When he spoke, his voice was even, flat almost, and barely rose above the background noises of the restaurant. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then a flat, wet clod of dead leaves shot clean through the gap and landed clear of the hedge, close to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how when the land is so flat, and the buildings so low, the sky seems to take over everything, announcing itself in a way you can’t ignore. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gunfire echoed in the darkness, running flat across the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The big man took off his flat black hat and fished a paper from the crown. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've hidden a knife flat against the sole of each boot. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The big cats travel on top of the flat cars in parade dens. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then I set the glass of water and the bottle of pills side by side on the flat surface of one of the logs and started to heave myself up. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Caldwell is forty miles west, in the center of a flat plain known, for reasons that may have made sense long ago, as Treasure Valley. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where he was, primarily, was flat broke again and more than a little discouraged. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Paralysed, she watched as the giant raised his sledgehammer to smash them flat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not so her eyes, which were the flat hostile blue of a midsummer sky in bright sunlight, a blue that shuts you out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that empty flats were scarce in the Black Belt; whenever his mother wanted to move she had to put in requests long months in advance. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had finished the eighth grade in the poor southern state of Guerrero and saw nothing in his future there but fixing flat tires. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Notice that, using flats and sharps, any pitch can be given more than one note name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sunflower’s ears lay back flat, but she was defeated; she couldn’t move. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again it was O-lan who said in her flat plain voice, “Yet a little while and we shall see a thing. There is talk everywhere now.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There are still pens on some of the desks, and they all feature oversize paper calendars lying flat against the desks. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Located on the southeastern coast of Japan, the city stood on six long, flat islands. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pike looked down at the hollow thump as the lute case fell flat against the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I slipped my feet out of my flowery flats and carefully plucked at a string with one not quite steady toe. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Archer caught her hands and pressed them flat, holding them hot and bruised in his own. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Any idiot could learn it in two minutes flat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He swung him and knocked two more flat on the ground. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought I was going to fall flat on my back, but then I stopped and somehow jerked up into the air, right out of my seat. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They gathered together in the hall, sitting around two square tables pushed together, and ate salty flat bread and rabbit stewed with aromatic spices. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With a sigh of pure happiness, Tendai lay back on the flat rock and let the dappled sunlight play over his face. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Father Byrnes took the flat board he kept for such occasions and laid into Bones. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stretched her legs flat on the ground and began to retie her hair ribbon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all wore demon hats, with the crowns pushed up full and high and the brims down flat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice sounded flat and strange to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Shears said, “This flat is hardly big enough for two people, let alone three.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His palm rested flat against my chest, hot like a brand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The finish photo captured the scene: a dense cluster of horses stretched out for the wire, ears flat and lips peeled back in extreme effort. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the story ended, the old woman studied my mother for a long time while she wrapped and rewrapped her faded blue pagne over her flat chest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place in which he found himself was absolutely flat In the human world we seldom see flatness, for the trees and houses and hedges give a serrated edge to the landscape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amelia is flat on her back, her eyes unfocused, long blonde hair fanned around her head. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few people were on the flats: a man cleaning fish on a flat rock at the water’s edge, a woman spreading clothes on the dirt to dry, a few small children. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her flat, he sat on the couch while she sat on her armchair, as far from him as possible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A half-dozen flat brown bugs—prehistoric looking—went flying. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and I realized that I was flat on my back on the floor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The flat has always been kept in perfect order, and she finds the sudden upheaval disquieting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A print of a bare foot alternating with the flat print of a flip-flop. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

If you can't name the scale notes in a key, you may find it difficult to predict whether a chord should be based on a sharp, flat, or natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then an inmate called out to us on the flats: “You all were witnesses!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went barefoot, avoiding barnacles, picking her way along the flats with the tide drawn out and the salt chuck grass sleek against the mud in sun-dried fans. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I keep my head flat against the pillow because I still feel dizzy. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He turned and ran out of the flat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped on matching aqua flats and grabbed her purse. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Now roll each ball out until it’s in a flat circle.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We went out into the yard, which was full of flat night; we heard an urgent whisper from the side of a shed, where we found Bono awaiting us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

He flashed the ambulance’s emergency lights and fired a quick whirring blast from the siren as he came up our long, flat driveway. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the Plug,” he said in a flat monotone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then out of the blue, the Eddie guy grabbed my hood as I passed by him, yanking it really hard so I was pulled backward and fell flat on my back. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know anything about her,” I said, my cheeks burning, my voice flat as a wall. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She was flat chested, insisted on wearing glasses and no makeup, refused to grow out her hair, and commonly occupied spaces—like Insomnia Con—that seemed to be implicitly reserved for men. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The other troublesome word was “here,” no strong consonant to hang on to, and so flat, when “here” is two mountainous ideographs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena ducks flat against her head to avoid being scraped off by the pole that runs across the top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

During summer visits to Calcutta, strange men mysteriously appeared in the sitting room of her grandparents’ flat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Away over the flats they could glimpse the low hill of Bucklebury across the River, but it was now to their left. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She put her hands down flat on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For example, most instrumentalists would find it easier to play in E flat than in D sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“He said he was gonna grab more wood and wire for his birdcages. But they found his car a few hours up the road. He had jumped in the James River,” Grandma said, flat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I feel as if my feet in their flat red shoes aren’t quite touching the floor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1937, Hugo has moved in with them, and one morning, he announces in his booming voice that the flat is too small. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing long and flat that she could see. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ground was flat, and not much brush had grown back yet, so I could see for a ways in every direction. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Franny was now sitting with the flat of her free hand pressed against the side of her face, like someone with an excruciating toothache. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

To give you an idea, he usually shares a beer or two with the crowd during the game’s flat spots. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And for some reason, his feared lack of genius made him miss K-19 more than he had since his face was pressed flat against his bedroom carpet. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I dropped flat behind the stone wall and then raised my head to stare around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fists closed and his teeth clenched; then he relaxed and lay flat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her emotional affect is flat, which may or may not change. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Crabbe stumbled — and his huge, flat foot caught the hem of Harry’s cloak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It no longer amused her that while she went to work, the flat remained in the same filthy mess that she had left it in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellen drew a flat loaf of white bread from the ashes of the fireplace and wrapped it in a clean cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My taxi was cutting through the back streets of Bloomsbury, past the house where my father lived after his second marriage, and past the basement flat where I lived and worked all through the fifties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I placed him flat on the ground and picked up my gun. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, it got knocked flat on its butt. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floated downstream, out of reach, and the flat black water swallowed it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Roz stumbled on until she found a patch of ground that was flat and open and carpeted with pine needles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Black keys can only be named using sharps or flats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Crouch took a deep, shuddering breath, then began to speak in a flat, expressionless voice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the closet they were on hangers; in the drawers they were folded flat, or wound tightly like thick scrolls. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I’m dry, I go to Kennington’s and buy the flattest shoes I can find and a slim black crepe dress. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gat and I went down to the perimeter then, and walked until we got to a wide, flat rock that looked over the harbor. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On her feet were sensible, wide, flat shoes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Next thing they knew, they were flat on their faces with a dozen guns pointed at the backs of their heads. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I hated her clothes—the blue pastel cardigan, the white blouse with the collar that lay flat over the cardigan, the homemade flat, cotton skirt she wore when everybody else was wearing flared skirts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds a relatively flat rock near the side, where the current isn’t strong, and sits down, his feet dangling over the edge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Not on the rail or out on the tracks, like the clinking suggested, but down along the outer edge where the rectangular wooden train track ends were spaced like flat brown teeth. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When I had finished I lashed the oar in a vertical position to the inside of one of the corners of the raft, flat part, the masthead, rising in the air, handle disappearing underwater. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rebuffed, unhappy at the obtuseness of the very flat, the apple bumps the square and sends him aloft, fluttering and spinning into that mysterious third dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mexicans follow, up a steep embankment, along a well-worn dirt path, past mesquite bushes and behind some tamarind trees, until they are next to a large, round, flat tank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

C minor is the relative minor of E flat major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Consider a flat, flexible, lined two-dimensional surface, like a piece of graph paper made of rubber. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They broke at this table flat, unsalted bread, which was the body of the Lord, and drank from a heavy silver cup the scarlet wine of His blood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She found a flat stone and put it under the mired wheel. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The sea’s as flat as the back of my hand. No one’s going to be hurt this time.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She breathed in heavy through her nose and gave me a flat smile. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Coraline considered this carefully, then she took the paper and pen and went off to explore the inside of the flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Then the shouting behind them stopped abruptly, and in the midst of the sudden silence came Mae’s voice, flat and cold. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, his palms were flat and held vertically above the ground, not cupped and horizontal to it, after the manner of women. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first real clue to the nature of Venus came from work with a prism made of glass or a flat surface, called a diffraction grating, covered with fine, regularly spaced, ruled lines. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat, dulled banging, as though Allison was hitting the door with an open palm rather than a knuckle, unnerved Ifemelu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think about how hard the bench is beneath me and how the truck always vibrates, even on flat ground, buzzing in my bones. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

So you can also say that the name of the key signature is a perfect fourth lower than the name of the final flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When he turned away from the sun to mount the mare, he saw the spotted cattle, grazing in a dry lake flat below the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And left patterned trails of bumpy goose- flesh on his body, like flat chalk on a blackboard, like a swathe of breeze in a paddyfield, like jet streaks in a blue church-sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles out of town, the bus began to list to one side as the slashed tires went flat. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was flat, not many trees, the same dusty red-clay dirt and grass as Soweto but with proper houses and paved roads and a sense of suburbia to it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a few dollars short of flat broke and only marginally employed at the depths of the Depression. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hovers above me, coal black eyes bulge out of its sockets, and large, flat nostrils flare from his fat, furry face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny ran a flat iron over my hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No one noticed the moon-faced boy in the flat cap, or the honeybee that drifted from his mouth, tested the sooty air, then dove back from whence it came. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Few lights burned; but from a half-dozen chimneys slow, almost phosphorescent pinon smoke emerged, dissipating in a flat way over the town, seeping into bushy cottonwood foliage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray-haired man straightened his back and placed the flat of his free hand on the top of his head, and said, “Now, do you mean?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He made a cross on my forehead with the flat of his thumb. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They gust down the slope of the roof, skitter across the parapets, stick flat in tidal eddies down on the beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Please, please, please, I think as we crest the last hill and reach the flat sandy area, where a bunch of people are in a semicircle like they’re at a sporting event. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I felt flat, wiped out from the trial and everything, sad that my summer was over, and, because I wasn’t sure how he’d react, a little worried to go back home and face Dad. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The track snaked uphill and led to a flat field where poplars and cottonwoods soared and wild bushes grew in clusters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

His face was round, with a flat button nose—she had a quick memory of dimples when he laughed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of dropping runs when she stepped from her office out onto the flats to gaze up at the front-side galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A car full of work people with tired, flat faces took up nearly all of the seats and standing space. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Behind them the mists in the flat fields were now above the hedges; but the water before them was dark, with only a few curling wisps like steam among the reeds by the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before the fifteenth century, paintings and drawings were largely flat and lifeless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He stroked his flat, white cheek against the smoothness of her dress, looking at her beseechingly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape has become gray, filled with low flat cement buildings, old factories, and then tracks and more tracks filled with trains like ours passing by in the opposite direction. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a second, Duke. Look. There’s something jiggly in the water. It’s like a flat rubber pull toy made out of clear gunk! It even has all sorts of strings to play with.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She bought cookbooks for the flat’s kitchen, though she never used them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Because the earth is flat and there are hardly any trees, the trailers rise out of the landscape like skyscrapers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I got to the wall, I flung myself flat and listened. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, Howard had a little track of three eighths of a mile cut out of the flat valley land. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kay’s panache, for instance, was shaped like a rigid, flat fan, with its edges pointing fore and aft. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black bass rising in flat black water: ah. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we could return to is a rented, joint-family flat in the overcrowded city of Calcutta, where Ma's inability to have a son would be a constant subject of conversation for other women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had gone past the tourists and beachgoers, and the water was flat so there weren’t many surfers, just a boy and a girl on their boards way out in the distance. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When the flat was ready, Immie’s key turned easily in the lock. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was no wind, and the sea looked flat and glassy as a millpond. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thank the gods, Percy turned his sword—maybe on purpose, maybe accidentally—so the flat of it hit Jason’s chest; but the impact was still enough to knock Jason off his mount. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But boys paid no attention to my scrawny legs and flat torso. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After several minutes of snuffing and rolling, the draccus came back to the flat bed of coals that was all that remained of our fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Howard even taught him to shake hands in no time flat. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The flat glassiness in his eyes, the slump to his shoulders, worried her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it simply clamped its huge, flat mouth down on one end of the trunk and twisted its massive neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

White electric ferries made their way back and forth, shuttling fans over to the west side, where an observation train awaited them, its thirteen white-skirted flat cars outfitted with bleachers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the window seat, Edna pressed her face flat against the pane. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was flat and roofed by the bow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When you start to think of the world as flat, or at least in the process of flattening, a lot of things make sense in ways they did not before. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rain fell upon us; and we waited in the mire for time to pass so we might make our dash across the flats. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, they lie flat on the ground, muskets pointed at the stream of blue uniforms picking their way up the grassy slope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Nana saw the bowl, her face flushed red and her upper lip shivered, and her eyes, both the lazy one and the good, settled on Mariam in a flat, unblinking way. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was flat back on my heels when he fired the shot, a bad shot, right at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I can live in a flat with a garden and a proper toilet. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She and Chrissie had found everything about Martin comical and were relishing the chance to laugh openly about him now they’d left his flat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was painted a deep clear blue, and on its flat top was the blue dot of the lead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the next week Father told Mother she had to move out of the house, but she couldn’t because she didn’t have any money to pay rent for a flat. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as Galileo pointed out, it would have been easy to test their claim that ice floats because it is flat by breaking it up into small pieces and seeing if the pieces still floated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The eyes were flat and the mouth with its small up-curve at the corners was carven. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hoisted a gas cylinder out of the boot, and Jaja helped him carry it into the flat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He talked in a flat voice, trying to sound like the most boring person on the whole planet. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sandra’s beside her, drab in her jeans and gray T-shirt, long hair parted flat on her head, stringing down and covering the sides of her face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He was pretty decent at smashing the cap flat, but when it came to hitting the nail, he definitely had some issues. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His beer tasted flat, and he wished Emenike would just give him the money. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then the sheriff picks up the burlap sack and pulls out something flat and shiny. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

More than one across this flat, flat land. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her big long breasts lay flat on her chest like they’d been pressed down with an iron, but she did seem heedless of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishing beneath the teddy bears and fluffy bunnies, George felt for a flat denim bag. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

All the empty flats in our building would soon be overflowing with families as more Jews were marched in through the gates. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ions might charge the air, but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination—my imagination, anyway. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His temperature chart looks bad, and one day the flat trolley stands beside his bed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bed was flat and narrow as any bunk in the Mews. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” said an officer on the flats, who could see Henderson and knew he was supposed to be in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behind it, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker lay ironed out upon the grass as flat and thin and lifeless as a couple of paper dolls cut out of a picture book. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves the flat, doesn't feel like going home to his grandparents. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Odenigbo came to her flat she was unsure whether to let him in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I blame this stupid flat brown hair on my father, but otherwise I don’t hold any grudges against him. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Queenie’s stance was different, her feet slightly farther apart and flat on the floor, her shoulders squared back. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He held the flat of his hand over her papers, trapping them there, trapping her there. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the next corner he saw a “For Rent” sign in a building which he knew was cut up into small kitchenette flats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I jump to the gravel and run ahead to the flat cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was not much talking in the flat; the silence was heavy and brooding. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the sunset, the light was bouncing off a large flat sheet of Celestial bronze that lay at the bottom of the pond, washing Mr. Handsome’s features in a warm glow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But his voice was flat, as it had been so often lately. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

No garb could disguise her plainness, though; the huge freckled hands, the wide flat face, the thrust of her teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was to leap from the top of a jagged boulder across the gap to a flat granite surface. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I know as I lie here, flat on my back, that I’d meant to meet her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The elf was lying flat as a board, muttering a spell. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And in any case, why does a flat sheet of ice bob back to the surface if you push it under? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We started walking, and in no time flat, Buddy was fast asleep. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I got home, I de cided to keep exploring the East for more signs that the world was flat. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But it is important to notice that you can move that song in C major to E major, G flat major, or any other major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Thomas remembered, but for some reason Teresa’s words fell flat— they didn’t have much hope in them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing I’d heard her say since the Nazis burst into our flat. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

To Daisy, all our faces look alike, as flat and pale as the moon. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They sat on a flat table-shaped rock halfway up and shared a hardtack lunch followed by a canteen of water. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Did the wind come suddenly, I wondered, in a funnel from the beacon on the hill, and did the little boat heel to it, shivering, the white sail flat against a breaking sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But when we moved down into the prickly-pear flats, my misery eased some. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family squarely in the middle class may own a flat- screen television, drive a BMW, and indulge a taste for expensive chocolate. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He rose to his feet and walked the few steps to the water’s edge, picked up a flat stone, and threw it so it skipped across the water. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The flat extended out two hundred yards and then there was a line of heavy weed-crusted rocks before it dropped off to deep water. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she felt flat, flat and—she admitted it to herself—disappointed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai swam along the bottom, over waterweeds that bent in the current, and splashed to the surface beside a flat rock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next, there is endless flat farmland, stretching like a yellow sea. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I scream, dropping flat and pressing my chest against the wet ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his big gut and barrel chest, his flat nose and bristly black jaw, Noye did not make a pretty sight, but he was a welcome one nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and went back to eating my dinner, sorry my ideas had fallen flat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The flat was scrupulously clean; the neighbor women had attended to that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we’d lost you forever! What happened? Did you get lost? Did someone take you out of the flat?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond these the land stretched away to low, flat country. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come to a partial clearing, to a humble house covered with bleached brown shingles and surrounded by a low wall of flat stones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Given the freedom to pick his own training site, Tibbets selected a base in Wendover, Utah, a remote spot surrounded by salt flats. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the loneliest summer job a girl could have, stuck in a roadside hut with three walls and a flat tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have wrestled that jar from them in nothing flat. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Most of the prisoners were asleep or resting, curled into corners or flat on their backs with an arm thrown over their eyes to block out the dim lamplight that filtered through the grate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then he laid his palm flat in the center of Finn’s chest. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For example, C minor has the same key signature as E flat major, since E flat is a minor third higher than C. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was just the dull, heavy skies and bleak light, which gave everything a flat, washed-out feel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly I ate, hoping that after coffee I might get more details if I walked him back to his flat. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He ran his thumb down the flat of the blade, as if he were hypnotized by its beauty. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is wonderful, Robin, thank you,” Mom said, but her voice sounded flat and wispy, as thin as a tissue. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Haider took hold of his longsword with both hands and brought it down so hard the blow split leather, even on the flat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A dust devil twirled eastward from the sage across the flat deserted fields, catching tumbleweeds, bouncing them along and letting them go, weaving among the crumbled houses and rusty car hulks—a truly desolate scene. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shimmering dry heat made visions of water on the flat plain. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no shops that she could see in the direction she had to walk, only dull mansion blocks of flats in deep orange brick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mud flats near the banks, caking to dry clay, smelled of death. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a big cemetery, windy and flat and anonymous. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She moved her right hand, playing upon the flats and sharps. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I tried holding Todd’s hand flat and pouring water over it but he still didn’t wet the bed. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He finishes plucking the last of the parsley leaves, watches as Donald grabs a knife and chops them, expertly and swiftly, a hand held flat over the top of the blade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pickers hurried their last flats in and waited in line while Mrs. Nitta put marks beside their names and paid them from underneath her umbrella. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I met that morning in a safe flat in a white suburb with various members of the local and foreign press, and I once again called the stay-at-home “a tremendous success.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s only five miles to town, so even if I got a flat tire or my bike chain fell off, I could walk my bike home. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I slipped a foot out of my flat and opened my book bag. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t... dislike you, sir,” I say, shifting in my flats. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Humming a tune beneath his breath, he strode out with a will, almost breaking from the cover of the trees straight out into the flat meadowland. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

No, not flat in the tabletop sense of the word. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It still took them the better part of an hour to reach the clearing, but the ground, when they got there, was as level and flat as a playing field. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know this is not going to sit well with you, but I’m going to say it flat out. There’s talk about Karl Mueller.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dread in my stomach is flat and hard and hot, like a brick in the sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

While I balance myself on the back step and place a stack of flat boxes in front of me, I notice the little logo on the back. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They began to play flat, as if convinced that no matter how hard they tried, they would not be able to score. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She pressed her hand to her stomach—still as flat as ever—and imagined a single cell pulsing and dividing deep in side, like in the videos in biology class. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was flat on his back, staring at the sunlight in the tree branches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I don’t laugh, her face falls flat like a wrong note. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The order of flats is the reverse of the order of sharps: B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat, F flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The line representing fixed costs was flat, and the one representing variable costs angled upward. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“See how it’s flat on one side,” she accuses my head. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to get to the roof; he struggled upward, then fell flat, in deep soft snow, his eyes riveted upon a white man across the street upon another roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today she was wearing her simple blue dress and a heavy knitted sweater with buttons made from small flat stones. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“This is police business,” he said; he held his flat pack of ID up to the screen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had laid the headboard down flat near the flowerbeds that bordered the house, with the side rails below it and the slats to either side in neat rows, like ribs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys went to a flat hollow in a stone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flat, dry place made green only by sprinkler systems. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The farmer was a spare man, with what we think of as a Yankee face and the flat vowels we consider Yankee pronunciation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranyinudo had introduced them one afternoon, months ago, when Don dropped by Ranyinudo’s flat on his way to his club, wearing tennis whites, and Ifemelu had left almost immediately, to give them privacy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, after about three tours of the flat, I can stop. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jump down from the flat car, check my intact arm once more, and stalk off. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I enjoy the coolness of things, the flat ginger ale I’m given to drink, the delicacy of taste, afterward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the countryside was so flat that we could see for miles in every direction—or, rather, we could have seen for miles, if the air in some directions had not been filled with smoke. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I lay them flat against my legs to hide it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a tangle of brown sheets, one lone swirl of a Mexican blanket, a sad flat pillow in a faded pillowcase. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He spread his hand flat on the table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He reached down to pick up his cap, and there next to it he saw a wide flat rock. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There are no trees and the land is disconcertingly flat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She pushed it flat with her hand, ashamed, and paced on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her lips were flat and her eyes empty-looking, so I didn’t know what her body language was saying and I was less pleased. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, the children, remained flat on the floor of the block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumps into the air and falls down flat. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the lake again, saw how it lay in the wide, flat greenness—how there were many lakes around it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In each stocking there was a pair of bright red mittens, and there was a long, flat stick of red-and-white-striped peppermint candy, all beautifully notched along each side. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since the mech was lying flat, the head shot out on a trajectory parallel to the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once she was seated with both palms flat against the ground, Badwa clasped her hands. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Vincent thinks the painting should be framed in a flat, bright orange; that will look good with the blues of the background and the dark green of the trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We had the table staked out, see? We was watching to see, wondering who brought them goofy flat pancakes.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to a small clearing where there’s a bit of flat land and a break in the trees, I stop us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Black windows pierced the flat blank cliffs of white, occasionally flashing a reflection of the moon as the canoe floated by. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, as yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I broke it down the middle and dropped half to the flat roof below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The other flats she liked were too expensive. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She gathered up her dress and stepped out and headed toward her flat, and as she turned to go I gave her one last little wave. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I rolled that word around in my head for a while and then, in the chemical way that these things happen, it just popped out: My God, he’s telling me the world is flat! The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some stood with flats held over their heads and let their picked strawberries catch the water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A single dead bolt on the fourth floor marks the locksmith’s flat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For example, the difference between a C and a B flat part is one whole step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He shuts off the radio, drives in silence through the cold, bleak afternoon, through the flat, charmless town he will never visit again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a little while he turned suddenly, and choosing a place where the banks were lower, he waded the river, and then led them away due south into a flat land, treeless and wide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Ron suggested on Monday lunchtime as he lay flat on his back in the middle of their Charms classroom, having just been Stunned and reawoken by Harry for the fifth time in a row. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Roz placed the gosling on her flat shoulder, and the two of them set off across the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was flat on the ground, completely still, not even breathing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In a dull, flat voice—to show I was not beguiled by his good looks or his family photograph—I told Doctor Gordon about not sleeping and not eating and not reading. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled a sample cup out of the stack, filled it with a pump of Orange Blossom Awesome, and offered it to Trent, using my flat palm as a sort of saucer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He kicked it four times and the door gave way, falling flat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All of those creatures came to the pear flats when the apples started turning red. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley's hole would have to be as deep as his shovel, and he'd have to be able to lay the shovel flat across the bottom in any direction. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His sodden robes weighed him down as he walked in deeper; now the water was over his knees, and his rapidly numbing feet were slipping over silt and flat, slimy stones. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Notice that IV in the key of B flat is an E flat major chord, not an E major chord, and vii in the key of G is F sharp diminished, not F diminished. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For now, there was a wooden cross and a gray rock the size of a dinner plate lying flat on the ground in front of it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boning of the waistline cinches me in all the right places and lies flat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I got a letter from her about a month after getting home to sexless Stokum, and unfortunately the Spanglish that had spilled so musically from her mouth lay flat as stones on the page. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He walks toward me, his hand sliding on my flat chest around to my back, pulling me close to him in a tight grip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used a flat rock and the force of her will to smash groundnuts into passable peanut butter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat where there was light and a view, in the empty flat on the twenty-fourth floor. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men in woolen flat caps are sitting on a makeshift bench near the camp gate, talking over the headlines in Unzer Sztyme. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he reaches his flat, Marco drops his bag to the floor, leaning against the door with a heavy sigh. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rather than lying flat, though it was only a mild breeze the sea seemed to rise around and away from the Frog. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the guards swung a sword and hit her with the flat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Westley noted only that the ravine bottom was flat rock and heading in the general direction he wanted to follow. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Scared. And quite frankly, I don’t blame him. I want to get him to a doctor, but I’m flat broke and so is he.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Everybody in this house, come out and lie down flat!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once we’d reached flat land we were able to follow our own tracks back through the squishy moss of the forest floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then the houses on the opposite pavement ran out, areas of flat lawn appeared in their place, and you could see, beyond the lawns, the tops of the beach huts lining the seafront. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis accompanied them ashore, and ’twas my pleasure to escort him through the rough terrain of flat stump and loam we have made of the forest, down to the peninsula and to our tent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The sand is wet and flat and dense. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ess watched as each of the older girls pulled a frame and laid it flat on the clean sheet they’d spread on the ground. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After leaving Virginia, Chris drove south and then west across the flat Texas plains, through the heat of New Mexico and Arizona, and arrived at the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, horses confer an advantage on flat ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gaunt was thrown backward, away from his daughter; he tripped over a chair and fell flat on his back. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As far as she could see, there was nothing but flat, blue water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few days I lay flat on my back, hardly able to blink without feeling like my forehead was splitting open, and everything sick and black. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pippin and Sam had remained flat in the grass, and had seen nothing; so Frodo described the rider and his strange behaviour. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just the three same flat notes over and over. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several days later, when they bumped into each other in the Cavendish tea queue, Francis learned that a semirigorous argument hinted that adenine and thymine should stick to each other by their flat surfaces. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Old-timers mocked them as “Boy Scouts” who had “college-trained flat feet,” and this was not untrue; as one agent later admitted, “We were a bunch of greenhorns who had no idea what we were doing.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Neel kept his eyes on his sandals as he left them on the flat stone threshold. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the western ocean it harried the sea flat, lifting water bodily out of water and carrying it as spume. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care,” she says in a flat tone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Chronicler nodded and quickly shuffled the paper, pens, and ink into his flat leather satchel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She arrived at the flat wearing a sequined bou-bou that caught the light, glistening like a flowing celestial presence, and said that she wanted to tell Ifemelu’s parents about it before they heard the gossip. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he set about pulling the small black threads from his skin, pressing down with the flat of his thumb. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the flat under-side Frodo saw some scratches: ‘There seems to be a stroke, a dot, and three more strokes,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d wrapped Declaration’s sandwich in two pieces of waxed paper so it wouldn’t go stale; the paper made a crinkling sound as I set the sandwich in the best flat spot. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the first stroke landed and the pistol-crack sounded, I was thrown forward so violently that if my fingers hadn’t been touching the carpet, I think I would have fallen flat on my face. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was flat, resigned, and I thought, Had my sister toyed with him? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Garrett is on his knees licking the boulder, catching tiny rivulets that course down its side—and then I see that there are dips and indentations on the surface of the flat stone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some folded the tiny squares into love knots, some into triangles, but most were wadding them, then pressing them flat on their yellow laps. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid the shard carefully on a flat stone. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He sat there hearing the music while the sea crept in again over the bouldery flat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Fadi stood with his father in a grocery shop in Little Kabul, watching long, flat sheets of freshly baked bread, nearly as tall as he was, emerge from the oven. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He sets a green folder flat on the desk blotter, motions to a pair of dark leather chairs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the door closed behind him the girl turned her flat eyes back to Eleanor, almost resentfully, as though Eleanor with her chatter had driven the man away. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel tries to lay the facts flat inside his head. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She caught a glimpse of what at first seemed flat stones; it was a floor of pale green tile. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all still in, so it wouldn’t fall flat when I sat down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The back tires are completely flat, flayed by the knife Christina brought with her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He made a sweeping gesture with the flat of his hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nailer shivered at the half-man’s flat words, the disinterest in his voice. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

BAM! whacked the cap, over and over again until it was flat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Beyond, the low lands lay dim and flat under the stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He motioned for Turner to step in, then used an oar to shove the dory back into the New Meadows, flat against the waves but steady enough. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe there is hope for this flat world ... The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The lake, he realized, was not black in reflection of the sky; the water itself was dark, flat, and as grim and heavy as iron. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t plan on flat out asking these questions, but I did think that by getting inside the Pastors’ house and meeting Ginnie Sue, I’d come away with some idea of the answers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flat trolleys with the rubber wheels pass continually along the corridor, and always with someone stretched at full length upon them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sien comes to visit him with a package that had arrived at the flat from Ma and Pa: clothing, underwear, cigars, and even some money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Somebody is going to snap it up soon, tear it down, and put up a gleaming block of overpriced luxury flats.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gollum sat with his legs drawn up, knees under chin, flat hands and feet splayed on the ground, his eyes closed; but he seemed tense, as if thinking or listening. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There is a bay, wide and flat, like a crescent moon laid on its side. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like if you say, “The world is flat,” Andrew’s mind cuts it up into squares. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The pin was flat, as long and as wide as Laura’s two biggest fingers, and it was carved all over, and scalloped on the edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javier and his mother had the same flat, wide noses, the same deep brown eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The crazy old man upstairs called down to Coraline when he saw her coming out of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible’s flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He left the road and took a trail that cut directly to the cliffs, winding up the chalky gray hill where the mesa plateau ended in crumbling shale above the red clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time he’s on the flat roof outside my window, so I have to open it and let him in. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They marched north, skirting the edge of the city, and headed to the Field of Mars—the largest, flattest part of the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Behind my mother, in his chair, my father's face is flat and icy. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Later, when he heard her car start and saw the glaring headlights near the bush with the white flowers, he thought she was going to collect a few things from her flat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The farm carts, carrying food and fuel to Boston, were still coming in over the mud flats connecting the town with the mainland. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chinese bakery downstairs from our flat displayed my growing collection of trophies in its window, amidst the dust-covered cakes that were never picked up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrain here is flat and smooth, so it's pretty much a best-case scenario. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a sword out of thin air, swept Percy off his feet with the flat of the blade, and pressed the point under his chin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Andrea was lying flat on the floor because that was good for her posture, but with news like this, I was surprised that she still cared about her posture. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were guards and lights and flat brick wall, but no holes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On the way, we stirred up a herd of deer that crashed away through the underbrush and disappeared in two seconds flat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She imagines a man, his back flat against the wall, ready to seize her when she passes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, sir. My bicycle’s tire was flat.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looked totally tired and fed up, and his voice rang flat with defeat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I remain flat on my back, catching my breath, and then I’m laughing along with him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Washburn is here,” he says in a flat voice, like a bulldozer has just run over it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It took him a week and, when the estate agent called her to say that the work was done, she went eagerly to the flat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Except for the British, the leaders were all moving into the lee of the southern shore, where the water was nearly flat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If the two sticks cast shadows of equal length, that also would make sense on a flat Earth: the Sun’s rays would then be inclined at the same angle to the two sticks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you need to stay away from Warren,” he says flat out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Cal said, “Next year my father is going to let me have an acre in the flat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wore an ancient flat straw hat, blue jeans, both coat and trousers, and heavy shoes of which one sole was loose so that it slapped the ground when he walked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone was shaped like a beetle, flat enough to be concealed by the grass but bulky enough to catch a toe if you hit it the right way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They are tall, sturdy men, with broad, flat noses and wide lips. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sharps or flats always appear in the same order in all key signatures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was as though my discovery of Rinehart had opened a gulf between us over which, though we sat within touching distance, our voices barely carried and then fell flat, without an echo. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat eyes above the snub nose were alert, blinking and resetting their attention to the growing noise beyond the flats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were no lumpy columns of rock here; nothing interrupted the wide flat surface of the water, which stretched out before them in the flickering light from their candles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their course had been chosen to leave Woodhall to their left, and to cut slanting through the woods that clustered along the eastern side of the hills, until they reached the flats beyond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lee rode left up a flat grassy rise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie lay flat on his back, his arms spread out as if he was making a snow angel—a grass angel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A guitar44 player, given a piece written in A flat for keyboard, will often prefer to play it in A or G, since the fingerings for chords in those keys are easier. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One time he brought in a horned toad that got so mad he swelled out round and flat as a Mexican tortilla and bled at the eyes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved to the top of the rock ridge that comprised the bluff over his shelter and was pleased to find a large, flat stone area. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was an intense blue with a hot, flat sun high overhead—he thought it might be noon but could not think of what day it was—and there was absolutely no wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat was only ten minutes away from the house, so I was always around to drop in to help with errands or have dinner once in a while. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It is a flat stone without any scratches.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes the pages inscribed with her handwriting, descriptions of striped tents and star-speckled skies, and folds them into birds, letting them fly around the empty flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Changs had run flat life through a fancy new sewing machine, and seen it emerge smocked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out all the wet things, the blankets and pillows and Lyra’s sodden clothes, and laid them flat on the planks of the landing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Marco refuses to let her enter the flat, but he leaves her waiting in the hall for only moments before returning, bowler hat in hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They’re cold and hard like flat black skipping rocks you find at the bottom of the creek. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They went away and left me there, with a uniformed officer—the one with the neck acne who came to Cathy’s flat in Ashbury a lifetime ago—standing at the door, avoiding my eye. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry crushed his bean with the flat side of the dagger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I ran down the ridge to the flat walkway near the buttress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the car disappeared out of view some of the monkeys called out, emitting soft whooping sounds, and then walked on their flat black hands and feet up the path. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They roused him with difficulty, and for some time he would not lift his face, but knelt forward on his elbows, covering the back of his head with his large flat hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

To ensure that the stick would not hurt Seabiscuit, Fitzsimmons had the rider select one that was flat, so it would merely slap his flank. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At Wild Brain,” he said, “we make something out of nothing. We learn how to take advantage of the flat world. We are not fighting it. We are taking advantage of it.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He does feel joy, though, as he hangs Vincent's paintings in the new flat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They began to move, the whole Corps in mass, at slow march forward through a flat farm, a peach orchard. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island was no larger than Dumbledore’s office, an expanse of flat dark stone on which stood nothing but the source of that greenish light, which looked much brighter when viewed close to. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Maxine says, “Yeah, sure. That would be awesome,” but her voice is flat and without emotion. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a path, muddy and rutted and potholed, so people did sometimes come this way; but the flat horizon was so far away on every side that he had little sense of making progress. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He passed the flat of his hand squeakily back and forth over the face of the medicine-cabinet mirror, wiping away most of the mist. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His ears, which had been laid flat back on his skull, came into their proper position, and the fire went out of his eyes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Charley, always a dog for water, panted asthmatically, jarring his whole body with the effort, and a good eight inches of his tongue hung out flat as a leaf and dripping. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called him from various pay- phones in Flushing or from the flat in Manhattan our firm rented. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms were bound tightly behind her back, with wire it looked like, so she really was lying flat on her face more than the others, who were resting on their forearms. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He could see the white town of Salinas far out in the flat and the flash of its windows under the waning sun. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heard lay flat on his chest and his hands were folded. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horsemen, riding very swiftly, had indeed been sighted: still far behind but gaining on the Orcs, gaining on them like a tide over the flats on folk straying in a quicksand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The stone was shaped like a beetle, flat enough to be concealed by the grass but bulky enough to catch a toe if you hit it the right way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Reverend paused, resting one hand flat on the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I would say”—her voice very flat—“‘Insert a quarter in the meter’ or ‘Betty bought a bit of better butter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair is permed flat with one wiggly curl across her forehead. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the doorway he met people coming in; he stood to one side to let them pass, then went into the cold wind, looking for an empty flat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, his voice held a low resonating quality, a certain flat and steady intonation I found appealing, like the rumble of distant thunder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

You needed to avoid shooting at noon, a time when light was “flat.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I scoop the soil over the bird, smoothing it flat before standing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We scurry about, in and out of our flat buildings, occupied with our flat businesses and dalliances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the cupboard and took out a flat cake which she put on a hot stone to bake. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Later we found out that Don Bernardo’s old Plymouth had a flat near the Constanza turnoff, and when Blanco went to change it, there was no jack or spare in the trunk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When the Flatlanders take short excursions, their universe looks flat enough. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we turned out the lights, she fell asleep in no time flat. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But when we reached the courtyard Haldar and his wife would not have her in the flat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That is how I feel: white, flat, thin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They probably had a stack of flat pennies somewhere in the company-store offices, collected over the decades. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the load of blankets and started hauling them to higher ground, hunting for something on the hillside that had a semblance of being flat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I held on to the tar­paulin rope with one hand and the edge of the bow bench with the other, while my body lay flat against the side bench. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world is a flat disk, and the sea encircles the perimeter. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The door was hit with such force that it swung clean off its hinges and with a deafening crash landed flat on the floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As we pulled onto the Ohio Turnpike, which is the flattest, straightest piece of road in Gods whole creation, Gram interrupted my prayers. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Its center is filled with a flat black stone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Karl has a close call one night when he meets two policemen near his flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even flat out it would take me three days, perhaps four, to reach Abol Bridge and the campground. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One is square, one is rectangular and flat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Next she took two strips of skin from the water and held them in place while they froze to the bottom of the bowl, in the shape of flat rockers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The psychologist’s voice was flat, but somehow dangerous, “You would rather run this yourself?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As sure as I knew she would be, Big Ma was in the door frame in nothing flat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There it was, in a clearing of flat stone — the evil animal was pacing back and forth as if it were waiting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The broad flat of the river was half its usual breadth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Trucks with flat beds loaded with empty potato barrels moved on the roads, and the mechanical potato digger turned up long windrows of pale-skinned tubers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat was filled with neighbor women who stood around praying and reminiscing about their own child-bed experiences. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let go of his feet; he was in the snow, lying flat on his back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the Immerglicks’ flat was still open, and someone was inside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself in and took a seat next to him on a flat bit of rock. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dicey turned to look behind them, where flat farmlands stretched off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momly was trying to lighten the mood, but it fell flat. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When my bowl is empty, I pick up a flat stone. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She pressed the flat of her hand on Macon Dead’s desk and, holding the gleam steady in her eyes, pushed herself up from the chair. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she knocked on the door of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible’s flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

With a second and eight, Winchell throws a little pass in the left flat to Hill, who eludes his defender with ease and is gone for a touchdown. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one flat street I passed a junkyard, littered with the carcasses of old cars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's stooping now, putting her briefcase flat on the porch floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wide, flat stones showed her the way across the streambed, and she stepped across carefully to avoid falling into the water. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He too holds out a round object: it’s flat like a disc and appears to be made of purple stained glass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, Matthew opens a desk drawer and takes out a small, flat piece of glass. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In a far comer of the convent park we heard laughter, and when we looked we saw one tall, strong boy waving a flat stick, and all around him little boys jumping. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the flats we could hear the hockey field filling up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cloke fished lazily in his pocket, came out with a pack of Marlboros so crumpled and flat that it did not seem possible that a cigarette could be inside it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pauses frequently, and his voice goes from broken to flat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Just think,” said Nat, staring at the flat white surface of her stone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Phelan, You certainly may hone your writing skills on such flat, passionless subjects as drunk driving and illiteracy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas’s back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Archer looked up from where he stood waist-deep in the water, washing their clothes in a pool rimmed by flat stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He held the bag out there, the wine making a flat, hard trajectory into his mouth, and he kept on swallowing smoothly and regularly. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“The man in the top flat. Mister Bobo. Fine old circus family, I believe. Romanian or Slovenian or Livonian, or one of those countries. Bless me, I can never remember them anymore.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His ears lay flat, stood up, then pointed in opposite directions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Short and swaybacked, with little triangular eyes in a fat, flat face, he was an odd match with Yegey, all delicacy and bone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pictures the black iron bars in the windows of her parents’ flat, and Gogol, in his American baby clothes and diapers, playing beneath the ceiling fan, on her parents’ four-poster bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the comers reappeared, I took it back out of the rubbish and smoothed it flat on the desk. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below us lay the Beni, a Bolivian province about the size of Illinois and Indiana put together, and nearly as flat. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s bored, poor man,” said Tzara, with a flat lack of pity, “Nothing to destroy.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her makeup is smeared under her eyes, and her giant orange-blond curls are starting to fall flat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Francie saw a girl who lived in a flat across the street come home from a dance with her feller. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flat ridged disk perhaps two inches irf diameter, and it was thick, like the bottom of a drinking glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned Kevin over so he was lying flat on his back. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Crossing the fields to the north I had seen a train pass on this railroad, visible a long way across the flat plain, and I thought a train might come from Portogruaro. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In a flat voice, he demands, “Why are your eyes puffy, Virginia?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The High Septon placed both hands flat upon the table and pushed himself to his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His flat newsboy hat tapers in the front, and underneath it his hair is straight and combed back toward his collar, like a white man’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy knew they were out of the trees when the air got warmer and the ground beneath his feet got flat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that he’d recognized its divinity at first — not in this flat rectangle wrapped in checkerboard paper; its attached clump of gray ribbon curlicues looked like the head of a mop. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

List the flats or sharps in this key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She turned quietly and ran up the two flights to her flat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chauffeur drove me around to my flat. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When the tape lies flat and tight, I slide Frog and Toad Together into my cassette player and push PLAY. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well—I could get it for six hundred bucks. The ol’ people that owns it is flat bust an’ the ol’ lady needs an operation. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lay flat on our stomachs and waited. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One second they’re everywhere, the next the sea goes flat quiet and it’s like the fish were never there at all. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough,” he said, his voice still flat and cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I dug deep notches in the hard dirt with a flat stone. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was not sure how long he slept, but when he awakened the raft was drifting on a large, flat plain of water, bobbing sideways. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were cunning steps cut into the slope all the way down and set with flat stones. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the case on a flat rock and balanced the microscope on top of it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all flat and hard if you don’t let it rise.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I take its place on the lounge chair and adjust the metal bracing until I’m lying flat on my back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to roll the field flat for the runway.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With his legs crossed and his palms flat on the floor, he is ready to leap up instantly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The analogy that is usually given for explaining the curvature of space is to try to imagine someone from a universe of flat surfaces, who had never seen a sphere, being brought to Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They walked together toward the massive hulk of Iofiir’s palace, where the combat ground lay flat and open at the foot of the walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus closed the gap between us and placed his hand flat against my chest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Will slid in under-neath, flat on his belly in the snow and the mud, and looked down on the empty, clearing below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Marco’s flat was once plain and spare but now it is crowded with an assortment of mismatched furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just then Trapis came back, carrying several flat loaves of bread under one arm and a squalling child in the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I laid there for a minute with the phone flat on my chest. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His second-story flat afforded a view of the harbor and, off to one side, the tents and cardboard huts of a slum. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ten yards from the exit the first bat swept in front of him, knocking him flat on his back on the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spat, coughed, and then fell flat on the floor, his hand still clutching the phone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Because it’s like beautiful, flat, easy-walking ground, all the time now, right? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He decorates his apartment, pinning some Japanese prints on the walls, and he sets up a tiny studio—a “cubby-hole”—in the same building as his flat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We usually keep them closed, but with the sea so flat we aren't worried about waves splashing through. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m flat broke again,” Nately replied with a lame and distracted smile. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a flat gray color, like underwear washed so many times it’s about to fall apart. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all righ’, Harry!” bellowed Hagrid, now thrown flat onto his back by the surge of speed; nobody was steering now, and the sidecar was starting to twist violently in the bike’s slipstream. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A table was hinged so it could be pulled up flat against the wall and clamped there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were flat green slippers on her feet, and she tapped one toe against the tile floor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right smack in the middle of flat plains were jagged peaks and steep gorges. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I said — and there was no question in my flat, uncaring voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She cuffed the cat, which tried to scratch her, ears laid flat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stands below the dam on that flat spot the stream carved before it took its present course down the mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin layer of loose dirt on the flat rock floor was cool against his palms, and his head touched the jagged rock ceiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I heard someone opening the door of the flat and there was a strange man’s voice outside, so I locked the bathroom door. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sheer volume of people is nerve-racking, but the joy in being able to leave his flat whenever he chooses outweighs his fear of accidentally bumping into passersby as he attempts to traverse the streets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Olmsted dismissed the inland sites out of hand as being flat and monotonous and too far from the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I part my hair down the middle and make sure that it is straight and flat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The images in them were distorted and two-dimensional; gigantic, flat knights peered out of tiny, misshapen castles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“But if you wanted to get into the flat in the front—the empty one—to look around, you would find the door locked, and then where would you be?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It was made from two flat bedsheets sewn together, and would be their backdrop. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you were right,” Shady said, sitting down on the coffin like a balloon gone flat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Her generator is as big as my flat and it is completely noiseless!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ocean was flat then, but when the waves came the body would wash off the board. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See how one side’s flat? That’s where it borders with the DR.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Before he retires to his own rooms, a suite three times the size of his flat, Marco quietly returns to the library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In classical Latin, from which the phrase derives, an orbis is usually a flat disc, but sometimes it is an orb or globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Let him think that there was no real threat from me, not until he was flat down on the ground, unable to even remember his own name. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“They use animal blood. And they never give you the smell of death. I do admit this was the deadest guy I’ve ever seen. I mean, he was really flat.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They emerged on the side of the domed roof, on a flat ledge, facing north. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She landed flat on her back with all four feet sticking up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long like a snake, it was squat like a cinder brick, its thick neck blending into a head shaped like a massive flat wedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I want to yell, but instead my voice comes out flat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On their heads sat round black silken hats, each with a bright red button on its flat top. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flat portion in the middle always reminds me of the racing scene in Grease. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Chips of oak went flying, until the northerner lost his feet and slipped, falling flat on his back with his shield on top of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Wait!”The harsh cry startled the fox, now crouching almost flat in the undergrowth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"For Robert!" he shouted, and he came up snarling, lifting the frost-covered longsword with both hands and swinging it around in a flat sidearm slash with all his weight behind it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’s up at the flat cars now, peering between wagon wheels. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There it was, as usual: the flat chest, the nothing hips, the forked, mosquito-bitten legs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That is how people frequently lose their lives in a riot: somebody steps on your heel, then walks right up till you’re flat and they’re standing on you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the land was flat for miles and there was no telling which way the sergeant might be looking, and they didn’t like to turn around to check. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were a few empty flats left by the departing Poles, but not nearly enough for all the new people. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My first choice was V-gallery, the single gallery on the flats that Smith once had. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that had saved him was falling flat. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her teeth were good, and at least her nose was not big and flat like some of those who were thought so cute. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a polyester film coating made with aluminum stretched perfectly flat against a rectangular board. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I went back down the steps and walked across their flat dirt yard, past several outbuildings and the huge grain silos, to the first of four long chicken houses. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

What he had seen, he knew, might be a reflection, a piece of flat shell accidentally drifted in or a complete illusion. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we go under the highway and railroad bridge and come out on the flats of the West Branch of the Delaware. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now there are pots and containers all over the flat space. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’m careful to keep my voice flat and not let the tiniest hint of sass escape my lips. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Moving back to India would be our doom—the two of us married off to "suitable" Bengali boys and Ma stuck in a small flat with a mother-in-law she hates. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sound was reassuring, even though it was muffled and as flat as the light. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

An old man with a lined rectangular face and a scar across the flat arch of his nose, he was the leader of the larboard watch and Reed’s right-hand man. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I crisscrossed my arms flat across my chest and blocked the Carter Prep goon with my whole body, allowing Todd to cut to the hole. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The torrent had swamped the flat bed and the seeds rushed out like runaway boats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance it seemed unprepossessing: just a small, flat, unpainted, circular disk of hard-baked clay, 6 1/2 inches in diameter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We flat out refused, but Mom went up in front of the mourners, genuflected with a grand sweep, and then kissed Erma’s cheek so vigorously that you could hear the puckering sound throughout the chapel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anya put her flat palm against the bark, hoping maybe something magical would happen. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She bobbed up and down on her uneven legs, which worked well enough on the flat surface of the clifftop, but once she entered the forest, her problem became clear. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If there had been any furniture in that flat, even a chair, she would have pulled it onto the trapdoor, but there was nothing. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The things on Jon’s work table glint in this half-light: the flat blade of a chisel, the head of a hammer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I removed the sleeping pills from my bag and rolled them out like dice onto a flat rock. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Please leave us alone, Agha,” Hassan said in a flat tone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At one extreme, innumerable islets, such as those of the Tuamotu Archipelago, are flat, low atolls barely rising above sea level. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His thumbnail twanged the flat iron keys of the instrument, and the sound resonated inside the calabash on his knees. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I gasped and the officer whipped the flat side of the blade across Father’s face. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the response is a blank stare or a flat “Oh, yeah.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants me to imagine what a three- dimensional universe would look like to someone who was perfectly flat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind didn’t blow as hard up there as it did on the clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time they passed Seabiscuit’s stall, the horse lunged at them, mouth wide open, ears flat back, eyes in a sinister pinch, and he meant business. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only bullets that hit the boat came at night when everyone was flat in bed anyway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the rebels ran for cover behind the nearest trees; the other lay flat on the ground, aiming his gun toward the direction of the sound. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had a pole with a flat paddle that he used first on one side, then the other, to move himself along. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof of the old movie theater on Main Street had caved in years ago, its screen landing flat in a field of weeds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My first glimpse of the flat black stretches of Chicago depressed and dismayed me, mocked all my fantasies. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The match burned close enough to Ophie’s fingertips that she blew it out before lying flat on her stomach and reaching farther under the bureau. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The flat tones of a Mask’s voice echo from the tunnel, and the stairwell glows with approaching torchlight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I said, “We don’t have any money, but he’ll give you his flats skiff. It’s worth twelve thousand dollars.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Everything’s. . . gonna change. . . . The girl . . . Thomas ... I saw them . . .” His eyelids flickered closed, then open again; he sank back to a flat position on the bed, stared at the ceiling. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was no sloping hillside as there had been in Rook Hill; here the land was flat, and between the house and the trees was a meadow, the grasses golden and knee-high. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not, like, super-fat or anything, but I have thick legs and my stomach is definitely not flat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Still as flat as ever. Perfect for time trials.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His grandparents live in the flat next door. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Hit him with the flat of your blade until he finds his feet." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the last strip of rubber had rippled to the floor, her father looked at her with cold, flat eyes, and rocked and rocked and rocked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped through the door and into the hall, and in less than three seconds she was opening the front door of the flat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my eyes harden, grow flat and narrow as pennies. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needles was pressed flat against the door as Noodles reached the top and extended his hand, offering the yarn and needles to his brother. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I slept through most of it and awoke at first light and was startled when I couldn’t see any mountains, just a flat plain as far as I could see. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The note is pressed flat on the lid of my beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A lone circle with a curved nose and eyebrows, flat dark eyes, and an open mouth. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t see the point of trying to make his hair lie flat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His right hand was extended above him, flat. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had flat ground for easy driving, and I just needed to follow the edge of the hills. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat, empty M&M’s bag he was using as a bookmark was still in place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Yoren slapped the rump of the officer's horse with the flat of his sword and sent him reeling off down the kingsroad. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The image she was resizing was shot through a crowd to focus on Emily perched on the fountain with her hands pressed flat next to her thighs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A baby cried half-heartedly and a drunken man in one of the downstairs flats synopsized the wicked life he claimed his wife had led. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one Laika found was dried and flat, an old rattler that had become an S-shaped band of snake jerky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My landing is too loud, and I throw myself flat on the overhang, breath held, waiting for someone to yell up at me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If she had, Cora would have walked up to Mabel and knocked her flat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up the flat rock in front of the cross and set the offering in the hollow under it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Gorton arrived, put up a couple of days at the flat and went off to Vienna. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was so dead and squashed so flat that it looked more like a frog-shaped stain on the road than a frog. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she drained the almonds onto a large, flat cookie sheet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I didn’t know what to do, so I...kinda...panicked and came to get Ernie,” Genie explained, flat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My girls would be so happy if I saw someone,” she said in a flat voice, meaning that she hadn’t been to grief counseling. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The lake lay flat and silvery against the sun. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flat out refused to be my partner in front of the entire class and then demanded to work with her friend. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They inch forward through the night, until dawn, when Lumumba’s party is halted by a flat tire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived on Waverly Place, in a warm, clean, two-bedroom flat that sat above a small Chinese bakery specializing in steamed pastries and dim sum. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She answered in a flat voice, “If you stopped obeying them.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge log, with a nice, flat top almost as wide as a sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She wiggled out of Gregor’s grasp and ran straight into his dad’s arms, knocking him flat on his back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found a more or less flat place, a shelf, on the hillside a few yards up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mum and I have been searching all over the flat for this.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Soon I see Jack again, this time at a diner around the comer from Hoagland’s flat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My almost-black hair is flat against my head, and the tips of my ears poke through all the heavy straightness. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I am lying flat on the forest floor. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He walked across the land until he caught the taste of the sea, carried across the flat, marshy fields on a freshening breeze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, I just level a flat look at Bill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After months in the comparatively warm and flat English countryside, they just weren’t in shape for this kind of work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment the figure emerged from shadow and the moon caught the flat planes of his glasses, turning his eyes into pools of silver. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Hisao wasn’t present, he told himself, he’d ask her flat out what she was trying to say by looking at him with such detached severity and saying nothing at all. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept his back to me, his palm flat against the folded coverlet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If they said anything flat out it was something nobody wanted to hear. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke with this buzzing, flat kind of voice. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long-legged and short-tailed, with relatively long, narrow wings and flat head. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma makes us scrub every corner of the flat and turn the mattresses before putting on fresh sheets. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found a thin, flat piece of birch and brought it back to our hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was drool on my cheek and I wiped it off with the flat of my hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the top, a wide, flat plain dotted with huge ant mounds stretched for a mile, and Joe left the dirt ruts to slalom between the mounds for a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I level my voice until it is as flat as the deck I stand on. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the cupboard, the spiral phone cord stretched flat, and read the name from the bag. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then, the night before fall term began, Wil, Sim, and I posted them on every flat surface we could find on both sides of the river. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I press my back against the wall, as flat as can be. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I laid the shovel flat in the tall grass and we left the graveyard, shutting the gate behind us, walking quickly toward the two men. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He lay flat on his back and stared up at the canopy of branches and the reflection of the flames on the leaves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The shore line was peaceful and flat, and the calm sea bumped it playfully along the sandy beach. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the seasons changed outside the windows, as the weeping willows shed their million leaves, as snow fell on the flat roof and the angle of sunlight declined, Desdemona remained in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Spacetime is usually explained by asking you to imagine something flat but pliant–a mattress, say, or a sheet of stretched rubber–on which is resting a heavy round object, such as an iron ball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wanted Master to turn around and go to Olanna’s flat right away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A wide valley is opening up around us, flat at the bottom where the river is but distant hills beginning to climb up on either side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Inigo lay flat, staring down, trying to pierce the moonlight and find the climber’s secret. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them were engaged in shouted conversation with inmates down on the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other man leers at me, and I just give him a flat stare in return. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Above him the sky was iron gray, featureless and flat as a mirror. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The unit’s only amenity was the entertainment console—a large, flat touchscreen built into the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My chest screamed in pain, and I was flat on my back again before I even registered falling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

How flat and desolate his path had been! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had three flats on each side, and Aunty Ifeoma’s was on the ground floor on the left. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And not just a mention of them pressed flat between the pages of a book in the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants, poolrooms, bars, storefront churches, and pawnshops seemed to hold a natural lure for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that I was coloring inside the lines of a coloring book, but the pencil was waxy and smudgy and an eye is nothing like a flat sheet of paper. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The raft bobbed back to level and settled from the roll fast, the flat bottom slapping the water lightly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

His Jheri curl is looking a little flat on the left side—like maybe he slept on it and didn’t have time to do his hair this morning. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mounds of paper were scattered around, ashtrays and wastebaskets were filled to overflowing, and, where visible, the flat olive carpeting was freckled with cigarette burns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breath makes tiny flat clouds across the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“What is your plan, then?” said the bear, who was basking in the sunlight, his belly flat down in a patch of snow among the rocks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"They're not my parents. It's just a picture from an old magazine—two actors from a soap opera," Belet said, her tone cold and flat as she tossed the shreds into the air. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She said all the same things into the microphone—hands flat, keep still. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I nanny and go to auditions wearing simple black and white skirts and blouses, wear flat shoes, and rarely put on makeup or jewelry. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His pale eyes find me, slide up my form, and settle on my face with a reptile’s flat regard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His gallery was half the size of most—only one side of the cellblock, down on the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She focuses on my face, but her eyes are flat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, come out with it flat,’ he said. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From top to ground level, they are: U and Z T and Y S and X R and W Q and V The Q-and-V galleries are on the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both pieces of candy were white, and flat and thin and heart-shaped. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three lines of flat stepping-stones across the stream, and between them fords for horses, that went from either brink to a bare eyot in the midst. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s weird”—I paused to lick my finger—“because she was whining all last week about being flat broke. Girls, go figure.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hill was flat across the top, about thirty yards of flat rock, an occasional tree, but the ascent on all sides was steep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man leant forward till he was flat on the ground. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

If you have a C part and want it to become a B flat part, for example, you must transpose up one whole step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The only response was his own flat voice echoing back. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Garrett stands on a flat boulder, still out of breath, looking west. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Irwin had absolutely no way of getting in touch with me, except by going to Nurse Kennedy's flat, and after Joan's death Nurse Kennedy had moved somewhere else and left no trace. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His hair was cut just as flat on top, so miniature airplanes could’ve used it for a landing strip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Nobody's opened the box yet, they're all out flat. I'm supposed to be carting soup in to everybody, seeing as I'm the only one on my feet, but I brought you yours first." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were both of them going to work for Mr. Nitta—he paid better than any berry farmer on the island—for thirty-five cents a flat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another black man went up the steps and into the flat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly exhausted, lungs squashed flat, limbs too heavy to lift. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was even a picture of a cat who’d suffered nerve damage, his hocks flat on the ground, each like a broken, unlucky rabbit’s foot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When another inmate appeared, walking down the flats, the porter attacked him, first breaking the broom handle over his head and then trying to gouge his face with the splintered ends. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a short stretch the path became broad and flat, and just ahead, leaning comfortably against a dead tree, stood a very elegant-looking gentleman. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took forever before he lay down flat, and then we covered him with potatoes and onions, layer upon layer, like a casserole. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had leaned down close to me, pinning me flat on my back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He challenged me with the line that had pushed Phelan to action on the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, from under the bridge, with a languid movement of its flat tail, swam a gravel-colored fish as long as a rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the west to their right the land was treeless also, but it was flat, and in many places green with wide plains of grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The blue smoke from the house chimney hung in flat layers in the purpling ranch-cup. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was less painful than if it had been held out flat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not a maternal drudge, her mind pressed flat, her shoulders hunched under the burden of housework and care of others, brutalized by a bear of a man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, there was nothing but the flat gray of the sky and the dead rock of this miserable excuse for an island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He passed her again with his emptied flat and saw how intent she was on her picking, never hurrying but never stopping. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He thought about kicking the door with the flat of his foot but then he thought that was not a good idea. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Otherwise he was himself — large-faced, dimpled, with eyebrows that rode nervously up and up, away from his flat, wide, placid nose. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm familiar with life here—I've spent almost every holiday in our Manhattan flat since I was small. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They dug clams until the water covered the flats—actually as Lizzie pointed out, Turner mostly watched her dig clams until the water covered the flats. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her nose was flat, as if it had once been broken. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They continued past to the campsites, which had fireplaces, water faucets and flat dirt spaces, where a tent could be pitched or a car pulled in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, it was filled with flat cardboard in the shop’s signature blue. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

To one side of it there was a shallow alcove in which Winston was now sitting and which, when the flats were built, had probably been intended to hold bookshelves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was no longer any scholarship money, and there was the full rent of the flat to be paid. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Talking to the New York Times, he claimed flat out, “California has a chance, but I think Washington will win.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’ll now be thinking of the garden in the flat land,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the two men, a great tall beanpole, looked as if a giant had pressed his face flat with his thumb. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I mostly sat outside on the flat rock with Mohamed and we were both quiet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It twitched again, then quivered and went flat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She used a twelve-inch lead pipe to roll the dough on a flat piece of board atop the wooden boxes that served as our dining table. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His bones were clearly outlined and the wrap of his arms was flat, in a way that would be impossible if he had some flesh underneath the skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, down on the flats, three or four big fires were get-ting going. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We noticed that Perch was now in the process of trashing his cell and was throwing things—clothing, paper, toiletries—across the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windswept and secluded, Waltha Castle stood on flat lowlands surrounded by a moat and a stately grove of trees. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When it rains, the flat lands fill with standing water and our villages become like swamps. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She winces as she breaks up some frozen corn kernels with the flat edge of a knife. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what kind of expression I was wearing, but it erased his exasperation in two seconds flat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Probably around the same number of people think the Earth is flat as think race consciousness should be the rule in perpetuity, rather than the exception. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and gently raised the flats of his hands, in a sort of ironic benediction. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The faded mole by her lips holds the folds of thin flesh in place like a flat black button. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some cases, an E flat major scale may even sound slightly different from a D sharp major scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A wide area of the meadowland was burned black and scorched flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In Lawrence’s flat- management paradigm, there would be no titles among rhe scientists at Livermore, no pecking order among the PhDs on the laboratory floor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

West of the stadium, a vast, flat assembly area, the Maifeld, had been leveled and a great limestone bell tower was being erected. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

List the flats and sharps you would use if this were a major scale rather than a mode. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I wait until he isn’t watching, then try to carve life into my flat linoleum square. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no exact place where the flat land stopped and the mountain began. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She can’t go forward, because forward is more miles of self-imposed punishment—flat back-country roads plus the heat of summer, red T-shirts, and the inconceivable and undeserving support of strangers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had borne four children and suffered three miscarriages, but her stomach was as hard and flat as her hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby gave him the flattest look that had, perhaps, ever been given in all of time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She took it and pressed the flat of my palm up against my chest, over my beating heart. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This corner of the Musengezi, however, flowed over a wide, flat expanse of stone with the remains of trees jutting out here and there. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Crouch took another deep breath and continued in the same flat voice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is a suburban prairie, an expanse of flat terrain once farmed for potatoes before it was planted with house upon house and little else. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She must have caught my look, because her tone became flat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Both back tires are flat and we only have one spare,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She put one hand behind his head and laid him back until he was flat. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jack pauses at the flat edge of a giant stone; he extends his gloved hand to me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ceiling in the gym was low, and you could tell which kid had learned to play basketball there by his flat jump shot. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And he wants to move to the bigger flat with Sien and the children when the baby comes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Or fall flat on my face—a really long fall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And he had heard it said that black people, even though they could not get good jobs, paid twice as much rent as whites for the same kind of flats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grab his hands and pull us both flat against the side of his house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were inked on girls’ bellies, which tended to be flat or only gently curved. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This looks like a nice place—oooh, my!—flat rock, moonlight, views of distances! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a car ready to leave, and I found a seat next the window and it started and I watched it sort of frazzle out into slack tide flats, and then trees. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the tide out, a wide mud flat lay exposed. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the flat world they can stay in India, make a decent salary, and not have to be away from families, friends, food, and culture. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Diamond Joe is up on a flat, next to a chimp den. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of the crew would have seen the pressure in my suit drop to nearly zero, followed immediately by my bio-signs going flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in this past day, Christmas Eve, while the clock made two complete rotations of its own, I watched over three tiny creatures whose lungs struggled like the flat, useless wings of butterflies prematurely emerged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The professor presses one of his palms flat to the desk while reading, frowning absently, as though waiting for a thought to pass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every pass across this field, which is almost perfectly flat, represents another acre of corn planted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Until you find one that’s long and flat,” Tally said to herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Amil and I came home from school, there was a man squatting in our alley on the way to the back stairs that take us up to our little flat. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I examine the flat black rock in my hand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It had a flat head, with bulging eyes and a wide frog mouth, and from it came wafts of abominable stink. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The field was flat, she told them, with grass and no other soccer teams. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed he did have a face like a child, and such frail bones that after four weeks’ pack-carrying he already had flat feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the voice was still cold and flat. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see a distant looming of land, low and flat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, a swarthy man with thick black hair and a flat cap on his head stopped, got out of his taxi, and helped us load our stuff. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He refused to swear on it, and flat refused to study the esoteric texts, which he called “the consolation of would-be wizards cursed to live in a world without magic.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail and tuck the tail into the shirt so it's pressed flat against my back. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The cottage and lighthouses were situated on a flat stretch of land between the fashionable Cliff and the Bathing Beach. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will be torn to pieces, trampled flat, disembowelled, very likely eaten. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I set the case flat on the floor and undo the latches along one side. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dropping flat in the saddle, he gave his mount two taps with the whip and clucked in his ear. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got off the bus near Washington Square, a flat stretch of grass that sat in front of an old church. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He paddled down Dart Street, the water flat and clear. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

What had been a frigid expanse of whale habitat became a flat stretch of countryside more than a thousand miles wide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I went down the back steps and out the basement door, then over to Commons—its red brick facade flat as a stage backdrop against the empty sky—and called Henry from the pay phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The skin tones were a little flat, but they were good enough to bring my mind big time to Mtisha. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His cosmological theory described a flat earth suspended in air, with the other celestial objects lofted above, like leaves blown on a universal wind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I can kill a lion on flat land and on high land. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

His paws were half buried in the wet gravel and he was nosing at something large and flat on the waterline. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carter tugged harder and there was a clatter like a bag of flat river stones upended onto the tabletop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At nineteen, I was a hatless type, with a flat, black, not particularly clean, Continental-type pompadour over a badly broken-out inch of forehead. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I forced a flat smile but really wanted to say, What do you do when you finally get your hope back, then lose it all over again? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He walked five blocks before he saw a two-story flat building with a “For Rent” sign in a window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tucked her towel under one arm and gave me a flat smile. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rivera was standing in the middle of the ring, his feet flat on the lumpy canvas, planted like a tree. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nails were flat and blunt and shiny. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left hand gripped her shoulder, pressing her head tight against the hard, flat plane of his stomach. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Alby, flat on his back, a huge gash on his forehead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She did not get in her car right away and drive to her flat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could see the long, flat poppy fields and even a brown smudge that might have been a group of eejits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flat desert landscape spread to the south. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The moon I had known all my life, that small flat yellow disk in the sky, had gone somewhere, to be replaced by the most awesome sphere I had ever seen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byrd presses flat palm to Axel’s round shoulder. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

An aftermath of a dead man was probably still lying on the flat, flat earth, breathing up the dirt till it lined his lungs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The boy scooped up a tin pail of nuts from the big box under the stove and went out to the flat cracking stone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my car gets a flat tire, I’m overwhelmed by the realization that my bank account is rapidly depleting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The floor on which he lay seemed to be white, neither warm nor cold, but simply there, a flat, blank something on which to be. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gradually the path grew broader and more flat as it reached the bottom of the mountain and turned toward Wisdom. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, that afternoon she was waiting for me outside the gates of Camillo Junior High, standing beside a ridge of crusted snow that she had stamped down flat. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tally laid it flat, stretched out in the sun, where its metallic surface turned jet black as it drank in solar energy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had tried to dig under, but there were great flat stones beneath, half-covered by earth and blown leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the girls helped Pita sit down on a huge flat rock a few feet away from the shore, I held my grandmother’s hand in mine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We lock them into a flat Tupperware container he’s confiscated from his house and leave it sitting out in plain view for the next person who comes here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To ease the pain, we took turns lying flat on our stomachs in the furrows and pressing down on each other’s backs with our hands. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Something long and flat is all I see. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I understood immediately why he too had concluded that the world is flat. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shay has pressed her mouth into a flat line. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He goes over to where she’s sitting, takes one of her hands, which have been resting flat on the surface of the table, her arms extended. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked out over the flat roofs, uneven in height, broken once in a while by a slanting roof from a house left over from older times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled as he turned, but when he walked away her eyes were flat and directionless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a flat piece of wood, shaped like a fourth of a pie. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid her hands flat on the table and leaned into them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another surge of profound relief overtook Koffi as her bandaged hands finally found purchase on the ledge, a flat stone surface just wide enough for her to heave onto and perch like a bird. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Victory Mansions were old flats, built in 1930 or thereabouts, and were falling to pieces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The huts that the Vietnamese lived in were made on bamboo frames and covered with woven bamboo slats and dried flat leaves. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru had panicked, walked straight into the fridge, and fallen flat on her face. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We had nothing, no furniture, no mosquito nets, just thin mattresses placed flat on the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton bolts out of her front-row seat, probably to try and catch me before I fall flat on my behind. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One of the bandits broadsides him three times with the flat blade of a machete. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Ew,” Henry says in a flat American accent, and he laughs and Alex throws an elbow. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Minho stepped closer and stomped the bottom of his foot down on Gaily s back, driving his body flat to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I get out and cross the dock and make my way back to the settlement and search around till I find a piece of wood flat enough to use as an oar. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

If they only had to trek across 346 miles of flat ice field, the journey would have been bearable. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His voice grew distant as if he’d traveled back in time, then it fell flat, drained of all emotion. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning, balancing two water pails on a long flat piece of wood over my shoulders, I set off to fetch the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept meeting women coming out of their flats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of wide, flat rocks had been built near the tree; a large stone bowl rested on top of it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He presented himself with propositions—“the Party says the earth is flat,” “the Party says that ice is heavier than water”—and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Listen to the difference between the C major, D major, and B flat major scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

With the seeds I had gathered in a ravine, we had a plentiful meal, although I had to cook it on a flat rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cold, thin-lipped face and her flat, even voice were becoming accentuated with the years. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

"I cut them," I said flat out, letting my pants drop back down. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She tucked it under her chin and displayed it over her flat chest. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sandy says thank you, grabs the box of cereal, pours himself a mountain, and scarfs it down in a minute flat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The Stoors were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger, and they preferred flat lands and riversides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I spread it out flat and filled it with smaller pieces and bits of ash and whatever dirt I scooped up along with them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” my dad said, real fast and real flat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kreacher lay flat on the cold stone floor, tears gushing from his sagging eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow evening he and a Chicano kid would sweep the courts and roll them flat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran cunningly, taking a line that seemed chosen so as to keep as much hidden as possible from the view, both of the hill-tops above and of the flats to the west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind them the road dropped down the gray shale hill to the clay flats of the valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have to borrow a pair of black flats, too, because heels are for suckers, I’ve decided. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I struggled on, my breath rasping in my throat, and then I reached the trees at the top of the ridge and flung myself flat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew which house it was because Alexander took a lamp up onto the flat roof and signaled to them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had never considered the possibility of involving Isobel in his life outside the bounds of the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They stood together on the flat quarry floor gazing around. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I went over and picked up one of the shells, a pretty white one, flat with yellow around the edges. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already dizzy from the first hit and knowing that he’d probably end up falling down flat on his face if he made a run for it, Gabriel followed Cabot’s orders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bubbe is wearing chic dark jeans, yellow flats, and a long black sweater. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Though Seabiscuit had won the race easily, running the final quarter in a blazing twenty-four seconds flat and obliterating the track record by \\% seconds, he had dragged early in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a round face, bearded, mouth open, flat on his back on a rock ledge, hands folded on his chest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was assembled there flat Boats to take us across, and Oyster Boys to pole them along through the Rushes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lydia examined a wide, flat spot and brushed the dirt away. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Because I am those people,” he said, his accent flat again. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted with a small number of flat clouds that looked like sandbars. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the best day of the whole trip, at least as far as my mother and I were concerned, was the day that we had a flat tire in the Ozark Mountains. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking into her face is like looking at the flat, smooth surface of a gravestone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Eight days after they left the Academy, the road widened and flat paving stones replaced hard-packed dirt. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And waving her hand, she ran away across the wide flat roof towards the hangars. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between us lies the flat expanse where the Games began. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t expect the cold, flat eyes of Zak glaring out at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She extended her hands past him and found that they were close to the broad, flat stone where the twins often fished. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then the hill dipped sharply again until it came to rest in the flat- lands below. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life I had a flat stomach, and muscles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, great, flat spots of rain began to fall heavily, one by one, like sweat from the sky, as Kingshaw walked back, very slowly, across the allotment. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dryland agriculture became especially productive on Easter, tiny Anuta, and flat and low Tonga, where Polynesians devoted most of the land area to the growing of food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papá’s woman didn’t know what hit her—before she knew what had happened, she was flat on her butt on the floor in front of Mamá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by stony fields, the house had a good flat roof they’d be able to read their books on, if they spread out blankets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

O’Brien took a small box from the top of a cabinet and handed her a flat white tablet which he told her to place on her tongue. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Elsie finished them all in fifteen minutes flat and was the first to claim her invite. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I wore flats instead of heels, it got reported in the news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then she placed the flat rock over the seaweed and held it fast there with the leather strip wrapped tightly around her injured arm. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the second floor, I have to climb an extra flight of stairs to the flat cement roof. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She adds a cardboard flat of opalescent buttons for my unfinished dress. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even if you get to marry the prince, you still wake up in the morning with your mouth tasting like drain cleaner and your hair all flat on one side. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the road left the flat river bottom it got very sandy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because this was hip-hop, the crew would do that thing where you shoot your arm out in front of you with your palm flat, bopping it up and down to the beat. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Harry squinted, pressing his nose flat against the glass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I don’t say anything, she folds her arms flat against the table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was flat on her back with no more strength in her body than a damp tunnel root. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The hobbits remained flat on the ground, as Grishnákh had left them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mama had two sisters, Sissy and Evy, who came to the flat often. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she left the half-eaten rice in the kitchen, she walked around the flat, picking up old newspapers and then putting them down. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dark shape from the woods lay flat on the ground outside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He did the only thing he could and threw himself flat on the ground, burying his face in the grass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Plus/minus or sharp/flat symbols may appear before or after the note number. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When I had a big, flat nose this wasn’t quite so pronounced, but it would become obvious if the doctors fixed it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And then he added in his thick, flat Chinese, “Like the angel of light.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Cradle told us there was nothing for us to do just then, but we shouldn’t stray far—and should not venture out onto the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to lift my head to see exactly what had happened, but there was this weight—this solid, invisible slab of stone—keeping me on my back, and Liam flat against me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He went out and got a flat piece of cardboard and folded it up into a box, sticking a big piece of tape on the bottom. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Billy rubbed the mare’s flat forehead with his knuckle while she grunted with pleasure. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parcel was flat and as large as my hand. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This phase was just the foundation for the next step in flattening the flat world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Other cars zoomed, and soon the pigeon was meat and feathers, flat. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we could just send him out on the flats.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She taught Baby how to take cover if there was no time for the bunker—to lie flat on her belly, hands wrapped around her head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Planning out the smallest details, from organizing Chandresh’s books for a new accountant to packing the suits in his flat, even down to the wedding bands on their fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you referring to the fact that you can’t walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The tide was coming in and the mud flat had shrunk to the width of a path. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He just stayed flat on his back, staring up at the wires dangling from the ceiling as his heart thudded. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"What are you doing here?" she asked in a voice strangely flat and emotionless. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She works in the middle of us: feet flat on the floor, she leans forward in her chair, takes our green plastic tub full of fresh garlic on her lap, breaks up all the doves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Prospector had a big flat surface about four feet high and six feet wide, and it rose up in the air at an angle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They must have used the flat roller coaster to move trade from town to town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It gave a flat taste to the mixture, he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, flat on its back, scraped against the ceiling as it dived toward the passage opening, while the pursuing goblins hurled daggers that glanced off its flanks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She can see the deer’s eyes, and his eyes are flat, just flat, and blood is flowing from him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I know I’ll never be able to run a fifty-five flat in the 400 again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I stop in the backyard, holding my valise and staring at the long flat building behind the house. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But now, when she opened her mouth to reply, his upheld flat palm stopped her. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the shadow of the kitchen, his expression flat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds hang heavy over the low, flat roof of the colegio, hiding the mountains, giving everything a dull metallic sheen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the city’s population swelled, demand for apartments turned into “flat fever.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just in case anyone was looking for a good, flat place to land. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The land beyond them was flat as far as we could see in one direction. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long the truck left the highway, turned onto a dirt road, and then onto another before it bounced to a stop beside a wooden building set in the middle of flat fields. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

John leads us through all of these twists and turns, and I’m so glad I’m wearing flats. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But this year there was money for presents and lots of food in the icebox and the flat was always warm now. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad drove me to Princeton in the summer of 1981, across the flat highways connecting Illinois to New Jersey. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Outside the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“My mom should have died in 1959, in an earthquake,” I said, putting my hand flat on the brick, right in the path of a black ant carrying something. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Venia helps me into a pair of flat leather sandals and I turn to the mirror. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He set his two large flat hands on his shrunken belly, and a pale green light came into his eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I had to run in regular tennis shoes in Conditioning class because of what I’d done with my running flats on Bainbridge Island the day before. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sohrab tossed the towels onto the wooden bench between us and pulled off his shirt, peeling the wet fabric away from his flat chest and stomach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was conscious as I moved about my flat, from one familiar room to another, that the years of my independence could soon be over. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She kept one hand on my arm and the other flat on my back as I swung 360 degrees around the bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Again Mary Rommely came and sprinkled the flat with holy water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individuals from every corner of the flat world are being empowered. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I lay flat on my back and the rushing winds tugged at the adinkra charms on my wrist. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There need be no relation between the distance through the wormhole and the separation of its ends in the nearly flat background. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You came, you really came,” Clancy said in a bored, flat voice. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That Greek jokes fell flat on Latin ears should not surprise us; Shakespeare’s jokes don’t cause most modern audiences to fall about either. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Coming out of the river bottoms, I scatted up a long hogback ridge, and broke out on top in the flats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt around the riverbed and pulled up an-other flat, jagged rock. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"It seems to me,” he continued in his flat New England twang, "that all you do is pick up a brick, put some mortar on it, and put it in the fireplace.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had caused this wound—a narrow, flat object about two inches wide—had left its telltale outline behind in the deceased man’s head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her moths wheeled apart, cutting through the blowing smoke until they found another figure sprawled out flat and still. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wab gathered her long bleached hair into a ponytail, looked us over once with her small, dark eyes, and then set about skinning the animals on a flat rock with her beloved blade. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Tiller led them through a clump of bushes and there, on the other side, was Sairy, seated on a flat gray stone, her hand stretched toward a big black skillet full of bacon. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They summoned her back now with the palms of their small hands laid flat against the bare skin of her midriff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lester’s spotlight blazed from the top of a small, flat rock, but cast only a small arc over the ledge of the quarry, out into the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The roaches did a series of turns and landed flat on the ground facing Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the Pimlico clubhouse surrounded by reporters, Howard made a flat statement. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an indistinct, glimpsed darkly impression: of something merciless that carried a printed list and a gun, that moved machine-like through the flat, bureaucratic job of killing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The trail had been fashioned with large, flat rocks, inlaid into the ground, and fitted so close to one another that the seam between them could hardly let in a piece of paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Christ! ” said Perry, glaring at the landscape, flat and limitless under the sky’s cold, lingering green—empty and lonesome except for the far-between Bickerings of farmhouse lights. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two dozen flat whiskey bottles are hidden behind some ratty old blankets Miss Celia must’ve toted with her from Tunica County. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The trio dashed up a narrow pathway to where they saw the robot extending its quadruple-jointed mechanical arm to pluck a flat metal box out of a slide-in compartment. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was pulled flat against her skull into a knot in back of her head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Set loose, Sybil immediately ran down to the flat part of the beach and began to walk in the direction of Fisherman’s Pavilion. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Five flats were empty on the floor above us, but only three on the top floor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He locks the flat door, and then hears a different story: about German planes destroyed by the Russians, sunken transport ships, and soldiers killed or captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her was the largest flat screen on the planet flashing stills from previous shows. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His nose was flat and his face was broad; his head was a mass of wiry gray hair. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lays a crisp, flat twenty on the table. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He thought of the shape of Darkness, its tall body that was flat like a shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They also carried food, flat wood, guns and powder, tools, clothing, and even water. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The one wrapped in fabric so it looks like a flat red sheet on top of the board I pulled away?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Just ahead of him, below a bush, a thrush was banging a snail down on to a flat stone to smash the shell. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My forehead hit something that gave me a violent bump and I felt blood on my face but I crawled on in and lay flat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t see Nick’s face, but he taps the toe of his sneaker against her ballet flat. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was very hard to detect any expressive tones in his voice, whether of irony or anger, because it was so deep and so flat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pitcher threw as hard as he could, the ball came flat and fast, or maybe spinning into a curve, but still fast. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the dim torchlight, they appeared to be in a long, flat tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “You have a flat affect.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Sure. I saw some in the water. I hope they’re not leather,” the other girl said in an accent flat as a just-plowed field. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He slid lightly to the floor and moved around to the other side of the table, facing the chaplain with both hands pressed flat on the surface. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Among other things, he’s harboring bad feelings, insulted that Theo wants him and Annie to move into the flat beneath them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He slept flat on his back, his hands resting against the soft flannel of his shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her pillow was pancake flat, so she gave it a shake, plumped it up, and laid her head down, suddenly exhausted. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down payment on a DDA flat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After B flat major, name the next four flat keys, and name the flat that is added with each key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Having served two tours in Vietnam at the height of the war, he found himself woefully unprepared for the flat pitch of life out of uniform. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Quick! Lie down! Lie flat on the deck!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the dawn he awakened, looked out through the windshield and saw that the water was already retreating down the bouldery flat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now this,’ he promised, ‘will pick up that flat ale something fine.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other lay flat, extending into the water like a short stone pier. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. McKee was a pale feminine man from the flat below. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It truly looked like a flat redhead that had been raked with a big-toothed comb. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one closest to me is flat on her back, most of her jaw missing, eyes wide and staring. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black put one of his clawlike hands inside his robes and took out a crumpled piece of paper, which he smoothed flat and held out to show the others. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

For example, if the F sharps are written as G flats, or if the A's are sharp instead of natural, you have a different chord, not an inversion of the same chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

While she was there, she bought the flat with encouragement from her financial advisor. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I slipped behind the huge outcropping of a rock and a screen of bramble and dropped flat on my stomach. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They listened with their whiskers drooping and their ears flat against their heads. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the dust settled, the handlers winched back the containment wall inside the cage and began hammering the side panels with the flats of their hands. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Kote remained facing the back wall, hands flat on the counter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You had better show up,” he said, his gaze flat and cold. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The three of them were around the car, in the middle of the lot, checking out the flat tire. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It will only be satisfied by smacking his ear hard with the flat of my hand. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His laughter sounded flat in the cold air. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like in a mirror or in a flat pond of water, I found that I could see her reflection if I leaned back and twisted my head. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both old and round, and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As far as I could tell, Wilson recited all of this without taking a single breath, speaking in the flat monotone of someone who repeats the same sentences all day long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We stayed flat on the ground for almost two hours, taking the storm’s punishment, barely able to breathe in the driving rain. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how once, long ago, sniffing over a farm rubbish heap with Fiver, he had come upon a similar object—large, smooth and flat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face has gone flat white, like cheap wall paint. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Joon lies flat on his stomach, taking up the whole back seat. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was no longer straight and flat, but had begun to dip, and now it ran at the bottom of high banks covered with green plants. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For flat runs, he had the Norden bombsight, an extremely sophisticated analog computer that, at $8,000, cost more than twice the price of the average American home. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

In front of our flat was a huge roundhouse where locomotives were cleaned and repaired. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interior was exactly as Harry remembered it: a small flat, complete with bathroom and tiny kitchen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In order to imagine yourself into the Wart’s position, you would have to picture a round horizon, a few inches about your head, instead of the flat horizon which you usually see. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed her fingers flat on the table edge, like someone at a seance, then, almost instantly, closed her hands—her nails were bitten down to the quick. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On his last attempt, he lay flat on top of a hopper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he ran across the last wide flat to the plateau rim. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m almost done with this part. The kneading. If you don’t knead it, your bread will be flat and tough.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bed was my flat trunk, and my winter boots, the leather shiny with oil, were on the trunk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the first moment I set foot in Hampden, I had begun to dread the end of term, when I would have to go back to Plano, and flat land, and filling stations, and dust. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” said Lina, staring at the hard, flat bean. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then the policeman came back because Mr. Shears had rung the police station and he told Father to calm down and he took him out of the flat. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed into the front window with the black Labrador puppies and beckoned with flat, paperlike fingers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young man suddenly began brushing the cuffs of his trousers with the flat of his hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I saw the thin flat face of a fox peering out. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

From a great pile of heavy blue wool she pulled a small tuft, caught it in the wire teeth of one board, and drew across it the second board till the fibers were brushed flat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” he said, and descended the stairs to the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to see if they were going to tell me the earth was flat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

That’s when I found out I left my key on the bulletin board, so I just lay down flat on the porch to hide from the bad kids and waited again for my mom. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the door and read the sign; there was an empty flat on the fourth floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stared at the flat silver rectangle in his palm. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Papa reads a book in his armchair, using the page holder he made to keep the book flat as he turns the pages with his good left arm. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally he rolled over the side and lay breathless and exhausted, flat on his back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Stood on the curb, looked down at T's flat, leaking body. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They walked west across the long mesa where the old ones had piled stones in circles, high above the flat sandstone mesa top far above the canyons and springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The roof over the garage was flat, and he set up the tent there, securing it with books and a few cinder blocks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the quiet shuffling of the boys working the flats on the first floor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I nod and stare at the flat covers where my foot should be. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I smoothed the cloth of my breeches over my belly, which was still as flat as any boy’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At first glance the scene looks chaotic, but by the time Camel has lit his cigarette, several dozen teams are hitched and moving alongside the flat cars, pulling wagons toward the runs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was the flat darkness of a room with the lights off. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She has lots of the smooth, flat rocks. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a red george wrapper and pink blouse and her shoes were flat, a shiny black. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is next door at his grandparents' flat, because Mutti is still asleep, tired from her night shift. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the flat, colorless sky, bringing blue from it, and remembered sunshine until finally, for an instant, he could feel warmth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the crown was high enough, Ma held the braid loosely again as she kept on sewing around, and the braid lay flat and was the hat brim. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The matter was solved when Matthias tripped upon a tree root and went sprawling flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Papa is trying to find us a bigger flat so we can have more rooms and furniture, but I kind of like it here now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, she also sported a very flat chest, and never in his life had Herbie been attracted to such a titless wonder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay flat on his back, staring blankly at the stucco ceiling with its intricate pattern of ridges and veins. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The branches with their flat, bright green leaves did not start below a hundred and fifty feet up. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go faithfully to the flat to write out my reports. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash was gathering small, flat stones from the edge of the water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All around are flat-roofed, boxy warehouse buildings, and beyond them the flat railroad lands where the trains used to shunt back and forth, once the only entertainment available here on Sundays. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the world is flat and we are going to find out, like the navigators of old. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the pole, lifted his feet up over his head, against the pole, and climbed down using his hands, until his palms were flat on the ground. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I put my flat back on and started kicking at the dirt, trying to unearth whatever was under there. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Precisely ground, the mirrors were able to start fires and project images onto flat surfaces, camera lucida fashion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Do they always stay close to the ground like that, flat? Or can they lift up and be 3-D like us?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were only half way across the flat, when suddenly there was a noise of horses galloping. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The land in Arkansas was lime green and lush, flat and boundless. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And I know what’s what When it comes to Snow cones Packed with the flat Of a hand and laced With a gurgle Of sugary water. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that sorrow and that rage might incinerate her, same as that storm yesterday, with its lightning bolts speeding through this flat land, looking for the one thing still standing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sam heard the noise of their harsh voices, flat and hard in the dead air, and he could distinguish two voices from among all the rest: they were louder, and nearer to him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This is so small that we just don’t notice it: we see only one time dimension and three space dimensions, in which space-time is fairly flat. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paramedics scooped Styx onto their bright yellow board, sliding him flat, like a pancake. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But now he was here in their flat, and the scene jarred her, the landlord shouting at their door, and her father turning a steely, silent face to him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bigger grabbed the icy ledge, hoisted himself flat upon it, and slid over. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The steppes, the flat grassland of southeastern Europe, crawled with rats and mice. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was no rooftop, simply a flat piece of land in front of the wood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

To get all twelve pitches using only the seven note names, we allow any of these notes to be sharp, flat, or natural. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy to push yourself out hard enough to get you going, but not so hard that you fall flat on your face. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In the early fall, I was working V-gallery, on the flats, just downstairs from W, when above me I heard a commotion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moves his hands out flat in front of him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The tone of acceptance in her voice was flat, final. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The stores them-selves had fared little better: it was a single-story building with a flat roof, and bare cinder block was visible in places. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin alone could carry their boat with ease along the flat. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It felt as if I’d just fallen flat on my back and had the air driven from me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Holmes told Ned how sorry he was to hear of her passing, but in his eyes there was only a flat blue calm, like the lake on a still August morning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pale and unsteady, he carried his flat leather satchel under one arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My cooking lesson had taken all afternoon; the results were downed in four minutes flat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We had so many roaches that if you hit any flat surface, you were sure to take out at least a few. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I gave her a nice mangrove snapper that I caught, and she had it cleaned and cooking over the flames in five minutes flat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

While Tree-ear cleaned his wound, Crane-man took the strip of cloth and washed it thoroughly with water from the gourd bowl, scrubbing it against a flat stone at the river’s edge. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But to have put that flat white bean in the dirt, to have almost forgotten about it, and now to see it forcing its way up into the air ... The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was lying flat on his back on the floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Woolf was strung flat over Seabiscuit’s back, driving for all his worth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this rectangle of flat cardboard was worth thousands and thousands of dollars. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

From time to time, he’d run his hand over her flat stomach. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason pulled Nico to one side as another gust of wind toppled a column that would have crushed him flat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He thought she was Jewish and rich and owned a London flat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rat was actually in midair when a huge blunt paw knocked him flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They got off the bus near Washington Square, a flat stretch of grass that sat in front of an old church. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was the ghost’s beloved face, matronly and broad, with her round red “happiness cheeks,” but there was nothing happy to be found in her affect, as flat as all the ghosts in Minya’s army. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I put both my hands flat on the granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His voice was flat though now, and all the excitement was out of it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She sees how hard it is for me to write lying flat on my back in bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now, the roads were more like flat fern and moss-choked paths. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at daybreak, they came into flat country. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

To simplify things, all notes in the examples and exercises below are natural, but it would not change their position at all if some notes were sharp or flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Steeped in new moods and ideas, I bought a ream of paper and tried to write; but nothing would come, or what did come was flat beyond telling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emerged wearing shiny red flats and a short-sleeved blue dress that fell just below the knee. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The screen was full of floating asteroids and I'd've died in three seconds flat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The firing squad, the hallway, the flat screens. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She pressed them flat and laid them in a pile. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They also introduced her to white men who were willing to rent out flats in town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She sat with her coat on, holding herself, while her daughters beat flat the straw in the mattresses and lit the oil heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit does not enter the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s the matter,” I said, my voice flat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the back of that van, I scribbled down four words in my notebook: “The world is flat.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

And Lizzie Bright threw her rake across the flats, sat down in the mud, and began to cry. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I passed and returned to London, where Drew had a job and we’d rented a flat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Armistead jumped down, saw a boy in front of him, kneeling, crying, a row of men crouched under the far bank, an officer yelling, pounding with the flat of his sword. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s a single flat patch of land, and huffing and puffing up and down those hills takes a while. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They stretched out in the middle of the road, flat on their backs, not wanting to miss anything should one of my celebrity friends decide to drop by and help me dig the septic tank. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to sketch the streets of Lisbon, but he couldn’t get the effect he wanted on flat paper. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

High winds from the south laid the grass flat all day, turning it to a dull, damascene silver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs my hand and pins it flat between her two pea green ones. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I laid it flat and put it back together and dried it. For you. For now.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the round, flat top a group of bats waited. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fumbling with the bag, he pulled out three flat jewelry cards—each gray plastic, covered in gray fuzz on one side, with a small charm wired in place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he bent and picked up a flat stone, but threw it so carelessly that it did not skip at all. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was about shoulder height to her, with a flat back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kazi used to cut up every mango in four pieces, two large ones along the flat side of the big pit in the middle and two small ones along the edges of the pit. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At a stall in an open market, Dicey bought little sandwiches made of flat sausages in biscuits. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her red hair, arranged in a flat pompadour, would begin to blow out in wisps from her hat. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now hand me one of those nice flat ones I had picked out.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My gun’s gone flat,” said Eye in a low voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No white real estate man would rent a flat to a black man other than in the sections where it had been decided that black people might live. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Werfel combed the carpets to make sure the fringes all lay flat, he dreamed of the histories that could be written with the union of elfin and goblin knowledge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The difference between an E flat part and a B flat part is a perfect fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I like when I need the black keys—the flats and the sharps. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Keep your hands flat,” said the aquarium worker to no one in particular—which was fine, because nobody was listening to him anyway. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She hit him on the back of his head with the flat of her hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thin and dark, and her eyes were as blue and flat as breath mints. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks the key in the lock, his back to me, voice flat as a museum guide’s. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paul turned to face me, smiling with his hands flat on the glass countertops. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was after twenty-two hours when he got back to the flat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Pretty summer day, you can’t think of anything better to do than hassle some helpless little girl? That’s flat- out pathetic, son.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I entered our house and locked the door, then put my ear to the thin wall that divided the two flats and listened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the ground floor, which in both buildings is known as the flats, you can look up and see how each structure is made up of two almost separate components. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The circus arrives near London for the first visit in some time, and the afternoon before it opens there is a knock on the door of Marco’s flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their countenances were so lifelike that sometimes he was sure they would leap out of their frames in the deep of night, flat hands grabbing, clothes rippling behind them in unseen winds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Plutarch stands over a wide, flat panel in the center of the table. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The keys that are most distant from C major, with six sharps or six flats, are on the opposite side of the circle. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In sixty seconds flat, she checkmates her opponent’s king. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tumbling peacefully they would, and when He said Rise only the flat irons. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eagerly they took another drink, wanting to avoid the dull, flat look of things, then still another, this time stronger, and then they felt that their lives had meaning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others had seen the same omen in those flat white clouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once the flat has been replaced with the spare, the two men lift the deflated tire into the trunk and put away the tools. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was dull and flat, like a teacher offering a prayer before sit-down dinner. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s speech was broad and flat like the fields her people tilled. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She lifted seedlings out of the flat, untangling their nets of tender white roots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A double flat is two half steps lower than the natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She would make them take the inland route, flat and direct. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry smoothed the crumpled map against the table with the flat of his palm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She found a number of large grasshoppers, pulled off the heads to remove the guts, and roasted them on a flat stone over the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s in a miniskirt and tight leggings and flat clumpy black shoes with laces, her hair is shaved up the back the way my brother’s used to be, a late forties squareboy’s cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He always arrived around nine or ten at night carrying his flat tan leather briefcase which along with his scholarly look gave him a resemblance to a hard-working lawyer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door of Mom’s room was open and the bedsheets were flat. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, they call him up into a fifth-floor flat wallpapered with a dizzying floral print. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Panting, trembling, I crawl out and wrap my arm around a lamppost for an anchor, although the ground’s perfectly flat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I lie flat on my stomach and point both guns at him, my arms resting on the floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Over and over during the day she passed her hand across the flat plain of her belly, as if inside she might feel something that could give her clarity. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As hard as I can down the sidewalk and around the next corner, leaning flat against the building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

No cracked sidewalk There, just flat, Smooth sidewalk. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, one of the warders, a very pleasant young man named Warrant Officer Brand, actually took me to his family’s flat and introduced me to his wife and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galloping low with Woolf flat over his back, Seabiscuit flew into the lane, the clean peninsula of track narrowing ahead as the crowd pushed forward. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt we had grown as much as we could hiding in our tiny flat in town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon they were speeding along the lake front, past a huge flat sheet of dully gleaming water. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of this suburban void, my own flat Earth, I encountered Volpe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

From a flat upstairs, an adult yelled, “Nee any a, if you children make patches on the garage walls with that ball, I will cut off your ears!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had lemons in a bowl on the counter, because they fit her idea of how the flat should look, but inside the cupboards and the fridge, there was nothing Imogen would have stocked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I gaped at the huge, flat black space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then a ten-foot section of roof collapsed and crushed him flat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

More flat cars pass, loaded with what look like telephone poles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One of them, a thick-bodied, flatnosed woman of forty years, blessed Dany haltingly in the Common Tongue, but from the others she got only flat black stares. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to think of the flat powder coming from the egg of a real chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These boys and girls were will-less, their speech flat, their gestures vague, their personalities devoid of anger, hope, laughter, enthusiasm, passion, or despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself recounting his adventures to her, back at Wall, in front of a blazing parlor fire; but somehow all of his tales seemed a little flat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She polished the reverse as highly as the top, until both were as flat and smooth as the finest mirror. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lee knew that Hester would remain inscrutable, with her eyes half-closed and her ears flat along her back, and he put on a cheerful innocence as he looked from face to face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her knees buckled and she fell on the ground, flat on her back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The office buildings and shops were replaced with small, flat-roofed houses, and then those houses seemed to fade into flat, empty fields. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The British finally made a move toward the end of August, rowing half their army across to the Long Island in flat- bottomed boats. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just hard, flat eyes that didn't belong to the Charlie they had taken away. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were no sidewalks, only wide, flat shale steppingstones arranged in the same curving path from the pale concrete driveways to the whitewashed porch steps. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I felt around the riverbed, pulled up a flat stone, and skimmed it across the water. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were days, however, particularly across the long, flat stretches of Texas, when nothing out-of-the- way happened. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So any scale with a flatted third and seventh can be called a Dorian scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Only after we were three or four miles out of Imre and we came to a good, straight stretch of flat road did I nudge him up to a gallop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was almost flat on his back, and unable to move. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Cities lay on the other side of the forest, down the slow, southern slope of the mountain, where the land became stable and flat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Along its brink there now stretched a wide tumbled flat of scored and weathered rock, cut every now and again by trench-like gullies that sloped steeply down to deep notches in the cliff-face. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He opened all the doors wide, laid the passenger seat back as flat as it would go, and jumped behind the wheel, feet dangling far above the pedals. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I ran not for my old flat, the one we had shared with three other families. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx grew silent, knowing that his answer had fallen flat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Professionally, the recognition that the world was flat was unnerving because I realized that this flattening had been taking place while I was sleeping, and I had missed it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She tried to iron the flyer flat over her bag of magic, but the creases wouldn’t straighten. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Older, with pale flat eyes, she looks at me, terrified. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the flat stones that paved the courtyard had cracks across them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Wandering along the grassy flats above shoreline a mile from camp, he came upon a huge driftwood log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One morning my brother and I, while playing in the rear of our flat, found a stray kitten that set up a loud, persistent meowing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat bread was good, slightly charred and salty. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was resigned regret that the new flat was not as nice as their Lorimer Street home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all looked precisely like northern Ohio to me, with its flat land and long, straight roads, and I thought what a very long journey this was going to be. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how many miles we covered, but the mountains faded into the distance and were replaced by miles of flat, dry land. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I take one last look back at my old home, the flat tin roof flashing in the afternoon sunlight, the column of smoke fading and drifting away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy took a ball of stiff yellow dough, rolled it flat with the rolling pin, then rolled the flat dough up like a jelly roll. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camped a quarter mile in from the edge, on a long flat streak of firn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The model is seated on a chair between them, face front, bare feet flat on the floor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s flat face and dark eyes showed nothing, but his voice was sullen with displeasure. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stopped by a stone wall, looked down across flat open ground, lovely clear field of fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crush the cardboard holder flat and fling it like a Frisbee. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was silent for a beat, and I could picture him running his left hand flat down the side of his face, debating. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I thought there’d be more of you, though. Father said there’d be at least a half dozen men in the escort. He said just fall flat when the shooting started.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So how long before their flying machines were in the air, delivering invaders to the garden terrace and to the flat of the seraph’s palm, right where Sarai now stood? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Papa looked hard at us and put his flat hand on my cheek. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

South of the Red Fork the land stretched away open and flat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The flat is crowded with friends and family and feels as festive as Christmas. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He rotated it and only had to chip off a few chunks of dirt, here and there, before it could lie flat across his hole in every direction. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We go along the corridor and through another flat gray door and along another corridor, softly lit and carpeted this time, in a mushroom color, browny pink. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among all of Africa’s mysteries, here were the few that revealed themselves in no time flat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I give you the flat of my blade, can you?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had combed her curly hair with water, but it wouldn’t lie flat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A set of computer investigations has examined the evolution of a flat, condensing disk of gas and dust of the sort that is thought to lead to stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went past field after flat, featureless field, with virtually no change except when occasionally a flock of birds, hearing my engine, flew up out of the furrows. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man sat on the couch leaning precariously to the side, his right elbow supporting his body and his head nearly flat against his shoulder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As I did so I saw something in front of the cave, on the flat rock I used for a step. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over a megaphone the commander ordered everyone to put down their bags of food, put their hands behind their heads, and lie flat, facing the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now Sherm stacked sugar packets on the tabletop, carefully shaking each one first to make it lie flat. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girls yank my flat strands, walk away. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With those flat tires on the trailer, you probably were the last one to use it too.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the boy turns nineteen, the man in the grey suit removes him from the town house without notice, setting him up in a modestly sized flat with a view of the British Museum. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We followed Arul to a flat, open field, where there was no escape from the sunshine. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She saw that Miss Armstrong wasn’t pretty; her face was almost simian with its wide mouth and flat thick nostrils, and her figure was merely passable. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spiny, flat tail of layered pine needle quills. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In half a second, I held a shimmering bronze sword with a double-edged blade, a leather-wrapped grip, and a flat hilt riveted with gold studs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, though each base has two flat sides, no explanation existed for why only one side would be chosen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Her face, despite its cloud of annoyance, maintained a brightness in those aged eyes and a hint of a smile in that flat, wide mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I guess it depends,” I say, because the real answer, a flat no, isn’t what anyone wants to hear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He drove through the town and down to the cliff below which his tidal flat lay. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors to our flat and the Immerglicks’ apartment were still open. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I settle down on a big flat rock halfway between the stream and the cave. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He lives in a flat just down the road from the practice. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings are flat and ugly, and the pens, crammed with panicked, lowing cattle and filthy, snuffing pigs, butt right up against the tracks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He sat down in the armchair, and for the first time she noticed how much space there was between the furniture, how sparse her flat was, how unlived in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I landed flat on the ground, fully extended, holding on to the ball. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he’s dying,” she said, her voice flat, her eyes still on her plate. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People let out startled shouts as the man shoves them aside—he knocks a camera-clicking tourist flat on her back. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the flat pool beside the stream tadpoles spotted the sand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Ma is in the room, I often stand in front of the cabinet, my palms pressing flat against the glass, drooling at the candies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Hester, she sat taciturn in the bow, her long ears flat against her skinny back and her eyes narrowed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was calm in the flat, happy sunshine. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly O-lan came to the door and spoke to them, her voice flat and commonplace as though every day such things were. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She said it flat as a glass of Coke left out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Cost me eleven bucks,” I said to Katz a little wildly, shaking the map at him and then crumpling it into an approximately flat shape and jabbing it into my pocket. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sprawled out flat in the aisle on the sanctuary floor, I still held the Sunday school reports in my hands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Earl Grey ice cream with halwa chunks,” she tells everyone, but her voice is flat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The pole holders line their thick bamboo reeds flat on the floor, and we plaster on big smiles. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Walking backwards, you gonna fool around and fall flat on your backside,” Ma warned us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the flat above Coraline’s, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big mustache. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

All were instructed to dress in conservative casual wear: the women in blouses, straight skirts, and flat shoes; the men in polo shirts or button-downs, slacks, and loafers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Clyde and Hobbs pressed themselves flat against the wall to clear the way. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A flat sign means "the note that is one half step lower than the natural note." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had walked into what looked like an old-fashioned, three-room flat, complete with bathroom and kitchen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A long, flat, bristly part is attached to her rear. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He listened, and then took the lid of a biscuit tin and deftly folded it into a small flat cylinder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But contemplating the flat world also left me filled with dread, professional and personal. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I made a fire on a flat boulder in the stream, and cooked the trout. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant I was left with no nose at all—and with nostrils drilled into the flat center of my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She came to Ifemelu’s flat with her baby in one hand, her BlackBerry in the other, and a house help trailing behind, holding a canvas bag full of bottles and bibs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the top of the arc, while the bat was flat on its back, Gregor noticed for the first time that someone was sitting on it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ran back downstairs as fast as I could and burst into my flat. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt suddenly depressed, flat, cheated by the flash of excitement which had come to him as he climbed, and was now gone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They will be available to her from restaurants, brought up to the flat by servants, bearing a taste that after all these years she has still not quite managed, to her entire satisfaction, to replicate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After scouting around, the men landed the boats on a remnant of a tabular iceberg—a large, flat, blue ice cube that rose about twenty feet from the surface of the water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At times I could not prevent myself from lying flat on the ground, pretending I was inside one of those beehive tombs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A freakish, freestanding, 115-foot-high stalagmite-type rock that, according to the literature, sat in an otherwise completely flat farmer’s field not far from the Red Carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After driving for so long through the flat South Dakota prairie, it was a shock to come upon the Badlands. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The flat certainty in the man’s voice sent a chill down Chronicler’s back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From this he drew a flat rectangular package, and he undid the plain cotton cloth about it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so sleepy that it was only as they were about to leap at him that he noticed the three small figures crouching, by the entrance to his flat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They watched films together in her flat, and then in his house in Oniru, where arch paintings hung on his wall. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Its ceiling and walls were a smoothly curved arch, its floor hard and flat, with a soft layer of carpet down the middle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The girl outside has black curly hair that’s flat on one side, as if she slept on it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside I covered the hole with a mat woven of brush to shed the rain, and on the inside with a flat rock which I was strong enough to move. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They followed the flats along the upper river among huge dead trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he leaves his flat in the early afternoon to find something to eat, the streets are already buzzing with the news: a strange circus has appeared overnight, just west of the city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He works in blocks of flat color, no impasto showing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a minute or two the inmates from the flats would be streaming up the stairs, over the third-floor bridge, and into the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were always suitcases and bags in the flat; sometimes a relative or two would sleep on the floor of the living room for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They found Strawberry and Buckthorn on the bank; and when everyone was comfortably chewing, with ears laid flat, Bluebell began. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose to his hind legs, took a step backward, tripped over a low branch and fell flat on his back. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She got up earlier and worked faster at her flat cleaning and was finished in early afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let us come in and watch the ladies slip fortunes inside flat yellow cookie dough, then fold the dough over. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, the landscape had become flat, without shadow, distanceless. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Australia is by far the driest, smallest, flattest, most infertile, climatically most unpredictable, and biologically most impoverished continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has changed the radio station, and a Wagner opera now fills the flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed very long since Edna had lived next door to her flat on Elias Avenue, and it seemed even longer since this yard on Odim Street had formed the boundaries of her life. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pilot lay flat on his stomach on the bottom wing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land was flat and treeless and there seemed to be no colour in it at all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was scorched and harrowed as far as they could see, a sea of ash and char from the flat planes of the fields up to the hills and mountains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then she cleaned her own house leaving the door of her flat ajar in case Laurie cried. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay flat on the bank and heard the river and the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma was recounting how the security agents had come to the flat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was hardly necessary on the flat streets of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, as the locals still called it, but Artemis preferred to be as insulated from civilians as possible. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean Boyd sang the solo for “O Holy Night,” and I hardly flinched when she went flat on the first “shining.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not big nor red, like poor ‘Petrea’s’, it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary took some flat bread and cheese and some sweet, thirst-quenching red fruits, wrapped them in a cloth, and tied a cord around it for one of them to carry over a shoulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We went to Babiki’s flat, told her my parents wanted to meet her, and brought her back to my house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Beyond him, in the semi-darkness, running across mud flats, was the one road which connected Boston with the mainland. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Short or tall, they were all of a similar circumference, about eighteen inches, and they were all cut flat across the top. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Finally his father took from the shelf a flat oak slab, bigger than any of the pans or dishes, and put it on the table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip into the black dress with the deep V in the front, the black Delman flats. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I slipped my foot out of my flat, grabbed it with my toes, and tried to pick it up. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mostly he shouts, “Praise be!” while the back of his hand knocks you flat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the end of the platform Piggy was lying flat, looking down into the brilliant water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Stephanie placed her hands flat on the table and looked at them for a moment. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

C minor and E flat major start on different notes, but have the same key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A widow living in the flats had an only son. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would recognize them because of their flat trajectory. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In late fall, as the deer moved down with each snowstorm, the people hunted the foothills and cerros and the grassy dry lake flats of the big plateau. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She landed on the flat granite, balanced perfectly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The mill is not close to his flat, so maybe he paints it from memory, or from a photograph. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The tone in his voice was flat and deadening and frankly starting to scare me a little. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in daylight we accept that bag to be just a bag”—she pointed with the flat of her palm as if it balanced a top—“when in reality it is a Bag Ghost.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lowering it by a whole step would put it in the key of A flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Totally weird?” he said maliciously, mimicking my accent: suburban, hollow, flat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Today it was awesomely pure and bright, and totally safe for an old loggerhead to browse the grassy flats. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Like this. You want to keep your thumb along the flat.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man pressed the flat side of the knife harder against my neck. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ghosts wiping out a whole squad of Marines in twenty seconds flat. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shows the entire globe, pressed flat like kneaded dough. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I have a wide black elastic cinch belt with an imitation gold clasp buckle, and flat ballerina shoes of velveteen that scuff as I walk and bulge out at the sides. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guards closed in, their flat, empty faces showing us no consideration. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would slice the flesh away from the big flat seed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out that when you fry a piece of bologna in butter, it goes from a flat piece to a bowl shape. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The cat crouched almost flat on the ground, thrusting its head forward between its front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.46: Each sharp and flat that is added to a key signature is also a perfect fifth away from the last sharp or flat that was added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The girl always was sleeping soundly and alone when her husband sneaked into their flat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been an armed robbery in the block of flats next to theirs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly to it, reaching out to lay my hand flat against it, knowing she’s on the other side. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There at the bottom of a sharp incline they saw before them a long flat mile, and beyond that the Ford of Rivendell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Cynthia would wail and flail overdramatic fists in the air, all leading up to the big finish, Cynthia planting her face flat on the desk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He saw that when he gave her gifts they no longer needed to be offered flat on the palms of his hands so that she wouldn’t have to touch him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning,” Nali said with a flat voice that was hard to read. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looked at the mirror; Mary was lying flat on her back in the rear seat and Jan was bent over her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had a flat chest with two nipples. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he shouted, “Get back!” and they fell flat on their bellies in the warm sand. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I walked, my head back, my own nearly flat chest pressed up against the bosom of heaven, dizzied by the winking brilliance of the night. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tone was calm, flat, uncaring; he'd reached for his father's voice, and found it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Grandma was already flat on her back in the weeds. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down flat on my back in the middle of the stream and let the water cover me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dimple’s eyes were now flat marbles behind her glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, I found a stone flat enough and solid but not too heavy for Plug. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We just sat there in my family’s flat, listening to the radio and watching the sky over Kraków turn black as the Germans came to kill us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I first arrived, I thought this country flat and dull. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Harrison and Ikejide had run out of the house; Harrison threw himself flat on the ground while Ikejide kept running, his body arched slightly forward, his arms flying around, his head bobbing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded flat and mean at the same time, the black gleam of a snake’s eyes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They all ducked, and many fell flat on their faces. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pulled up in front of her block of flats in Hillbrow, stopped the car, and sat for a moment as I tried to figure out the polite and gentlemanly way to end the evening. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It unfolds as a bunch of little segments that won't open beyond 180 degrees, so it remains flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we stepped in, he loped up to the bars of his cage and set off a full-throated snarl, ears flat against his skull and round eyes fixed on Babu. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the light grew a little he saw to his surprise that what from a distance had seemed wide and featureless flats were in fact all broken and tumbled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I pictured her on the floor in front of the bench, flat on her back, staring at the ceiling, her feet pointing in opposite directions. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A Negro woman, her face expressionless, flat, highlighted with sweat, watched me write. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman handed me and Bugs each a flat, square, empty tin can. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit ran flat out for a sixteenth of a mile before Pollard pulled him up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Davis stoops, her flats shiny, her hands on her knees. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jesse shoved the pad and pencils , under his mattress and lay down flat, his heart thumping against the quilt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When that happened, a student repair committee would grab some staplers from the supply cabinet, and the room would shake as they pounded flat pieces of history back onto the wall. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing lipstick, mascara, and a little blush on her cheeks, and her clothes were altogether unlike anything I had ever seen her in: a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and flat black shoes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Hanako would take out ten flats of thirty eggs—one by one, so as not to break any—and place them near the grill. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My hair lay plastered, flat and dark against my scalp, and when I rubbed it, a misty spray of soothing droplets rained down on me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As she stepped away, Dany saw that the contempt was gone from the maegi's flat black eyes; in its place was something that might have been fear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pedro told her to throw herself flat on the ground and be very quiet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them were standing on the wide flat stump while others stood around watching. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the large flat rock that just yesterday Ethan and I kissed on. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Several goldfish hover near the glass walls, flat marble eyes flicking in their sockets. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like a doll pushed from behind, I fell face down between the rails and lay flat and thin as I could, head low between crossties, arms stretched overhead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Circling around through the flats, I came to the hollow above the Pritchards’ place. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock was flat, almost like a platform, and was overhung by a large fig with roots snaking down on either side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is flat from sweat and so is his. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The rest of Fang was missing, tipped back, lying flat on top of the safe, dark shelf. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

With the same disregard for name changes by marriage that the black people of Medallion always showed, each flat slab had one word carved on it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

George Layhe, who had gone up to the third floor, was in the most desperate situation of all, lying flat with both a large piano and a huge pool table on top of him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The wheel struck flat, with Encanis on top.There was an explosion of spark and ash as it landed and sank inches deep into the hot coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.12: The modern symbols for sharp, natural, and flat evolved from medieval notation indicating what type of B should be used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He put his ear to the side of the trailer and whacked the sheetmetal with the flat of his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“They aren’t there anymore. The ways in and out of this place. They just went flat.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Pure Khmer have curly black hair, flat noses, full lips, and dark chocolate skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she was sure that there was someone in the flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

So I was running, chased by myself you might say, and I turned a corner and was suddenly flat on my back. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

His nose was flat and broad, and he always seemed in need of a shave. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could see an overturned table and lamp in their flat, but nothing more. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a flat road and dry grass. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The other three men walked briskly into the flat as he spoke. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My shirt has risen up and I look at myself, at my body spread flat on the asphalt, at my bra and faded underwear. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It floats because ice on a pond is flat, and the water resists its sinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I finished that I found a couple pieces of chalk and sharpened those down so that when I stuck the flat end up between my upper lip and gum they hung down like fangs. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her twin unrolled the bills, laying them in neat stacks over a flat rock a few feet away. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I pointed at a flat scene, this one with just a regular moon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The phone started to ring, and Amaka made a face at him before walking into the flat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has treated his shapes much like the enclosed, flat panes of a stained-glass window to create a lively decorative pattern. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat part of the stick he hollowed out with his knife till it was a little trough. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were stacks of flat breads, mazers, bowls, and jars in abundance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that black people could not go outside of the Black Belt to rent a flat; they had to live on their side of the “line.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbles back but doesn’t fall flat like people do in the movies. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was a part of this hardscrabble crowd: she had rented a three-room flat on Hayat Khan Lane, just a short walk from the station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

His voice was flat, as if he did not care a whit whether the king believed him or no. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Dead,” the old woman told him, nodding in emphatic lament, pointing to her head with the flat of her hand. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t another good, solid, flat floe in sight, and Shackleton felt they could not do better for a camping place. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The rat chittered, then it ran through the open door that led back to Coraline’s own flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His voice was dull, flat, only faintly edged with fear. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to stay flat and even keel. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay flat on his back, staring at the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I heard the Toyota drive up to the front of the flat awhile later. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.29: D sharp and E flat look very different when written in common notation, but they sound exactly the same when played on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Here he saw a girl lying flat on her back, screaming at no one. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Each bed is eighty inches wide, and smooth and flat as a tabletop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was curled up like a foetus in an empty room on an old mattress that the last people to leave the Barracks had left behind in the flat. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without hesitating, I reach a hand out and press it flat against my monitor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I cowered to the back of the cage, which was just what he expected me to do; one hand pressed me flat against the wire wall; then his fingers gripped my shoulders. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This is your home as much as that flat you insist on keeping is. More so, even.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Take the coaster straight past the gap, until you find one that’s long and flat.’’ she wondered aloud. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought she merely wanted to warn me that I had a flat tire. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The red clay flats had dried into brittle curls where the standing water had been baked out by the sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s small, about the same size as the notes you left me, and it’s wedged under a metal seam so that it stays flat against the bottom of the box. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He selected a section of flat New Mexico desert near the Alamogordo Air Force Base. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They should have the area cleared and cleaned up in about five or ten minutes. You better have Rosemary do some touch-up on your hair. It looks a little flat.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He then leaned back against the wall, hands flat on his thighs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were standing on a flat paved surface and buildings rose all around them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll get money some day for a house or a flat with electric light and a lavatory and beds with sheets blankets pillows like the rest of the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The first one she placed flat on the bed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You put it on with a rag, see, and if you don’t soak the rag in water after you’ve finished and dry it flat, it’ll catch fire all by itself.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, Adams descended to a flat bench just above the steep ice incline that had given me so much trouble, and fell into a small crevasse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed the flat of the knife against his calf and tried to imagine slicing off a nugget of flesh because it offended him, because it wasn’t perfect. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Minister, did you or did you not tell a flat lie to the House of Commons?” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"I quickly jumped in," Blake recalled, "and was driven at high speed to a safe flat in the neighborhood of Karlshorst," the main Soviet military and KGB compound in East Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the soft white dress in its folds of tissue paper, and how it would hide my flat dull figure, my rather sloping shoulders. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I work at banging the license plate flat again, scribble down Another of those terrible times, and add it to the wall of my room, which is already covered in notes just like this. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We had walked down the steep hill from my parents’ flat, which was actually the first floor of a six-unit building they owned on Leavenworth near California. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco starts to say he can tell she received quite a good price for the ring, but then there is a knock on the door of the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These people would have secret get-togethers, too, usually in someone’s flat or in empty basements that had been converted into clubs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But these were wide, flat, and shallow, like baking pans for enormous pies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Once,” he said in that deep flat voice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bright orange of pumpkins being trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary—seen in an instant, the flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hueless shade. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had to press the plastic flat and lean my forehead against the glass to even recognize Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m lying flat on my back, and I do my best not to look at him, or acknowledge him in any way. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Baba tells us he's borrowed a car from another Bengali family who live in the building where he's rented a flat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taps the packed sand with the flat side of his shovel. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the homes had flat roofs and were made of burned brick, some of mud the same dusty color as the mountains that ringed the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I looked down on a flat frame with wooden blocks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes gleamed red and his ears lay flat back on his skull. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“She could have you in a cell block in six hours flat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I tried to gather my senses, another kick sent me back to the floor, flat on my face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It comes out not as a question but as a flat statement; flat and without dimension. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding her aluminum tray, she moved from body to body, spreading maple-syrup-colored wax where it was needed with a flat wooden spoon, and pressing in strips of gauze before it hardened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If Samuel had been a rich man like the Thornes or the Delmars, with their big houses and wide flat lands, he would have had a great library. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lay flat in the tall grass and watched the scene in the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.31: The E flat major and D sharp major scales sound the same on the piano, although they look very different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You tore apart his throat,” she says, voice flat, and I think she might actually be in a bit of a battle haze. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Essentially, it was a hazing ritual: Despite the instructors’ claims, I could see no real connection be-tween repeatedly falling flat on your face and self-preservation in-side a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve found some blue satin flats of Carla’s that match the dress perfectly and are honestly much easier to walk in. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They started at the Box, which was closed at the moment—double doors of metal lying flat on the ground, covered in white paint, faded and cracked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Where seconds before he’d been able to see the distinct form of the funnel, he now could see only a flat expanse of white. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I asked the new family in Aunty Ifeoma’s flat if I could come in, and although they looked at me strangely, they asked me in and offered me a glass of water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But a one was just a straight line, anyway, kind of long and flat already. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Keeping flat to the ground, they pushed a poncho under Scruggs as a stretcher, then dragged him to safety. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The makeup has all rubbed off and her hair is flat. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was only a flat plain, as if the whole home had teen scooped from the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The door of the flat opens of its own volition, locks falling open and hinges swinging wildly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or your feet would not be touching flat ground now.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guitar player would prefer a key with no flats and not too many sharps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She crossed the room at a bound and laid her back flat against the wall, commando-style, then reached one hand across and forced open the screen. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A few days ago I ran a fifty-five flat in the 400-meter. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As Robert said, it was okay as long as they were in flat open country with only a few places to water; they could be found then. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The name comes out flat, bitter as a bad pecan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mama Mwanza shouted again and clapped her hands, bringing a reluctant son out of the house, dragging the flat, pinkish soles of his feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the flat stone bench and I held Catherine Barkley’s hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be some kind of design on the flat, closed end. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The alteration — for example "flat five" or "sharp nine" — is listed in the chord symbol. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Transpose C parts up one whole step for B flat instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Ruined houses and bombed blocks of flats made gaps in the vista,” remembered Haukelid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as I lifted my sandwich and opened my mouth, an announcement came over the PA: “Gallery officers, secure your galleries and report to the flats. All gallery officers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the middle of a great empty plain, a flat desert drenched with sunlight, across which all sounds came to him out of immense distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The white coat kept talking, his voice flat, something flickering in his eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A gardener had trimmed the ancient roses, planted geraniums, laid out the vegetable flat, and brought the living spring in little channels to wander back and forth through the garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its body is smooth and pale grey, it has bulging round eyes on top of its head and four spindly legs with enormous flat feet. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego’s voice was flat; he hardly sounded like the boy I knew. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He came upstairs to the flat, sat down and said nothing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in her flat, she paced up and down. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought her frequent laughter was authentic and that Edna had no idea that she cried when she was alone in her flat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then that same cow took and stepped in her mouth when she was a baby and left it wide and flat with her chin and nose almost meeting. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mom and I approach a wide boulder, flat on one side with markings etched into it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sun, or flat light on a cloudy day, pours in from every window; if there are secrets here, it seems to say, the light will quickly find them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some people thought that, except for a few boulders, it would be hard and flat—and they turned out to be right. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm so in love with Jamie Merrick I want to run straight into a wall and squash into a flat pancake because loving him feels like a cartoon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Along a three-and-a-half-mile stretch of Fifth Avenue, the flag-bedecked buildings with flat roofs, balconies, and fire escapes were stuffed with sweating spectators. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I carefully worked the hook into a flat piece of hide, not through it but into it, so that the point of the hook was hid­den. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was oddly flat, but maybe she was playing it cool. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Smearing the grease liberally on top of the third step, Foremole inserted the flat metal tip against the base of the fifth step. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I’m flat on my face with a hurdle on my back. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the wall, flat. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most advice on style that is couched as a commandment rather than an explanation, the flat directive to avoid negations is almost useless. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked odd—a flat yellow cloth of some kind, perfectly clean and smooth with brilliant light shining on it from somewhere inside the girl’s bedroom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She stuck the rest of the egg in her mouth and crept quietly toward the sound, soon coming to a flat spot on the riverbank. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Zooey turned full toward his mother and looked at her carefully, the flat of one hand on the enamel, as if for support. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell your master I have gone to my flat,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no other sound in the empty flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The great wolf’s eyes softened at the sight of the little wolves, then quickly hardened into brittle yellow jewels as he scanned the flat tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly flat and smooth and white, and about a hundred yards across. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But a heavy weight crashed into him and knocked him flat again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My mom, same as she’d done with her flat and with her maid’s uniforms, found the cracks in the system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a red-and-white-checked dress, with frilly white socks and black ballet flats. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she arrived at the flat rocks above, Jinny noticed clouds were roiling out over the water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the flat, albeit minuscule, had windows and a shared roof from which the boys could watch a new city, and a new nation, being born. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The horizon line, flat and low, is straight ahead, and the sky looks like dishwater. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He swung one leg up over the stone railing so he was sitting on it, then dropped a few feet to land on the flat piece of roof just underneath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kept my voice cold and flat, just the way I thought she’d want it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

People came in and went to their flats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of his visitors trailed in after Francis and me, stopping, for an instant, to peer curiously over the curtain at Charles: silent, alone, flat on his back with an IV in his arm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I slipped my feet out of my flats and tapped my toes on the keys. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His nose was flat and a half-inch scar beneath his lower lip stood out white beneath the dark stubble. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“When a man’s alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin’ all night, but guns firing, and voices calling. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Were so happy to be here,” says Hannah, her voice flat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Yayoi people averaged an inch or two taller, had close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They let us come in and watch the ladies slip fortunes inside flat yellow cookie dough, then fold the dough over. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gritting my teeth, I wedge the flat of my knife blade under the disc and force it up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The orangutan lies flat on her back, arms and legs spread out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We gathered them at low tide in baskets and carried them to the mesa where we cut the dark red flesh from the shell and placed it on flat rocks to dry in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I can’t. I’m flat broke,” I say, desperate for him to leave. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I held on by her flat hips, angling her and helping her to let me in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them there’s a war going on,” he advised finally in a flat voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But it is wonderful to see the butterfly or moth emerging and watch its crumpled wings become flat and strong. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how flat Axel tries to lay down the clues in his mind, they just keep curling up at the ends. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She picked deftly and had a reputation for speed and efficiency; she filled two flats in the time it took other pickers to fill one and a half. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her laptop wasn’t in the flat, however, and her driver’s license and passport were missing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then there was a deafening roar.The pigeons swirled into the air, and all the animals, except Napoleon, flung themselves flat on their bellies and hid their faces. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I brushed the dirt on the ground flat with my brand new shoes and kneeled down. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s heavier than an alphabet block, but I think it is a shape with all flat sides. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“On the floor. Straight and flat as you can.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Archie asked, getting down to business without preliminaries, keeping his voice flat and dry as the Sahara. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched him, I saw a twinkle start in his eyes and suddenly he brought his chair down slam-bang flat on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z