| 单词 | for example |
| 例句 | Suppose, for example, you went back and killed your great-great-grandfather while he was still a child. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We lock up six times as many citizens per capita as England, for example, and seventeen times as many as Japan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stroke victims who have lost the ability to speak, for example, are virtuosos, because their infirmity has forced them to become far more sensitive to the information written on people’s faces. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He asked, for example, since I was in the Drama department, why hadn’t I been in any plays? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I might think, for example, that this is what I need to build my very own scarecrow!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Other notes may be marked with a combination of articulation symbols, for example legato with accents. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Galileo, for example, despite performing exquisite experiments, never fully grasped the power of the experimental method, dismissing Gilbert’s work as not sufficiently philosophical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the end of the chord name will be a slash followed by a note name, for example C/E. The note following the slash should be the bass note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z An enormous percentage of those who engage in violent acts, for example, have some kind of psychiatric disorder or come from deeply disturbed backgrounds. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, for example, opponents of the Constitution objected to the implicit acceptance of slavery’s persistence, represented by the three-fifths clause and the twenty-year extension of the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Figure 4.42: These harmonic series are for a brass instrument that has a 11C11 fundamental when no valves are being used — for example, a C trumpet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Okay. You take girls, for example. They’re copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z On the question of funding the domestic debt, for example, Hamilton regarded Madison’s proposal to distinguish between original and present holders of government securities as naive and mischievous. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All of them have not contributed, for example, the 1986 team, but the vast majority of the teams have contributed in many different ways. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When, for example, Mexican-American students began to proclaim themselves Chicanos, they taught many persons in the barrios of southwestern America to imagine themselves in a new context. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I certainly had not expected to meet, for example, a plumber who was an abstract painter in his off hours and admired the work of Mark Rothko. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We discussed, for example, how blacks in South Africa were oppressed both as a race and an economic class. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you think you can beat him easily?” asked Zuckerman gently, pointing out that Spassky was no better than Petrosian, for example. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was, for example, gregarious and intensely social. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can see silver Notes peeking out of that man’s purse, for example.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z There were, for example, one hundred and fifty psalms in the standard church repertoire, all of which had their own melodies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the study described above, for example, black participants showed an amount of “shooter bias” similar to that shown by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z During the next 6,500 years there were remarkable technological advances—the invention of the water-wheel and the windmill, for example—but until 400 years ago technological change was slow, and it was frequently reversed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Every time I asked her the simplest of tax questions, for example, she could turn the conversation around and make it seem as if I were too cheap to pay for her legal advice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle was remarkable for his explorations of natural phenomena, studying, for example, the development of the chicken embryo within the egg. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The books were read, but they had little influence, and the demand for them was modest: it took, for example, twenty-five years for The New Organon to appear in a second edition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I couldn't, for example, open any of the drawers. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Others seem to have performed the experiment entirely independently, on the basis only of written descriptions—Henry Power, for example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Most of the time he was simply irritating: for example, in his ill-informed and frequent tirades against the Catholic Church. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At the nearby Normal School, for example, the number of women applying to become teacher trainees was said to be many times the usual. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Stan, for example, a twenty-something fellow with wildly misaligned teeth, is so eager to talk that he fairly pounces on the seat next to mine on a bench in the smoking area. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, for example, plants would starve for want of nitrogen, though surrounded by a sea of nitrogen-containing air. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The giant Gilling, for example, and his wife: the dwarfs invited them to come and visit their fortress, and one winter’s day they came. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Some gulls, for example, become really excited if they see a giant egg. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Support for American independence, for example, was always fragile and shifted with each victory or defeat in the field, which was often a matter of pure luck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Well, if there were a signal, a thumbs-up sign, for example, we might expect someone in the vicinity to have noticed it. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z When the subject of whether the dog smells comes up, for example, Bill and Sue banter back and forth happily, both with a half smile on their lips. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves—facing market-based rents, for example, on their wages alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Precisely the kind of lesson you’ll learn at the Institute. Take the word ‘food,’ for example. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Tassoni is well aware of all sorts of things that the ancients did not have: falconry, for example, or silk, or perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At all events, plate tectonics not only explained the surface dynamics of the Earth–how an ancient Hipparion got from France to Florida, for example–but also many of its internal actions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In Alabama, for example, biologists of the Alabama Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit conducted a preliminary census of the quail population in a 3600-acre area that was scheduled for treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He never comprehended, for example, the transparent nature of glass, and in moments of great emotion he would charge the windows at a gallop, with the innocent intention of catching a fly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sarcophagus, for example, the one in which her violin case was hidden. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand “how two individuals could reach the same degree of rage, the kind of psychopathic rage it took to commit such a crime.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z You can speak, for example, of European classical or the European-American folk tradition, as opposed to Indian Classical50 , Japanese folk, or African-American musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When Milgram analyzed his experiment, for example, he found that many of the chains from Omaha to Sharon followed the same asymmetrical pattern. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In his notebook for 1905, for example, there is an entry on January 21: “Double canals came out by flashes, convincing of reality.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds, for example — where had they gone? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I have noticed that he, too, reads things backward: what the billboards are really selling, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There are lots of people, for example, who have made lots of movies and aren’t particularly well connected. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pressure suits, for example, had been covered with nylon, and that was replaced with something called Beta cloth, which did not burn as easily. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew where the Witch lived, for example. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There were no bathroom time-outs during soccer games, she would tell her players, for example, so there would be no bathroom breaks during practice either. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The earliest known Olmec writing, for example, is on a potsherd from Chiapas that dates from about 300 B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insects injurious to trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘I simply asked you whether or not it was dust. Might it, for example, be iron filings or face powder instead?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice Ziaty, for example, liked to make spicy stews, but she cut back on the peppers whenever Luma was coming over because she knew the coach couldn’t handle the spicy food. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Several species of mites, for example, can begin life only within the fallen needles of a spruce tree. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You can use a cross-staff, for example, to measure the angle between the horizon and the sun at midday. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I have, for example, been hacked at, carved into, used for target practice. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In some counties the percentage was much higher—in San Diego County, for example, three out of every four young people were charged as adults by the end of that first year. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z However, many parts of Eurasia did have quite a few of these 13 species living together in the same area: for example, seven of the wild ancestors occurred in Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As early as the 1930s, for example, his unit covertly read the telegrams of private citizens. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I had thought, knowing Miss Bowen had an opponent lurking somewhere, that whomever you might be, you were not in need of any assistance. The paper animals are astonishing, for example.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I guess I was scared of seeing him as a crazy person. The tales got wilder and wilder as the years went by. That he’d had five wives, who all left him, for example.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If tritium was the sought-after product, for example, you used lithium-6; if it was plutonium, the raw material would be uranium—namely, that waste U-238. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When she reads the word the, for example, she figures she must be hearing a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It should be evident that many of the supposed facts we have been looking at—the weapon salve, for example—are rather odd, and always have seemed odd. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A triple meter, for example, will have groups of 3 with a stress on the first beat of the group. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The smell of spent hand-flare shells, and prayers at dawn, and the killing of turtles, and the biology of algae, for example. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He believed, for example, that there was a substantial lunar atmosphere and oceans and inhabitants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How do these three rules help us understand teenage smoking, for example, or the phenomenon of word of mouth, or crime, or the rise of a bestseller? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The standing waves in these carefully-shaped-and-sized idiophones — for example, the blocks on a xylophone — produce pitched tones, but again, the patterns of standing waves in these instruments are a little too complicated for this discussion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z King Henry III of England, for example, liked sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Was the kiss supposed to land somewhere else, like on my mouth, for example? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Like, for example, as a redcap, Madoc needs bloodshed the way a mermaid needs the salt spray of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It had, for example, already explained to him the technical difference between “fear” and “fright.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Guidance counselors and teachers would quietly pull a student aside and say that William and Mary, for example, did not accept blacks, so there was no need for you to apply. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Each major section of the music is labelled with a letter; for example, the first section is the A section. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The younger children were presented in groups: all the Sevens, for example, receiving their front-buttoned jackets; the Nines, brought to the stage and given their first bicycles to great applause. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In a C major chord, for example, that would be any C naturals, E naturals, and G naturals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Indian classical music, for example, does not contain harmony, but only the three textures of a melody, rhythm, and a drone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In 1890, for example, if you’d asked most educated people in the West to name a famous living composer, they would very likely have given you that of a Russian, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z How faint she felt, just listening to the stories other girls told — about a neighbor’s daughter, for example, who walked all the way home from Hangzhou, only to be sent back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Killed Oedipus married Laius Jocasta, for example, doesn’t make it clear whether Oedipus killed Laius and married Jocasta, Jocasta killed Oedipus and married Laius, Oedipus killed Jocasta and married Laius, and so on. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Finally, there must be a mechanism for publicizing one’s knowledge—Cardano, for example, publishes a book. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Tom Paine, for example, claimed that it was simply a matter of common sense that an island could not rule a continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A single phrase of Ben Kenobi's Theme, for example, can remind you of all the good things he stands for, even if he is not on the movie screen at the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Cigarette packages that lacked a New York State revenue stamp—cigarettes purchased out of state, for example, or on Indian reservations—were not allowed to be distributed to inmates, and were apparently thrown away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The word “to” for example, because it sounds like the number “two,” would become “three.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Detroit, for example, witnessed its first stirrings of integration in a speakeasy named Cozy Corner. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I mean, for example,” said Lyra, “I bet you know more about the bears than he does, for a start.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Black, for example, knew what white was going to do, and vice versa, because black was Fischer and so was white. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So a dotted half note, for example, would last as long as a half note plus a quarter note, or three quarters of a whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She knew, for example, that I could move more body parts than I told the doctor, although she said nothing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z If there’s one thing I’d figured out about having a family crisis like ours, it’s that the old rules no longer applied — for example, I had probably gone four months without eating a single vegetable. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Pascal’s wager on God’s existence, for example, can be cast as a choice between the relative probabilities and consequences of Type I and Type II errors. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, for example, that man, you may remember him, Grover Ding...” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Plurals presented a considerable problem, but I worked around them as best I could; "rivers," for example, became either "a river or two" or "many a river." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Louis Borgenicht, for example, left the impoverished home of his parents at age twelve to work as a salesclerk in a general store in the Polish town of Brzesko. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This is the freedom that one hears in some gospel songs, for example, and in jazz. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z A taller, longer-legged man—any one of his brothers, for example—might have put his foot up, might have made the stretch, with greater ease. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z A narration might ask for the clarity and emotional temper of the plain style, for example, whereas the peroration— where you typically seek to stir your audience—gives the opportunity for a higher style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He invented, for example, a player organ: an organ which, like a player piano, automatically played music according to the information conveyed by pins on a turning drum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Breast feeding, for example, is the only way to guarantee a healthy and intellectually advanced child—unless bottle feeding is the answer. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Some people say a donkey is a “humble” beast—unlike a proud Arabian horse, for example. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As I recall, for example, Karpov in 1975 was the one who refused to play me under my conditions, which were basically the same conditions that we are going to play now. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If she decided someone should be expelled, for example, and she sensed opposition, she’d just allude darkly to stuff she knew “from before.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Until waterwheels and windmills began to replace Eurasia’s mammals in medieval times, they were also the major source of its “industrial” power beyond human muscle power—for example, for turning grindstones and operating water lifts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Representative John Page, for example, seemed to offer one of the most ringing endorsements of the petitions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When Palmer was miserable, for example, his mother or father would hold him close and wipe his tears. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z There had been earlier attempts to build communities whose goal was to advance knowledge: sixteenth-century doctors, for example, had formed networks and had published the resulting correspondence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The art music of other cultures is also often called classical; for example, people speak of the classical music of India. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “You will find many fascinating sights in bright Tenebrion. Here, for example, is a statue of a cat who used to put out fires.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z That the inside of a green mamba’s mouth is pure sky-blue, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In 2005, for example, four out of five drug arrests were for possession, and only one out of five was for sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The cloths are brightly printed and worn together in jangling mixtures that ring in my ears: pink gingham with orange plaid, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Such rays are associated with the very youngest craters on the Moon—for example, those named after Aristarchus and Copernicus and Kepler. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For reasons that confound medical science, the product also fails to affect those working in certain professions—the editors of fashion magazines, for example. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z So music that is in, for example, C major, will not sound significantly different from music that is in, say, D major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Occasionally, Debbie wished Sasha would ease up a little—resist correcting well-meaning relatives who said he instead of they, for example. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Cecilia’s enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The first day of the month of Zip, for example, was usually called the “installation” or “seating” of Zip. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aedanus Burke, for example, warned that the petitioners were “blowing the trumpet of sedition” and demanded that the galleries be cleared of all spectators and newspaper reporters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Who, for example, had abducted the oilman McBride in Washington, D.C., or thrown W. W. Vaughan off the speeding train? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They could come watch me and Jill Biden paint a wall, for example, at a nondescript row house in the Northwest part of Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You can’t imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example,” which was true. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Here, for example, are excerpts of interviews that the University of Missouri criminologist David Klinger did with police officers for his fascinating book Into the Kill Zone. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A Code Blue would be called if, for example, the count came up an inmate short and finding him was the top priority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Users of one product, for example, apply 60 pounds of technical chlordane to the acre if they follow directions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This means, for example, that a woman who knew that her husband occasionally smoked pot could have her car forfeited to the government because she allowed him to use her car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He’s told us, for example, that if someone is absent it’s up to the rest of us to get on her case, because we’re the ones who’ll suffer if our teams are shorthanded. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I think you just do things to get what you want. Tonight, for example, you listened to the tapes. Why?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Which, by the way, Mother’s group has never raised one red cent for me, to help put in upstairs plumbing at the Equatorial, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Civil War, for example, was a direct consequence of the decision to evade and delay the slavery question during the most vulnerable early years of the republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the process they have overturned the old social pecking order in which “Episcopalian,” for example, was a code word for upper class, and “fundamentalist” or “evangelical” shorthand for lower. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z If you were to see me grinning, for example, with my eyes twinkling, you’d say I was amused. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The miniature intersection of rue de Mirbel and rue Monge, for example, just a block from their apartment, is nothing like the real intersection. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Some of the seeds I purchased and some — for example, broccoli and carrots — were given to me by the commanding officer, Brigadier Munro, who was particularly fond of these vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Singers, do not, for example, learn opera in their garages or simply by listening to recordings. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But when I see it on his table I’m taken aback by what I overlooked at age eighteen: the Caspian Sea, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the northern sky, for example, there is a pattern, or constellation, that looks a little ursine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The line might be performed by any musician or group of musicians: a singer, for example, or a bassoonist, a violin section, or a trumpet and saxophone together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each other’s presence, that’s dopamine, the pleasure hormone, doing its work. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Henry Lee, for example, apprised Madison that the assumption debate reminded him of those glorious days of yesteryear, when the Virginia Assembly refused to recognize Parliament’s right to tax colonies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Composers discovered that some chords were drawn magnetically to others: adding an F to the G major triad, G-B-D, made it yearn to move towards the C major triad, for example - of which more shortly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It seemed almost true, although he could think of exceptions—his parents adopting him, for example. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Major keys, for example, always follow the same pattern of half steps and whole steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The after in after the love has gone, for example, is just the after which appears in after the dance, which everyone agrees is a preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Bacon, for example, who is of course familiar with the use of the word ‘evidence’ in a legal context, never employs it when discussing natural philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the number 2.5 is “covered” by a carpet that includes, for example, all the numbers between 2 and 3—a carpet of size 1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Lions, for example, are called Panthera leo, the species leo of the genus Panthera. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We are now on less certain ground; there may, for example, be impediments in the evolution of the genetic code, although I think this unlikely over billions of years of primeval chemistry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In August 1563, for example, a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter took place—a rare astronomical event in which the two planets are so close together on the sky that they seem to merge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Groups prone to primary liver cancer, as for example the Bantu tribes of Africa, are typically subject to malnutrition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If the passage, for example, was from the twelfth line on the page, Sax would know to meet Hall in December, the twelfth month of the year. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then slowly, as we squirm on his hook, he writes on a piece of paper, for example: Jeremiah 48:18. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd notice, for example, that a bookstore in London had an overdue account of seventeen dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “We don’t see that many Divergent resisting truth serum. Just Tris, in recent memory. The capacity for serum resistance seems to be higher in some people than others—take yourself, for example, Tobias.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In the Apennines, for example, several hundred nests have been set out to protect reforested areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Other motifs in the story are attached to concepts, for example ‘transformation’ or ‘love’ or ‘servitude’, or to things, such as a ‘spear’, the ‘gold’ or the ‘River Rhine’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Never be in the bathrooms when school lets out, for example. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Do you think, for example, that you can accurately describe the difference between Coke and Pepsi? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All doormen, for example, and all policemen have by now, for me, become exactly the same, and my style with them is designed simply to intimidate them before they can intimidate me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In California, for example, the loss of some 60,000 game fish, mostly blue- gill and other sunfish, followed an attempt to control the rice- leaf miner with dieldrin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The early bird gets the worm, for example, is plain. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If you play a triad, for example G, comprising the notes G-B-D, you can make it vulnerable to change by adding the ‘seventh’ note to it, in this case F: G-B-D-F. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was not always able to make herself do other things — to brush her teeth, for example, or to put cream on her face. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z If, for example, I had written . . . last Tuesday knight we had a lecture . . ., he would say: ‘Don’t you know how to spell night?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in his career, for example, Paul Ekman filmed forty psychiatric patients, including a woman named Mary, a forty-two-year-old housewife. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Not included in this list were incidents in which civilian staff members—a psychologist, for example—were held hostage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, ice was easily available in much of Europe: in Florence, for example, it was brought down from the Apennines throughout the summer in order to keep fish fresh. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A dotted quarter note, for example, would be the length of a quarter plus an eighth, because an eighth note is half the length of a quarter note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I was too busy resenting Barack for managing to fit workouts into his schedule, for example, to even begin figuring out how to exercise regularly myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Some things—vultures, for example—made them rub their faces and watch the sky uneasily. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if, for example, somebody like Billy Boy killed Kaira before she turned eighteen, then her mother would inherit all her money. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Famous physicists were given code names—Enrico Fermi, for example, was supposed to tell people his name was Henry Farmer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A longer section of melody that keeps reappearing in the music — for example, in a "theme and variations" — is often called a theme. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The rules about communion at Friday mass, for example, made absolutely no sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So, for example, if we wanted to describe the oral texture of something, one of the attributes we would look at is slipperiness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Teapot, for example, went into the kitchen and asked his mother for some sugar-butter-bread. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “In other words, for example, you mean if he wanted to hunt, he could outhunt, again for example, someone such as myself.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “They are our history. Some families who like crafts even fill them with dried beans and pose them in favorite attitudes—a big hug, for example, or a beloved picnic.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z How, for example, would religious faiths have unfolded? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Two notes that are exactly the same pitch, for example, have a frequency ratio of 1:1, and octaves, as we have already seen, are 2:1. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There are firms, for example, that post new songs on the Web and then collect and analyze the ratings of anyone who visits the Website and listens to the music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The spider mite, for example, has become practically a worldwide pest as DDT and other insecticides have killed off its enemies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There’s a military unit, for example—they look like little more than kids. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In this country, for example, we have a multiparty system at present, but so far as the non-Europeans are concerned this is the most vicious despotism that you could think of. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1950s, for example, Weisberg ran a drama troupe in Chicago. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a typical crash, for example, the weather is poor— not terrible, necessarily, but bad enough that the pilot feels a little bit more stressed than usual. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One Saturday, for example, Beans decided they should all have lunch at Palmer’s. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The cowbell, for example, is an instrument that has another purpose besides its musical one. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If profits are 12 percent, for example, is this 12 percent of costs, of sales, of last year’s profits, or of what? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no idea, for example, why the oceans were salty but the Great Lakes weren’t. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There is, for example, the red planet Mars, with soaring volcanoes, great riff valleys, enormous planet-wide sandstorms, and, just possibly, some simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He might, for example, prove too attractive to the wives of men who knew they were dull. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Holmes attempted, for example, to sell investors a machine that turned water into natural gas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He failed to see why anyone would need more bluster and testimony about God’s Plan than what he found, for example, within the fine-veined world of an eyeball. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Clay, for example, slept on a soft, clean feather mattress, with perfumed sheets and silken curtains around the four-poster bed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, for example, do people gorge on high-calorie food that is doing little good to their bodies? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d like to paint “a starry sky, for example, well—it’s a thing that I’d like to try to do, just as in the daytime I’ll try to paint a green meadow studded with dandelions.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants- for example, to remove the stores’ humiliating racial signs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch, for example. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The individual exposed to DDT, for example, is almost certain to be exposed to other liver-damaging hydrocarbons, which are so widely used as solvents, paint removers, degreasing agents, dry-cleaning fluids, and anesthetics. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Trust is indeed something in these days. It is, perhaps, better to have a homely woman whom one can trust than a more chic maid—for example, some smart Parisienne.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In warfare, for example, you attend first to the severely wounded who have the best chance of survival. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The keynote sound for New York City might be horns of Yellow cabs and cars, for example. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Florida, for example, has added more than twenty new categories of financial obligations for defendants in criminal cases since 1996, while eliminating most exemptions for those who cannot pay. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Part of the particular power of Paul Revere, for example, was that he wasn’t just a networker; he wasn’t just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I heard, for example, that Negroes were an inferior race, I thought the authority was misinformed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And if you hear the word “Nuus” on the radio, for example, why, any fool can figure out that means “News.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Why, for example—especially knowing the family as I do—I should want to marry your sister is a great mystery to me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z From D to D, for example is Dorian; from F to F is Lydian. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z How did you finish a reed mat, for example? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She took an active interest, for example, in Nick’s flower garden, often eating the heads off the daffodils and hydrangeas, also off the lilacs and roses when those plants bloomed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A well temperament might have several pure fifths, for example, and several fifths that are smaller than a pure fifth, but not so small that they are "wolf" fifths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Marcato, for example means "marked" in the sense of "stressed" or "noticeable." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Who, for example, would object to the term ‘the digital revolution’ on the grounds that it is not a singular and discrete event, localized in time and space? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The notes in different octaves are so closely related that when musicians talk about a note, a "G" for example, it often doesn't matter which G they are talking about. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In the state of Washington, for example, a review of juvenile sentencing reports found that prosecutors routinely described black and white youth differently. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This summer, for example, pants may be capri, classic, carpenter, clam-digger, boot, or flood, depending on their length and cut, and I’m probably leaving a few categories out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You, for example, have displayed extraordinary serum resistance—most of the Divergent aren’t as capable of resisting serums as you are,” Matthew says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Most states have partially opted out, affording exceptions for people in drug treatment, for example. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Consider, for example, the so-called fear experiments conducted by the social psychologist Howard Levanthal in the 1960s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, for example, cattlemen had long been plagued by the blue tick, from which, on one ranch alone, 600 head of cattle had died in one year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “How many of us there are, for example, or how many of us aren’t wired for simulations.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z None of the oarsmen, for example, was permitted on the ledge to witness the exchange of fire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In fact, we can remove an infinite number of elements from the set of whole numbers—we can delete the odd numbers, for example—and the size of the set remains unchanged. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He wanted to remember some finer details, what the woman had done with her hands in the sideways-from-behind position, for example. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “We’ve been operating under a terrible time pressure from the very beginning. Just yesterday morning, for example, I was a hopeless drunk and Fezzik toiled for the Brute Squad.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This works rather well, for example, when planning the flight of a rocket to the Moon. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “My boys, for example, they will do anything for American action films, especially with that Arnold Whatsanegger—” “The mosque!” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of our other animals were considered “too common”, the lions and baboons, for example. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There is, for example, a universe where Samuel Kingsley does not derail his daughter’s life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The following pentatonic scale, for example, is not simply another transposition of the "black key" pentatonic scale; the pattern of intervals between the notes is different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The Anubis figure, for example, would make no sense as a dog god, so Artemis altered it to read king of the fairies. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The alteration — for example "flat five" or "sharp nine" — is listed in the chord symbol. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “There were some things called the pyramids, for example.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Messages sent by the Mexican Army were likely to be in Spanish, for example. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z By seemingly slight changes the whole character of the substance is changed; for example, not only what is attached but the place of attachment to the carbon atom is highly important. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One day, for example, just past Omsk, we stopped in the countryside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Good. Now let’s take one of the alethiometer symbols. The hive, for example, surrounded by bees. One of its meanings is sweetness, and another is light. Can you see why?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She could not, for example, have said how or at what moment she learned that she was a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the list of agreement errors above, for example, the last two sentences appear on my screen free of incriminating squiggles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring or Orff’s Carmina Burana, for example, would not be good choices as they are likely to promote agitation and frenetic activity rather than concentration and productivity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But how do we explain the apparent motion of the planets—Mars, for example, which had been known for thousands of years before Ptolemy’s time? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The French writer Emile Zola, for example, thought that the Industrial Age had brought to working people untold misery and cruelty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Have you any other dressing gown, Mademoiselle? A scarlet dressing gown, for example?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “That, for example, wasn’t there when they installed this thing.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A major third could be written as a diminished fourth, for example, or a minor second as an augmented prime. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Happier than above it. Happier than your friend here, for example.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The preferred sense of disinterested as “impartial,” for example, has coexisted for centuries with its frowned-upon sense as “bored.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z William Beck- ford, for example, came from a family that owned twenty-four sugar plantations in Jamaica. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I was told by a minister, for example, that I should never, on any public conveyance, under any circumstances, rise and give my seat to a white woman. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z This lag can be very embarrassing if, for example, you have waited until the last minute to realize that you are going to land short of the runway. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For a fee, these companies-Salesforce.com, for example—give you access to a library of Web-based business applications, which you can just tap into online to run your business. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face—are you prepared to do that?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There is Benny, for example, a short, tight-muscled sewer repairman who cannot even think of eating until he has absorbed a half hour of air-conditioning and ice water. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The initial hope was that the microscope might make the invisible visible, and it did, for example, when it showed how a fly can walk up a pane of glass. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There may be some convergent evolution because there may be only one best solution to a certain environmental problem— something like two eyes, for example, for binocular vision at optical frequencies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Such arguments depended on analogies: comparing the skin, for example, to porous earthenware. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There they can be fruitfully active in less risky work: illustration, typographic design, industrial design, and interior design, for example. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z So, for example, the child at the window whose account we read first—her fundamental lack of grasp of the situation is nicely caught. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Much of social reality consists of institutional facts: property, for example, or marriage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He would like to carve one of those dwarfs, for example, such as those in the roof bosses in his father’s house. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z During descent, for example, if the Gemini’s parachute did not come out when scheduled, the astronauts really had to hurry to try other ways to get the chute out or, failing that, to eject themselves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man on the bench, for example, made her cry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Bongo, for example, thinks the way we trees name ourselves is ridiculous. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As it turns out, for example, of the fifty thousand African Americans who have taken the Race IAT so far, about half of them, like me, have stronger associations with whites than with blacks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Though some traditions might be more important to a few of you than they are to the rest of us. Starting the year by taking a photo from my office, for example?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, for example, I would be reassuring the Pharaoh that the flood was a gift from the gods, that once it receded, the rich black earth of the delta would bring forth abundant grain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the founding members of the Royal Society—Digby and Oldenburg, for example, as well as Boyle—were preoccupied with alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I remembered that three or four of the Amish farms did, for example. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Besides that there were all kinds of environmental worries—that salinity levels below the dam would rise catastrophically, for example, devastating the ecology lower down, not least the valuable oyster beds of Delaware Bay. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labor that would build several hundred cargo ships. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented airplanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This map does not depict it accurately, because these societies were not contemporaries—the Olmec vanished centuries before the Nudzahui and Zapotec began to reach their height, for example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Suppose, for example, someone had gone back and given the Nazis the secret of the atom bomb? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Consider, for example, Riverbank Publication No. 17, the first paper that set out their basic working methods. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After a hairdressing, for example, he meets her at the drugstore for her vanilla malt and his cherry smash. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In 1871, for example, the US commissioner of education published a report by Edward Jarvis on the “Relation of Education to Insanity.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Hofstede argued, for example, that cultures can be usefully distinguished according to how much they expect individuals to look after themselves. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Take, for example, the troubling case of the rooster. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z When the OIC called out, “Law library,” for example, I would check the sheet to see if anyone had put down law library when the officer doing the go-round came by his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And, for example, some people say how can an eye happen by accident? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z No one could get what we call a “handle” on your shopping habits, like for example you asking for information about all those wow and brag products and then never buying anything. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Other matter, gas and dust in the outskirts of galaxies, for example, is not so readily detected. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Before his cousin Ashleigh’s wedding, for example, he dropped her off at a small spa near his childhood home, to get her eyebrows shaped. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That he loved to watch ice skaters, for example, and surfers on TV, and that he could skip stones — one of his students had taught him how on a field trip. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take, for example, this egg in your hair. Suppose you’d have told the boys who did this, ‘Thank you,’ with a smile. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The prices of clothing, for example, have barely risen in the last decade, while department store prices in general fell 10 percent from 1994 to 2004, the federal government says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There was an agent they were targeting at present, for example, who was reputed to have an unhealthy interest in young boys. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She was not surprised, for example, to see her moving around the room in a trance, seated in an armchair with her legs tucked under her, pulled by an invisible force. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rotting post office is now a little movie theater, for example. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Think, for example, of the way most farm animals are treated today. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Many would have no problem missing practice if they had to study for a test, for example. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I think you have slipped in any number of ways since last year. I understand for example that there was gaming in my dormitory this summer while you were living there.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you ever wondered, for example, how religious movements get started? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To learn early American history, for example, students dressed in costumes of the era and were taught how to spin yarn, hook rugs, and use quill pens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Not all races are handicaps—in the Triple Crown, for example, all male horses carry 126 pounds—but most top races for older horses, including the Santa Anita Handicap, are handicaps. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Last night, for example, Margot was reading a book with beautiful illustrations; she got up and put the book aside for later. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Some minibus drivers couldn’t pay up front, for example. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The hotel was excel lent—incomparably better, for example, than that horrible Aurora Bora Palace in which Lenina had suffered so much the previous summer. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But new scales of achievement, for example the Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test, had emerged as criteria by which to judge. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Well, for example,” Max said, “was he ticklish or not?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Following slavery, for example, there were some African Americans who supported disenfranchisement because they believed that black people were not yet “ready” for the vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the middle of the letter, for example, he reproached himself for complaining too much: God, this is starting to sound like some jerkoff vet crying in his beer. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart by airplane, for example. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In such a lonely void you can begin to understand how even the most significant objects–Pluto’s moon, for example–have escaped attention. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In 4/4 or 2/4 time, for example, the macrobeat is represented by quarter notes, while in 3/4 time it is represented by the dotted half. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not—safety, for example, or money, or power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Scientists who have studied faces, for example, report that there are huge differences among people in the location of facial muscles, in their form, and also — surprisingly — even in their prevalence. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would see his daughters, yes, but they knew he was safe now, and that money would be better spent elsewhere—in their college trusts, for example. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z These cases differ from that, for example, of Newtonian physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was Oedipus who killed Laius, for example, takes it for granted that someone killed Laius, the only question being who; the main clause of the sentence informs us who the who is. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In Hardin County, Texas, for example, opossums, armadillos, and an abundant raccoon population virtually disappeared after the chemical was laid down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes this makes things easier on instrumentalists; they may not have to learn different fingerings when they switch from one kind of saxophone to another, for example. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This meant, for example, the two separate notes G\\> and F# were combined into one, all-purpose note: one key represented them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Perhaps there is some major and as yet undiscovered atmospheric constituent—nitrogen, for example—which keeps the average molecular weight of the atmosphere high and prevents blowoff. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re usually very good at what we do. Sometimes we make mistakes. Me, for example, allowing myself to be alone with you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The gamelan orchestras of southeast Asia, for example, have an aesthetic preference for the "lively and full" sounds that come from instruments playing near, not on, the same pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The song “A Ram Sam Sam,” for example, is a traditional Moroccan folk song that contains many simple repeating patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Suppose you could go back into the past and change it—by persuading Queen Isabella not to support Christopher Columbus, for example. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All of us, for example, are descended at some point from hunter- gatherers, and many hunter-gatherers, by all accounts, had a pretty leisurely life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The two are basically the same thing, so as soon as Galileo had a telescope he could use it to study flies, for example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “This, for example, is the area surrounding one of the Peacekeepers’ barracks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Many of them are secondhand, all the classics for example, one volume in blue cloth boards cost one mark twenty pfennig. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone in yuppie-land—airports, for example—looks like a nursing baby these days, inseparable from their plastic bottles of water. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the reading had been wonderful; the Louisa Alcott books for example. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The honeysuckle in the upper left-hand corner, for example, echoes the contour of the adolescent’s back, while the two straws are virtually parallel to each other. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Alcantara, for example, told of one day double-parking his van in Harlem so that he could drop off something at a relative’s apartment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She can follow an object with her eyes, for example. Or smile when she recognizes her mother.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A symphony, for example, is usually a piece of music written for a fairly large number of instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z With you, for example, so that you understand some of the problems the chimps and the wild places face and can help to solve them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Practice describing different timbres of music—play different types of music on Pandora, for example, and try to describe the timbres you hear, including the vocal timbre of the singer or instrumental timbres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z So I only really knew that he was taking steroids every day, for example, when I saw him gagging down the syringes of bitter liquid in the kitchen every morning and night. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this century, for example, it was thought that everything could be explained in terms of the properties of continuous matter, such as elasticity and heat conduction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We would not deny, for example, that we had been responsible for acts of sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If I wanted to persuade you of continental drift, for example, I would point you to the classic papers on paleomagnetism and we could then go and make our measurements in the field. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was sometimes necessary to kill people, for example; and it was so much less troubling for the assassin if he could do so in a state of grace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you tell anyone? It seems like the sort of thing that would constitute news. It would seem you might tell your mother, for example, or your sisters, perhaps—someone.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The same applies, for example, to the Seven Years’ War and the Nine Years’ War. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And so, if he thinks one of his friends would like a version in a more Japanese style, for example, that’s what he makes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Jews were helping the nobility, but in doing so, in collecting taxes from the serfs and peasants, for example, they were building up against themselves the hatred of these oppressed classes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z If I strained a muscle during practice, for example, or felt fatigued after a long trip competing overseas, I would not hesitate to take time off to give my body and mind a rest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In your own way, for example; not in everybody else’s way.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I have my eye on a potato chip factory a ten-minute drive from the Blue Haven, for example, or I can always search out L.L. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Steve, for example, who comes to the school on Thursdays, needs help to eat his food and could not even fetch a stick. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In most newspaper writing, for example, all titles are in plain type, though not all go inside quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She, for example, has been at the Blue Haven for eleven years now. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom called in a few weeks and said that although the squat still needed a few finishing touches—a front door, for example—she and Dad were officially accepting visitors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Consider, for example, the problem created by the show’s insistence on being clever. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The King’s leitmotif, for example, might be 4 quarter notes played on a trumpet sound on a keyboard, or using an interval of a 5th on any instrument to sound regal and stately. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If, for example, I played you five very high pitched tones, you’d be able to tell them apart. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This member was usually not a Xhosa; Kathy, for example, was the fifth member of the High Organ for more than five years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who own a Hippogriff, for example, are bound by law to enchant the beast with a Disillusionment Charm to distort the vision of any Muggle who may see it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Is there anything you need in the way of furnishing, for example? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you learn anything? Just be there. Just be close and it will happen. You can’t catch a ball unless you’re in the ballpark! Take 105 for example,” she tries again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He did everything possible to probe and expose the hypocritical rhetoric surrounding the Indian Creek Dam—the state engineer’s pronouncement, for example, that it was “the only way to save a dying culture.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Take a minute, for example, to make a list of all the people you know whose death would leave you truly devastated. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first part of his epic Ring cycle, The Rhinegold, for example, angry diminished chords are often used to signify the dangerous power of the Ring itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Contra — Means lower: for example a contrabassoon sounds lower than a regular bassoon43 , and a contrabass clarinet is even lower than a bass clarinet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z At a concert in February 1814, for example, Beethoven presented the premiere of his eighth symphony alongside a performance of his seventh, which itself was only two months old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “You, for example, have one giant eyebrow and one tiny one.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The poor can see the affluent easily enough—on television, for example, or on the covers of magazines. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Party claimed, for example, that today forty per cent of adult proles were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been fifteen per cent. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If anything, a number in these contexts enhances individuality; no two people have the same credit-card number, for example, whereas many have similar names or personality traits or socioeconomic profiles. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An important Power, for example, was One who Guards the Cradle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold, for example, is too soft to be made into tools for farming or building. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She told him about how the barrier between the worlds had been breached by Lord Asriel, and about some of the consequences—the melting of the ice, for example. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “But you didn’t tell Walton, or Larsen, for example, when or where or how death would eventually come?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The strength of it frightened him, but it was a clean fear such as one might have before a magnificent force of nature—a volcano, for example. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In Britain, “corn” can mean the principal cereal crop in a region—oats in Scotland, for example, are sometimes referred to by the term. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With messages in English, for example, the pairing that turns up most often may well represent “TH,” the most common digraph in ordinary English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was possible, for example, that O. J. Simpson was both framed by the police and guilty of murder. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Could it be, for example, that Jennings is just more expressive in general than his colleagues? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There just wasn’t sufficient reason to invent, for example, the telescope when you had an astronomical theory which, with extraordinary mathematics, could fit the appearances. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “My son serves on the Council of Defense, for example. And Mr. Nefrger on the draft board, and—” Each word she spoke got higher and more shrill. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But some I did not know; for example, I knew practically nothing about the Atlas booster, the one that was used to put a Mercury spacecraft into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most TB patients, for example, were treated in their huts by one of the clinic’s health workers, and the entire cost was usually no more than $200 per patient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Both, for example, were fastidious, very attentive to hygiene and the condition of their fingernails. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Both transverse and longitudinal waves cause a displacement of something: air molecules, for example, or the surface of the ocean. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Take starting a private high school for the Negroes, for example. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyle, for example, could place a lit candle in his globe, or a bird; although insects and frogs could be passed through the mercury into the Torricellian space, flames and birds could not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A sign is that from which something else is inferred, for example murder from blood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many objects exist to be exchanged and consumed: sacks of grain, for example, are turned into bread. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Kingdom of Armenia, for example, established Christianity as its official religion in 301, and Armenians held on to their religious independence even when they were subsumed into the later Persian and Arabic Empires. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Reese, for example, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals described a drug task force completely corrupted by its dependence on federal drug money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Had I ever, for example, read the work of James Cone? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Some of these safe areas must be kept under constant wizarding supervision; for example, dragon reservations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our teammates thought it was funny, for example, to ask Josh and me if we really liked to eat fried chicken and watermelon for dinner. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The club’s coffin, for example, had once been used to transport the body of a member who had committed suicide. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A verdict of guilty in a capital case required a complete proof of guilt, for example the testimony of two witnesses who had seen the crime occur, or a confession. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Vermont, for example, the end results of bacterial control were as good as those obtained with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Take, for example, the evolution of Galileo’s thinking on the question of buoyancy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a great name, Jonas thought, like—well, like Gabriel, for example. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Galileo, for example, liked to keep as close to geometry as he could. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Propeller research, for example, had been one of Langley’s most important lines of inquiry from its inception through the lead-up to the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Disgust, for example, is 1, contempt is 2, anger is 7, defensiveness is 10, whining is 11, sadness is 12, stonewalling is 13, neutral is 14, and so on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I thought of the people I’d read about—John F. Kennedy, James Joyce, Humphrey Bogart—who went to boarding school, and their adventures—Kennedy, for example, loved pranks. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Divine light, for example, is sometimes indicated by golden rays, at other times by a halo or aura. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Crime became real, for example—for the first time—not as a possibility but as the possibility. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Teachers with the ability to read music notation, for example, felt more positively about including music in their classroom, and were more likely to use music in their teaching. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At the tournament in Savannah that the Fugees had raked leaves to attend, for example, locals who’d read about the team came to watch them play and to cheer them on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Mort Sahl remarked about the 1980 election, for example, that people weren’t so much voting for Reagan as they were voting against Carter, and that if Reagan had run unopposed he would have lost. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1622, for example, a fleet of Dutch ships tried to seize the Portuguese colony of Maçao. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The atomists, for example, believed that the universe is made up of little particles called atoms, which are indivisible and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You two seem, to have talked a lot. Did you tell the detective anything else? About our hideout, for example?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “With our screecher friend, for example, I’m afraid we haven’t been of much use to you.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But others—single mothers for example—have nothing but their own wages to live on, no matter how many mouths there are to feed. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, for example, am I supposed to leave her with my purse while she doesn’t even trust me not to sprinkle some drug-dissolving substance into my urine? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only easy-to-find items in this category are Indian Classical music, for example the performances of Ravi Shankar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When the prosecutor asked Angel where Jordan had hit Gerald, for example, Angel pointed to the doll’s back and face. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z New signs were created by combining old signs to produce new meanings: for example, the sign for head was combined with the sign for bread in order to produce a sign signifying eat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On Nissan Island in the South Pacific, for example, spraying had been carried on intensively during the Second World War, but was stopped when hostilities came to an end. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At work, for example, when he would staple “FYI—For Your Information” notes to legal briefs and corporate returns that I had to review, he signed them at the bottom: “FYI—Forever You & I.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z People can and do eat their grain; in the Middle East, for example, the wild barley harvest from a small piece of land can feed a family. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 phrase volley of abuse, for example, uses the image of a fusillade of bullets to describe an outpouring of anger. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lots... of programs use the Internet: electronic mail, for example, was around long before the global hypertext system I invented and called the World Wide Web.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “The Germans, for example. The Germans don’t like us. ‘Because of our religious.’ Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Something she very probably hadn’t done in five or six years—when, for example, halfway home on the Lexington Avenue bus, she discovered she had left her scarf back at the movies. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Leukemia may occur as a two-step process, the malignant change being initiated by X-radiation, the promoting action being supplied by a chemical, as, for example, urethane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I could not, for example, attend my son’s birthday party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This class was an elective, so there was flexibility in the roster—we weren’t all in the same grade; Leilani and Shauna, for example, were juniors. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Merchandisers, for example, might look at two golfers, one lower middle class, the other wealthy, and know that they read the same golf magazine, see the same advertisements, and possibly buy the same quality driver. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In this respect the Scientific Revolution is quite unlike, for example, the First World War, where there is general agreement on what it was and a fair amount of agreement on why it happened. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Take for example the world of business corporations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z David Greybeard, for example, was a calm chimp who liked to keep out of trouble. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z One could, for example, argue that far from there being one earthly sphere floating in the ocean it was now apparent that there were two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I am, for example, a materialist largely because I was brought up to believe in the central mystery of the Church—the redemptive Incarnation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In Virginia, for example, fees paid to court-appointed attorneys for representing someone charged with a felony that carries a sentence of less than twenty years are capped at $428. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The songs “This Old Man,” “Skip to My Lou,” “Shoo Fly,” “Bow Belinda,” and “Sandy Land,” for example, are all able to be sung simultaneously. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z All of life was impermanent, for example—a thing she thought about every day. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A number of YouTube videos provide comparisons that you can listen to, for example comparisons of just intonation and equal temperament, or comparisons of various temperaments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In Choctaw lore, for example, the Creator breathed life into not one but many primeval pairs of human beings scattered all over the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When judges have discretion, they may consider a defendant’s background and impose a lighter penalty if the defendant’s personal circumstances—extreme poverty or experience of abuse, for example—warrant it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Figure 1.66: Any common note length can be divided into an unusual number of equal-length notes and rests, for example by dividing a whole note into three instead of two 11half11 notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Once, for example, he and Duma Nokwe flew on the same plane from Durban to Johannesburg, and when the airline bus to town refused to take Duma, Kennedy refused to ride in it as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Here’s a hint: If you can substitute a noun for the ing word—departure in place of going, for example, or habit tot smoking—then treat it like a noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder, for example, if there’s a variation of today where I die going off that cliff. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Flies in Canada, for example, have been slower to develop resistance than those in southern United States, where long hot summers favor a rapid rate of reproduction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When, for example, he posed the rhetorical question, “Is survival possible when civilization reverts to the law of the jungle?” his devoted listeners recognized the reference to Africa and African Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s possible, yes. Just talking about a particular memory can help you to clarify things, going over the details in a setting in which you feel safe and relaxed . . .” “Like here, for example?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “And there are plenty of animals that can create enough galvanic force for a spark. Clip eels, for example, can generate enough to kill a man, and they’re only a couple of feet long.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The finbacks, for example, emit extremely loud sounds at a frequency of twenty Hertz, down near the lowest octave on the piano keyboard. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules governing what colors a house could be painted, for example. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, suggestions are heard here and there that these sterilizing chemicals might be applied as aerial sprays — for example, to coat the foliage chewed by gypsy moth larvae. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A green monkey, for example, has been observed calling ‘Careful! A lion!’ when there was no lion around. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had obvious defects: it could not, for example, explain the inheritance of characteristics from the father; in 1752 Maupertuis showed that polydactylism could be inherited in the male as well as the female line. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Well, for example, can fathers grab their daughters here? Or here? Can they touch them like this?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One set, for example, was simple aptitude tests developed by the Institute for Educational Research, a precursor to the group that now develops the SATs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To create the possessive of something that’s normally in quotation marks—for example, the title of a poem, “The Raven”—you would have to put the apostrophe outside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose, for example, that I played you a number of different musical tones, at random, and asked you to identify each one with a number. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But there are alternatives: One could peer inside using some sort of periscopelike magnifying device, for example. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Anna Howard Shaw, for example, said she would never march “under the suffragette flag” of the British protesters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1662, for example, John Graunt published the numbers dying in London, the cause of death and his estimate of their age at death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In "four four time," for example, there are four beats in a measure and a quarter note gets one beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It is pleasant to sit quietly somewhere, in the beer garden for example, under the chestnuts by the skittle-alley. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, not all pieces of the package spread to all those outlying areas: for example, Egypt was too warm for einkorn wheat to become established. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He is beginning to think about varieties of one single color, differences of tone, for example, in the same family of yellow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If you can help your lifeboat get broadside to the waves by other means, with an oar for example, apply yourself right away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Many words that mean a group of things—total, majority, and number, for example—can be singular or plural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its three integrated computers and most of its housekeeping functions—for example, its temperature-control system—are localized in its middle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just try, for example, to reread this paragraph by staring straight ahead at the center of the page. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other day, for example, they went through a box of Christmas ornaments from the 1930s that Vivian had forgotten she kept. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And if it wasn’t there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The word articulation generally refers to how the pieces of something are joined together; for example, how bones are connected to make a skeleton or syllables are connected to make a word. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Like a motif, a subject has often changed when it reappears, sounding higher or lower, for example, or faster or slower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z How did he know she had not been wounded, for example, and unable to travel long distances? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long, for example, until a new arrival in the block pointed to another kind of untouchable: “the ugly trans-sexual.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A woman was often referred to by her husband's name—as Jacob's wife, for example—while children were sometimes known according to who their parents or grandparents were. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Though, on other occasions, for example, when I would hear my mother busily speaking to women, it would occur to me that my attachment to words made me like her. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The general sound that one would expect of a type of instrument — a trombone for example is usually called its timbre or color. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I could imagine, for example, a key instrument failure in Chryse just after an unfortunate crash landing in Cydonia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The average American, for example, can distinguish easily between the verses and refrain of any pop song, but will have trouble recognizing what is going on in a piece of music for Balinese gamelan. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Craig, for example, got a new bike one summer and rode it east to Lake Michigan, to the paved pathway along Rainbow Beach, where you could feel the breeze off the water. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One of the most infamous incidents in New York City history, for example, was the 1964 stabbing death of a young Queens woman by the name of Kitty Genovese. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Brinker for example had begun a long, decisive sequence of withdrawals from school activity ever since the morning I deserted his enlistment plan. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There are even a number of present-day human cultures in which collective fatherhood is practised, as for example among the Barí Indians. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that Ocean, for example, would never befriend me beyond this school assignment. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I heard this one, for example, from Mitchell Sanders. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the smaller things—like human beings, for example—can also change and affect the bigger things in the universe.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Jonas’s mother for example, had higher intelligence than his father; but his father had a calmer disposition. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth had, of course, been invited before by other people—the night watchman, for example—but she had always said no. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They try to incorporate Gogol into similar plans; this summer, for example, they are thinking of renting a house on the coast of Brittany. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He got carried away by things; for example, he was so fascinated by the tilting planes of solid geometry that he did almost as badly in trigonometry as I did myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, things can happen in between the beats, too, but the timing for those is also coordinated using the beats; for example, a note might begin at exactly the halfway point between two beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I mean if he were a girl—somebody in my dorm, for example—he’d have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Well, Mr. Mandela,” she said, “we must not take that too far because we don’t know when it was made. Perhaps, for example, his parents had it tattooed on him?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To complete one, you stopped at each cell on a gallery and said, for example, “L-3, where are you going this afternoon?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The grocer family around the corner who had gone out of business, for example. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would be the last person to say that it was all your fault. The Dixons’ move to Florida, for example. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Secondly, it is a question about intellectual tools: the concept of laws of nature, for example, shapes the sorts of questions scientists ask and the sorts of answers nature provides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the weeks and months that followed the Diallo shooting, for example, as the case made headlines around the world, the argument over what happened that night veered back and forth between two extremes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It is true, for example, that racial incidents, followed by calls for tolerance and understanding, are a more-or-less permanent feature of the American landscape, durable as the Rocky Mountains, familiar as the Mississippi River. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The fact that I can make a vacuum in the laboratory, for example, need not mean that a vacuum can ever occur in nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If a player attempts twenty shots per night, for example, the probability is surprisingly almost 50 percent that he will hit at least four straight baskets sometime during the game. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When France needed to devalue its currency, for example, they told the IMF in advance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At one point, for example, Sherman sat down with a towheaded five-year-old named Walker and a four- and-a-half-year-old named Anna in a purple-and-white checked skirt. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought about the reasons behind different beliefs—no pork, for example, came from the old days when pork was the first meat to spoil. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At that very moment, for example, Will was inside the walls of the Ashers’ apartment building, navigating with the help of an outmoded dumbwaiter that probably no one but him knew existed anymore. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The air armies were set up in divisions, each with its own job—for example, bomber, fighter, or ground attack. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z News of a wedding, for example, meant that the bride’s family would be preparing much food in the days preceding the ceremony; their rubbish heap would merit special attention during that time. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A can of a mothproofing material containing DDD, for example, carries in very fine print the warning that its contents are under pressure and that it may burst if exposed to heat or open flame. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If you have a strongly pro-white pattern of associations, for example, there is evidence that that will affect the way you behave in the presence of a black person. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The object, for example, pretty much has to come after the verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Different hypotheses might produce the same result: for example an eccentric circle will generate exactly the same movement as an epicycle upon a deferent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She had learned, for example, that Bien was a kind of secret weapon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Other musical traditions — traditional Chinese music for example — have divided the octave differently and so they use different scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That argument goes on today as, for example, we debate how closely to regulate coal mining. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the ultimate explanations—for example, why bronze tools appeared early in parts of Eurasia, late and only locally in the New World, and never in Aboriginal Australia—remain unclear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Liberians, for example, often moved to Iowa; Somalis to Minneapolis or Lewiston, Maine; and Sudanese to Omaha, Nebraska, to seek out the support of communities of family, friends, and countrymen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z There was Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, for example, and they were all out to kill him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms, for example ...” The Controller nodded his approbation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks would figure out the ratio by dividing the line into tiny pieces, using, for example, a standard or yardstick half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We can sequence human DNA, and identify genetic mutations that cause, for example, diabetes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My oldest friend, Bruce, for example, I met in first grade, so I’m the responsible party. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the time, for example, when a bunch of us were desperate to go out and practise rounders during break, because we’d been challenged by a group from the year above. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after taking command of the Continental Army in July 1775, for example, he learned that his soldiers had only 36 barrels of gunpowder—about nine shots for each man. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The pump bucket and pump handle, for example, were straightforward applications of existing technologies, and the boiler was basically a large brewer’s copper. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Gosling says, for example, that a person’s bedroom gives three kinds of clues to his or her personality. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “It’s about labor. The good things that were achieved—the railways, for example—but also how labor was exploited and the lengths the colonial enterprise went to.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Some inmates, for example, would try to flush something huge, like a bedsheet, in hopes it might foul up the entire block’s plumbing or allow them to flood the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pa isn’t the kind of man for whom I can feel what I feel for you, for example, or for Mauve,” Vincent tells Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One of the standard myths about children’s television, for example, had always been that kids love to watch animals. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Olga was almost the same age as Bobby, she treated him in a motherly way—for example, by preparing the foods she knew he preferred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If, for example, we are in the family or key of G, the chord of G - the triad G-B-D - is ‘home’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ebony magazine, for example, ran an article in December 2006 entitled “Where Have the Black Men Gone?” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Well-known segregationist George Wallace, for example, argued that “the same Supreme Court that ordered integration and encouraged civil rights legislation” was now “bending over backwards to help criminals.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All cats, for example, from the smallest house kitten to the most ferocious lion, share a common feline ancestor who lived about 25 million years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Any note can be flat or sharp, so you can have, for example, an E sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Paraguay’s right-wing national police chief, for example, named his son Adolfo Hirohito, a tribute to Hitler and his soon-to-be ally, the emperor of Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There was the time, for example, maybe a few weeks after the talk by the pond, when Miss Lucy was taking us for English. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Ideally, it should be possible to formulate every scientific argument in syllogistic terms, a syllogism being, for example: All men are mortal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That’s true, for example, of gazelles, which for thousands of years were the most frequently hunted game species in some parts of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mulefa couples, for example, on entering marriage, would exchange strips of bright copper, which were bent around the base of one of their horns with much the same meaning as a wedding ring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Did they mutter any tribal incantations while they did the killings, for example? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z What would happen, for example, if you drilled a tunnel down through the centre of the Earth and then dropped an object into the tunnel? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z |
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