gentlemen in green hunting dress, with their horses; some in the saddle and some standing by their horses' heads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had been a cop for over fifteen years, however, and he was very sensitive to police work and to people’s attitudes about the police. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other white prisoner was a boy not more than fifteen years of age. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time they got to Finsterwald’s backyard, at least fifteen kids huddled against the garage door on the far side of the alley. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every ten to fifteen seconds, sharp metal spikes popped through its bulbous flesh and the whole creature abruptly curled into a ball and spun forward. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And then they hug for like fifteen minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She is fifteen and has never held a boy’s hand, never been kissed by a boy, never felt a lover’s warm embrace. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fifteen minutes, those of us who do not suffer the sickness were admitted up on the quarterdeck with our muskets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah, here is what we need. About fifteen years ago hatboxes were made like this. You skewered through the hat with a hatpin on to this hump of wire netting.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And today I have these vivid images of the ten, fifteen minutes we waited there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Prove me wrong. Prove that you’ve thought this through. Why does a University with under fifteen hundred students need an asylum the size of the royal palace?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m a simple country man, and I’m at least fifteen years older than you. I don’t know how to act with a young girl like yourself....” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked about inconsequential, safe things for about fifteen minutes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They saw him raise his hand, and though they were too far away to hear, they saw him knock upon the door, and fifteen hearts beat in time to that silent knocking. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am with Volpe at his town house in Yardley, Pennsylvania, a pleasant community about fifteen miles north of Truman High. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Fifteen kids are on the real team, and fifteen kids are dog meat. I was dog meat last year, and it was a drag. I don’t want to do that again.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited fifteen minutes and then twenty and twenty-five, and finally I left my pack and went back to look for him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe fifteen degrees, maybe fourteen, maybe not even that. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

To know if either of them would fight to keep her after trying so hard fifteen years ago to get her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As she drew nearer, an irregularity in the surface of the ancient glass foreshortened her image and she confronted the child of fifteen years before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After another fifteen minutes, the commander wanted a break. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She got off work as a barista at three and had school—now graduate school—at four fifteen. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

At fifteen, there were few things worse than your crush's identity being revealed to the rest of the school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It took Ishmael all of fifteen minutes to find what it was he wanted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Stay on the block and be back within fifteen minutes, please,” Papa said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They gave themselves fifteen minutes to drink things in and get a hunch about the person. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Each floor had two galleries, back to back, with fifteen cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Jack lost his aunt Hinda to cancer fifteen years after she came to Kansas City. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Me, I’ve been here fifteen years, and if I die tomorrow, there wouldn’t even be enough money to bury me.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I ran down to the barn to milk the cow, and though I hurried as fast as I could, I was gone about fifteen minutes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I find a pen and write down all my memories of summer fifteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t look old enough to be fifteen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As crack and guns flooded the cities and gangs battled over turf, the violent-crime rate for juveniles ages fifteen to seventeen doubled, as did the violent-crime rate for people ages eighteen to twenty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Didu talks about winning first prize in a dance contest the summer she was fifteen, and how everyone raved over her feet with their henna designs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are fifteen seconds between the third and the fourth, which is the longest space. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old people gave me the fifteen beads, which I was to use if I got into terrible danger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fifteen years since George Gey had first grown HeLa, the number of published articles involving cell culture had more than tripled each year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first time I kissed Bas: He was sixteen, I was fifteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It took me fifteen minutes just to figure out how to spell it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Only fifteen hundred field federal agents were assigned the enormous task of enforcing Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I’m out on O’Connell Street and why shouldn’t I take the few steps to the Jesuits and tell all my sins this last night I’ll be fifteen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My story can be very heartbreaking,” he said, wrapping up the session after about fifteen minutes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s Daddy’s voice at eight fifteen at night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

About a minute and a half earlier, Franny, on a distinctly quavering note, had just declined her mother’s fourth offer within fifteen minutes to bring in a cup of “nice, hot chicken broth.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s twenty minutes of forced bonding with fifteen other kids. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time in fifteen years, I closed my journal and put it away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My wages were fifteen dollars a week; the hours were long, but I ate my meals on the job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photographer flipped the monitor around for us to see the portrait, and I was no longer seeing myself as a boy, but a young man—fifteen, maybe even sixteen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“She arrested on Monday, in the pen on Tuesday. They say the whole trial took fifteen minutes.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The boat looks no more than fifteen feet in length and perhaps five feet wide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to ask Mummy when I didn’t remember the rest of summer fifteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We agreed to meet back in front of the grocery store in fifteen minutes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lucky that he'd managed to pull himself together in time after that business ten—no, fifteen years ago. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The barriers were seemingly endless miles of ditches, eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its survey indicated that fewer than fifteen people out of a hundred of those using insecticide aerosols and sprays are even aware of the warnings on the containers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a minute and fifteen seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fat chance. Anyway, it’s just to see what you and I will look like in only... two months and fifteen days.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We begin with a video, about fifteen minutes long, on the history and philosophy of Wal-Mart, or, as an anthropological observer might call it, the Cult of Sam. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped out of bed, too, and we got in the car and raced to the hospital, which luckily was only fifteen minutes away. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a heart, animated with lines, floating in the last frame, when Khadija, the Prophets first boss and first love, fifteen years older, sends a marriage proposal to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Baker shouted an ultimatum to the fugitives: “I want you to surrender. If you don’t, I will burn this barn down in fifteen minutes.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The present seemed vulnerable to the past, as if it might be overwhelmed by it, as if I might blink, and when my eyes opened I would be fifteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, the mysteries of Weep had never been far from his thoughts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now I’m fifteen and must think about maturing into a Christian lady. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been dead for forty years, her son for fifteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But she was probably being modest, because if you looked harder at Weisberg’s life you could probably subdivide her experiences into fifteen or twenty worlds. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our interest in each other was never keener than during the fifteen minutes before the first bell of the first day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I’m anxious to get going, but we still have fifteen minutes to wait. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

On Gregor’s tenth birthday his uncle had sent him a pocketknife with about fifteen attachments, and his mom had put it away until he turned twenty-one. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two villages on the Gulf of Mexico, fifteen hundred people—they’ve just been found dead, covered in this black stuff. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma said, “I’s so happy! After I got Missy to bed I told Mrs. Wright and she look at a clock and say, ‘You got fifteen minutes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I turned fifteen on the Corner but could act like I was twenty-five, and no one cared. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barrage lasted for fifteen seconds, then stopped abruptly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we presented test results that confirmed his innocence in 2000, I begged prosecutors to retest the evidence, but for fifteen years they refused. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Five people in front, plus four on my right side, including me, plus six on my left equals fifteen. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When Darin was fifteen, he fell from a tree while trying to draw Scholars working a Martial orchard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Haggling over a twenty cent hame string to save fifteen cents, so they can give it to a bunch of Yankees that come in and pay maybe ten dollars for the privilege. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came, checked it out, and found fifteen sticks of dynamite in the bag. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was fifteen, a new girl had pointed at me and asked, “Who’s the stork?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That fifteen cents will buy me a snack of dinner,” he says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was supposed to perform today, but I saw him leave about fifteen minutes ago. He said he was going to the Fair.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You have a strategy meeting in fifteen minutes and I have a key, so I don’t care how naked you are, if you don’t answer this door in the next thirty seconds, I’m coming in.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her son's voice was not as icy as his father's would have been, but he did not sound a boy of fifteen either. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fire had killed fifteen more, and an assassin had transformed the closing ceremony from what was to have been the century’s greatest celebration into a vast funeral. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once he found three in fifteen days, but another time he went three years without finding any at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The second is from Tom, received at ten fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were at least six feet tall and fifteen feet round and made from single blocks of volcanic basalt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When night came and the women had carried back to the village those who had died on the beach of Coral Cove, there remained only fifteen. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never speak to her again if he knew she was only fifteen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five—ten—fifteen—it was impossible to count the kids that suddenly pitched forward, falling face-first into the snow, screaming and howling in pain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It has 775 rooms and is fifteen times the size of the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This board is easily worth fifteen thousand dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen, but Alba realized he was like a baby. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe fifteen minutes later, Audrey finds my hand on the armrest. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There must have been fifteen, twenty of them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Because every fifteen minutes, the animated ceiling looped through call numbers for every Dewey decimal room in the library. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But even then, he made my mom stop the tape every fifteen minutes so he could ask long strings of questions. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call this house ‘home.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow, in some almost miraculous way, his fingers were finding holds in the crevices, and he was now perhaps fifteen feet closer to the top, farther from death. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Laboratory tests showed that the bones could be fifteen thousand years old—possibly the oldest human remains in the Western Hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The police have their hands full trying to track down the many girls of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and older who are reported missing every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The issue was, Needles was sixteen, almost seventeen, and Noodles and I was fifteen going on sixteen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Got to. Nowhere else for them to go. ’Less they drive seven miles one direction or fifteen the other. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The report says you sold fifteen boxes yesterday, bringing your total to forty-three. Wonderful!” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Bas: He was fifteen, I was fourteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He counted the fifteen new bills once more, and they were so crisp they made a sharp, cracking sound. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Tess was back, her arms cradling at least fifteen pairs of shoes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

‘To Waymeet, that’ll be,’ said Cotton, ‘to fetch more of the gang. Well, it’s fifteen mile each way. We needn’t trouble about them just yet.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She pulls tape and a giant safety pin out of her pocket, and in fifteen seconds, my costume is fixed. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

By summer’s end, Nixon led Humphrey by fifteen points in the polls. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And I used to give Lloyd fifteen laundry bags, and I’d be sitting down in a barbershop somewhere talking to some old guys I know. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Houston's upgraded the storm to 'severe.' It's going to be here in fifteen minutes." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hurried I could be there in fifteen minutes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On good days they covered as much as fifteen miles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boss planned to offer her fifteen a week, figuring he’d get as good a reader as his future wife at half the salary. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the envelope’s postmark was fifteen years old. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Girl's elbows at fifteen Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat what’s the matter with you and Caddy across the table not to look at me. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that he was fourteen and since that was her twin brother it made her almost fifteen, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is, I’ve been producing prose home movies, off and on, since I was fifteen. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Scarlett Amber Perkins was fifteen, and, at that moment, sitting on the upper deck of the elderly bus, she was a mass of angry hate. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I’d written more than sixty pieces for Outside over the previous fifteen years, and seldom had the travel budget for any of these assignments exceeded two or three thousand dollars. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh God, it must be fifteen degrees hotter in the kitchen than it is in the dining room!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Most of you will have anywhere from ten to fifteen fears in your fear landscapes. That is the average number,” she says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If not for the fifteen years of training, I would have writhed on the floor; I would have had to be held down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to another bench on the opposite side of the building’s entrance, a good fifteen feet from Zakariyya. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Hundred and twenty-three pound, fifteen, six. Jeweller’s account, I think.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, after fifteen years in New York, Peralta speaks little English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nathan finished the first verse, which took fifteen minutes to sing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was fifteen and I felt it, felt the race I was running with time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He went for fifteen yards and it was only a scrimmage but he wanted more, he always wanted more when he had the ball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven fifteen, it was time to go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

For fifteen days Frightful, with Sam’s help, sat through the blasts of the jackhammers and the rumble of trucks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The ship’s capacity was not even fifteen hundred. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen cents and as I felt for a nickel I took out another dime, thinking, Is it an insult when one of us tips one of them? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve got guys on that team that are fifteen, maybe sixteen feet tall. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally answers, because it’s preferable to listening to the fifteen messages he’s left. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was two fifteen when I slipped quietly back into the house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

On a good night, we'd be talking fifteen, twenty sales by now. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“From four to fifteen single lashes and mandatory expulsion from the University,” Lorren recited. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We’ve been in school together since sixth grade, and in that entire time, I’ve probably exchanged fifteen words with both of them combined. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I know only how much time it takes them: twelve minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’s standing with his back to us, about fifteen feet away. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She sent money, five letters, and fifteen photos. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong is that it’s ten fifteen and you were supposed to be on the hall thirty minutes ago and no one knew where you were.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked somehow smaller and more vulnerable, like the youth she had wed in the sept at Riverrun, fifteen long years gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was five- fifteen and about a dozen people, all told, were walking on the sidewalks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be worth at least five thousand—maybe fifteen thousand dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Those who don’t fit in the four bedrooms’ fifteen beds sleep in a long hallway on the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They arrived at Oppie’s house to find fifteen employees of various Berkeley labs seated on the floor, listening to two labor organizers outline their goals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then I did what I hadn’t done in fifteen years of marriage: I told my wife everything. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen years old and furiously alive, and in a glimmer of a moment, Sarai saw her hopes both exposed and destroyed, and felt in them the echo of her own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Why would the Republic give you those wounds, Day? Why would they want to damage someone who got a perfect fifteen hundred on his Trial score?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When her sort-of stepbrother fell asleep around nine, she asked Park to call her back in fifteen minutes, so she could put the kid to bed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You need to be fifteen years old to purchase your own ticket,” the man says, looking above at a TV monitor of the local news. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably for the best. We still have fifteen minutes of that wretched movie left to endure in Biology — I don’t think I could take any more.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was fifteen the last summer we went down to Grandma’s. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Right now I want to know about this big city. You two never write me any dirt. Aunty, I’m depending on you to give me a year’s news in fifteen minutes.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

On a Sunday afternoon in early June, the fifteen members of my team met with our gym instructor in the play yard of our school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Why did she ask you?” she demanded with a groan, and Mia bit her tongue and reminded herself that her daughter was, after all, fifteen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"We've got fifteen minutes to get home. I'm sure Ma's watching the clock." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was on planes and in airports for fifteen hours, getting there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In flip- flops, he pads to the door every fifteen minutes or so and summons someone for a return call. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By age fifteen he was carrying around backpacks full of money. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn’t see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time you hit the ball and your opponent couldn’t return it, you gained fifteen points. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not that he cries or gets sentimental, not at all, but he does spend a quarter of an hour—an entire fifteen minutes—rocking from his toes to his heels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And marching over the top, are five, ten, fifteen men on horseback. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She would turn fifteen in two months, at which time her father had decided she should be married. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Behind the troopers were several dozen more of Sheriff Clark’s possemen, fifteen of them on horseback. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was fifteen he hurt his arm falling from the apple tree outside Mr. Thomas Forester's house: more specifically, from the apple tree outside Miss Victoria Forester's bedroom window. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were only fifteen or twenty people there pursuing their individual projects. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I set down to look over my finances cause two things done happen: the bus gone up to fifteen cents a ride and my rent gone up to twenty-nine dollars a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ignatius had bought a large, elegant, limited edition of the English translation, and all fifteen dollars of its price hit Patrolman Mancuso in the head with the force of a dictionary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle couldn’t move closer to examine the screen, because the area fifteen feet in front of it had been fenced off with a series of brass poles and velvet ropes. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the question she’d wanted to ask all along—fifteen years of marriage had turned us into mind readers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty long steps took her from one end of the island to the other; fifteen steps took her from side to side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get fifteen million of us here to make us his slaves, on the way he murdered one hundred million! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was either fourteen or fifteen pounds, depending on who was telling the story. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But about ten or fifteen minutes later, Zero said, "Lunch." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

After that, Mama gave him fifteen cents a day for lunch. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a haunting mental picture of Jane, fifteen years hence, still wearing pugs over her ears, long winter drawers, and heavy ribbed stockings. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

People used to do that, too— have twelve or fifteen kids because they figured some would die, some would turn out rotten, and a couple would be hardworking, honest farmers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes’ fiddling by Francis failed to find anything wrong, though for brief intervals my stomach felt uneasy when I saw him frowning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I figure by five fifteen that first hi-trading could be over. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think the guy whose downfall basically took our respective childhoods with it was begging for change fifteen minutes from my house six years later? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The style of the clothing and the vintage leather boots suggested that the victim was European and that the corpse had lain on the mountain at least ten or fifteen years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pauline was fifteen, still keeping house, but with less enthusiasm. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you keep rolling into the office at nine fifteen?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen- year-old boy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me at least fifteen minutes to fill out the paperwork. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen feet away downhill was the fence to the neighbor’s house. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The giant next to Luke must’ve been fifteen feet tall, easy, and so wide he took up three seats. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I remembered that while a traditional magic square always adds up to fifteen, if you use a number twice, or leave one out, you can make a square that adds up to something else. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he set them to dig a great pit in the center of the town, fifteen feet wide and twenty feet deep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My big sister, whom I’ve spent the past fifteen days constantly shoving out of my consciousness like a game of cognitive Whack-A-Mole. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The composure I had fifteen minutes ago is coming undone, thread by thread. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Like we’re in the computer lab now and hit a snag fifteen minutes ago, and Rae’s been hunched over that notebook ever since. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For the next fifteen minutes, I follow Mother and Missus Whitworth from one ostentatious room to the next. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I know without looking at a clock that it is somewhere between seven forty-five and eight fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had there been fifteen hundred women carrying banners on a fair day the sight would have been a pretty one. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He left the light on for fifteen whole minutes, terrified the whole time that someone besides Jen might see it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We met fifteen boys and two adults along the way, and we all decided to walk together. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next fifteen minutes seemed like the longest minutes ever as she waited for James to come down. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Holt explained, a baby should be left to cry for fifteen to thirty minutes a day: “It is the baby’s exercise.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If he walked quickly, he’d be back inside the fort in fifteen minutes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are few surviving accounts detailing the relationship, but it was likely an arranged marriage: youths—Mollie was only fifteen at the time—pressed together to preserve a vanishing way of life. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Through the mist they spotted a cormorant, and the men swore those birds never went farther than fifteen miles from land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

George pedaled as slowly as she could manage to stay upright, riding up and down side streets, but she still arrived fifteen minutes early. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I found an entry that I’d written a week after I turned fifteen: I don’t like being fifteen. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If we charge $15 a ticket and there are a thousand seats in the auditorium here, that’s fifteen thousand right there.Then we have a bake sale set up in the lobby. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to walk the last fifteen miles on treacherous, washed-out roads, carrying all our things. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I will lead them into the lounge, introduce you, Petunia, and pour them drinks. At eight- fifteen —” “I’ll announce dinner,” said Aunt Petunia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Permian had fifteen first downs, Odessa had the one that had come on a penalty. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was like fifteen or twenty feet in the air, swinging from the rope up toward the ceiling and laughing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He is among the 20 to 30 percent of those boarding the trains in Tapachula who are fifteen or under, by estimate of Grupo Beta, a government migrant rights group in Chiapas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At fifteen I was interested in girls but considered myself too geeky to even approach one. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In truth, she was the eldest of the five of them, and the one who had saved them fifteen years back when she really was six years old, and the rest of them only babies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

From the time he had begun to work, when he was fifteen, Esteban had supported the household and had promised always to do so, but for Ferula that had not been enough. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stole it, and my parents freaked out, but only for about fifteen minutes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

According to the certificate on the wall above her head, she’s been at Bartlett High for fifteen years. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the fifteen minutes it takes for her to arrive, I remind myself what an amazing friend she’s been. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dead smooth landing, the plane didn’t go ’round even once—I like to think this is partly down to my excellent field selection—made the tradeoff of goods and passengers in just under fifteen minutes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Summer fifteen I arrived a week later than the others. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I was forty-one now, well past my climbing prime, with a graying beard, bad gums, and fifteen extra pounds around my midriff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What of it? What? She’s too young, you think? She’s fourteen. Hardly a child. You were fifteen, remember? My mother was fourteen when she had me. Thirteen when she married.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though this work had been going on for over fifteen years, most if not all of the facts were soft. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen, and all he could see was Myra's shallow beauty. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When she finished with barely a whisper—“Can you hear it/”—and leaned with her cupped hand to her ear, fifteen hundred people seemed to inch forward, straining to hear. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Is he your brother’s friend? Because he’s always coming in here and asking me out. He’s what, fifteen? It’s creepy.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even if I’ve been on board this wooden relic of a ship for years, I’m still fifteen. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It takes fifteen minutes to get to downtown from Garden Heights. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There are maybe fifteen people dancing, while everyone else spreads out on the bleachers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Only fifteen boys had been chosen to wear the red uniforms of the Tigers Varsity. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like she could be fifteen or sixteen years old, and her hair was tar black. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The application with my uncle took fifteen years to be approved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

You couldn't see farther than fifteen feet before the mist became too thick. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, indeed. Finally, at fifteen, I couldn’t take it any longer. I ran away. Lived on the streets with m’ pal, Jack D —” “Dawkins?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One night, late July of summer fifteen, I went swimming at the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Like those of us who had formed the Youth League fifteen years before, the founders of the new organization thought the ANC was insufficiently militant, out of touch with the masses, and dominated by non-Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to my mom, we couldn't mess with our brows until we turned fifteen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The next year Mohammed won the Capri-to-Naples race again, this time breaking the course record set by Camarero by fifteen minutes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We trekked all over Mica, past hundreds of grassless stone-and-cactus front yards, through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around which the city had' been invented a mere fifteen years before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

One day when Chester was fifteen, with a learner’s permit but no license, he slipped away with the family car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning Ty wakes everyone up at six fifteen by blaring music. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

People who had been asleep only fifteen minutes earlier stumbled along the streets. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since 1964 it had won four state championships, been to the state finals a record eight times, and made the playoffs fifteen times. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A box on the table held maybe fifteen, sixteen circles of paint and a bottle of water. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Often, after we had done our day’s license plate quota, we would sit around, perhaps fifteen of us, and listen to Bimbi. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them the correct distance from one another. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He'd studied the whole manual when he turned fifteen and got his learner's permit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

That I Pagliacci was only fifteen years old when Caruso popularised it on record - young in relation to opera’s extensive back catalogue - is, with the benefit of hindsight, strangely significant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This gray day in late January, among perfect strangers all looking across the river with yearning eyes to a glittering place for a glittering future, quietly I become older—fifteen. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The suborbital flight in the capsule Shepard christened Freedom 7 lasted only fifteen minutes and twenty-two seconds and covered 303 miles, just about the distance between Hampton, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Next day around noon he reached the high open valleys around the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, which were invisible under ten to fifteen feet of snow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Till noon. Five bucks a throw, fifteen bucks till noon." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

During one ten-month period she gave 123 concerts in fifteen different countries, performing a repertoire that included over two hundred songs and arias in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I had already set my watch to Cairns time, which was fifteen hours ahead of Massachusetts time. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bell wasn’t going to ring for another fifteen minutes, but everybody was already there. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he urges, motioning toward the glass elevator, “fifteen minutes. No one will notice.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s fifteen or twenty buildings gathered round the pond at the bottom of the falls before the river starts up again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The south county late bus doesn’t leave for another fifteen minutes, and then it’s another hour until Abby gets home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Jess was shocked to learn that there were fifteen hundred volcanoes around the world that could be active. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a whole fifteen cents more than the Cokes cost. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“In the village, long time ago, they use to have sometimes babies who were looking like girls. Then—fifteen, sixteen—they are looking like boys! My mother tell me this but I never believe.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And ninety-five more who weighed between fifteen and twenty. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A month ago, I mailed out fifteen resumes to Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, and five other cities, and once again, New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two decades later, she relapses—after being clean for fifteen years—and is arrested for selling crack. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Standing at her desk with her coat and hat on, Mrs. Cormier could see Dr. Barnes sitting there, fifteen feet away, drumming on the desk with his fingers. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

When I was come to The age of fifteen year In all this lond, neither free not bond, Methought I had no peer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be such a great dress, and the only one of its kind in the camp, that bride after bride—whether she's fifteen or fifty—gets in line to borrow it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three birth- days had slipped by unnoticed and I was just past fifteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On top of it, some fifteen feet above the river was a sheltering rock formation, its entrance blocked by hedges of old hibiscus. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It showed how desperate Generose had become that she was willing to leave her six-month-old daughter in the care of her three sons, ages seven, thirteen, and fifteen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Seven hundred years ago—or it may have been fifteen hundred according to Malory’s notation-—people took dreams as seriously as the psychiatrists do today, and Lancelot’s had been a disturbing one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like they weighed about fifteen pounds each. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1993, on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, comprising 294 climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was so unlikely that we were the same age, fifteen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were fifteen by then, already into our last year at Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The project took about fifteen years to complete, a testament to the civil engineering of the day and an indication of the extraordinary practical capability of the Ionians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can make about fifteen or eighteen miles an hour—quite fast enough when you have no windshield and no springs. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even then, when Ahmad was a skinny, tanned boy of fifteen, he knew he would be a sailor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Patting his forehead with a handkerchief, Dr. Barnes said, “Didn’t you get my memo? We have a meeting today, right now, and you’re fifteen minutes late.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful to my mom for going to bat about this; with my dad refusing to attend, my fifteen minutes of fame would have been pretty lonely without her and Jeffrey. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had gone down about fifteen minutes earlier, and since the lights were always turned off at exactly eight o’clock, most girls were already in their assigned beds, chatting until total darkness set in. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“These were guys who had performed in the old environment at Korean Air for as much as fifteen to eighteen years,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Their crossbows were deadly over five hundred yards, and an archer could load and fire fifteen bolts a minute. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I hope you enjoyed your fifteen minutes of fame, Mr. Keeley. Because when these games are over and done, you will be over and done, too.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They had floated not quite half a mile in just over fifteen minutes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes into it, Jam had switched to a booklet about emotional abuse and Redemption was reading one about indicators of child abuse when she heard his breath hiss in a quick intake. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Then one day they stopped. Today more than ten thousand wells remain scattered across the reservation, but they are generally what oilmen call “stripper” wells, each one generating less than fifteen barrels a day. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It took ten or fifteen seconds for the three of us to pry him loose, during which Birch’s gold watch clattered to the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, there’s the blush. That took, what, fifteen seconds?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Frederick is fifteen strides from Bastian when they haul him down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I am nearly fifteen, and I am one hundred. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the cutter slashed out the items, throwing the discarded paper to the floor, a sea of newspaper rose as high as her waist each fifteen minutes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved me back like fifteen feet and pinned Mong to the ground, his face right up against the damp wood. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I waited fifteen minutes, then thirty, but nobody responded. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They must remain hidden, and give the humans no hint that they were here, or that, unthinkably, five abominations had survived the Carnage and eked out an existence here for fifteen years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sloan flew fifteen feet and got tangled in the little kids’ tire swing., The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

West of town, the Tapajos pours into the Amazon from the south, creating an inland bay that at high water is fifteen miles wide and a hundred miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Renly's young queen was no more than fifteen, sixteen, he seemed to recall . . . older than Joffrey, but a few years were nothing, it was so neat and sweet he could taste it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After fifteen seconds of hunting for socks in the armoire, I decided to forgo them entirely. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Paul, at fifteen, was a quiet, hardworking boy, rather clumsy in his movements but strong and careful about his chores. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

If the difference in time is one hour, the traveler knows he has gone fifteen degrees. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, my dad had been working at that diner. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Mom, I’m fifteen! Everybody my age takes the subway by themselves!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Say three hundred and fifteen miles, at least, southwest of the California coast, to where he sat right now, rolling heavily in a boat half full of water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya was out of prison after serving only seven of his fifteen- year sentence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With a three-by-three grid and the numbers one to nine, the solution was always fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Summer fifteen on Beechwood, Granny Tipper was gone. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Half the couples, I was told, split up at some point in the fifteen years after their discussion was filmed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

About fifteen seconds after his first left turn in this vehicle, Herbie was stopped by a cop who ticketed him for a nonfunctioning blinker signal system, an incident which took the edge off his glow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to tell the counselor that he was more than he had been, not less—not just older, not just fifteen when before he had been fourteen, but more. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many miners developed black lung disease after ten to fifteen years of working underground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Get up, trooper. I’ll get the kids. I want to be on the road in fifteen minutes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about thirty feet long, fifteen wide, with duct tape and plywood boards covering up scattered holes and split seams. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, sure. If there’s fifteen people working for me I should consider them. But I don’t know what you mean specifically.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Just text me if you need me,” he told her at least fifteen times. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Albie,” Calista said, and her voice was very serious, “I insist that you watch fifteen more minutes of television right this very second. Unless . . She tapped her chin again. “ Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He saw them behind her, through the arcade, and as Weep’s dead answered Minya’s call, moving toward the arches that had for fifteen years stood open between garden and gallery, Lazlo closed them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Spring before summer fifteen, Mummy made me write to Granddad. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“The Mathletes meeting is in fifteen minutes. You need to be there.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“You came from Sunda Strait since the seventeenth? In fifteen days?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visibility was no more than fifteen feet and the winds were razor sharp. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And I’d be floating alone three hundred and fifteen miles from shore in a life jacket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a job that cost fifteen dollars, three times what it cost to move all the rest of the furniture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About fifteen miles...If you keep to the road you may get a lift,” he added good-naturedly, seeing our crestfallen faces. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy poured in more water and kept the steam rising for fifteen minutes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s over fifteen hundred pounds the way he is, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said nothing for five, ten, fifteen seconds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Arrested at fifteen for vandalism and disorderly conduct. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were allowed to browse for the first fifteen minutes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl should be tickled to death, too—a youngster like that...fifteen a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t judge that kind of thing. 9TH JUROR: He said fifteen seconds. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking to within fifteen yards of a pregnant cow, Joe bolted a bullet into the chamber. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For assaulting one of the king’s Jews,” Louis went on, “the fine is fifteen livres.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tardy as usual, Fischer dashed onto the stage fifteen minutes late, out of breath. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting his weapon, Ellsberg spun and saw a very young soldier, maybe fifteen, wearing nothing but black shorts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When it was time to quit work at the end of the day, Papá kept on picking for another ten or fifteen minutes even though he did not receive pay for the extra time. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

All afternoon I try to keep too busy to check my watch eveiy fifteen minutes, but by four o’clock I can’t stand waiting in my room anymore. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about fifteen or sixteen years old. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the only store he remembered was about fifteen minutes away. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes, Roger comes out of the office, limping slightly less than before. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It could be, so long as you didn’t turn around and look back down towards number fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd scheduled to meet with the client for one hour, but I wasn't sure how I'd fill even fifteen minutes with what I knew. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The space inside Zeitoun and Todd’s cage was approximately fifteen by fifteen feet, and was empty but for a portable toilet without a door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I assumed they were taking me to juvenile court because I was only fifteen. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He and Lorena’s mom are the most mismatched couple in the world, because he’s fifteen years younger than she is, making him only ten years older than Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have you out of here in fifteen,” Adam promises, stepping into her galaxy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can only take fifteen kids to the away games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next fifteen were: —CO, would you call to check the money in my commissary account? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heavy rain followed, with thunder and lightning that lasted for less than fifteen minutes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They left it in place for fifteen days and found that it settled only one-quarter of an inch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was back in time fifteen years, seeing this room on a different day. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“When I was fifteen, almost sixteen, they came to this adoption fair thing at one of the group homes. They liked me, they said.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Gregor guessed the smallest one had a wingspan of about fifteen feet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the audience, more than fifteen hundred people went wild. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent more than fifteen minutes at my grandfathers house,” I said finally. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Halloween party would, by all accounts, last until three fifteen a.m., and end with a number of kids passed out on the Perrys’ Oriental living room carpet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Will grumblingly accepted the southern half of the valley as his exclusive area, and within fifteen years the valley was two-deep in Fords and Will was a rich man driving a Marmon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The inmate who started it all had a fifteen- years-to-life sentence and apparently felt he had nothing to lose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Children, tonight an early supper,” Mami is saying, as if Mundín and I are six and nine instead of twelve and fifteen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They pushed on the door, ten of them, maybe fifteen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

To that end, biologists dumped several drums of a poison called rotenone into fifteen miles of creek. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘I was fifteen last month. And you were fifteen way back in January.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifteen, lunar calendars and charts of crystals. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Friday evening: I’ve been in Minneapolis for just over fifteen hours, driven from the southern suburbs to the northern ones, dropped off a half dozen apps, and undergone two face- to-face interviews. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a triangle slicing the water fifteen feet away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been more than fifteen years since we'd moved to the country, so we were beside ourselves that our illegal immigration problems were finally coming to a close. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes we came to our road, crossed it, and circled around back of the house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For fifteen strides, more than the length of a football field, Pollard remained virtually motionless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years, he judged, dark hair plastered across a gaunt face by the falling rain, her bare feet muddy to the ankles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, Mr. W. got called to the office for something, so I had about fifteen minutes to just play drums, with nobody else around. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he asked scientists for updates, they’d hand him fifteen- or twenty- page technical papers, dense with formulas and calculations. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, you don’t understand. Your mother has been shot. In her brain. She’ll be in ICU. One night in ICU could cost you fifteen, twenty thousand rand.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Such an obvious ploy, that, yet deft for a boy of fifteen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"If we had another fifteen days, I'm sure we could get it done in time." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would take fifteen drops from the base formula—which was kept in Mother’s sewing cupboard, where it would not be used or polluted—and add them to a small bottle of distilled water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Fifteen hundred? I don’t have fifteen hundred. It was five hundred yesterday.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But even if the boy hadn’t had chores to do, it would be foolish to be driven fifteen miles outside Danville on “business” and stay a hot minute. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me about fifteen minutes to write “I will not talk in class” fifty times, and so I often came home at four o’clock. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ride isn’t more than fifteen minutes, but I wake up in front of our house, my head resting easy on her shoulder, my feet curled up underneath me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She is fifteen and looks no bigger than a twelve- year-old. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bus stop is so close, and drop-off is such a pain at your school. And just that extra fifteen minutes to drop you off means traffic gets so much worse.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was over fiftieth level, so it would remain in existence for the spell’s maximum duration: fifteen minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My shoes were spotless, and I couldn't afford them either, but I was only fifteen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The first time I realized I loved Bas: He was sixteen, I was fifteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two had seen at least forty namedays come and go, he guessed; the youngest was perhaps fifteen or sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were going fifteen whole miles per hour. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I burst out crying, already homesick for my village even though I was only moving fifteen minutes away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The department’s “location pay,” meant to help compensate officers assigned to Sing Sing, is considered a joke—about fifteen dollars a week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So far, Dad had given us about fifteen unlabeled keys to try out on the desk, but none of them had worked. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen miles to Newton; to cover that distance with a team, to do the chores and handle money—that was a man’s job. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everyone in South Vietnam, when she had turned fifteen she had begun carrying a small laminated card with her name, birth date, and photo on it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He hurried on, “We bought futures at five cents and when the price jumped—It’s for you, fifteen thousand dollars. It’s for you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Berg had been a mediocre ballplayer at best, hitting .243 over fifteen big league seasons as a backup catcher. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had the letter come fifteen years after it had been written? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would disassemble the fifteen or so pieces and spread them at random on the table or floor, then see how fast he could reassemble them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stepped aside, and the black-and-white mass dissolved into fifteen individual players who came quickly onto the field. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because she was afraid of what our relatives would think if word got out that Shohreh let her daughter pluck her brows before she'd turned fifteen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We pulled fifteen thousand Harlemites into the street behind our slogans and marched down Broadway to City Hall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, following the tracks I’d made fifteen or twenty minutes earlier, Beidleman and the remainder of Fischer’s clients filed down through the worsening blizzard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

By fifteen, he was having seizures and experiencing psychotic episodes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He glanced at Zero, about fifteen feet away, who scooped out a shovelful of dirt and dumped it on a pile that was already almost a foot tall. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“When I was fifteen? You say it like it was a long time ago. Hell, I barely had money for a candy bar.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They went chronologically, starting with volume one and working their way toward one hundred and fifteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Shandra had made about fifteen saves, some of them really impressive. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

More security guards arrived, until approximately fifteen men surrounded the former chess champion in a grim, silent circle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yet within fifteen minutes, the sky was filled with hoverplanes and the bombs were raining down. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Evel Knievel screeches once again, but to a halt this time, not fifteen feet from me, and takes off his helmet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“All I remember,” said Alex, now fifteen, “is that it was scary.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Granny’s home was a tiny, neat shack, measuring twelve by fifteen feet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was fifteen and my little sister was thirteen, a whole new world opened up to us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, fixedly, for another fifteen or twenty seconds. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was a light-skinned girl no older than fourteen or fifteen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the ladder to the loft, and I followed; during the fifteen minutes he was chopping wood, we didn’t say a word either. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“That dont begin it. How about the dime or fifteen cents you’ll spend for a dam two cent box of candy or something. How about the time you’re wasting right now, listening to that band.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked fifteen years later, others remember it differently. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some kids were thirteen, a few fifteen, but most of them Francie’s age—fourteen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But ten minutes turns into fifteen, and that’s with him walking so fast, I’m practically jogging to keep up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A total of fifteen people lived in my aunt’s trailer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was only fifteen, but even I knew what this meant. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She made her first solo flight, in the sky on her own, when she was fifteen years old. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On nine of the fifteen tests, the six correct answers are preceded by another identical string, 3-a-l-2, which includes three of four incorrect answers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He bought the guitar on the spot and paid fifteen dollars cash. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed like we were in there for fifteen minutes but then Dad and Teddy came in search of us, both of them grumpy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen at home, seventeen at work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Make me know a loneliness I never could imagine in a forest empty of people for fifteen miles, or on a riverbank with nothing but live bait for company. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To secure the loan, the Athenians demanded a deposit of fifteen talents, or approximately nine hundred pounds of solid gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It had been three days since he had crawled through the electric fence, and he was still only about fifteen miles from Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was now on long-term disability from Kalbro, where she’d worked on the line for fifteen years or something like that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The winter I was fifteen, the Van de Kamps invited me to go see the Christmas premiere with them at the Schouwburg, an old playhouse that Mama let me wear her pearls to visit. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it would be possible to get him down here at exactly eight fifteen?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As a result, I threw myself into my schoolwork the next day, since I have little desire to still be a freshman when I’m fourteen or fifteen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They demanded the release of any migrants apprehended the day before—fifteen in all, some of whom were beaten. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Though the parking lot could hold fifteen thousand automobiles, officials knew that that wouldn’t be nearly enough. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That June, summer fifteen, Dad announced he was leaving and departed two days later. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We're joined by others along the way, but they split off once we grow to fifteen or so. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Buck’s one hundred and forty pounds had dwindled to one hundred and fifteen. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after fifteen more minutes of waiting, Kay says, “Okay, I’m ready.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I jumped into the water and swam about fifteen feet from the ship,” he later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little has changed for Peralta, a cook who has worked at menial jobs in the United States for fifteen years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Around fifteen thousand years ago, they began to occupy seven areas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

After leaving the summit, fifteen minutes of cautious shuffling over a 7,000-foot abyss brought me to the notorious Hillary Step, a pronounced notch in the ridge that demands some technical maneuvering. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The houses themselves are empty, number fifteen and number twenty-three. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew they had played too hard; they knew they would be disciplined for their failure, and the man at the desk said quickly, “I might go to fifteen hundred.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices grew louder until nearly all fifteen hundred of them created an angry roar. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Finkle gave her fifteen minutes to clean out her locker and leave the factory. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What a fine edition—and in such good condition, too! I've been wanting it for fifteen years, but it just costs too much money. Far too much.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked as if he had this conversation at least fifteen times a day. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

About fifteen miles away, heading out of Logan, in the opposite direction, was a blue 1999 Saturn sedan. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Kofun, ah, maybe fifteen hundred year ago. That would be about when giant tree there was just a baby.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At this rate it’ll take fifteen hours to get back to shore. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t been back in my bed fifteen minutes when Willow shows up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Yuni had turned fifteen this year, they looked more like sisters than mother and daughter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In about fifteen minutes, puffing on his pipe, Pavey captured Bobby’s queen, thereby ending the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she reapplied a year later, she was one of fifteen candidates chosen from about two thousand! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Answer these questions. You got fifteen minutes. And don’t be gettin’ any answers from your pet monkey!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’d be surprised if we had fifteen hundred. Probably more like twelve hundred.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I do not go into particulars, such as that I did nothing but stand around for two hours, except for maybe fifteen minutes of helping Mr. Kellerman rearrange tie displays that did not need rearranging. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And so, for the second time in less than fifteen minutes, I headed back to the locker room and got ready for practice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dasch noticed young people, no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing heavy fur pieces even though it wasn't cold outside. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Each god and goddess was about fifteen feet tall, and I’m telling you, if you’ve ever had a dozen all-powerful super-huge beings turn their eyes on you at once .. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His skills negated the handicap; he once won on a horse carrying fifteen pounds more than his impost. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Lopsang, during the fifteen or twenty minutes Fischer spent on the summit, he complained repeatedly that he wasn’t feeling well—something the congenitally stoic guide almost never did. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My grandparents live fifteen minutes away in Rockville, which is the city right next to us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you can bear to stay with us for fifteen years? We can train you to become a warrior.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even fifteen and already so independent—that’s a little hard for other people to understand. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It took what felt like an eternity, but was at most fifteen minutes, before he returned. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the last fifteen years of my dad’s life—basically from the moment I was conceived to the moment he died—the two brothers hadn’t spoken. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I still had fifteen dollars from Henry’s twenty but to call another cab I’d have to go back inside the jail and I didn’t want to do that. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It goes out for fifteen minutes, then surges. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had been away for some time, brought up by an aunt fifteen miles away, and in a sense she was as new to Manderley as I was. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a series of robed speakers, each talking for no more than fifteen or twenty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

From across the room, from fifteen feet away, I could see her eyes were already glistening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday the total of cars hung reached twenty-one, with only fifteen more to add. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They’d been meant to meet on the landing with fifteen minutes to spare before the hour. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In January fifteen islanders canceled their subscriptions, including the Walker Colemans of Skiff Point and the Herbert Langlies of Amity Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “What? It’s been, like, fifteen seconds.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The other fifteen dropped out, unable to understand the math. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, after fifteen minutes or so of motoring, I found myself out on a long road curving across bleak, open moorland. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reacting to pressure to hire more blacks, the Durham Merchants Association, unveiled in February 1968 an ambitious program to train fifteen young blacks for business positions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Even our dancing requires more rhythm and grace and beauty. Which reminds me, we are needing to leave in fifteen minutes, Shanti." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen minutes to midnight, when the dead—according to Celia—threw off their coffin lids like so many blankets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first letter of each word spelled out fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Traveling at light speed, it would take me just over fifteen minutes to reach Frobozz. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, they discussed what they ought to do about it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

With an allowance of fifteen dollars a month for mowing the lawn every week. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes everything except the house had been turned upside down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were hovering about fifteen feet away, down the steps from us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t even spent fifteen minutes down in the cellar. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Cannot be helped,” my mother said when I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever below my skin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She look like she’s dreading the next fifteen years a her life, but she sighs, like she is just too tired to think about it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was located about fifteen miles outside the city limits. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fie returned for an ANC consultative conference in Johannesburg, which was attended by over fifteen hundred delegates from forty-five different regions, home and abroad. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she rode back and forth in front of the house about fifteen times, trying to pick the right words. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a couple of miles there going around by the roads, but by cutting across the fields I could make it in fifteen minutes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Royal & General occupied a tall, antique-looking building with a Union Jack fluttering from a pole about fifteen floors up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A tranquil mood had come over me, and for this reason I believe I was again motoring very slowly - probably at no more than fifteen miles per hour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Thirty-nine steps, twenty steps, fifteen steps," I said to myself. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t more than twelve or fifteen miles: I could make it in three hours if I pushed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must confess that it was he who had carried the gold away, time after time, every ten or fifteen days of all the months he had worked at the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She threw it in with the kindling, and fifteen minutes later, they had a fire. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dallas lifts his head from the water fountain and looks at the fifteen kids sitting in their seats. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Celia began telling me about when she and Rafael and her boys had come here from Panamá, fifteen years ago, after the invasion. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They sat together in the coffee shop, which was always empty when they arrived and was crowded fifteen minutes later when they left, and had their coffee and doughnuts before they took the subway uptown. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen or twenty times since noon, Sandra, the maid, had come away from the lake-front window in the kitchen with her mouth set tight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a private party. Even Barry’s kid is going to be there. He’s, like, fifteen or something.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later, I heard footsteps outside the tent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My parents would kill me if they knew I was calling long distance, but hopefully they wouldn’t notice if I kept the call under fifteen minutes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“We have to be at the train by eight fifteen.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We got only one break for fifteen minutes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She spoke to an audience of about fifteen in a quick, nervous style that suited the unornamented old lecture hall in which we were seated. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When Sam reached the bridge, Frightful was playing with 426, sliding and gliding on the winds at fifteen hundred feet. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s happening like every fifteen minutes,” Piper noted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

From there, it was another fifteen miles on a dirt path—a straight shot to Hacienda Dorada. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t getting anywhere, he would probably have to drop the whole thing; who did he think he was anyway trying to read Freud at the age of fifteen? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

You can get hard labor for it, things like breaking rocks fifteen hours a day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And it was all right with me because we had chopped off at least fifteen minutes of the period. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Whereupon a moving mountain of luggage would edge up, revealing a white boy of about fifteen, and the Deacon would hang another bag on him somehow and drive him off. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be here fifteen minutes ago, but he hasn’t texted to say he’s running late. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Are we supposed to believe that he didn’t get up and run to his door and see the kid tearing down the stairs fifteen seconds after the killing? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no easy thing to wear a crown, Catelyn thought, watching, especially for a boy of fifteen years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I take her out for a Valentine’s Day dinner at my favorite restaurant, Happy Family, which sits at the end of a strip mall about fifteen miles from home. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In this way they advanced some fifteen miles, measured in a direct line east, though they must have actually walked twenty miles or more. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trent is the nosiest woman on the planet, and it doesn't help that the buildings in my neighborhood are only about fifteen feet apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined a magic square to calm down, all the rows and columns and diagonals adding up to fifteen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's ten bucks, chief. I tole ya that. Ten bucks for a throw, fifteen bucks till noon. I tole ya that." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was crying because I knew five or ten or fifteen more Spokanes would die during the next year, and that most of them would die because of booze. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’d had the same car, a blue Chevy, for fifteen years. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She’d be thirteen next year, then fourteen, fifteen, and so on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was about fifteen feet tall, and it was growing in an enormous plastic tub full of black dirt that was almost as wide as the trailer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know it wouldn’t shoot any better for it, but I bought the one with the pearl handle even though it cost fifteen dollars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them, at the bottom of a fall of some fifteen hundred feet, lay the inner plain stretching away into a formless gloom beyond their sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Out of sight, Francis Gary Powers languished in a small cell measuring eight by fifteen feet, deep inside Lubyanka Prison in central Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father added as an inducement the fact that I was only fifteen years old. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I asked Tepper," he continued, "what the indictment looked like and he said they have you listed for fifteen five- year charges. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was at least fifteen feet long and painted a bright red, inside and out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at least fifteen years older than me, not particularly well educated, and he hailed from a small rural community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“After bombing and having escaped the enemy’s fire, I couldn’t pull myself together for ten or fifteen minutes,” said Nina Raspopova, another 46th Guards pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He would give his family fifteen more minutes of sack time, he thought, before he would wake them up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to teach his children all that he knew so that at fourteen or fifteen, they would know as much as he knew at thirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After 1933, Lawrence even tapped federal New Deal programs such as the Works Progress Administration and the National Youth Authority, which supported as many as fifteen researchers a year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I walked over to him, because it was kind of awkward having a conversation with fifteen lockers between us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later, the office door flies open, and Jay storms in. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So to avoid conflicts at home, she’d practiced here fifteen minutes before and after school and eventually during her half-hour lunch period. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then, as Ruby jumped from the water, Amarante noticed a deer tiptoeing through the sagebrush fifteen yards from where the woman had bathed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fifteen minutes seemed an hour, but they came to an end at last, and the word ‘Recess!’ had never seemed so welcome to her before. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I knew I'd be having to say the same thing to fifteen or twenty government folks. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enjoy life while you can. Nothing’s gonna happen for maybe five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. But lemme give you a piece of advice: Whenever the doorbell rings, have somebody else answer the door.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Party claimed, for example, that today forty per cent of adult proles were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been fifteen per cent. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, she had narrowed her life to a relationship with a woman fifteen years older who assumed a power over her greater than that of a mother over an infant. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when I get to fifteen I keep going, to twenty. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It would take about fifteen minutes to go to the Lytes’, fifteen minutes to get back. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will you want me just as much when I’m fifteen feet nine inches? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps fifteen feet long and conveyed arrestingly and at a glance what 2,200 miles of mountains look like: hard. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The trailer could hold between fifteen and twenty bins, or about forty thousand pounds of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The others were younger teenage girls, around fifteen to sixteen years old. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But once a month he discarded a small stack of comic books, sometimes as many as fifteen and at times even twice that number. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Roamer yells about fifteen hundred expletives as Charlie sends it flying right back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been waiting to get into the Chat for a cup of coffee for fifteen minutes already. If I don’t get some caffeine soon, I might drop into one of those whaddyacallits. Comas.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And Seanie added, “Why do you think so many of the first fifteen are permanently assigned to O-Hall, anyway? And everyone knows about those games. You just better look out for the consequence.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were over fifteen people, mostly young boys, some girls, and a few adults. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

With only fifteen minutes and counting until Arletta Paisley’s new show, I didn’t have time for chitchat. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I went on along like this for around fifteen minutes covering a good mile and maybe more, when I saw a patch of hemlocks bordering the left-hand side of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered ruefully the time Mack sold him fifteen tom cats and by night the owners came and got every one. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was fifteen or so, tall and skinny. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You want my opinion, you’re better off without him. It hurts only because it’s taken you fifteen years to see what an emotional wimp he is. Listen, I know what it feels like.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It was a long time ago—ten, maybe fifteen years ago. I think he did go after her, but I don’t think he found her.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The DeSoto, strictly an island car for more than a decade, had been purchased by Ishmael’s father fifteen years before, a four-speed with a semiautomatic transmission, hypoid rear axle, and column shift. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I just jogged along not thinking about anything very much; and fifteen minutes later I came upon Warrups’ shack. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed at an oak about fifteen feet from where the group was huddled. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Slightly to his right and out ahead about fifteen miles were Anacapa Rocks and Santa Cruz Island, and he wanted to miss them with room to spare. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandson’s about your age. What are you, fifteen or so?” he asked me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We use a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fifteen. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The line of them stretched down the road for what seemed like a mile as all fifteen ambled toward the church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It took me less than fifteen minutes to fall asleep on his floor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in black, which was odd as most children weren’t put in mourning clothes until they were at least fifteen. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked fourteen, maybe fifteen, and had long, glossy black hair pulled back with a rubber band at the nape of his neck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The King of Abomey was just delighted to find out he could trade fifteen of his former neighbors for one good Portuguese cannon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, because he’s due here in about fifteen minutes. He called last night and wants to meet his sponsor and thank him.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

But Grandma said, “Skin down to the cellar and bring up fifteen or twenty bottles of my beer. Just carry two at a time. I don’t want any broke.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Kyle took off.“The store will close in fifteen minutes,” announced a voice from the ceiling speakers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I do know I was surprised at how close I felt to Clarissa and Betty and Adam after watching them for only fifteen minutes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder if me and Sneaky will be like that when we’re fifteen. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Two older men, one with a cast on his leg, the other wheezing with asthma, and a young man of fifteen or sixteen who’d had appendix surgery. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was not for nothing he was fifteen years old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took about fifteen minutes of terrible news around the country before the newscasters began focusing on New York. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The guy they can’t live without, for those fifteen minutes at the end of the show. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was around 7:00 P.M., fifteen hours since the assassins had arrived at Mudd’s door, and just under twenty hours since John Wilkes Booth had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from this, Herbie had been led to believe ants could lift loads ten or fifteen or twenty times their own body weight, and supposedly they were fairly intelligent. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without her scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes, she looked fifteen. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giti had secretly met him twice for tea, fifteen minutes each time, at a small teahouse on the other side of town, in Taimani. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

This went on for three minutes, or five, or fifteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The piece of paper was fifteen feet away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was a modern room with a curving steel desk near the center, carefully positioned halogen lights, and a spiral staircase leading down from a perfect circle cut in the ceiling about fifteen feet high. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I could tell the other policeman didn’t believe him all fifteen times. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Following Sikhdar’s discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once, he was just fifteen miles inside Mexico, in Tapachula, when two municipal police officers grabbed him and put him in the back of their pickup. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I walked with the colonel through the fifteen locked metal doors between my cell and the entrance, and when we emerged, I found his car waiting for us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figgins surmised that Folsom had been inhabited fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, which meant that Clovis must be a little before that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking. Quick, give me the pencil and note pad from that table.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken about fifteen minutes, and from Aben- thy’s tone I guessed he had expected it to take three or four hours at least. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Later, the doctors designed gas chambers camouflaged as shower rooms that held from fifteen to twenty victims at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The price shot up from fifteen dollars to eighty-five in no time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She gets called for the fifteen hundred, and she goes barefoot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This new shack, like the old one, had two rooms and measured something like fifteen by fifteen feet, and overlooked the same unlit, unpaved, potholed street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are correct. You are now in the lead by fifteen points!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes, the four boys had kissed their mother and were on the road to Lwów with the clothes on their backs and a little bread in their pockets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They talked about a devastating erosion in standards, how the students of today bore no resemblance to the students of even ten or fifteen years ago, how their preoccupations were with anything but school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The healthy, clear-eyed boy I saw a few days ago has lost at least fifteen pounds and developed a nervous tremor in his hands. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Trying to hold it together, not yet fifteen years old, I had finally cracked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I told you to meet me there in fifteen minutes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A certain somebody lies awake for about fifteen minutes, listening to the sounds of the night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“He weighs fifteen pounds,” the girl announced with pride. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten or fifteen thousand feet above the ground, it was orange in color and I judge a mile in diameter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But I see the force field almost immediately, even before a nut hits it, because it’s only about fifteen yards away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In at least fifteen states, blacks are admitted to prison on drug charges at a rate from twenty to fifty-seven times greater than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the month the glide scope had been under repair, there had been about fifteen hundred safe landings at Guam airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Plus, her mom is a bit of a stickler about phone minutes, and Dee only gets fifteen dollars’ worth a week. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other’s existence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Five of them, I counted, ten of them, fifteen of them.... Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After that, the blocks were taken out by continuous-mining machines, one by one, until each of them was only about fifteen feet square. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You were here,” he says, as though the piece of information I gave him fifteen minutes ago is only now sinking in. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem right that he would be rewarded for turning into a trained monkey at the age of fifteen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It took about ten or fifteen real, decent jumps for one to make it to the other shoulder, where they disappeared into the thicket of tall grass edging the road. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Once I finally finished the lap, which may have taken fifteen minutes—pathetic—I returned to my room to find two women in it, one I recognized and one I didn’t. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sign said that Old Faithful was due to erupt in fifteen minutes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a ludicrous idea, to travel fifteen hundred miles when her blood relatives lived fifty miles from New Orleans, but she’d run to Yuko’s house before and could do so again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Just by the weight of the silver and copper I knew we had more than the fifteen dollars I'd counted on us getting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burly Asian guy with the buzz cut was about fifteen. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once Peeves had vanished, there was silence in the corridors; with only fifteen minutes left until curfew, most people had already returned to their common rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen inches of rain this year.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen feet to the left were the remains of a barbed-wire fence. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bono was fifteen when he met his wife, and Robert Smith was fourteen—" "Romeo, sweet Romeo . . ." "It's not like that, Eleanor, and you know it." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After having gone back and forth with Aston for fifteen minutes, Tuttle finally waved his wrinkled hand at him like he was trying to shoo away a fly. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fisher says we’ll have fifteen minutes every day to work on our project together, and we’ll present at the end of the month. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Audrey squealed fifteen minutes later, and tugged me into the house. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then, taking hold of Archer’s sleeve, he cut away the fabric, exposing the fifteen burns on his arm, and stared down at the scars with lopsided blue eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Fourteen out of fifteen kids in the U.S.A. wear those. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could give all fifteen sons the same name, why not two Minervas in the Mirabal family? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had one fish in there, old Yellow Belly, a cutthroat, that must have weighed fifteen pounds.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For the past several days, it had been one series of treacherous rapids after another—about every fifteen minutes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

An hour and fifteen minutes until the lullaby of soft violence stops and she blinks awake. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the sky above Weep, the angel folded its wings, and the moonlight and starlight that for fifteen years had been held at bay came flooding in, seeming sun-bright after such long absence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘Ten dollars a week would buy about fifteen fried chickens. Or five pairs of shoes or five dresses. Or installments on a radio.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The town became very quiet, and no gunshots were heard for more than fifteen minutes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s great stuff. Pharmaceutical. During exams you can get ten or fifteen dollars a hit for this, easy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One such visit, when I was around fifteen, resulted in a conversation that went something like this: “Cullen,” my mom said to me as Aunt Julia backed out of the driveway. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She sits on her branch some fifteen feet above him, swinging her leg and looking off over the field while she formulates the dare. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Coach gathered us at the bleachers, and the fifteen of us stacked up side by side in the first three tiers, as if we were having our photo taken. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen or twenty cars almost rear-ended us, sitting motionless in the middle of Highway 6, before Faith started edging the Sunbird forward. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was only fifteen miles to La Push from Forks, with gorgeous, dense green forests edging the road most of the way and the wide Quillayute River snaking beneath it twice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was a big strapping boy when I last seen him four years ago and now he be fifteen and must be big as a oak! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Yet, once those ideas were challenged, progress was breathtakingly rapid—after fifteen centuries of stagnation, there have been fewer than another five centuries from the time of Copernicus to the present day. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

You have to stay there for fifteen more minutes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He then decided to speed up the process by increasing the dosage to ten and fifteen and administering it three times in a single day, until it resulted in five large evacuations. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When it came and Brother Hinton was taken to Harlem Hospital, we Muslims followed, in loose formations, for about fifteen blocks along Lenox Avenue, probably the busiest thoroughfare in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the Mexican man to turn the car around, again in my exquisite high school Spanish, and it took about fifteen minutes to make myself understood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doreen had jumped in his father’s Camaro when she was fifteen and, not a year later, had Luke bouncing on her knee. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he took me downstairs to the basement, except it wasn’t really a basement because the ceilings were like fifteen feet high. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all the hesitation, all the delay, he finished the book he had been sitting on for more than fifteen years in just thirteen months and ten days. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen of them were walking down 121st Street when I suddenly found myself walking just yards from them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This is when the Muzak stops and the voice says, “Shoppers, the store will be closing in fifteen minutes.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adolf Eichmann, the SS official responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, escaped to Argentina, but, fifteen years later, Israeli agents tracked him down, captured him, and flew him to Israel for trial. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plan went down the drain fifteen minutes in. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was another ten or fifteen white folk with guns, sticks, and scowls too. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

About fifteen pounds overweight, a bob of reddish, golden hair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By fifteen, he had grown tall and strong and felt ready to make his way in the world. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not difficult, for the rift was at this point only some fifteen feet deep and about a dozen across. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In over fifty miles to the capital there were more than fifteen checkpoints and the soldiers were unmerciful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From the threshold to the beginning of the stairs she counted fifteen roses, sixteen snowflakes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Even with all that effort the best you might hope for is ten or fifteen percent sympathetic link. Not very good, not very good at all. “This brings me to the second law, Consanguinity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sí, fifteen miles. If we walk hard, we can be in Indio tomorrow morning.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

My sister asked nervous questions about what college is “really” like and would she put on the “freshman fifteen”? I don’t know what this is, but I’m guessing it means you get fatter. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen years later—after I had grown up, gotten married, graduated from Fisk University, and had two daughters of my own—my family and I moved back to Birmingham to live. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jasper’s reward was fifty dollars, fifteen of that for the tinker who brought the fugitive to jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in fifteen days, JB looks at me for a split second, and I almost see the hint of a smile. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I think Sing Sing used to have one of those, long ago, up by Wallpost fifteen.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not almost new, but not almost fifteen years old either. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And therefore, sometimes for fifteen minutes in a row, Mrs. Beale was seen doing something she hadn’t done since the little ones were born: nothing. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed the time with a game she had found on a shelf in the attic—a triangular board with fifteen holes and fourteen pegs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There were about fifteen kids there: all of them were popular kids from either Savanna’s group or Julian’s group. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Poppy lived over the bridge and near the mall in a nearby town, which was fifteen minutes away by car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“This is how it’s going to happen. When we get to the house, if the tracker is not there, I will walk her to the door. Then she has fifteen minutes.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma said it wouldn’t take Hugo much more than fifteen minutes, since there was a decent road all the way. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones’s legs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

New York had gained fifteen votes, Chicago only six. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Fermi and his team of about fifteen students and scientists assembled in the freezing squash court. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, fifteen years after I’d buried him, I was learning that Baba had been a thief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even fifteen years after his death there was only one key available for late workers. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen fifteen alone on Island Center Road and a dozen more up on Mill Run. It’ll take me three days just to get to ’em.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He then thanked Kaylene for what he characterized as her excellent probation report, reminding the courtroom it recommended a sentence of fifteen days. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wound up calling Cingular’s legal department, who told him such requests could take ten to fifteen days, an amount of time that had already elapsed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Bloomin’ ’eck, that leaves us only about fifteen hours for a ten mile push-bike ride! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The blowing spindrift felt like a sandblaster or something. I could only go out for fifteen minutes at a time before I became too cold and had to return to the tent.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later, I heard voices and running foot­falls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It never quite sank in that my life at fifteen was sunshine and roses compared to what she'd gone through as a teenager. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A three-by-three magic square adds up to fifteen no matter which way you look—up, down or diagonal. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fifteen or twenty minutes, the usher returned. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The house is fifteen minutes from the nearest supermarket, forty minutes from a mall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up to fifteen feet in height, it is covered head to foot in purest white hair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Page fifteen is a picture of him the press team took two weeks ago, a nice, neat little package on him helping the Smithsonian with an exhibit about his mom’s historic presidential campaign. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen full days together this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The magic is breaking up. In fifteen minutes we’re going to be in the middle of overground daytime. The neutrino streams are losing their integrity.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The radio announcer spent fourteen of the fifteen minutes before the race talking about Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least there will be a balance. I will give him other books to read, and he will see that Freud is not God in psychology. Freud yet. At fifteen.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s true. It was ten percent off, and then I got another fifteen percent for joining their email list.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

For ten or fifteen minutes Elroy held a course upstream, the river choppy and silver-gray, then he turned straight north and put the engine on full throttle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know! I’ve been thinking about that very fact for months. I’ve also been thinking about lunch for at least fifteen minutes. I thank you for your time and concern.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clancy stayed to speak with him for a good fifteen minutes, but I waited outside in the fresh air, watching the comings and goings of the camp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Two blocks were turned into Manzanar High, and a third block of fifteen barracks was set up to house the elementary grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Rowdy got hot, hit fifteen or twenty in a row, and I rebounded and kept passing the ball to him. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man heard the father’s body falling and then he saw the boy run out of the house fifteen seconds later. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The leaders forget what they looked like themselves fifteen years ago,” the only young man in the group pronounces. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swore that it couldn’t have been more than fifteen seconds. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your appointment is at one fifteen. You have time.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I asked about it, he explained that he had worked with a team devising a memory chip capable of storing up to fifteen pages' worth of information. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A calm day on the Southern Ocean has swells of fifteen feet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“You can draw it out of your own wallet. Any man with a wife who’ll pay fifteen dollars for an old preacher’s moth-eaten stovepipe hat has four bucks to spare.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve lost so much of what we did together summer fifteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“They were Chicanos,” Joe said bitterly fifteen minutes later, slumped in a kitchen chair while Nancy sponged off his face and rubbed salve into his ribs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was young, fifteen or maybe sixteen, with shaggy blond hair in need of a good wash and a pair of pouty lips in need of a good kiss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The point of the roof where the water leaves the cliff must be a good thirty feet above us and the ledge fifteen feet wide easy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You have one hundred and five bales of otter on the ship. There are fifteen here in the cove. You will need three more chests of this size.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it's amazing how brave you feel when the people who have run your life for fifteen years suddenly can't see the disgusted look on your face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Facing charges of first-degree murder, George sat alone in front of an estimated crowd of fifteen hundred white people who had packed the courtroom and surrounded the building. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Once the wagon stops, the tree will buy us about fifteen minutes and not much more,” Kaz said. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would also be one of the most unique, and no event in American history would be more unique than what took place only fifteen days after the year began: the Great Molasses Flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had hardly been a slouch his junior year, scoring fifteen touchdowns in addition to gaining over a thousand yards rushing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about fifteen kids deep, and at least half of those kids are back for seconds. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Any man within visiting distance would have been neutralized as a lover—“brother,” “younger brother,” “older brother”—one hundred and fifteen relationship titles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had between ninety and a hundred pounds of coarse foodstuffs, half of it the load I stole in Turuf; sixty pounds of this are gone, after fifteen days’ journey. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead were Ross Wilcox himself, Gary Drake, and ten or fifteen kids. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We have been looking into that. It’s not easy to determine how long impairments last—generally those costs can persist for ten seconds or fifteen seconds.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“When I move out, it’ll take him fifteen coats to cover that up,” he says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After I got off the train yesterday, I hung around outside Ashbury station for a full fifteen or twenty minutes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, my mom can read the newspaper in fifteen minutes and tell me baseball scores, the location of every war, the latest guy to win the Lottery, and the high temperature in Des Moines, Iowa. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We're leaving for your appointment in fifteen minutes. Your dad’s meeting us there.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even though she’d lived in Flint for fifteen years she still thought cold weather could kill you in a flash. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lived in Venice for more than fifteen years and he still didn't know all the city's nooks and crannies—but then again no one did. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Seabiscuit finished in a dead heat for first with a horse named Heelfly, who carried fifteen fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, they were left alone with the cameras rolling, with instructions to discuss any topic from their marriage that had become a point of contention. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At three a.m., he went downstairs to eat cereal because that’s what Mark always did when he couldn’t sleep, and that’s where Mark found him fifteen minutes later. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He looked like a boy of fifteen, but she saw from his chart that he was her own age, eighteen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mom reminds me we have to leave for Mango’s vet appointment in fifteen minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think their readership is much more than fifteen hundred, maybe two thousand, and half that is from out of state—you probably know that as well as we do.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The symposium featured a full-scale reproduction, fifteen feet wide and thirty-four feet long, complete with actual artifacts and bones, of a particularly profitable section of Howard's excavation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I’m sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you’re ambitious, you can almost break even.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Depending on the complexity of the driving task, it may take fifteen seconds or more after you’ve pushed ‘send’ before you’re fully back in an unimpaired state.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Between five o’clock and ten fifteen, what was I doing? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a hook shot over my head toward the garbage can fifteen feet away. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

General Electric alone had fifteen carloads of exhibit materials stored on the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But often he was gone from home, and Johnny knew he was ‘feeling about’ for those fifteen to twenty boys he had promised. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen days left, and if we got caught, we’d just have to start senior year with some work hours. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I stand and find myself almost face-to-face with him, separated by only fifteen feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took to the Kareh-Ariana hillside, living in makeshift slums, packed in huts, fifteen or twenty at a time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next fifteen minutes seemed like the longest minutes ever as she waited for James to come down. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Fast enough that when he’s close I can go, “Stebbins, you got my fifteen bucks, or what?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exodus is the second book of the Bible. Twenty and fifteen are the chapter and verse.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The folks at Sears keep their files in such good order that I bet I could start from nothing and find whatever I needed in fifteen minutes or less. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The once marginal, second-tier law firms started by the people who couldn’t get jobs at the downtown firms ten and fifteen years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I would say fifteen and twelve, but no matter, I need some help here. Do you speak any English?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In exchange for the butter and sugar, the man gave them two bags that looked like about fifteen pounds of rice each. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was small, only fourteen or fifteen feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just so we don’t have to stop every fifteen seconds.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose each morning, the fifteen roosters quit heralding dawn and started their mortal combat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about fifteen inches long and it had wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's been fifteen minutes, and the tape is still holding. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know about my father’s true feelings until I was fifteen years old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I peddle in e-mails because Mom thinks fifteen is too young for my own phone. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The plan was for her mother to alter Zindzi’s birth documents to show that the girl was turning sixteen, not fifteen, and therefore able to see me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been rambling like that for fifteen minutes, reciting everything she’d ever seen on TV about how to not get caught breaking into someone’s house, and the, penalties if we were. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In Dwelholm, various elfin noblemen claimed that they had a drop of King Degravaunt’s blood running through their blue veins from fifteen generations back. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

By the graves sit the community of dirt-eaters, now fifteen or twenty in number. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The hyena came to within fifteen feet of me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the front of the girl’s uniform, she said, “Gimme that fifteen cents, or I’ll turn you every way but loose.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At fifteen minutes we were raiding my refrigerator. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It took them fifteen minutes to work their way through the crowd, even with Jelly's belly leading the way. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her pay had been increased to fifteen a week when she went on a wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They visited my truck in droves, as many as fifteen at a time in the little cabin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same two-year period, fifteen hundred miles away, near Buffalo, New York, another man — a kind of Boss Man clone — worked the distressed downtown streets of Jamestown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I stopped short, about fifteen feet from the hoop, and made a pretty little jump shot. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she imagined the people who had lived there fifteen years ago while she, in a little flat on the crowded mainland, longed for their spacious, serene lives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On Beechwood summer fifteen, the aunties filled in for Gran, making slumps and fussing around Granddad as if he hadn’t been living alone in Boston since Tipper died in October. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But for the first fifteen seconds or so, the noble was uneasy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad got it running—“More like limping,” he said—but it never went any faster than fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘If you’ll take a chair, it shall be mended in fifteen minutes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later there was a knock and the door opened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he was pushed to remember the book’s title some fifteen years later, Bobby said that it might have been Tarrasch’s Best Games of Chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in one place in a grocery and look at maggoty cabbages for fifteen minutes while he tries to decide what to do. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I followed Hugh into the mass migration of students heading out of the building at eleven fifteen. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Almost fifteen years passed before I saw my brother cry again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the master's roar was “Open ports!” and the great oars shot rattling out, fifteen to a side. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I think she was worried about the “freshman fifteen.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes and what had seemed like a laugh­able dream that morning had suddenly become reality: It was just me and the other guy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dee-Dee was four years younger than me, only about fifteen then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You may find it hard to believe, but I became so good at it that I won both the junior and the senior school fives in the same year when I was fifteen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early on the morning of March 29, 1942, fifteen transports of the U.S. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What could she have hoped to accomplish in fifteen? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

American children at that age can count only to fifteen, and most don’t reach forty until they’re five. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I sure do. She was here only fifteen minutes ago, fat and beautiful.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was relieved not to have to pay fifteen hundred. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It had been fifteen years, but it might have been fifteen minutes since his hundred routed foes fled through the frost. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z