When a child learns language, they undergo a very extensive form of enculturation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A new opportunity to theorize soon brought Francis back to normal form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Mouths opened and closed all across its painted form. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Looking at the specimens he had collected, Charles realized that species were forming and changing all the time, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the pastness of the past: how the moment I am alive in, prisoned in, moves like a slowly tumbling form through darkness, the underground river. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three senior satyrs were there, along with Chiron, who was in wheelchair form. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He tried to paint a bowl of gold ingots, but instead a bowl of foul-smelling, rotten dumplings formed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dri emptied the wrenches and rope and hammer from the plastic milk crate, and then she lined the crate with the patch of tarp we’d just cut to form a sort of bowl. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1872 he published this record in book form and called it The Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now wheeling swiftly across it, like shadows of untimely night, he saw in the middle airs below him five birdlike forms, horrible as carrion-fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was in my nightgown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s good to know that you think your mother is more than a form of government.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She even put her hands together to form a heart. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The others followed till their hands seemed to form a giant fist. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the revolution, they’d claimed land and formed small shared farms. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

Teaching a song using solfege rather than the lyrics helps the listener hear patterns and intervals, and even understand phrases and form that otherwise might be obscured by lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This one was formed of a heavy spiral of white shell and had a hole bored at the center to allow it to be hung around the neck. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The screen responded as quickly as thought itself, and out of the welter of lines and flashes a series of pictures formed with perfect clarity: compasses, alpha and omega again, lightning, angel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blinked, wiping away the sweat forming on my neck. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I told you I delivered that form last week,” he’s saying. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

This time the current was left on for more than two minutes, during which witnesses heard the grinding of Kemmler’s teeth and saw blood drops from burst capillaries form on his cheeks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To some the term microbial insecticide may conjure up pictures of bacterial warfare that would endanger other forms of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Several Indigenous nations formed alliances in the heart of the Ohio Country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

His themes are the primitive form of warfare and the modern form of warfare. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In some warped and exaggerated form, it seemed like the same kind of impulse as getting wild on a Saturday night, letting off steam after a week of tension or boredom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he filled out all kinds of forms—from the bookstore and from the government for taxes—they officially took his picture. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Every stroke he took thus offered each boy the possibility of a wet, cold, and spectacularly public form of humiliation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There he seized Proteus and did not let him go, in spite of the terrible forms he assumed, until the god was discouraged and returned to his own shape. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief" in order that the case might remain in its simplest form. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

However, when ice crystals form, they will have definite positions and will be lined up in some direction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The form clearly states that the parent or guardian must give permission.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, the ditch and trees curved back again in a re-entrant, so that the field formed a bay with a bank running all the way round. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, not everyone has welcomed the meltdown between classical music and the diverse forms of popular music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In his rainy form, he was sluggish and warm and random. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jason yelled in Latin, ordering them to form ranks and attack. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve witnessed him have so many panic attacks that I can spot them before they fully form. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Cooking fires had spread up and down the park, and lines were forming, to get the bread or the tents that the demon soldiers were handing out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Left by ourselves, we walked out on the lawn, where we formed a starched, uncomfortable, and resentful group. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take this entry on noun plurals, from, of all books, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: Nouns derived from foreign languages form plurals in different ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I spent a whole day on that form. I thought I filled it out right.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to revive her by tapping her cheeks, then eased her bulky form onto its side and left her to recover. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The man emerged and took form in the light from the doorway. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Zooey turned and looked at her, and—unpredictable young man—made a very dour face, as though he had suddenly eschewed any and all forms of levity. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

For all I knew, a man with that much conviction might even form an expedition into space, like Lewis and Clark. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put the form, completed, in a small black tray hanging off the side of the registration desk. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Frank hadn’t been sure the roots would still smell when he changed form. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Blisters formed on his heels, and his shoulders ached from the pack. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it only returned when it was in pen form I didn’t know, and I wasn’t going to live long enough to figure it out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The first couple of hours usually went by fast, since there were forms to fill out and interesting conversations going on around us as the women told each other their stories. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They would form a net, a circle; Spender knew that. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they’d gotten the party started, they’d fan out to form a semicircle around the stage with a gap in the back for Hitler to enter. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, no one speaks to me or even looks at me except to proffer an application form. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I averted my eyes as the goddess turned into her true divine form and disappeared in a blaze of fight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was, instead, the subtle curve of the cupped hand—the metal flesh sloping gently upward to form a kind of great shallow bowl so that you couldn’t simply walk off the edge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had consistently been ranked in the top four for years and formed the nexus of the team, leaving the other two spots open for wildcards like me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What is their form, biochemistry, neurobiology, history, politics, science, technology, art, music, religion, philosophy? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The empousai emerged from the rocks all around them—five of them forming a ring. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I lecture to this social action group he was going to form somewhere in Brooklyn Heights? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Gabe seemed to like it in Jonas’s room, he would sleep there at night a little longer, until the habit of sound sleep was fully formed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can form a car pool or get them rides,” Mama offers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A trickle of fear formed in the back of Dorian’s mind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hawk Mountain is a picturesque mountaintop in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the easternmost ridges of the Appalachians form a last barrier to the westerly winds before dropping away toward the coastal plain. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He turned one of her hands palm up and, with his thumb, drew little circles where the lines formed a star. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The disk’s script was a syllabary with more signs, of more complex form, than the Roman alphabet used by Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to form the shape of a great jeweled cup. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be a civil, solitary form of corruption. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the second jolt arrived in the form of the January 1 issue of Physical Review. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He sat and tried to bring back memories, but every effort evaporated into oblivious mist before anything formed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Soon,” the Titan growled, "this form will be unnecessary. I will not rest with victory so close. Now, go!" The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That is, to objectify in words some insight derived from my living in the form of action, scene, and dialogue. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Silas has the kind of freckles that make you want to connect the dots to form constellations and dragons and things. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

How do we change—within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His goal was to create a system of power-sharing based on group rights, which would preserve a modified form of minority power in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you launch a new musical form, though, what you need is a composer of such stature and brilliance that there is a decent chance of someone taking your new art form seriously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her escort was forming up inside the gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With DNA too, Watson and Crick realized, the form of the molecule had to be intrinsically linked to function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This was politics, yes, but in its most fractious and cynical form, seemingly disconnected from any larger sense of purpose. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Frequent changes of shape in a child’s dæmon, and a wide variety of forms to assume, were a good indicator of intelligence and curiosity. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she and Robert stepped into Tonie’s boat, with the red lateen sail, misty spirit forms were prowling in the shadows and among the reeds, and upon the water were phantom ships, speeding to cover. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

No trumpets blew to rouse the men to mount up, form column, prepare to march. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You heard what I said. No form, no visiting the village. That’s the rule.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At other times it took the form of a dark, fanged beast, and hovered constantly over my dizzy head, as if about to pounce on me and gouge my guts out with its monstrous talons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of the geas slams down on me, and I know that if I tried to speak, my mouth wouldn’t be able to form those forbidden words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My scalp is throbbing; a tender lump has formed where my head hit the floor in the train station. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She could barely form his name on her lips. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry and you must dismiss it, like one of those annoying personal questions you find so often nowadays on supposedly impersonal forms." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small line formed between the innkeeper’s eyebrows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ice had formed in its shaggy grey fur, and the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I liked the way he formed his vowels. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The trees were still too thin to overlap and form real walls, but they were thickening up as everyone stood and watched. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I was sorry to hear about Beckendorf” A lump formed in my throat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

While the candy was still soft, I pushed a glass rod into it—borrowed from Miss Riley’s lab supplies—forming a spindle hole. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that the body and mind are so affected by music forms the basis for most music therapy. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The entire impossible structure took the form of a seraph. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We might joke about looking “kempt” or being "couth," but in fact the negatives have no opposite forms—they’re either obsolete rarities or whimsical inventions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is why creativity was once a concept reserved for God, as only He could give material form to an idea. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Committees had already been formed to consider the sterilization of unfit men and women—epileptics, criminals, deaf-mutes, the feebleminded, those with eye defects, bone deformities, dwarfism, schizophrenia, manic depression, or insanity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It took Claire longer than she had expected to make her way through the narrow shadowed tunnel that the crevice had formed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As he arranged Master’s books, he promised himself, stopping short of speaking aloud, that he would learn how to sign forms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now,” exclaimed the Gran, “for the reason we’re all gathered here tonight. The forming of the covens.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cole swallowed a big lump that had formed in his throat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A lump forms in my throat and I want the talons off. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

These archaic humans loved, played, formed close friendships and competed for status and power—but so did chimpanzees, baboons and elephants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I somehow didn’t picture him with a family at all. Funny, no? What did I think? Maybe I just imagined he was born fully formed, like that goddess from the head of Zeus.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Pickett’s troops were beginning to form in the fields to the west, out of sight of the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the island, two massive black boulders formed the entrance to a tunnel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Strength comes in all kinds of forms, you know. I think your momma’s strength came in leaving—not in staying.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It looked as if they had formed teams. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"He crept down the kingsroad in the night, and now his host is less than a mile north of here, forming up in battle array." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tears formed in my eyes, making Mami’s face look out of focus. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Scar tissue had formed a knot on the bottom of his foot. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, at least, as relieved as she’ll allow herself to be, which is a very guarded form of relief. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The knife hovered over the cutting board, and her eyebrows dipped to form a V. “Why on Earth would you think that?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then more reeds were tied together to form paddles. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, if I had to guess, I’d say it was an old thought, formed over years of exclusion by the other oblates. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If he was standing on his broken chair, waiting for a crowd to form, he would talk to me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Other smaller forms darted through the clouds, circling the monster. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My childhood involved church, or some form of church, at least four nights a week. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You could relinquish him to an orphanage here, then file an orphan petition. Start your 1-600 form and your home study while he’s in a safe place.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our throats and voice boxes, formed from the same instructions, press air out in similar tones and decibels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Guests were blocked at the door and they formed groups on the front porch and in the yard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Min had shaped and then carved the clay to form curve of wing and tilt of head. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It’s Tuesday, and we’re all in school mode again, like Cinderella and the mice coachmen all gone back to their ordinary form. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lawrence reasoned, however, that although domestic sources of uranium ore were practically nonexistent, uranium was plentiful in another form: tons of uranium tailings piled up as waste at Oak Ridge and Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The jig-saw pieces came together piece by piece, and the real Rebecca took shape and form before me, stepping from her shadow world like a living figure from a picture frame. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Others lock arms and form a human chain. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After the invention of the fact, testimony could be approached with a form of systematized distrust. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I look away so she doesn’t see my own tears forming. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A little cave formed in the hard ground, and Håkon dove into it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The whole street trembled and cracks formed in the walls of Ishtar's house. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Grain by grain, molecule by molecule, carbohydrate fuel in the form of glucose is fed into this wheel; in its cyclic passage the fuel molecule undergoes fragmentation and a series of minute chemical changes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Learning is the greatest form of happiness known to man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could dimly see the grey forms of two elves sitting motionless with their arms about their knees, speaking in whispers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Within minutes a procession had formed, which began to snake its way up through the garden toward the marquee. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Both Mom and Dad signed the consent form. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But there is no collective term for all the different positions which have in common a recognition that some forms of knowledge of nature are more successful than others, and that consequently knowledge can progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hang up and put the old form away. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were straight of form and noble of face. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. The old patriarchal chastity belt. Now in convenient ring form,” Adina snarled. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She and Levi had gone to the local Chevrolet dealer to fill out the entry form and pick up a copy of the official rules, which read like a familiarization manual for an airplane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s a new longma!” he said with excitement, and then with even more excitement said, “Why, it’s BaiMa! He finally got his immortal form!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She could see their neurons firing, feel their impulses forming. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Up close, his lightning bolt appeared as a bronze rod a metre long, pointed on both ends, with blades of energy extending from both sides to form a javelin of white electricity. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then, suddenly, all the fires on the hillside form one great wall of fire stretching across the city and— it’s inevitable now—start moving down toward them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Growling and snarling, they formed a half-moon circle around him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A key forms in his hands, blacked out and ever-shifting, its own surface coated with the same endless patterns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He can’t form in broad daylight. It’s hard for him. But he's around somewhere.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A glass vial shatters on the floor, spilling thick blood that forms the shape of a grinning death’s head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, too exhausted to form words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, if you can imagine, the line to see Fumulani on Independence Day began forming early, right around the time my father stepped up to the bar at General Grocery. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a primitive form of interactive programming, members of the television audience phoned the studio to offer their suggested next move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head was fully formed, but her face was still a blank. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Jennifer had an order form pad from when her school had sold wrapping paper and her mother was the head of the PTA. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The squire brought down, and gave Demodokos, the clear-toned harp; and centering on the minstrel magical young dancers formed a circle with a light beat, and stamp of feet. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not for the tightness of Booth’s boot, which forms an immediate splint, the bone would be poking through the skin. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He refused to travel down to Chamisaville to fill out the government forms for welfare, for food stamps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This ragged group then joined several hundred American prisoners of war on a forced trek to Mampo, a small town on the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was riding in fine form, everything clicking, the broken bones mended, his timing right. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a great figure in the^ history of virus hunting, having discovered and> named some of the most dangerous life forms on. the planet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough of them to form recognizable letters or shapes—except for a capital “I”—so they didn’t march much at halftimes of games. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The artist on this platform holds pieces of flame in her bare hands, and she forms them into snakes and flowers and all manner of shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The autopsy report claimed that the channel of pus formed as a result of infection caused by the tiny splintered bones broken off by the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The poison forms a tenacious film over the leaves and bark. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Hi...um...I just wanted to make sure that my family is all up to date. You know, with the forms we need to file for electricity help.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Results in deep understanding about the art form. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Jethro was seeing in his mind’s eye gray-clad men standing side by side, forming a single line across miles of fields, hills, and rivers; grim, forbidding men except for one familiar face. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grins and a dimple forms just under his right eye. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t mention that misguided trip to Baton Rouge. That incident, I believe, caused me to form a mental block against working.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she got to the last name and hung the form on the door, Njemile raised her hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They held voter registration classes, showing people how to fill out the required forms and encouraged them to go down to the courthouse and attempt to register. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in camp rumors were constantly spreading, dying, and spreading again in different form. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A young White House aide, Egil Krogh, came up with the idea of parking sixty buses around the building, bumper to bumper, to form a makeshift barricade. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With Molly still looking at him, he dropped over the bridge, grabbed the form around the piling, and climbed down to the river shore. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Another form asks for details about what’s happened in the deportation process so far. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips tried to form the warning words, but not fast enough. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His shadowy form stands at the end of the stacks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If the Children’s League was formed to end the camps, why did you even bother getting me and Martin? Why didn’t you just blow up the Control Tower while you were there?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If it had ever held answers about my grandfather—in the form of letters, maybe, or a photo album or a diary—they’d probably burned up or rotted away decades ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even form the word in his mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them lay a wide-open and exposed gulf formed by the curvature of the northern shore. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He always understood immediately what was wrong, and generally he could put it right It was nice for the dogs to have their god with them, in visible form. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most other places it was instead imported, in the form of crops and livestock that had been domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He denounced excessive partisanship, most especially when it took the form of political parties pursuing a vested ideological agenda or sectional interest groups oblivious to the advantages of cooperation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The other way is to simply give a name to a form that is very common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We stood on the volcanic surface of Io while our teacher explained how the moon had originally formed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had to get permits, fill out dozens of forms, and organize plane flights and car transport in a region where there were no airports or roads. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we are also servants of fire. Because fire is the most common form of energy, and without energy, our prowess as sympathists is of little use.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These formed a kind of dry oasis—a little feature common on the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

White Citizens Councils had formed to take jobs away from people who joined the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“No, there aren’t any forms for you to sign. All I need is my computerized class schedule from Lake Windsor Middle. No forms. No mothers.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the emptiness in Nathan’s stomach made his tummy growl, a new emptiness had formed in his chest, and it overwhelmed his hunger. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

People, mostly neighbors from the alley, were standing in neat circles, almost as if they had formed ranks intentionally. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nondisclosure form stipulating that father and son would not tell anyone what had gone on inside the prison. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Patiently he began to form a plan in his mind. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about your urge to mutilate the human form,” he asked me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They form a circle and shake their butts against me, which makes me laugh. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bobby played this form of chess at Nigro’s insistence and wasn’t particularly good at it, but it did quicken his appraisal of the position at hand and forced him to trust his instincts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her art teacher had said that the Renaissance was a period of glorification of the human form; as best she could figure out, that meant bare bodies. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even had the commercial smarts to form a film syndicate, based on the fame of his expedition photographer, an Australian named Frank Hurley. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The science explains why, for all the growth in our other gadgets, television remains the single most dominant form of media. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nico stared at the canals, as if wondering what new and interesting forms of evil spirits might be lurking there. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Dark magic formed us from animal, bronze, and ghost! We exist to feed on the blood of young men. Now come, give me that kiss!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We’d form a deep personal bond, and slowly, without realizing it, I’d become a character in her story, and she in mine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What was the link between a “gene for redness” and “redness” itself—between information and its physical or anatomical form? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Percy imagined that sleeping woman’s face—the face of Gaea—forming in the hills above camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tumblers who came next failed to move her either, even when they formed a human pyramid nine levels high, with a naked little girl on top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the forms of the signs became more abstract, especially when the pointed writing tools were replaced by reed styluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was breathing so heavily that his lips could not form a single word. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Not having a body in hand, not having the lifeless form to send with the flag, they would not acknowledge that there was a death at all. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other parts we have to crawl at an excruciatingly slow pace, because of rocks bulldozed into five-foot berms, intentionally formed into a maze designed to direct the flow of water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Without much discussion a committee formed made up of everyone there. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These success stories reinforce perceptions of mobility, as does cultural mythmaking in the form of television programs like American Idol and The Apprentice. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wind was gentle; it tangled my hair and ruffled the grass that swayed around his motionless form. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t let anyone in without a release form. If your face ends up on camera and a parent hasn’t signed off, the company could get sued.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sheep graze many winter ranges where the big sagebrush forms almost pure stands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once they got out of camp, the Fifth Cohort formed two lines behind their centurions, Dakota and Gwen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If they have heard many symphonies, they also would not be at all surprised if the first movement is in sonata form and the third movement is based on a dance. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

First they assume the form of elongated threads, on which the genes are aligned, like beads on a string. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee grabbed its bumper, falling onto his sled, and one by one we formed a chain, hanging on the feet in front of us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now let’s try the test again, in a slightly different form. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Bittersteel saw the strength of House Blackfyre scattering to the four winds, so he formed the Golden Company to bind the exiles together. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Keep in mind that any lesson can be made into an arts-integrated one, by simply delving in deeper to the art form itself to find structural details and meaning from which to draw. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was the same exquisite scent that clung to his jacket, but in a more concentrated form. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A number of committees were formed that day, but the primary purpose of the Youth League was to give direction to the ANC in its quest for political freedom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moore signed a consent form saying the hospital could “dispose of any severed tissue or member by cremation,” and Golde removed his spleen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Writers would now be free to make their political contributions in the form of their creative work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freshman English was taught by a cheerful woman in her late twenties who kept talking about something called the “essay form,” which, she assured us, we had learned in high school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning she woke before first light and crept sleepily to her window to watch Lord Beric form up his men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But with the exception of Goedart, they used dried, secondhand specimens to form their theories. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad told me that his older children’s lack of formal education reflected their sacrifice to form the backbone for today’s Universities of Islam in Detroit and Chicago which have better-qualified faculties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The form corse is sometimes used in poetry; as in the poem on the Burial of Sir John Moore: New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought had barely formed in his mind before a bolt of white light shot past him and slammed into the chest of a woman standing in the group by the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"We will not countenance any aggressive violence. Understand? Nor attacks upon officials or others who do not attack us. We are against all forms of violence, do you understand?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty soldiers moved toward us, forming an olive-drab square with one end open. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kvasir shouted at the Aesir, ordering them to form into two groups, one on one end of the net, one on the other. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There, in the lee where a fallen tree rested against a standing trunk, lay two little black furry forms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A small crowd had already formed in front of a podium and stage outside City Hall by the time they reached downtown. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was completely dark and everything outside was calm, like the snow had formed a cocoon over the world. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He stared at the dark monstrous forms hidden in the fog, and said at last, “The crags....It must be Esherhoth Crags.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the delegates left for the convention, some of the members, who didn’t think that women should be delegates, had resigned and formed an all-male group, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It should, by all rights, be called the Farewell Letter, for it was in form and tone an open letter to the American people, telling them they were now on their own. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, they form along the length of the tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Carbon joins with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which plants need to live, and nitrogen is in the air we breathe and the fertilizer we need to grow crops. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kissed those enticing lips—they could not kiss him back; he caressed her hands, her face—they were unresponsive; he took her in his arms—she remained a cold and passive form. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She forms her hands into a finger tiara and pretends to place it on her head and says, “What they don’t know will never hurt them, right?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Seven yelled, and the crowd turned to look just as the Witchlings’ crone disguises melted away completely and their true forms were revealed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before, when our tongues touched, when I was on the other side of it, it felt like another form of intimate conversation. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

While under formal control, virtually every aspect of one’s life is regulated and monitored by the system, and any form of resistance or disobedience is subject to swift sanction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Trying to be pleasant, they give Dad forms to sign. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Agent Jones tore up the early retirement form. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the dining table with his laptop open, sorting through school forms and gymnastics permissions slips for Adria and me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now, can anyone tell me what the adjectival form would be?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Masks were a form of spirit pollution, spreading poison from top to bottom in the country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips formed the words, though her voice never spoke them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hestia, in the form of a litde girl in brown robes, hunched at its edge, shivering. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The mistletoe was so distraught, it vowed never to be rigid enough to form a dagger again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The simplest explanation, then, was that genetic information had passed between the two strains in a chemical form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

His voice a thick whisper, Robby peers up at both of us from his slumped form on the desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Medieval plagues had manifested themselves in a similar way, in the form of many dead rats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

With faith in Operation Breakthrough, a hundred residents formed a new organization—the Tenants’ Club—to handle grievances with the DHA. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The steam from his breath formed a silver-gray cloud that froze in the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gravity hinders the manufacture of some items, like crystals used in electronics, and much bigger and better crystals can be formed in weightlessness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a Bible in his hand, a giant cross formed from nails hanging around his neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He glanced out at the large crowd that had formed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fact that some black people endorse harsh responses to crime is best understood as a form of complicity with mass incarceration—not support for it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bread formed moist balls inside my mouth, no matter how much I chewed it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So anyway, our form and 3GL were waiting in the quad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We formed a ring around the base of the tree, and one by one deposited our combustibles at the trunk. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got into the wood line and formed a skirmish line. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest of these is methane, or marsh gas, formed in nature by the bacterial decomposition of organic matter under water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The lines formed, the curves swooped over the paper, eyes and face and mouth and body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then the jungle closes in on me, forming thick walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mason found himself paired with a young surveyor named Jeremiah Dixon and apparently they got along well, for they formed a lasting partnership. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Somehow he formed a coherent thought in the madness that pounded through his skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At Adolf-Hitler-Platz, concentric rings of tall masts flying Olympic flags surrounded a central tower, sixty-two feet high, draped with twenty swastika flags, forming a dramatic, blood-red cylinder in the middle of the grassy square. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sands began to swirl in front of him, and then Wind Being took its human form. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As she jogged up her front steps, something ugly and awful was forming in my mind, but I couldn’t quite find the right words for it—or I didn’t want to. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He played an athletic, artful form of basketball, his lanky body moving quickly, showing power I hadn’t before noticed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Had they been repeatedly domesticated independently, they would exhibit legacies of those multiple origins in the form of varied chromosomal arrangements or varied mutations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The past-tense forms of can, will, and may are could, would, and might, and these are the forms to use in back- shifting: Amy can play the bassoon. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

From the ruins, the Bolshevik Party would become the Communist Party, and Lenin would emerge as the head of a new nation with a new form of government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Every form of medication in the book. Mom, too. And then me, with the pot...when you come right down to it, there isn’t anybody in the household who isn’t seriously drugged except the fish.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the age of six to ten days these spin themselves a cocoon, from which they emerge one month later as fully formed winged adults. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visions danced before her, gold and scarlet, flickering, forming and melting and dissolving into one another, shapes strange and terrifying and seductive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she turns to me and lays her hand on my arm and squeezes it so hard, I can almost feel the bruise forming. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She rolled, locked in struggle with another form. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the tapeworm attaches to the right place in the gut, it can leech vitamin B12 from the victim, instigating a lethal form of anemia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ignatius cried, noticing that a circle of interested shoppers was beginning to form. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mersenne’s community was an informal group which met and exchanged letters, though he expressed a wish to form a proper college that would function mainly through correspondence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The team had discovered the red chamber of the virus queen at the end of the earth, where the life form had amplified through mothers and their unborn children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was unusual, since many men viewed working for Rondon as a form of punishment. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Standing at the base of the massive concrete supports that formed the foundation for the bridge, Claire measured it with her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A shambling form loomed in the shadows of the alley. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Ehlis, our homeroom teacher, suggested forming small groups and coming up with skits for the whole class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A small crowd had gathered near the low railing, surrounding a swathed form. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Any contact with money will snap their spell and revert them back to human form—usually naked. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Such transmission of inventions assumes a whole spectrum of forms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see, and opened up the window and cried, “Come heah people! Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Whereas color is an adjunct element to graphics and sometimes sculpture, it is indispensable to virtually all forms of painting. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would spend the next few weeks tracking down the new form, filling it out with all the required documentation, and having it officiated and notarized. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The same distinction, by the way, applies to continual and continuous, the adjective forms. convince/persuade. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ms. Wyman commences to speak, she forms her mouth into the perfect imitation of a smile. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

While sitting outside on the deck, we are not to speak Khmer or Chinese-—only Vietnamese—and we cannot make friends or form bonds with anyone outside the family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moses had made a deal with Ava, using some form of currency. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This message took the form of a stolen missile launched at the Fowl Star on her way past Murmansk. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

That preparation was critical as she put the abstract three-dimensional Cartesian plane to use in the service of the space technology lectures, which were eventually compiled in written form. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His mech is flying, his metal blade wings beating so hard that they form a whirlpool in the lake’s water. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I felt words forming even as I tried to bottle them up. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Works Progress Administration was a government program formed to create jobs during the Depression years. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In between now and then I’m a going to talk with the child I mentioned before, and with Farder Coram, and form a plan to put before you when we meet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had read Goldsmith’s History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was a shadowshaper, one who had the power to transfer spirit into form. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their graves were marked with white stones that formed two necklaces around them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She looks over her form and instructs her to take a seat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Don’t know how I managed to form a word. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One stone was set across the top of two others, forming a huge arch with thick shadow underneath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My exclusion is tangible, as if concrete walls have formed around me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They formed two lines from the bus to the door and cheered us as we went in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi stood outside, beside the wheelbarrows and pigs and people and chickens that went past, because his broad-shouldered form could not fit in the shed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most listeners will quickly grasp the form of a short and simple piece, or of one built from many short repetitions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My action . . . my—the painful word formed as disconnectedly as her wobbly smile—my responsibility? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soon an opportunity presented itself, in the form of a much-anticipated letter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes widened, a smile forming on my face. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I point to the pile of forms on the floor. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had influence in the form of being something of a curiosity—a black First Lady, a professional woman, a mother of young kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We watched them load Chubs’s still form into the back of one of the SUVs, and the door had barely shut before it tore off down the highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I had formed a picture of him in my mind, and in my youthful imagination, I expected a Xhosa hero like Mqhayi to be tall, fierce, and intelligent-looking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word formed a cold knot beneath Nina’s ribs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The hazard from radiation in its various forms is now reasonably well understood — although still denied in surprising places. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

First, genes had to explain the phenomenon of variation: How could discrete units of heredity explain that human eyes, say, do not have six discrete forms but seemingly 6 billion continuous variants? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When girls and men gathered to sit and talk, when the great phonograph played music that throbbed in his stomach and made beautiful and huge pictures form vaguely in his head, Frankie loved it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There can be no replication if there is not some form of publication, or, at least, communication. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the bricks on the back wall of the auditorium are a darker shade, almost brown, and they form this double helix design. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Redmarley's Bulldogs formed a pack in the middle and us Runners slid to our starting goal. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bruises were forming underneath her clothes, but her hair looked excellent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson looked at the house as a form of charity. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Watching intensely, I saw that those trying to get into the town had formed two lines, which pressed through a gauntlet of soldiers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled a lot, and then, when I couldn’t form any more words, she politely excused herself to get some punch. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But instead I find myself looking over the registration form again. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I kept all my stuffed animals on the bed, painstakingly tucking them around my head each night as a form of ritual comfort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And in the incandescence of the pearl the pictures formed of the things Kino’s mind had considered in the past and had given up as impossible. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no questioning of the decision to put guanine and thymine in the keto form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Hardly the sort of stuff that we would associate with life, and yet from this noxious stew life formed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She saw only the boy who took care of the form when the Woods were gone. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The hybrid character” was not intermediate but “resembled one of the parental forms,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sir Lawrence was shown the paper in its nearly final form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The young men formed a circle and stacked their hands one on top of the other. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Benji swallowed the knot forming in the back of his throat and wiped his eyes on his shirtsleeve. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sound, but Clarisse LaRue from the Ares Cabin was yelling orders at the campers, forming them into lines. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tries to swallow down the words he doesn’t want to say forming in his throat. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The wall of the lagoon formed a shallow slope, and where he’d fallen in, it had been no more than waist-deep. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Immediately a ball of blood the size of a baseball formed in the monkey’s leg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goghor die Giant lumbered forward to place himself before the king’s throne, and the Spotted Cat and Khrazz moved to either side of him to form a wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a decade or so, Marsh and Cope’s mutual dislike primarily took the form of quiet sniping, but in 1877 it erupted into grandiose dimensions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing to happen is a fracture forms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cortege passed in front of a construction site and the workers dropped their tools, removed their helmets, and, with bowed heads, formed a single line. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He joined one of the secret resistance groups that were forming all over Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Once the letter is returned from Zeeland, the form can be removed and a handwritten message confirming that Father is alive can be inserted in the envelope. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Will sensed it all and felt the atoms of the metal linking each to each across the fracture, forming new crystals again, strengthening and straightening themselves in the invisible lattice as the join came good. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bright, perfectly formed ideas smoldered in her mind. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the fish goes through, its spirit enters the gate and bursts out of one of the ornaments — changing the fish into the form of a flying dragon! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As with it’s and its, remember that who’s is shorthand for who is, and unadorned whose is the possessive form. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately she’s begun to work at the main desk, greeting the regular patrons by name as they walk through the doors, filling out forms for interlibrary loans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This ugly story seems to have come down in its early brutal form quite unsoftened. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

States, though—especially so-called empires formed by amalgamation or conquest of states—are regularly multiethnic and multilingual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For that matter, he did not say um, or ah, or use any form of conversational mitigation: his sentences came marching out, one after another, polished and crisp, like soldiers on a parade ground. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Joe put his mouth into the forms of returning such a highly elaborate answer, that I could make out nothing of it but the single word “Pip.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the first bell rang, we formed two lines behind the cheese-gold “three” painted into the asphalt. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Professor, my aunt and uncle — er — forgot to sign my form,” he said. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A little snot bubble came out of his nose, and every time he took a deep breath, the bubble went into his nose, and every time he breathed out, it formed a bubble. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where you file that form to get help with electricity and stuff like that?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I responded that the state was responsible for the violence and that it is always the oppressor, not the oppressed, who dictates the form of the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest and most powerful newspapers formed an explicit combine to back Allerton and undermine Harrison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The study was halted, then resumed a few months later using consent forms. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How could something as complex as a human form emerge out of the union of sperm and egg? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up his trowel, slid a thin layer of cement on it, and leveled it on the floor, smoothing and stretching it in arcs that formed half circles, like grey rainbows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Apparently, even in this time, planters practiced some form of crop rotation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth formed words, but no sounds came out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like an iceberg—if an iceberg could form in such a way that towers erupted from it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This sometimes took the form of accusing women of practicing witchcraft. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He grew larger until he was in his true form—his face still human, but his body that of a huge lion. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And the army never learned to bunch its troops into tight formations, as the Greeks did at Marathon, forming human masses that can literally stand up to cavalry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We must have the blood of Ultima! they cried, and they formed a long caravan to cross the bridge and come unto the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the short classes that we attended, we had been given questionnaires as a form of exam. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I’d even see little rivers of ice forming in parts of his mustache and beard, or I’d see him reach down to make sure his dog was covered by the blanket. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then he gave out a long, low moan and seemed to be trying to say something, but the words would not form properly and made no sense at all. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then we form groups to discuss the theme. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Within weeks of getting Einstein’s letter, President Roosevelt formed the Uranium Committee, a group of military leaders and scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are questions and questions that whirl around my mind like a tornado, and they slowly make their way up to my throat to form one deep, angry wail. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Whichcee and Wedding Call formed a wall in front of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secretly I was wondering whether these people were going to take care of us or whether we were still all on our own, only now in a slightly different form. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In different forms Bancroft’s characterization was carried into the next century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A lump formed in my throat, and I found it hard to swallow. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Our top-down, goal-directed system wants to keep in touch, make connections, form relationships, forge partnerships. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lindsey cut the top of her shoulder on the way down, and it bled through her white T-shirt, formed a little map of some unknown continent. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s more or less formed his own private army. He’s acting as if he’s got something to hide.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was funny—a money-obsessed world was the main reason Rain had dropped out and formed Garland. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The Faith taught that the Seven themselves had once walked the hills of Andalos in human form. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The shopkeepers openly disdain them, not even bothering to use the polite usted form. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the war the government had established a new immigration code that made any form of anarchism a crime. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At the end, the detective makes us sign a few forms and tells us we’ll have to come in again for more formal affidavits, but that they’ll need some time to prepare a case. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Often alliances are formed in the early stages of the Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To attract women, speakeasies began featuring jazz bands, torch singers, and other forms of entertainment along with their booze and food. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We formed a long line, each boy taking hold of another boy’s hand until we were stretched out like a long string of human beads. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gigantic lump formed in my throat and to this day, nothing makes it go away. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I look up, I can see the dark form of the Indian Princess. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Rumors that the evening star was forming again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Contrary to later belief, he was acutely aware of the far-reaching implication of his study: his question was crucial to “the history of the evolution of organic forms,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was such a short, little question, but she couldn’t make her mouth form the sounds. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lee whispered, “Thank you, Adam—thank you, my friend. Can you move your lips? Make your lips form his name.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Second: The existence of certain varieties of heavy atoms on the Earth suggests that there was a nearby supernova explosion shortly before the solar system was formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched as a long line formed at the food tent. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My present French class involves no dialogue memorization, but still I find myself wearing the Walkman, mainly as a form of protection. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was following a phantom in my mind, whose shadowy form had taken shape at last. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was so hot that blisters formed and burst on the bottoms of my bare feet and the dry air made me very thirsty. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t form words, couldn’t conceptualize this as a victory. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the sycamore the adder stretched itself alongside the still form of Redtooth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mean to start a breakaway church, but within a few decades swathes of Europe had switched to one form of Protestantism or another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But what Aristotle is attempting is a basic taxonomy of forms of argument: and like so much in his book, those forms are so familiar to us that we have long ceased to notice them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Both Senator Kennedy and Senator Humphrey thought they had the solution for West Virginia: active assistance from the federal government in the form of free food, with federal-government jobs to follow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She mumbles: "Okay . . . And you are . .. ?" I swallow, but my mouth is suddenly dry and I feel a lump form in my throat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She saw rotten pockets where all the cells had popped and died, forming a liquefied spot that was packed with wall-to-wall bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mapper pointed up at the rooftop, where a small shadowy form appeared through the billowing smoke. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had observed my father making his way through what, I now suppose, must have been income tax forms. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled out the entry form, put Annie’s poem in the envelope, and rubbed my lucky Susan B. Anthony dollar against it. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was disappointed to see the sleek white forms of airplanes gliding up as they approached the airport. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A divine form stood above them, beautiful and majestic beyond compare. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The head was covered with scalps stitched together to form a wig. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The floors were filled with heaps of ashes; no solid form of a body was inside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

All the newly formed monsters were crawling and hobbling in the same direction—toward a bank of black fog that swallowed the horizon like a storm front. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With their deliberately shoddy and paint-stained clothing, their newly sprouted facial hair, they are a transitional form. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked out at the river, at its eddies and swirls, the patterns forming on its surface and disappearing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The sky is biblical today—rays of sun forming straight lines from behind rounded, fluffy clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Small seal colonies were starting to form on some of the islands around Nantucket and Cape Cod. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In that field, in the grain which had not yet begun to form, lay our future and our hope. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives these documents to a secretary, along with a copy of the change-of-name form. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This, too, is a form of cross-cultural transmission. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Unlike in classical Athens, however, the power of the city’s civil servants was entirely circumscribed by the king’s, preserving only the outward form, not the substance, of self-government. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I do,” said Harry, and he explained, briefly, about the pair of Vanishing Cabinets and the magical pathway they formed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Finny had recruited me and others as allies, so that two sides fighting it out had been taking form. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no inkling that his adopted city would, indeed, witness the unleashing of the new science of genetics, but in its most grisly form in history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had dark, thick eyebrows, which made him look serious at the best of times and, when he was anxious or angry, came together to form a straight line across his forehead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But even in its lesser forms, contraband had many interesting subtleties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for Lily to answer and took a sip of water to make the knot suddenly forming in my throat go away. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“But when oxygen combines with something rapidly, energy is released in the form of light and heat.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were cats perched on top of it and cats walking across it, so for a minute I simply stared at it, not recognizing it for what it was—a human form. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sister Ibinabo started the Student Visa Miracle Vigil on Fridays, a gathering of young people, each one holding out an envelope with a visa application form, on which Sister Ibinabo laid a hand of blessing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the experience of southern blacks, a generation of Americans came to realize with new force that there are forms of oppression that touch all levels of a society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They learned that there was nothing so loathsome as a wisp of blanket fluff hiding under a bed, concealing within its form a battalion, a whole division, of bacteria. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The consistent string of sentence topics, all related to the column topic, forms a satisfying arc of coherence over the passage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The leprechauns, who had risen angrily into the air like a swarm of glittering hornets when Mullet had been fouled, now darted together to form the words “HA, HA, HA!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We formed a circle around the coach at midfield. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And very soon after that, Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But form the plurals of others simply by adding s: curriculums; formulas; memorandums; stadiums. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In its more extreme forms it is a recipe for anarchy, and its attitude toward any energetic expression of centralized political power can assume paranoid proportions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The lump of his form was so withered that I almost thought there was something missing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much has been written about the ways in which people manage to deny, even to themselves, that extraordinary atrocities, racial oppression, and other forms of human suffering have occurred or are occurring. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby tried to form a sentence, but nothing came out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I tried to hold back the tears, but they were already forming. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of him when I bend a piece of clay over my knee to form a tile in the olden way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the pass took the form of a booklet or “reference book,” as it was known, containing detailed information that had to be signed by one’s employer every month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears were forming in my eyes, but I had to say it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe these letters are my own form of prayer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What race do you put on your official school forms?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she had a milder form of Tourette’s or if she had learned how to control it—if so, I wanted to find out how for Connor. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He formed the team that pulled down the fence — now just a harmless chain-link barrier, with the electricity off—and led the people into the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There is something evocative in the idea that the material used to write code gave rise to the word itself: form became function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He gently tugged at the knot until one end of the string was pulled out, forming a small lasso. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Celia walks to the edge of the deck, running her hands along the spines of the books that form the rail. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Liam’s lips formed my name, but there was nothing outside of the blood rushing in my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I took a slow turn around the shop, admiring the shelves heavy with books, business forms, proclamations from Parliament and General Howe, slates, thick paper, quills, and sealing wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fat carp schooled so thick they formed writhing mats of silvery scales on the surface. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And the thought that formed clearly in his mind was incredibly simple. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

At this spot, branches stretched all the way across the river to form a canopy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I often lied when I had to translate for her, the endless forms, instructions, notices from school, telephone calls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse than mud, even: It looks like the sort of primordial goo that could generate new amino acids, which would inevitably combine to initiate protein synthesis and create brand new life forms. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My focus shifts from the forms of Michah and the girl, and I notice the mound of their discarded clothes, scattered paper bits, maps full of pinholes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Absentmindedly, he began to form a petal shape. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But mostly there was a rush to form a long line by one of the wooden walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She slapped her silver bracelet, and the shield Aegis spiraled into full form. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The smirk starts to form on her face—the one she usually blames on awkwardness—but she tries not to let it take over. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The painter had used bright yellow paint to form the perfect Bangla lettering. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows around the moonlight rippled like an ocean wave and Darkness’s body formed in front of Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We’re at Black Rock, so named because of the rocky cliff formed by the lava rocks that run right up to the beach and just high into the sky. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pants Bull made himself, cutting up several red handkerchiefs and sewing them together so that they formed a makeshift covering for Edward’s long legs. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Why are you in such rare form today? Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“At least what I do is considered an art form,” Chubs said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“All right, all right,” boomed Yai, forming a one-man wall in front of her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And even then the government insisted on making the payments in the form of clothing and food rations. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He watched a woman roll someone’s fingers in a pad of ink, then turn them from side to side on a form of sorts. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Ah no, it’s more complicated than that! They formed one so that immigrant Koreans could work together and form their own community where it didn’t matter that their English was bad,” he explained. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The metal was in the form of coins, packed in small, heavy boxes, which he carried through the house and piled in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This took concrete form on April 28, when Dulles drafted a letter to Khrushchev proposing a “technical conference” in Geneva on test ban inspections. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Geeks’ passions often crisscross back and forth between technology and more traditional forms of culture, with unusual depths of interest in both. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later the same day, Truman announced in a nationwide radio address that he had instructed the AEC to “continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The only cartoon I even remember being interested in—” She stopped, a thought forming. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The idea of God in the form of a man appearing on Earth and then doing a “disappearing act,” as Bobby put it, for two thousand years was both “incredible and illogical.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To become a high officer in the Sarf one must have, it seems, a certain complex form of stupidity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Any form of scientific dissent to his theories—especially any belief in Mendelian genetics or Darwinian evolution—was outlawed in the Soviet Union. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But his mouth would not form the words. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Lazlo had never really formed an image to go along with the idea before, or if he had, it had been vague, and the victims monstrous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The last garden roses are blooming in the corner of Gram’s yard, forming a little crowd of pink, cheerful faces to welcome me through the white gate. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, the third sentence shifts to the imperative mood and we are supposed to have the reader, not the nouns, forming plurals in a certain way. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I remember when Wendell, shortly before his high school graduation, grew a little beard on the bottom of his chin— just a few hairs that formed a goatee. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Prendergast filled the postcard from top margin to bottom, from edge to edge, with little regard for whether the sentences formed level lines or not. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Gallivespian leader said, “What form do they have, these two lost dæmons?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Wind Being waved goodbye, and its human form disintegrated into strings of wind carrying cactus flower petals and sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And the twentieth came; a lump of fear began to form in Jody’s stomach. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, when the stonecutter began to carve, the head that formed was not a dragon's. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then they have taken the form of a medusa. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“No. I filled out a form and the manager let me in.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its base spanned a mile, its dark form swelling out of the earth and rising into a flawless spire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A plaid, overstuffed couch and matching chairs formed a semicircle facing a massive fireplace. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to tell her because saying it out loud—forming the actual words of what happened—is humiliating. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Images formed and dissolved before his closed eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those biting words were already forming in her mouth. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Those fights did not last long as kisses transformed the imps back into their original forms. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Life came back to me in the form of a hard slap across the face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At last, the music began and a procession formed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The first primitive forms of life consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a lull-sized adult. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I was a child, Mr. Brown let me pick out letters and set them in the form. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite a recent shower, beads of sweat form above his lip and on his newly shaven head. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you will. You’ll want to grow up like all the other girls. Anyway, there’s compensations for a settled form.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The chemical came in two forms—DNA and RNA, molecular cousins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In late November, Paul planned a new form of protest. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From a storage room they dragged out beds and fitted them on top of one another to form bunks three levels high. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. Verbs. A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence that forms the main part of the predicate in a sentence. To run. To sprint. To dart. To dash. To scuttle...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie would have felt shy about forming her letters so laboriously in front of Diana, but Diana took up a book and made Lyddie feel as though she were alone. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like such a baby about the jawbreaker lump in my throat that feels like it’s gonna dissolve and spill outta my eyes in liquid form. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

So doctors were also called Seonsaengnim, as a form of respect. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her lips began to move, forming soundless words, and they continued to move. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His written work was difficult to follow and employed a private form of notation that many found incomprehensible. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The curiosity of love and being kissed fills me with a blush so deep, sweat beads form along my brow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He then commanded the water to form a cradle under Pond’s neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Herein lay another complaint the people had with the educated and tricky thugs who were trying to form a conservancy district in order to build the Zopilote’s private swimming lake behind the Indian Creek Dam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is only true because this piece of paper has been issued by the Bank of England and is of the approved form. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But in the open air there was nothing to stop the wind from damaging him, and to their dismay his form began to loosen and dissolve. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The jagged shards fell away from the lifeless form of Ellidyr. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was also one of the last to see it in pure form: his visit, as Alfred Crosby put it, initiated the process of knitting together the seams of Pangaea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like this: leaving a wholly formed world and discovering another one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Aunt Xi-wen tried to smile to show her support of the proletarian revolutionary young guards, but the smile froze before it was fully formed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that something had started to form. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“A child of Athena, Minerva’s Greek form. Scandalous! You Greeks have no sense of decency. We Romans know the proper place for that goddess.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I foresee an International Geek Tribunal emerging through the vast slowly connecting networks that are already forming between geeks here and geeks there. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1935 his patrons had celebrated the forming of the United Auto Workers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A white censor was standing over me and, like dreams forming a curtain for the safety of sleep, so did my lies form a screen of safety for my living moments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sheen of sweat had formed along her hairline, and her breaths were growing shallow, raspy. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All this, colored and in a thousand different forms, had always been there. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small crowd stood at the low railing, surrounding a swathed form. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he spoke with my mom for a long time and made her fill out a lot of forms. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, the Sleeper could take many forms. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Rebs were pulling back, forming to come again. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is heart-shaped, with her dark hair forming a widow's peak at her forehead, and her chin comes to a little point, with a small birthmark to the left of center. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The storerooms forming the ground floor of the house were dark and empty, with their doors ajar. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At some tasks that one might reasonably suppose to reflect aspects of brain function, such as the ability to form a mental map of unfamiliar surroundings, they appear considerably more adept than Westerners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They formed a little colony of their own, living midway between the town and open country in brick cottages with whitewashed walls and red-tiled roofs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap several sheets of tissue around my hand until it forms a thick rectangular shape. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the permission form for tryouts,” Mustafa says quickly, giving me a slight nod to acknowledge my effort. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hopping this finds you in fine form as it leaves us thank God and His Blessed Mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

What we need is a form of hindsight that does not impose itself arbitrarily on the mentality of the revolutionary generation, does not presume that we are witnessing the birth of an inevitable American superpower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The man glanced at the forms and said, kindly, “Sorry, you don’t qualify. Next person!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It changed form, melting into a bulletproof vest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I did not mind it when I first learned of my descent from lower forms of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way to form that community, said Vivian, was by working together to demand that the power structure change. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were forming a queue about a grindstone sharpening their bayonets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the woman’s sandaled feet, the two wispy animals took on solid form. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The money, in the form of a five-year grant, would be funneled through Harvard Medical School. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Get a clean form and meet me in the back room,” he said, as though doing me a favor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a red dress and she looked awesome, but I’d seen her real form. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The last sentence now read, “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hades’s eyes glittered as his form began to fade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He introduced a voucher system, which at first functioned as a form of credit, but gradually became a substitute for legal tender. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

II. French-Latin words—that is, Latin words introduced through the French—can often be readily distinguished by their being more changed in form than the Latin terms directly introduced into our language. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rocks in Tule Lake were volcanic and old—supposedly formed two and a half million years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the end half his gardens and half his fields shriveled in a drought, even though Indian Creek practically formed a swimming pool in his living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working late was considered “bad taste, bad form, bad science.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If the wind could form itself into hands, that was what it felt like. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Sir. All the necessary paperwork is right here. See? Just fill out the forms and mail them in with a check and a photograph of your daughter.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Seed Collector, we will need to cooperate,” Wind Being said, its human body forming from strands of sand and flat discs of flower petals. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He pouted his perfectly formed lips and surveyed the splintered shingles and abandoned nets from which the unsavory fishy smell arose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The gash below my knee had formed a scab—dark and shiny, a black river flowing through pink flesh—when I came to a decision. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Last week alone, she appeared in human form in a dozen different places, scaring the horns off some of my friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was a scholarly-looking priest whose dæmon had the form of a frog. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She cultivated wildflowers by the mailbox, relocated stones to form natural fencing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a grey light on the terrace, I could see the shapes of the blown fireworks stands taking form on the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Odin transformed himself from snake shape into man shape once more, and not just a man but a huge man, giant-sized, and well formed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All of these beings formed a complicated whole that shifted and changed in order to maintain that harmony. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The idea was that as the galaxies moved away from each other, new galaxies were continually forming in the gaps in between, from new matter that was being continually created. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of high-speed communications, stringent training, and standardized forms, these young Indians can fairly rapidly be converted into basic Western accountants at a fraction of the cost. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A carapace of ice formed over my goggles, making it difficult to see. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the bubble start to form — I’d trapped the air! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“But what is any fight if not simply a form of art in motion?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We hear all of the “parts” which we think of as music—rhythm, pitch, melody, form, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Seated before a mirror with Mrs. Shigemura behind her, she had learned that her hair was utsukushii and that to cut it would be a form of heresy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He forced himself to remember the dullest things he knew—bootblack, an application form, a wet towel on his bedroom floor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a very old form of animal speech. But he says his name is the Ophiotaurus.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The where and the why and the I don’t know form the tiniest ball of cells you’d need a microscope to see. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She could not help looking down the street to see if his blue-clad form was running toward them, but there was no one there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My parents had shown the ambassador to the elevator, and when I last saw them, in the study an hour later, they were in perfect form. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe, the way his voice had changed ... or maybe it was just Kronos adapting to his new form. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

All around her, tight little groups have formed, talking and laughing, she guesses, about all those things people talk and laugh about at parties. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Policemen with riot gear, rifles, tear gas canisters and sjamboks poured out of the trucks and formed a phalanx across the wide street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw storms, rain, water droplets forming and falling and breaking apart as they struck the surface of the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

This Zulu example of a state formed by conquest can be multiplied almost indefinitely. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For eight days, on alternate four-hour shifts, he watched with aching and bleary eyes those glinty metallic forms move against the vague background. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I see their dark forms, their beards move in the wind. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t speak,” said Loki in the form of a maiden. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Aliya lets me know that Muhammad has dropped off my permission form for the regional Quiz Bowl and that two cars are going to Chicago on Saturday. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

An answer forms in Axel’s mind too slowly. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘Body language’ is a form of communication, like speaking English or French or Chinese, but it has no words, only gestures. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel is too curious to go straight in, even though a knot inside his stomach starts to form. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Silky cables trailed from the arrows, arcing over the pool and anchoring where they landed to form a huge golden asterisk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A plan began forming in my mind, but I quickly shushed the thought. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I had a fully formed memory of my mother kneeling and talking—praying, I believe—to a bottle of antibiotics when Ruth May was so sick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sheet of white smoke poured from the fire, forming images like an Iris-message. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She feels a lump form in her throat, tears filming her eyes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother filled out the insurance forms, we were shown into the doctor's office. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Og’s enthusiasm pulled me back into the moment, and I felt a nervous knot form in the pit of my stomach. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No other form could be seen on deck at all. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He said Moore must have accidentally circled the wrong option on the consent form, and asked him to come back and fix it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sweating, panting, and covered in dust, they formed a circle around her at midfield. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was built into a white arch formed by two monumental stone wolves on their hind legs, and spanned the road leading up the hill to the Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She knew Thorn was right and that she had to adjust her attitude unless she wanted to stay a Forever Witchling: witches who never formed a coven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were afraid to go into the restroom, assuming the Klan had prepared a second charge of dynamite and more deadly bombs would follow the first explosion after a crowd had formed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And as always in New York, when a little crowd formed, more people came just to see what the others were looking at. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It existed in many forms and was embraced both by those who hated Indians and those who admired them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clay in the bed was coming along well; it would be ready to form into balls soon. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She didn’t need him anyway—she’d quickly formed a new clique with the seagulls who hovered near her at lunchtime. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The crystal dust that made Wind Being’s human form spun faster and faster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Animal rights supporters say that raising farm animals is a form of slavery. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"No, a part of the whole is sacrificed—and will continue to be until a new society is formed." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instinct passed through me in the form of a word, a bold lyric, strong, declarative. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then while he was reading the paper, I started to think maybe he was mad at the form. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But gods of Olympus...Curled in the membrane bubble in front of her was a fully formed Titan in golden armor, his skin the color of polished pennies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Around the time that ragtime and the Blues were giving way to jazz in mainland America, a form of music called son was becoming popular in Cuba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was a form to be filled out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why not think of it instead as a form of pleasurable mastery, like cooking or photography? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But some time ago I rejected magic in all its forms. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mess Night was a testament of linkage, an evening that allowed for the lyrics of both form and ferocity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, if you ask me today, I’ll tell you that tobacco, in all its forms, is just as much an addiction as any narcotic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever form you spoke of you were right. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Already, cracks were forming in the ice and his eyes were rolling furiously. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them all together, forming a large circle around the solitary tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Most of them, given time, made at least small adjustments to their phantom forms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to say something, but my mind has not formed the words yet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

First, they concealed the horse’s superb form from track racing secretaries, who assigned imposts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is also associated with a particular form, so knowing that a piece of music is called a symphony should lead you to expect certain things about it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Restoring Seth to his original form is well beyond my abilities.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mother disapproved of all forms of corporal punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with grits and hush puppies, the abbreviated form of you all was a dangerous step on an insidious path leading straight to the doors of the Baptist church. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like a deliriously happy mob has formed, almost like it’s New Year’s Day or something. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch, the tail forms one wavering curve after another, snaking back and forth, betraying his cool face, telling its own story of uncertainty and fear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud has formed between me and the dream of running again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught Luna, when she was a little girl with scabby knees and matted hair, how a caterpillar lives, growing big and fat and sweet-tempered, until it forms a chrysalis. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A familiar shape took form along the edge of the shadows, near the mouth of the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She walked directly to the back of the room, where the boxes formed a windowseat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some biologists classify viruses as “life forms.” because they are not strictly known to be alive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some microbial communities extend so deeply into the affairs of higher forms of life as to seem like new kinds of tissue in plants and animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason wondered if Apollo had assumed this form to be inconspicuous, or to look pitiable to his father. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The various segments seemed to sparkle into existence in random order, but they eventually formed letters, and words. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For someone who rejected all forms of authority, she was a major tyrant in the classroom. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

To Frodo it appeared that a white light was shining through the form and raiment of the rider, as if through a thin veil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra couldn’t see Pantalaimon, but she knew his moth form was resting on her shoulder and probably shivering too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It cast a welcome shade against the hut in the afternoon and formed a convenient nook for someone who did not wish to be noticed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And dimly to be seen were many rows of tables, carved of marble; and upon each table lay a sleeping form, hands folded, head pillowed upon stone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stood beneath the naval gun, his form in darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If you cut them in two, each part simply grew back to form a whole earthworm. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you choose one of the three instruments, I have rental forms here to take home to your parents. We’ll begin next week.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I would look up a word in the lexicon only to forget it when I turned to write it down; my noun cases, my verb forms, had left me utterly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the eleventh century CE, Christianity in the form of Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe, and church leaders held a great deal of political power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were things to look for, an unspoken language of movement and form to decipher, passwords to exchange, and glances to decode. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he was discharged, he rejoined his family and took a job as a policeman in September 1861, becoming one of the first 150 men hired when Washington, D.C., formed its brand-new Metropolitan Police Department. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Horrible pictures formed in Harry’s mind as he heard: “Oooh, narrow miss there, very narrow”. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is so characteristically Japanese, the way lives were made more tolerable by gathering loose desert stones and forming with them something enduringly human. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classical music traditions around the world tend to encourage longer, more complex forms which may be difficult to recognize without the familiarity that comes from study or repeated hearings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At once, they melted and ran together, forming a puddle of light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The position was more than a hundred yards long, Chamberlain could see the end of it, saw the 83rd Pennsylvania forming on his right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘One word. You want permission to close your eyes and forget your troubles. You - want - SLEEP’ Gaia solidified into human form. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Since there is an equal chance of a marble bouncing left or right at each peg, the marble stacks in the bins below will, on average, form the classic bell-shaped curve of normal distribution.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

This is the fact that heptachlor, after a short period in the tissues of animals or plants or in the soil, assumes a considerably more toxic form known as heptachlor epoxide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But as I feel the tip open the first cut at my lip, some great form yanks Clove from my body and then she's screaming. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He trailed off, a lump forming in his throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The kind that packed and formed super snowballs. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A small stone breakwater had been thrown out across the cove for shelter, and behind it the bay formed a tiny natural harbour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I can just see those big, thick eyebrows dancing. He’d love it! Maybe I’ll tell him. He might be interested in forming the United Mine and Rocket Workers of America!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, a dust cloud forms and I can’t see any more. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And there on the floor we saw a human form, but not a woman’s. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I give Amá the permission form after school, she says no without even looking at me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had deep brown eyes—I mean completely brown with no whites or black pupils, like eyes formed out of clay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He faintly felt the huge hands of the monster pick him up, forming a little nest to hold him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He handed out the scores, which is really like a form you have to tear apart. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t listen much to the words but to the silences, and in the silences these bodies re-create themselves, are created by me, take form. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pea-size ball of light formed in the Governor's palm, then went out as he curled his fingers shut. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jon glowed for me then like a plum in sunlight, richly colored, perfect in form. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nali had mentioned that in the First World, some of the beings, such as First Man and First Woman, had different forms than they did today. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was awakened in the morning by the shrill voices of children—Shae’s nieces and nephew—who ran into the room and pounced on Shae’s sleeping form, startling a yelp out of her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The young women—dozens of them—then all lined up with their application forms and waited to be interviewed by a recruiter at a wooden table. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it means only now you can hear birds flying, forming a V overhead. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sean stood in front of the open barn door, his large form casting a long shadow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The caste system will reemerge in a new form, just as convict leasing replaced slavery, or it will be reborn, just as mass incarceration replaced Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

While I studied various tribes, she studied their art forms and collected samples of their crafts. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, peoples named in these other three theories could have mixed to form the modem Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the 1930s, when the Chattahoochee Forest was officially formed, that nature was invited back in. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looks over one of the forms I filled out earlier for the paralegal and gets a yellow legal pad out of his desk drawer. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A bruise was forming along his left cheekbone that may or may not have come from the fight at Finnegan’s. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

By the third week it becomes harder to sustain our relationship in this new form. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The canopy of trees, vines, deadfall, and undergrowth formed a wall of dark green vegetation that would have been hard to crawl through. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She stops, staring at the unmoving form of a Mask, one who escorted me to the courtyard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Clay that passed Min’s inspection was formed into a large ball, ready to be thrown on the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He’d called me downstairs to fill out an entry form for an upcoming regional meet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

While he was in his senior year of college, his father passed away in a house fire, and Justin himself battled and beat a rare form of cancer. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They were using their bodies to form a barricade that would be nearly impossible to penetrate. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later he got a letter from Golde telling him to stop being a pain and sign the form. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But forming my lips around the word “executed” makes me shudder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the Dwarf had a small bright blaze going, the three companions drew close to it and sat together, shrouding the light with their hooded forms. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Alyah was a beautiful child with long, thin fingers and perfectly formed little lips. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When you had to face terrible odds, whatever form they came in. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

From the good eye I see a blurred form. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Seaborg tells me that within six months from the time plutonium is formed, he can have it available for use in the bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Davenport, the Harvard-trained zoologist famous for establishing the Eugenics Record Office, created a standardized evaluation form to judge the fittest babies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had sat mesmerized in the almost holy silence in which she worked, as she wove the needle in and out of stitches, forming pictures with thread. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s just a whatcha-call-it... a form letter. Didn’t even mention the owls.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Calder absentmindedly watched the droplets forming and re-forming in shape after shape, an idea came to mind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

This early form of air-conditioning was closed off when the three went to sleep, but was later opened by a servant, allowing cool, damp air from the caves to enter the room. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

You’re is short for you are; your is the possessive form. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life not only formed the soil, but other living things of incredible abundance and diversity now exist within it; if this were not so the soil would be a dead and sterile thing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Many scholars vehemently reject this theory, insisting that both monogamy and the forming of nuclear families are core human behaviours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the relationship between opera and the populace could not have been more different in Italy, where opera was a popular art form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He could see Mars Bar’s dark form against the fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unit leaders held up flags to help steer people in the right direction as the women formed ranks in various divisions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor—in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d already had enough of that When I caught Carlos’s eye, he jumped right back into form. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bono insisted that I must leave him; officers now strode among us, calling out for us to form. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She also took other progressive stances, like making a point of using her own full name—Elizebeth Smith Friedman—instead of the more common and acceptable form, Mrs. William F. Friedman. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She picks up a stack of flyers with one hand and registration forms with the other. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mom and I then accompanied the girls in what would become their new form of school bus—a black SUV with smoked windows made of bulletproof glass. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When she returned I was back in form. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man’s view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Soweto Zulu migrant workers were reported to have formed vigilantes groups and, with police license, hacked, stabbed and clubbed.students to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They formed a circle around the tree and began to shake it violendy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had apparently won against the one ghost, but ghost forms are various and many. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had tenant councils of a sort prior to Operation Breakthrough,” he explained, “but they weren’t as antagonistic as the councils formed by Operation Breakthrough.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Asta and Ben tried to comfort Pantalaimon, but he wriggled free; he wanted to be with the little pale form that could only weep and weep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring, outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed to form the letters of a flowing script. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though Elena looked fully formed, the edges of her body gleamed as though made from starlight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His breath caught in his throat, and tears began to form in his eyes as he undid the knot. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian philosophers thought that all true knowledge could be expressed in syllogistic form, arguing from indisputable premises to undeniable conclusions, all based on Evidence-Perspicuity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There is only an efficient cause: the balance of weights; and a structure or form that makes the balance possible: a sealed tube up-ended in a bath of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I drew closer to look at the letters formed by her pen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large puddles had formed on the ground around where I had left the Ford, obliging me to assist Miss Kenton a little to allow her to reach the passenger door. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The New England states use a terse form of instruction, a tight-lipped, laconic style sheet, wasting no words and few letters. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stimulated by the enthusiasm that José Arcadio showed in her companionship, she confused the form and the occasion, and all of a sudden she threw the whole world on top of him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Thus Bruno imagined an infinite universe, with numberless stars and planets, all possibly inhabited by extraterrestrial life forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Each letter was formed with a wobbly hand, as though the writer didn’t know how to hold a pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hugo de Vries had proposed that mutations were responsible for variation: changes in genes created changes in forms that could be selected by natural forces. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We would cross two varieties to see what new forms emerged from the rearrangement of the parental genes, and from natural and induced mutations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By July of 1955 he had reached, on the trek to Worcester, a small Kansas town, Phillipsburg, and there “fate,” in the form of “bad company,” asserted itself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his impaired vision he could barely make out the many black forms moving before him. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shepherd was an acquired taste: He told tales in novelistic form about his childhood in the Midwest, his life in the army, and his adult misadventures in New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my delirium, I imagined death in the form of a great bird with wings of fire and shadow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A warm summer breeze blows, and tiny bumps form on my arms. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In between Coach's tips about form and all that stuff, my brain was kicking that question around. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was admitted to Howard University, but formed and shaped by The Mecca. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She listened to her guide’s accent and formed the sounds in her mind without listening to what the sounds said. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The private ran toward us and told us to form a line. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He holds himself with innately impeccable posture, as if he emerged fully formed and upright out of some beautiful Buckingham Palace posy garden one day. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Roy had a gloomy feeling that the forms and documents were written in such technical terms that he wouldn’t be able to understand them, anyway. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little pieces of pastry Sister Fenella had left after trimming her rhubarb pies were formed into clumsy crosses or fish shapes, or rolled around a few currants, then sprinkled with sugar and baked separately. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She swung a pointed glance at Mr. Turner’s retreating form. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, with an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around my mother’s neck, and she dissolved before my eyes, melting into light, a shimmering golden form, as if she were a holographic projection. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

SD-03 found the serial number that matched the one on my requisition form. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When it found the red-furred form of the fox, motionless but giving off no odor of decay, it circled lower to investigate. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the unconscious form and saw that the sun had burned his neck where the skin was exposed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the shadows, the solid black wool seemed to shift and boil, forming images of faces in agony, as if lost souls were trying to escape from the folds of his clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just swamp is all I see, the tops of swamp trees, little clearings of swampy bits of water, the river eventually starting to form itself again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The towering forms of the young hunters crashed to the ground, each pierced by the spear of the other, each slaying and being slain by the only creature he loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been allotted to one of the recently formed regiments, but were first to be sent back for equipment to the garrison, not to the reinforcement-depot, or course, but to another barracks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since both of them were having babies soon, and they lived across the street from each other, Mom and Isabel decided to form a mothers’ group. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The purple velvet walls curved overhead to form a roof, making it pleasantly warm within despite the autumn chill outside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While some barriers to voting have been abolished, she said, discrimination at the ballot box continues in different forms and is growing. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first form, I answer several variations on the questions of whether I’m a communist, a criminal, or a terrorist and whether I would take up arms to defend the United States. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Atoms would literally be crushed together, their electrons forced into the nucleus, forming neutrons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the tide was low, long zigzagging sandbars would form. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I let myself out of the truck and hold the door open a second as a thought forms in my mind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One last approval form from a school official has to be turned in. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I could barely make out, or perhaps only sense, the forms of the boys, stirring fitfully but not yet awake: Dominick and James, six-year-old twins, huddled together for warmth on a pallet on the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The ridge seemed to run on forever, and there was no guessing in the milky void how long it would be till the form of Lafayette would rise to meet us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But it is safe to say that word of mouth is — even in this age of mass communications and multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns — still the most important form of human communication. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse handed him the form and wheeled her cart down the hall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The walls of the gorge form a bowl, and water falls over the edge onto the rocky bottom of a creek below. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused cow’s milk in any form or container and took to drinking black coffee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we return to the car, Apa slumps in his seat and grips the green-card renewal forms with his brown callused fingers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Flames and smoke curled up to form a seat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The skin on his hands looked dry, parchmentlike, and his lips formed a thin line beneath the heavy tangle of gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful that people all over the world could suddenly author their own content in digital form. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wednesday stared at both of them as if he had just discovered new and previously unimagined life forms. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nathan aired out his palms, trying not to upset the blister that was forming. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the past the need for a hierarchical form of society had been the doctrine specifically of the High. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

All the while, his arms formed an iron cage of protection around me — I was barely jostled. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Security guards stand on a plat Enrique’s Journey form over the freight cars, watch for migrants, and pull them off before they cross the bridge. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As we watched the men ride around the arena, Frankie explained that Cossacks formed the military might of the Russian Empire, where they were required to serve for twenty years. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a...Oh, never mind. My colleagues and I represent the recently formed League of Concerned Library Lovers. Winthrop?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A form of knowledge which aims at prediction and control gets better at prediction and control. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sheer number of actions and reactions it’s taken to form our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, is astonishing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo’s heart beat fast; he could see Josiah’s vision emerging, he could see the story taking form in bone and muscle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they gave me a form to fill out, I wrote in the appropriate places that I was a Muslim, and that I was a conscientious objector. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explains that the dimples form when the razor clams attempt to burrow deeper underground. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For some years the suspicion had existed among the more inspired geneticists that viruses were a form of naked genes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He watched William to see when he would smile, what he looked like when he cried, when tears formed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the other dancers would form a big “U” with the band at the open end. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has had but two outlets for his emotions: work and sex—and he knew these in their most vicious and degrading forms. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The train cars collapse, doors and halls sliding apart, silently forming chains of windowless rooms. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Donna does all the talking, and Pri dances while a small crowd begins to form around her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A line of pilots began to form at the opposite end of the room, many of them removing their shoes and socks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger’s eyes flashed, and then narrowed, and her lips formed a thin, hard line. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alberti had written, ‘Mathematicians measure the shapes and forms of things in the mind alone and divorced entirely from matter.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Each one's got a different dinosaur, but if you put them end to end in order, the background landscape joins up and forms a frieze. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Suppose the pieces of the jigsaw start off in a box in the ordered arrangement in which they form a picture. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a crowd had formed beyond the back gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a mass clattering of chairs and scraping of forms as everyone was seated. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Rojakke touched his fingers to the ugly bruise forming on his cheek, looking surprised and a bit betrayed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Dell really knew with certainty was that now someone was steaming mounds of spinach in a kitchen that had never under his watch seen a vegetable in its raw form. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Aiyi and my father still stand close together, each of them holding a corner of the picture, watching as their images begin to form. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even today the vast majority of human communication—whether in the form of emails, phone calls or newspaper columns—is gossip. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nerve ends in Ignatius’ mind met and formed an immediate association. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The close ties he formed at Williams College would last the rest of his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We pushed around the bottleneck of screaming kids forming at the door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bare wooden beams form triangles that hold up the ceiling. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Mr. di Angelo, if you please. Though, I prefer to stay in human form in this wheelchair for, ah, first encounters.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The morning bell rang and the mass of students in the school yard formed into a series of lines. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I belong to the people Hove, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"You know about the true forms of the gods." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That image came back to him now as he stood with the requisition form for coffee in one hand and the form for early retirement in the other. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Treasure comes in many forms, and Captain Kidd had prized them all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

One of the streets was so steep the sidewalk had been shaped to form stairs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But observation and historical records have failed to uncover a single case of a state’s being formed in that ethereal atmosphere of dispassionate farsightedness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He mused—for ten minutes he held counsel with himself: he formed his resolve, and announced it— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Molly hands over the community service forms, dutifully filled out and dated, along with the spreadsheet with the record of her hours and the required signatures. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The dull, rhythmic tramp of the soldiers’ boots formed the background to Goldstein’s bleating voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I admit immediately that I was one of the persons who helped to form Umkhonto we Sizwe and that I played a prominent role in its affairs until I was arrested in August 1962. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s breath caught in her throat, and she started looking around for the form of Penelope in the crowd, terrified at what Clara would think. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Several scythes who had initially voted against the forming of an immunity committee switched their vote. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The accidental visit of Aunt Maggie to Memphis formed a practical basis for my planning to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was strong and stocky, not as formed as a grown man, of course, because he wasn’t much older than she was, but he’d be powerful one day. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer is that, in quantum theory, particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the shadow spirit goes through the shadowshaper into the form, yeah?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It was a strange form of food for the Brazilian interior, and was especially enjoyed by the laborers,” said Rondon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A crowd began to form, egging them on. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually, such regions would stop expanding and collapse to form galaxies, stars, and beings like us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came in the form of an obituary in the Pittsburgh Post, dated February 17, 1982. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The earth’s primordial ocean, which came into existence not long after the earth was formed, about four and a half billion years ago, may well have contained microscopic life forms based on rna. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He braced himself and changed back to human form. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I look back and see the way our footsteps intermingle to form a single path. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Lawrence the experimentalist and Oppenheimer the theoretical man formed about as strong a team as you could imagine in physics,” James Brady told an interviewer years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A film of ice had formed upon the pool beneath the heart tree, and the face carved into its pale trunk had grown a mustache of little icicles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cut ½-inch x 4-inch strips of tissue paper and fasten them to the tape inside the roll to form a tail. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Have you people considered forming a political party and running a candidate?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, you don’t need to come back. Just mail in the forms.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Jack and the others were taken to a room where they were ordered to undress and then form lines. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t recognize the form looming over me until my palms slammed into Frankie’s chest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All three women knew that if too much heavy ice formed on the wings, the plane would become impossible to control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Bush fulfilled that promise a few weeks later by placing Lawrence on a special committee formed under Compton to review the Briggs committee’s work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Out of the blackness of sleep a dream formed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In some cases, spiral arms form all by themselves in a galaxy that has already flattened to a disk. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing blouses and broadcloth skirts and handwoven belts, they formed a slower-moving, dignified circle around the male dancers, keeping their torsos and heads straight as they bobbed up and down with each step. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Other vehicles raced parallel to us and formed many lanes on the narrow paved road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But this manuscript was not in final form when, in the first week of February, the Pauling paper crossed the Atlantic. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The music acts as a stimulus to which the body responds, after which sensation returns to the brain to form emotions, which deepens the significance of the experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A large audience formed to watch as we played, and I saw that all their eyes were on me—me in my strappy pink dress. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I'm in the middle of a bunch of craters that form a triangle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurled clods of earth at the prone forms in the ditch and stood watching them for a time. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s having trouble forming his thoughts. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His head was small and perfectly formed, shaped like that of a deer, but with a gray beard growing from his chin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was some form of chalky granite, or a sandstone, but imbedded in it were large pieces of a darker stone, a harder and darker stone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

For these prayer meetings, we’d jam ourselves into the tiny living area of the host family’s house and form a circle. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a monstrous form of racism that was rising in Europe exaggerated and demonized individual distinctions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I enter 3 adoption forms into the computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, an obvious letter formed in the center of the crisscrossed mass of lines. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Thus flies foul our fearless night owl,” she might say, the words forming so punctiliously on her lips, her head raised and neck straight and her eyes fixed on our teacher. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact they will form a cavity between them, a bit like an organ pipe that will resonate only at certain notes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they reached the top of the stairs, a guard said, “Line forms to the right. Single file, please.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some spots, there were cracks in the crust, and that’s where volcanoes formed. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The body demands its own form of logic. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It was my dad’s idea. He says it’s a new art form he just invented.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our old life, Mom got really good at filling out the form for financial assistance to take care of it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Still, at least she was in human form. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I recall that I stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the case of the oak tree, the form and the purpose are in some sense inside the acorn. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

About a month after I had mailed the application form to Princeton University, a reply came. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could come wordless into the house of any Marine family, but no matter how they came or what shape or appearance they assumed, their very presence was the equivalent of some form of apocalypse. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows rippled along the edges of his form, and his ember-like eyes flared. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I could not pay you. I hoped that perhaps my thanks in the form of a meal...” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She tears up the old registration form and asks Mrs. McNab to type up a new one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it ended, we formed into a loose line and swept east through the village. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some it is a form of vanity: “Learn from me and be awed because I am so wise.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Spiral arms outline the region where the latest crop of newly hatched stars is being formed, but not necessarily where such middle-aged stars as the Sun happen to be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The point which must be clearly understood is that the struggle is not over, and negotiations themselves are a theater of struggle, subject to advances and reverses as any other form of struggle.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You need to fill out your forms, and we’ll add you to the waiting list.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Murder,” he said, forming his hand into the shape of a pistol and pulling off a few rounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only a year into my apprenticeship when the ghetto was formed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Debris from floods had caught in the limbs, forming a drift. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with a crime,” JT explained, “but my father made him join the army. He’s only seventeen, so my dad had to sign an extra form, but he’s gone.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would betray no sign of emotion; but she read my prone form like a pamphlet that contained words to save her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Part of the river had been dammed to form a washing pool. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips formed the words as he let it come down with a grunt which was a blending of a curse, a prayer and a groan. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though for over a year Francis and I had dismissed the possibility that bases formed regular hydrogen bonds, it was now obvious to me that we had done so incorrectly. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I might—” the ambition began to form along with the sentence. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, in its suffixed form woid-o, it became the Sanskrit word veda. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was recognized as a form of knowledge, but only at the margins. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The domovoi in his cat form sat beside her, and his tail whipped back and forth behind him against the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A little suspicion formed in the back of her mind that, sooner or later, she’d find out. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps the fetus is formed by the mutual contributions of male and female parts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bears clustered at the battlements, white faces filled every window, and their heavy forms stood like a dense wall of misty white ahead, marked with the black dots of eyes and noses. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was the little duck-shaped water dropper, and another one in the form of a lotus bud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Instead they would pile the freshly formed and painted pots interlaced with sun-dried mesquite and make a bonfire of the whole pile. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the time Helmuth reaches the Bieberhaus and returns the borrowed book, the words to another pamphlet have formed in his head. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The forms en- and em- are of French origin. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Did you hear about coffins...and females singing...and the lines forming to get into Hell? Did you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hugh coughed, and bees tumbled out of his mouth to form a question mark that shivered in the air. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Skim ice has formed atop puddles in the gravel paths. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Against me was the awkward chemical fact that I had chosen the wrong tautomeric forms of guanine and thymine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Some-how, Sergeant Holmes formed an idea of where you belonged and then tended to send you there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blimps crisscross above me and block the stars with their plump forms and silhouette banners. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Harry could see the conclusion forming in his uncle’s mind as though the great mustached face were transparent. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

An Islamic Jihad Council, formed in Peshawar by several of the Mujahideen factions, would oversee things for two months, led by Sibghatullah Mojadidi. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clay was shoveled into one of the pits and water mixed in to form a thick viscous mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The girls peeled off and formed a line across the stage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One of my friends had formed a chamber choir that was to sing carols during dinner. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All in all, we form a reliable mutual-support group: if one of us is feeling sick or overwhelmed, another one will “bev” a table or even carry trays for her. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the lamassus, Shere Khan and Simba, had been torn free of the harness and were lying on the floor, mewling pitifully as they shrank back into their cat forms. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had utterly forgotten where he was; his eyes were still riveted on that point in space where he had last seen Jan’s retreating form. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They began taking on physical form, like walking corpses, but they seemed confused. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She watched Mr. Williams’s class file out of the school, looking for Jack’s form. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mia had sliced each word out neatly with a razor to form the gaps between the bars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked up and another spirit formed in front of me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up with stiff muscles and frozen toes on her tarp one morning, her small form huddled under layers, cheeks pink with warmth and rest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Renee smirked and lifted her hands to her face, her fingers forming a pretend camera. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A lump forms in my throat, and I have to shut my eyes to keep from crying. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Will soon come to London,” said I, after casting about for a precise form of words, “or summon me anywhere else?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Away from the cocoon of the car with those velvety songs and that meandering chatter, little beads of sweat began to form on his forehead. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it refers to the little balls of wool that form on sweaters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It shouldn’t be such a shock, especially because, in lots of the pictures I’ve seen of people with vitiligo, it forms a pale mask around their eyes, mouth, and nose. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A flash of blue-white light erupted from both wands; for a moment, Scabbers was frozen in midair, his small gray form twisting madly — Ron yelled — the rat fell and hit the floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In that speech she said: It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But the living have fallen behind. Hurry and type that story up into an obituary form. Quickly, and then you can take my car to run it over to Mr. Greene.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A body was forming out of silver and gold, with oil for blood and raw diamonds for a heart. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few more recipe cards and prescription forms tossed in amongst the teeming contents of our two libraries will surely go unnoticed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The materials for research were all around me, in the form of books assembled by your grandfather. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was half reclined and it wasn’t long before he had drunk himself back into his deep slumber, trusting in the shackles and the sleeping forms of young people for his sense of security. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And did you also guess that within a day at most, Kronos will bum away that mortal body and take on the true form of a Titan king?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell was frowning, and a thick crease had formed across her forehead. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Guareschi returned to his form and read it over again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

No explicit objectives in the art form are articulated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The longshoremen’s victory launched the modern labor movement in the western United States, in which workers have the right by law to form unions and bargain with employers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He had said “Don't look down” because this very last section, although it was made relatively easy in its climb because of the odd outcroppings that formed footholds, was sheer in its vertical drop. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at the little figures, it seemed obvious that they had been equipped with wheels in precisely the form he suggested. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s not her name. It’s just a form of address.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time there may have been no precise form of words; in fact, she may have experienced nothing more than impatience to begin writing again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bobbing lights moved to form a chain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This made me nervous, because if she suddenly lost control and appeared in her fully divine form, we would disintegrate by looking at her. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The September skirmish took place during a council discussion over forming a human relations Commission, primarily to hear alleged incidents of race discrimination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most also rendered some form of salute to him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Competing my hardest in all my events was the highest form of respect I could show to them and to myself. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some played it intensely, forming teams and battling for hours. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At every stop, whether immigration or customs, she alone gave the magic password, for not once did they have to fill out extra forms, not once were their bags opened. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Neither of these terminal narratives explains why conflict between the colonizers and the Indigenous peoples continued for three hundred years before the United States was formed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A group of streets formed a zone directed by a chief steward, who was in turn responsible to the secretariat of the local branch of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And still the robot’s hands formed the stirrup, nor did he betray the slightest atom of surprise at the grotesque figure into which Powell had been converted. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was an invasive life form, devastating and promiscuous. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On other nights it was still, with such a stillness as one imagines as existing before the stars began to form, or after everything has perished. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw then that her plans were formed, and the nephew was to be the means of introduction. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had formed a massed wall that wove around itself and clung to itself with tiny tendrils. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On others, it may arise and die out, or never evolve beyond its simplest forms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had ridden with the Second Sons, the Iron Shields, and the Maiden’s Men, then joined with five brothers-in-arms to form the Windblown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fatima helps me fill in a form all about me: my age, date of birth, full name. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others, the so-called cromlechs, form the setting of religious observances. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around him, bones began to quiver as if they were trying to form a new skeleton. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sweat forms on my big forehead, and I rub my hands on my ugly PE shorts. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

A dark shape started emerging from the concrete of the parking lot, a massive form of twisted ink and ice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nobody found the envelope and the deadline to turn in the order forms passed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Over the past few years, Aech and I had discussed our mutual admiration for the female form on numerous occasions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Besides all this horde of minute but ceaselessly toiling creatures there are of course many larger forms, for soil life runs the gamut from bacteria to mammals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Because he was also half-covered by ropes of twine that had been tied tightly around him so he couldn’t move and by the silvery lake of water his tears had formed all around him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The kneeling forms, the leaning forms, all intent on one ground spot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I untied my apron and filled it with timothy grass until it formed a soft pillow for Grandfather’s head. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, from all corners of Hrothgar’s sphere of influence and from towns beyond—the vassals’ vassals—an army began to form. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the courtyard, ghosts were forming a mob - hundreds of glowing Romans carrying spectral clubs or stones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is so cheap and comes in so many different forms, the other foods just can’t compete. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I press on it, even though it hurts, I press on it so hard a small bruise begins to form. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One of the many reasons for this decline is the replacement of workers through the use of robots and other forms of automation that require fewer workers, even those with advanced skills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She recognizes no one, only a group of bewildered- looking freshmen bearing add-drop forms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the Germans told everybody else to form in ranks of five, with Billy as their pivot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I filled out the form right. I thought for sure we’d get approved for assistance—” my mom starts. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then, with his pencil poised over the form, Grandpa looked up over his reading glasses and asked, “Son, why ain’t you said nothin’ bout this up to now?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The final form is a client questionnaire that asks me to give a full accounting of my time in the United States. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was one of the men who had come together to form a life-saving team that would help get them out of town. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I stared at that last line, dated on the first day of school, urging it to change, to revert to its true form, because I knew I must have made it up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

T. “Look,” Thomas said, pointing down the line of stacks they’d formed, confused, but happy that the letters were so obvious. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I imagined the universe as a giant set of LEGOs, all those pieces constructing endless forms, then coming apart only to create new forms. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Norfolk Prison Colony represented the most enlightened form of prison that I have ever heard of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five of them had the huge robotic lions that could form Voltron. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Distasteful as his behavior was, we had seen it all before, only in less concentrated and vitriolic form. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The fecundity of many forms of life is almost beyond our power to imagine, though now and then we have suggestive glimpses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The mesmer is the lowest form of magic and requires only a trickle of power. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She spoke of him at the table as an exceptional being who had renounced all forms of vanity and was on his way to becoming a saint. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There is no place for the Bantu in the European community above the level of certain forms of labor,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben writhed and kicked and bit and howled, and the monstrous jaws and teeth of Bonneville’s dæmon were closing, slowly, voluptuously, ecstatically, on his little form. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Out beyond where the headlands of the Concha almost met to form the harbor there was a white line of breakers and the open sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His chalk approximates the texture of flesh and captures the play of light and dark over the nude forms, giving the figure a greater sensuousness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra nearly blazed with hatred, and Pantalaimon in her arms became a polecat, the most ugly and vicious of all his forms, and snarled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

People pour in to join them, forming two long lines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I watched the indistinct form of the forty-something Puerto Rican through the screen as he turned in bed and sat up on his mattress. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racial indifference and blindness—even more than overt racial hostility—form the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He leaped over Mr. Rodrigo’s still form and landed in the driver’s seat, stomping on the accelerator. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As Jeanne chewed, tears formed at the corners of her eyes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few forms of exercise not entirely ruined by my disability. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They formed a barrier, an uninterrupted wall of tiny bodies. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had lots of forms to fill out and reports to complete about what had happened to his patrol car. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all criminal cases are resolved through plea bargaining—a guilty plea by the defendant in exchange for some form of leniency by the prosecutor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The truth was kind of depressing— even to joke about—and a dark cloud was forming over his head. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Pay close attention, though, not to the content of their conversation but to the form. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You can’t buy beauty or pray for it to come in the form of what you see on the television screen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ancients longed for logos in its purest form—the clear light of analytic philosophy— to be the only effective component of an argument. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had thought about telling, but then I had thought about how it might form a crowd in here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“In the emergency room. They want you to sign some forms.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Suesetta says, “Ma’am, here is a membership form for you to complete.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Then how about letting me send out those form letters?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If Kronos evolved into his true form, there would be no stopping him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I decided the best form of advertising was to stand on the corner of our street and yell at the top of my voice, “Grapefruits for sale!” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had cast hundreds of small things since he had gone to work for Mr. Lapham, but nothing so intricate and beautiful as the woman with folded wings whose body formed the handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year Sixteenth Street Baptist Church formed a church tennis team. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Any real star—which would never be perfectly spherical—could therefore only collapse to form a naked singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boards had been nailed into the tree to form a ladder. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Colonel Vincent’s compliments, sir. You are instructed to form your regiment.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His men formed up and followed, banners streaming. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When his Christmas vacation arrived, he formed a plan to go camping on Mount Elgon, and he invited one of the women from Eldoret to accompany him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the culvert where Enrique hides, trains clang and crash as they add and subtract cars, forming trains that are nearly a mile long. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The stiff straight back of the thin male form and the way he held his head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Schools for girls had been burned to the ground, and all women were forced to wear a severe form of burqa, a head-to-toe veil that had only a tiny fabric grille for their eyes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She peeled off the bark of a musasa tree, then chewed and rolled it until it formed a kind of twine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leaned backwards as though the letters were reluctant to form words, and the words reluctant to be in sentences: Add the Pectin to concentrated juice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy tried to form himself into a ball. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom walks past me to the table and signs her name to my form. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, her father spoke again, hesitantly, as if his tongue found it difficult to form the words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because improv is an art form governed by a series of rules, and they want to make sure that when they’re up onstage, everyone abides by those rules. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A lump of sleeping bag was curled up on one of the benches, its dark form bold against the white fog. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't call it an art form," Carol said. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My cousin used to stand on her head and let out enough thread to form a balloon. Then she’d let go and be lifted into the air and carried upward on the warm wind.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ll form a suicide society, and the membership requirement is one jump out of this tree.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Scatcherd herds the three of them off the stage toward a table covered with forms, Carmine’s dark head on the woman’s shoulder. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She needed a stronger form for her shadows. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Because there’s no way a kid can grow up in an environment where ninety-three percent of the families are on some form of government assistance. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fair was a “contagion,” a “virus,” a form of “progressive cerebral meningitis.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When it finally sank in that he wasn’t coming back, I lugged my guitar into the music store, where the manager led me to my teacher, a perfectly formed midget named Mister Mancini. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Percy looked at the blazing form of Hyperion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This got Kepler thinking about two-dimensional six-cornered shapes and how they form a lattice: the cells of a honeycomb, or the seeds of a pomegranate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The cut along her thigh wouldn’t stop bleeding, her arm hung limp, and her face and arms were a patchwork of cuts and rapidly forming bruises. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One time in gym class we had to do this thing for warm-up where Mr. Perham made us form two lines, facing each other. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Honey had oozed out and formed puddles on the tray underneath. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slowed her pace, then at the thought of having to go back to Miss Susan and whatever form of punishment she and her husband would have devised, she started running again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a mixing bowl, use a wooden spoon to stir all the ingredients until they form a thick dough.* Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Turquoise light shines from within some of their crevices, forming glowing lines that seem to point out pathways to take. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s another explosion of white light and a twinkling bird takes form. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At that moment there was a diversion in the form of a small, red-headed figure in a long nightdress, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Therefore, I naturally pointed to Mrs. Joe, and put my mouth into the form of saying, “her?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rebuffed by the girls, Lloyd returned to his companions, stopping in front of Sasha’s sleeping form to shout an abrupt, parrotlike “Hey!” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Staring at it dissolved its outlines, but within a few paces it had taken on a vaguely human form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A favorite activity of the kids was to form a group in a circle and scream: “Two, four, six, eight, we ain’t gonna integrate.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright spots form along the edges of my vision. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Transcribing the oral number system into written form was a simple task: people just needed to figure out a coding method whereby scribes could set the numbers down in a more permanent form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Each year, she was voted Prettiest Girl in their form, and she would wryly say, “Its just because I’m a half-caste. How can I be finer than Zainab?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

From a patent lawyer’s perspective, the ideal invention is one that arises without any precursors, like Athene springing fully formed from the forehead of Zeus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Abbot worked feverishly, resuscitating, levering and pounding the prone form of Matthias. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I felt my lips form the word, but I couldn’t hear myself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I take one more glance at the nomination form. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Had she been in her old-woman form, she would have sobbed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sadie came to our house every day after school, and I watched the Snickers incident play out over and over, in different forms, with different objects. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we’re little, one of the first things we learn is the alphabet. Those twenty-six letters make up the millions of words we use, and those words can form anything we want, including poems.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It’s going to be the fifth form I get for her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I had heard Communists discuss discipline in the abstract, but when I saw it in its concrete form it tore my feelings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Succinct, yet magisterial, this formula captured the essence of the interactions between heredity, chance, environment, variation, and evolution in determining the form and fate of an organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And now,” he said, “it is time for two of our number to recognize each other for what they are. Sirius... if you could resume your usual form.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Aztec and Inca Empires were formed by 15th-century conquests, before Europeans arrived, but we know much about their formation from Indian oral histories transcribed by early Spanish settlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Besides architecture, the predominant art form of Mesopotamia was bas-relief sculpture. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. And can you rephrase that in the form of a question?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The people formed in a procession round him, and the mayor of the village took him by the hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Registration forms and fees are just for judging,” he said. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s when I lost part of my tail and cracked my fin. Not a big deal when I’m in fish form, but it’s a bit inconvenient here at Sea Bottom.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yup, it looks like your form was turned in about a month ago, and that it was all filled out correctly.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was supersized Jupiter - no, this was Zeus, his original form - riding into battle in a golden chariot, a lightning bolt the size of a telephone pole crackling in one hand. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Martin’s memory bubbled up like hot tar, forming and shaping itself until I was standing where he had stood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The devices took various forms, but basically they used twisted metal coils to detect an electrical signal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Looking at them indirectly, I could almost mistake their forms as human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Rage formed in his chest and tore through his throat, released in a scream so loud he didn’t know he had the strength to create it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was eerie, watching it, and I thought then of chairs running, their four legs knocking together, of water being held in a basket, of human forms climbing out of ant holes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the room five display cases form a pentagon. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

What he sent to his boss was a simple electronic form that revealed next to nothing about the girl. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The sleeping face of Gaea appeared on the side of Half-Blood Hill—her massive features formed from the shadows on the grassy slopes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few beads of sweat were forming on his forehead, but he didn’t wipe them off. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland which is sometimes called Tidewater Maryland, sometimes called the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in her gray garden and watched a sheet of ice slowly form on the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Mess Night was bridled by stiffness and form only in the first hours; now the evening was moving quickly toward a more visceral, more wanton kind of tradition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their three-minute relationship was the thing itself in its most unadulterated form. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone seemed to understand the strategy, and in no time other men formed new barriers along the road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The plan was to first secure the village, then remain there and form a new base instead of bringing the goods back. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Five nights a week, six hours a day, for the next four months—and, fortunately, never again—I made my living by exhibiting the peculiar way I am formed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I crouch down and form a cup with my palms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They formed a group that was prepared to receive the millennial knowledge Nicolas had acquired in the East. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

To guarantee his safety, Guiteau wrote a message on the back of a blank telegram form. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He watched Thiazi, in giant form, lumber out of his keep and walk across the shingle to a rowing boat bigger than the largest whale. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stine showed him the collars that formed the connections between the heaters and the gas pipes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But before I can even form the words, Jane puts five twenties on the counter. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Shields stacked ten deep formed columns jutting off the floor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A draft from the open door sent an eddy of air across the bed, and the particles of the angel’s form, loosened by the waning of his strength, swirled upward into randomness and vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They nodded to security guards and hurried down a dark hallway beneath the stands, their breath forming frost clouds in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gradually changed the atmosphere to the composition that it has today, and allowed the development of higher forms of life such as fish, reptiles, mammals, and ultimately the human race. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viet Minh fighters were supposed to have left the South, but thousands stayed behind and helped to form a new guerrilla force calling itself the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Rhyming words took their form from children's books—the smallest pig in the litter, the hounds pursuing the fox, the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I found myself glancing at the vacant Arizona sky, hoping to see her black form swelling out of the earth, laying claim to her half of the heavens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to form the words to explain to El that not only did I get my first kiss, but it ended up being a full-on make-out session. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There are fund-raising forms mixed with other literature. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They are coiled around with a lattice of roots, which sometimes form the shapes of cages, sometimes balconies, and sometimes what appear more like tightropes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Many citizens of Century Village were widows who had once been great family cooks, so they formed a committee to plan the wedding dinner. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hands wrap around my arms and shoulders and chest, forming a cage of flesh and bone, but I keep straining toward her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I could feel him smiling in the dark and a smile of my own formed on my face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Piano Fingers reaches under his desk and pulls out some forms. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their literature, though it exists in written form, is a live oral tradition, and they are all in this sense literate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

To accept it in any form would cause irreparable damage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth formed the word “no,” but nothing came out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Struggling to form words, I asked him if he spoke Lingala, and he responded “no” in French. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the warm, wet Amazonian air hits the towering Andes, it cools and sheds its moisture in the form of snow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” concluded Napoleon,“I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes if I’m concentrating on my form or my time, I don’t notice that I’ve run past it, but today I’m not thinking about those things. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I could feel the words forming themselves, slowly falling into place. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When everyone else leaves for the day, Vincent stays and works, copying the forms with “angelic patience.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if they listed that as their occupation on official forms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Basil Stag Hare had formed three lines of bowmice on top of the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Calculus, on the other hand, gave scientists a way to express the laws that govern the motion of the celestial bodies—and laws that would eventually tell scientists how those moons and stars had formed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed to worry about was the student body thinking I was a bed wetter when they had formed such kind opinions of me already. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Wagner's ambition was nothing less than the creation of the art form of the future, in which all the arts would combine and fuse, led by the unequally greater power of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Even before he opened his eyes, a name formed on my tongue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All his chemical intuition told him that it would occur in the keto form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He liked to surprise her, but she usually managed to see him before he reached her, and there was his shadowy form, flowing along beside the riverbank. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Someone matching the details I submitted had already filled out a form.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was a form of darkness, black hooded cloak, black mask, black gloves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ruth kept on with her unpacking, checking her inventory against an order form, again humming her song, or another one just like it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Interrupting her harangue, I asserted that the simplest form for any regular polymeric molecule was a helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As he dare not change to man’s form without suspicion—which he evidently wishes to avoid—he must remain in the box. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It might sound like cowardly excuses when the words were formed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They got to the parking lot and formed a circle behind Lydia’s car. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Why, they inevitably ask in one form or another, why are you the one who survived? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not get off on the wrong foot here, Holling. Forms are how we organize this school, and forms are never wrong, are they?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

While Candice and her mother filled out forms for their library cards, Brandon bolted up the stairs to the children’s section, not bothering to wait for them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To control the practice of their trade, craftsmen banded together to form societies called guilds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If history is any guide, it may have simply taken a different form. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So desperate were conditions in the besieged city that, in the winter of 1941-2, police had to form a special unit to combat gangs involved in cannibalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When the light we see today from M31 left for Earth, there were no humans on our planet, although our ancestors were evolving rapidly to our present form. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the legacy of the mechanical philosophy was not simply modern versions of the argument from design, which are still widely defended in the form of Intelligent Design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And it occurred to me that cleared of its ramshackle fences and planted with flowers and grass, it might form a pleasant park. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I find out we’re supposed to invite our families, especially our mothers, an anxious knot forms inside me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one answered; but a form emerged from the closet; it took the light, held it aloft, and surveyed the garments pendent from the portmanteau. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They formed a nice little barricade against the desperate fighting in the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Mama got to help me with this form,” said one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the environment of the Earth today is not extremely favorable for simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get a bad feeling the second Mrs. Fisher says, “Class, today marks the third day of National Poetry Month, and were going to form groups of two for our poetry unit.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Raising one arm he carefully formed an exaggerated obscene gesture, aiming it emphatically at the pickups. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke and heat didn’t bother me in my ghostly form, so I ran on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His stubbornness was something I recognized, something I’d inherited myself, though I hoped in a less abrasive form. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Metadiscourse is not the only form of self-consciousness that bogs down professional prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And not even the supposedly descriptivist dictionaries leave their users in doubt as to what the standard forms are. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The new philosophers regarded matter as the passive recipient of a divine shaping and denied the existence of Aristotelian forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I pull them out, and an idea forms in my head. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the world descended into anxiety, paranoia and financial meltdown, not to mention Fascism and Stalinism, increasingly it was composers embracing popular forms who became the voice of conscience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure how to form his thoughts into a question, and before he could, Suheyla, busying herself wiping up the cutting board, went on in the same quiet way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It hangs from the finest thread in empty space, a decorative object, as interesting for the way in which it catches the light as for its geometrical form. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We and the other nations might set it as an objective of international, collaborative science to achieve a complete understanding of a single form of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue lights swept across a form on the ground. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A small half smile forms at the corner of his lips. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Burr, true to form, refused to make any promises to deliver New York to the secessionists, but he also would not repudiate the conspiracy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He walked to the door and stuck the two needles in the form of a cross at the top of the door frame. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees problems and forms solutions based on the data she collects. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It totally is. forming a blockade with her body. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once you understand that prescriptive rules are the conventions of a specialized form of the language, most of the iptivist controversies evaporate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And then we came to the end of the road; the trees formed green walls on three sides of the Jeep. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I looked up, and above me rose the square opening that formed the inside of the steeple, actually more like a high cupola. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We marched down salt stairs, we crawled along salt floors, we passed stalagmites formed from salt water dripping off the ceiling. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As dictionaries will tell you, either form is right. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each window was given a person who leaned from it and waved slowly, as if under a timeless water, at some moving form in the fathoms of space below the moon-silvered towers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That thought had taken a while to form, had formed slowly as he moved up and down the line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His schemes, until then unknown to us in detail, always dealt with groups of three bases, hydrogen-bonded in the middle, many of which we now knew to be in the wrong tautomeric forms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She pushes a sheaf of forms at me and doesn’t look at me again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her form shivered and the ghosts disappeared, leaving us alone with a pit, a Happy Flush septic tank, and a cold full moon. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Feverishly he followed in periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking schools. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not paying full attention; I’m staring out my little window as an idea forms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then the even more important cat was let out of the bag: since the middle of the summer Rosy had had evidence for a new three-dimensional form of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A crazy idea sprang fully formed from Annabeth’s mind, like her mom jumping out of Zeus’s noggin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We formed two lines and ran layups for a while and then Nick started shooting from the outside and we all switched to that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, considering the circumstances, I think that would be okay. But I need your entry form and photograph no later than by end of day Friday.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He showed the children how to let themselves be stung by spiders and drink the urine of pregnant women as a form of immunization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a rule: Never write a sentence of the form “X not Y because Z,” such as Dave is not evil because he did what he was told. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Or that in two days, I hadn't figured out how to get the hot water to work in my uncle's bathroom and that no form of deodorant would mask the stench of my body odor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The voice was saying, “He can’t talk to you. He is invisible. His words are formed with an invisible tongue, they have no sound.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute all four of our heads appeared on-screen, each in their own box, forming one gigantic square. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They passed through the gates and into a smaller hall, where queues were forming in front of twenty golden grilles housing as many lifts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

An intense raking light from an unseen source at the left is used to model forms and create textures. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January and February, in anticipation of the games, Goebbels had formed organizing committees at the propaganda ministry. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like “sulks.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had chosen to rise in a balloon, convinced that the spectacle of a gigantic balloon suspended in the clouds would be an irresistible form of publicity for almost any carbonated drink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Glaciers form over Canada, snows fall regularly in Florida and Central America. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A strangled cry was forming in his throat; he urged himself to move but he couldn’t. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She formed the name on her lips, asleep in the tower room with Kaede beside her, and she felt the woman in the fortress come alive. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The magical flames had formed some kind of fence, and must’ve cooked up all the liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Billy and the Maori and others helping them with their particular hole came at last to a membrane of timbers laced over rocks which had wedged together to form an accidental dome. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Aztecs required tribute in the form of military service, physical labor, crops, and manufactured products. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

—CO, can you sign this form for a new I.D.? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Communist Party had secretly reconstituted itself underground and was now considering forming its own military wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano, for his part, was surprised that José Arcadio when seen from close by was so different from the image that he had formed of him when he saw him wandering through the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A smile with meaning behind it, one that says all I need to say to her so I don't have to form the right words. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He could leam to pound, roll, twist and shape the dough into the small round forms. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

My boots are laced tight, and each step is painful, blisters already forming. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His form was horrible—elbows out, knees straight, ball held chest high. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent the day dealing with accident reports and insurance forms, rental cars, going back and forth to the hospital....” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Gladers surged toward Thomas, forming a tight group, forcing him to move out into the open intersection where the Cliff corridor met the long alley. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For Cleopatra, luck came in the form of the civil war being waged between Caesar and Pompey, the two generals who now ruled Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They formed a giant spiral, with a large mark in its center. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The melon’s stem and leaves were cleverly shaped to form the lid of the jug. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Thus, even in those areas where complex systems of hydraulic management did emerge, they were a secondary consequence of states that must have formed for other reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the click, a deep affection, a bond that formed there, but after a couple of months I started to drift away. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only between them, no magpies formed a bridge across the oceans. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to survive, human beings have to consume food, which is an ordered form of energy, and convert it into heat, which is a disordered form of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Maria got permission from Czar Nicholas II to form her own regiment composed entirely of women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The tension mounted when a radical black party, based on the Black Panthers, formed and publicly called for white extermination. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I check the teahouse mailroom every day, hoping to see their lilac forms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as “Cleckley” psychopaths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Scythe Faraday only found fit to voice his opinion once—when it came to forming an immunity committee. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She knew the god in his Greek form, Dionysus—or Mr. D, as they called him back at Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He walked a fine line filling out the form: making the launch date and flight path clear, while doing everything possible to "conceal state secrets." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seconds, a ring of spectators formed around the brawlers. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The high- backed chair in front of the fire moved suddenly and there rose up out of it—like a pantomime demon coming up out of a trapdoor—the alarming form of Unde Andrew. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The steam was so thick that the players were vague, ethereal forms in the mist. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

From above, in eagle form, Frank saw no monsters on the far side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Because the virus I’m talking about is a form of smallpox. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At one point his words slid together to form one word—sounds as confused as the threads of blue and green oil in the puddle next to my shoes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only then, when all other forms of resistance were no longer open to us, that we turned to armed struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faded few lines on a census form. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And since they couldn’t have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Both Hobbes and Wittgenstein, they want to argue, grasped that a form of knowledge implies a form of social order and vice versa. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As she ran from the room, I grabbed the sheet and bundled it around my hand to form a compact, pressing it over the wound in Haskel’s side in an effort to stop the bleeding. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Presently she heard the voices of Sam and Alice as they came up the snowy trail from Mrs. Strawberry’s form. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Not really” was the safest form of “no” I could come up with. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This will probably be a disordered arrangement in which the pieces don’t form a proper picture, simply because there are so many more disordered arrangements. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether we are aware of it or not, tradition is the framework within which we inevitably form our opinions of works of art and assess their degree of originality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

People I didn’t know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All of its internal life exists within three paper-thin layers of tissue—the phloem, xylem, and cambium—just beneath the bark, which together form a moist sleeve around the dead heartwood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our talk was restricted to the petty relations which formed the core of life for us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It formed the eastern edge of the Elmuthaleth, and the other faranji were content to call it a mountain range, but it didn’t look like a mountain range. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Always, my lips began to form the same words: My name is Clancy Gray, and I am here to tell you how the camp rehabilitation program saved my life. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling’s mouth formed a thin, tight line. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The water forms a small pool at the center of the valley, like it’s stopping to take a breath before rushing on to meet the river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They knew how to tie the reeds together and weave them cleverly to form shallow canoes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uniformed man led them to an office, and handed out forms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He saw the room and saw snow falling past the window; but his mind formed no image of any of these. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her Appalachian childhood had acquainted her with government assistance, and she was a whiz with the Medicaid forms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A tiny band of sweat formed instantly across her forehead. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I need you to sign the permission form,” said Harry in a rush. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He saw her at age eighteen, clutching the hilt of her newly formed bloodsword as she crept up the flagstone steps to a little cabin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fabric forms an X over my chest and my cleavage. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The early technical fussing was crucial; by early August, the three had achieved the transformation reaction in a flask and distilled the “transforming principle” into a highly concentrated form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At that very moment the dark form of a rider loomed up right in front of him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow and dirty lane, its houses joined one to another to form a continuous wall on either hand, like the sides of a canyon. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The switch between the two forms was partly responsible for the noise that Wilkins had been struggling to minimize. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was regarded as a wise old bird who knew the ways of “them,” and who was handy when it came to filling out a form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We had few forms of entertainment, so we made a game of talking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Over the years Deganawidah and Ayenwatha persuaded the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, and Mohawk to form an alliance instead of constantly fighting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The inshore waters —the bays, the sounds, the river estuaries, the tidal marshes — form an ecological unit of the utmost importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

About twenty women met and formed the Mothers’ Club, electing a young mother named Joyce Thorpe president of the group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is, they argued, no such thing as a form or essence, there are only particular objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We turned the corner of the building into a kind of courtyard formed by that building and two others. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even settlers like Hale who formed close ties to the Osage argued that the white man’s road was inevitable and that the only way for the Osage to survive was to follow it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

These generative forces make themselves felt through the power of an idea long before their organizational forms can openly challenge the establishment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby was using a form of chess notation that described the movement of the pieces to various squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dough was starting to form up more, be less sticky, and roll easily. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I got up and poured some water in the flour and mixed the dough quickly, forming it into little balls, then flattening them into circles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I peer outside, where a crowd is forming on the front walk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere deep in him a thought formed: It’s morning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other dark forms were clustering in the fog, and the jeering screams of a hundred more harpies sounded from farther along the shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Workers formed a committee to complain to management about the firing and they, too, were immediately dismissed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After pressing their inked thumbs to their respective forms, they were handcuffed, blindfolded, and led outside to the elevator. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Evolution thus favoured those capable of forming strong social ties. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not the Mayans who formed our calendar; it was the Egyptians and, later, the Romans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“But how can you—?” she would ask, watching the print form on the paper and comparing it to the image she’d had in her mind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are various forms of rum — dark, golden, white, spiced, aged, flavored — but they all share one distinctive quality: They will get you drunk. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A criminal record today authorizes precisely the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind—discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, as Uncle had said, the river formed a big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t a lesson from God; it was something else, something more like putting together a puzzle, making the pieces fit to form an image. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

So I confessed to her about tomorrow's form assembly. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The team formed a circle, placed their hands on top of each other, then broke in a single file for the double doors. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an expression of raw pain that came from an inability of my body to express that pain in any other way, shape, or form. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They could melt from one form to the other. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its purest form, the symphonic poem style is what orchestral film music grew out of in the 1920s and ’30s, its job to support and describe something outside music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the form fed, it grew and grew, until it nearly covered the entire stage, and when it had gorged on all the shadows it could find, it turned and floated toward the crowd. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The restlessness that disturbed Christine’s home state in the form of student protests in Greensboro would follow her, and engage her, at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We w ould form a small band of music and play songs requested by our fellows. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We must accept that time is not completely separate from and independent of space, but is combined with it to form an object called space-time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the stringy green blades formed a wad in his mouth, and he swallowed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The day was an excessive warm one; the dirt itself smelled of heat when we landed; and, as if distempered, the skies began a sickly-warm drizzle as we formed upon the dock. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was already late afternoon, and I passed through spotted light, then brighter clearings, with grass so tall it bent from both sides to form a tunnel overhead, then back under trees again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watch as my breath forms small clouds in the air. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ten of the penguins now formed in a semicircle as Nelson and Columbus in their midst put on a wild sparring contest. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He even pronounced the word as though it were a form of death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an undergraduate, he had formed a Biological Society at Columbia University to explore and support “positive eugenics.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When class ends, two lines form outside the bathrooms. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day for the past couple of weeks, my parents have been dropping hints that I should make friends, find something useful to do, form a book club. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We say good-bye, and at last I watch Sister Claire’s determined white form disappear into the dusk. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please complete the enclosed forms and return them to me as soon as you can. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’s just a blurry form in the periphery of my vision, but he looks so much like Dad. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A different mechanism seems to operate in a number of patients, both in America and Great Britain, who are suffering from a chronic form of leukemia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He knows he has to draw the human form better. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He learned how to talk a friendly form of smack, trash-talking his bigger, faster opponents on the court. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But to make a stupid sword with stupid jewels in the form of stupid initials so some stupid Italian can thrill his stupid mistress, no. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had scrambled to this higher ground when the lake formed was here forever. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was bad form to argue with the ref’s call, but I also knew I had scored that point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I sketch the woolly form into the corner of the page, near the shoreline. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soft crinkles form at the corners of his eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost wished it was someone I knew, to give new form and depth to the sadness I still felt. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I look over at the adults, occupied with plans and forms. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And because of the special features necessary for our form of life, that’s the universe we inhabit. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I found a form letter on my bedside table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As a child, the song had made her see a woman, dressed in black, standing in infinite mists alone, waiting for the form of the Son of God to lead her through that white fire. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Each time I turned out a new line of text it felt like magic, words forming from slugs of molten lead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Without the sun there would be no waters formed to slake the dark earth's thirst. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A harsh war horn sounded, and as the dead soldiers formed up ranks with their guns and swords and spears, an enormous chariot roared down Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We were standing near the wire screen, forming a tight circle around Mr. Galanter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She got up and pulled the blanket more fully over the girl’s still form. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before the power of his sight, these things hung like dark tapestries in the air about Lanre’s shaking form. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Will the two ladies with the banner please take their positions over there by the door? Now the choir please form behind them and then the battalion.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the beads of sweat form on my upper lip. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His tiny forehead has been decorated with considerable struggle with sandalwood paste to form six miniature beige moons floating above his brows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

South of the Blackwater, Davos saw men dragging crude rafts toward the water while ranks and columns formed up beneath a thousand streaming banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her jealousy takes a subtle form in this letter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then his politics were being formed, his anti-communism, his distrust of the Russians. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Though related to these abstract considerations, the mistaken belief in the mechanical nature of mathematics generally takes more prosaic forms. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While his mouth was still forming an O of surprise, Althea’s hand latched onto the front of Caul’s pants, and the O broadened into a grimace of shock. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The form and abundance of the galaxies have a story to tell us of ancient events on the largest possible scale, a story we are just beginning to read. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Party itself there were not many people left whose ideas had been formed before the Revolution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Along the way, tables full of people stretch their legs or tilt back their chairs to form an obstacle course that begs me to spill my drink. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soon after the organization was established, it formed important alliances with legendary women’s rights leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women battling to gain the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Exposure to these artistic forms develops the inner core of a child, introduces new dimensions of possibilities, and shows the brain a new way of functioning and understanding. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Reality returned in the form of my rough, unlettered, and infinitely more admirable brother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The state has decided not to charge the crime in this form. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the words of the Tang people were more alive— more like pictures, really—handwriting was more of an art form than among demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, the clouds pull together, forming many tight balls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby had to play this strange, isolated form of chess every single game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the way, it’s fine to add up to any of the wake forms: Wake up and smell the coffee! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on the sled ride he’d lost his sword, but Percy knew it would eventually reappear in his pocket in pen form. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He began to use the “we” form and to discuss “our situation.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger had the queer feeling that his own exhaustion formed a hair-line upon which his feelings were poised, and that the man’s driving frenzy would suck him into its hot whirlpool. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But the form, my lord ...” Luke’s voice started shaking. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A small fire crackled, casting long shadows across the towering form of Miss Miss. The sculpture seemed alive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I guessed its pink flowers had blossomed and formed the smell. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

By now, big blisters had formed on Cole’s hands, and, with a sheepish grin at Edwin, he pulled on the leather gloves. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then, in the remaining hours of the night, he would form plans for meeting the crises he had dreamed of. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He forms his fingers into the number four. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t even form words, so I shut up and kiss her. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It’s the beginning of the Allegiant rebellion I’ve been expecting since I first heard the group had formed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is the musical equivalent of dropping a random blob of ink on a piece of paper: by folding the paper and creating a symmetrical double, a pleasing shape is suddenly formed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s a bond formed from years of running into the wind. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Your sister is not a form of currency,” she snapped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This particular form of discrimination altered the destinies of generations of African Americans, including many of the men in my family, limiting their income, their opportunity, and, eventually, their aspirations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They never even see That storm clouds are forming Upon the peaceful sea. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to look at them as a constellation, to see if they formed a shape or a letter—but I couldn’t see anything. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to find the spot where the two rivers’ currents seemed equal— where they met to form the bay. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Johnson and Brew would be at the end of the line we formed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days afterward, our little tribe of savages formed raiding parties and conducted massacres throughout Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the letters contained brochures about the school, an application form and a personal letter from the tennis coach. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the vertical faces of the steps, I see words that form a sentence. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And he had one of its most deadly forms: pancreatic cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead I now stayed indoors, engrossed in attempting to master the Monopoly game, form English words with Boggle and figure out how the various toys worked, by meticulously taking them apart and reassembling them again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the e-mail six times before the letters form words and the words form sentences that I can understand, but, even then, the meaning of all the words taken together eludes me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lights rose to the surface of my skin, through it and into the air where they hovered over me, maintaining the form of my body. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the dark it was visible only as part of a blur that formed the yard, the trees, and the bushes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We cluster together to form teams, and then turn against one another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is, however, quite bad form in biological circles to put it the other way round, to imply that the operation of insect societies has any relation at all to human affairs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the form of a man, he was tall and thin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out in the country- side, the forms and coloring of the dead are strange; these are the wild creatures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be quicker to take a road that followed the third side of the triangle formed by Easton, Cambridge and Salisbury. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She caught her breath, then stretched forward and pulled loose some dried seaweed that formed part of its construction. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’d just handed his entry form and picture to Ms. Bethune, five hours before his deadline. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I quickly selected specium ray and then held my arms up in front of me, one horizontal and the other vertical, forming a cross. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The artificial glades which led to the lime tree in the form of a cross were no longer of use after the first half-hour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness came, and he sprawled out at the foot of the huge bed, taking up more than half of it with his mangy, flea-bitten form. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, I didn’t have a clue what any of the moves were called, and my form and shape definitely weren’t on point. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, he forced his eyes to trace the god’s form, starting with his black iron boots, each one as large as a coffin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to explain the strange gap that has formed between us, so it was easier to talk about her in the same way I talked about Lucy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They’re coming, do you see? I’m going to meet them. I want you to put fire down on them and form to hold right here. I’m going down to meet them.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein, the organization adopted the league’s Program of Action, which called for boycotts, strikes, stay-at-homes, passive resistance, protest demonstrations, and other forms of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another voice—this one female and older, almost matronly—said, “Okay, forget the forms. It’s time for your audition.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Appended to the form were the usual copious regulations and warnings of severe fines and immediate banishment for doing, well, pretty much anything. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle,” he said to Mr. Jacob Benally, using the polite form of address to show he respected this man like a relative, “are those other children in bilagaanaa clothing also Navajos?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two people walked slowly toward us, their faces indistinct, their forms shadowy despite the blinding light. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’d put in the hours to polish my form, fully extending my limbs for a long, clean, graceful line. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The nozzle was tricky, with its two internal angles that had to meet precisely to form the throat diameter I’d specified. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Children too, but not nearly so much until their daemons have taken a fixed form. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ten straight days of downpour kept Seabiscuit in the barn, taking the edge off of his form. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ekon was struggling to string words together to form a coherent sentence, let alone any kind of question. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Back and forth, back and forth we went: Perilee hauling water up from the well, and the rest of us forming a bucket brigade. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"We were formed out of Tiamat. If we went in again, we'd dissolve back into it. Our existence would end." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I do, enough to warm the stone that has formed in my stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back outside, ice forms on the train cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A knot started forming, right in the middle of my solar plexus. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw his triangular form teetering and tottering about the zoo, I was shy to approach him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A long line of new people has already formed around the table. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was not published while I was in prison, it forms the spine of this memoir. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year the whole class had laughed at a boy who couldn’t fill out a form because he didn’t know his father’s name. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It snaked out in all directions, forming a brilliant flash that burned through the wallpaper and melted the paint underneath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Moss saw tears form in Shawna’s eyes, and his face burned with anger. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smooth-hollowed, partly enclosed forms of its first three letters were as clear as a set of anatomical drawings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her doctors had just diagnosed it, an aggressive form of lymphoma, already ravaging her organs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A big golden moon hovered overhead, and the vapor formed a misty circle around it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Isidore smelled the rank, cringing body; he inhaled fear from it, fear pouring out, forming a mist. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

According to Fifi, the alta sociedad, the high-class ladies of the oligarchy who form a kind of club, not unlike a country club, are delighted by this juicy bit of gossip. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A rope of bloody saliva forming a shape like an undiscovered continent drooled upon the leather and I wiped it quickly away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another group of constables armed with rifles formed a cordon around the crowd. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day the groceries were to be purchased, the citizens of Century Village formed their version of the Home Shopping Network. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although the heights of the Common were filled with men marching, forming columns, and what-not, Johnny believed he could sneak in by the hurdles and let Sandy and Nan graze along the Charles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Linus knew better than to expect more than confused anger from the self- made California millionaires whose knowledge of foreign policy was formed largely by the Los Angeles Times. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor would look at the form and then decide if Zeitoun needed attention. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I knew people's memories of each of them, and I stitched them together to form a person, but it’s a different person than the one standing in front of me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And then through the trees the familiar form: big man on a black horse, great round shoulders, head thick as a stump: James Longstreet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wailed, falling sideways as the net constricted, forcing her two forms - Greek and Roman - into a quivering, out-of-focus whole. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Salinas Valley grew fond of Samuel, but by that time Will was formed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd started forming at four o’clock, the hour that the county attorney had given as the probable arrival time of Hickock and Smith. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re handed the application form and, a few days later, you’re being handed the uniform and warned against nose rings and stealing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE.—In derivatives through the French, super- takes the form sur-, as sur-vey, to look over. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a brief hovercraft ride away is an arena where, tomorrow, Peeta and I and the other tributes will face our own form of punishment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Along the western horizon the lower clouds formed a single purple mass, against which distant trees stood out minute and sharp. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sprayed onto fruit as a pesticide in the form of lead arsenate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They are outsiders, in to help with the business: fully formed, perfect spirochetes that have attached themselves at regularly spaced intervals all over the surface of the protozoan. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In our camp,” Reyna said, “Athena is Minerva. Are you familiar with how her Roman form is different?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A blister had already begun to form where it had burned my skin. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She answered in the affirmative, and, unable to resist the temptation, added, “When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Natural history thus slowly detached itself from the wider world of learning and began to form an enclave on its own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The idea slowly forming in his mind was no more than a budding sprout; small, impossible, but...it was there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My questions have multiplied, twisted, taken on new form. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute I see gray-robed forms walking down the street. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how far Miles’s definition of legal stretched, but maybe this was his form of a peace offering. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Jody whispered with sweat globules forming all over his face and arms. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Where are they?” asked Albus anxiously, peering at the hazy forms they passed as they made their way down the platform. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The hull of the lifeboat invited life too, in the form of small gooseneck barnacles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Burnside forms a smile through a set of teeth too white to not be fake. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But I didn't, because any form of criminal activity would get me deported. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They rolled the yarn and started again with it, forming new patterns, bright stripes, in larger sizes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t even think I can form sounds. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I lashed the rods together to form a cross, then strapped the rig to the hip belt of my backpack so the poles ex-tended horizontally over the snow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it’s only water in a different form, and I walk all the way to Violet’s, where we build the world’s largest snowman. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Three days after the fire, Headmaster Patterson had me in his office and he used one form or another of the word “expel” eleven times. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Fifth Cohort formed up behind their centurion, uneasily facing their comrades in the First. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Soon the monsters were gone and only the pitiful, wretched form of their friend lay on the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There is something like aggression in the activity, but it differs from other forms of aggressive behavior in having no sort of destruction as the objective. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow they’ll find my parents, but if they don’t, they’ll bring out a stack of forms and calls will be made, and before you know it, I won’t be allowed to leave. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The interference took the form of scything tusks that ducked below Butler’s guard. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now when a writer really does want to refer to a past-time event in a remote conditional, he needs the past tense of a past-tense form. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is easy to recognize and grasp the form of some things, because they are small and simple, like a grain of salt, or repetitive, like a wall made of bricks of the same size. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Fascism, which we associate so strongly with the Nazi Party, is a form of government rooted in nationalism, in which democracy gives way to a dictator. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Nina threw out both hands, fingers forming fists, and watched the guards topple backward. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goal of classic style is to make it seem as if the writer’s thoughts were fully formed before he clothed them in words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Americas form the world’s second-largest landmass, significantly smaller than Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It may also refer to a single movement or piece of music with a form based on the constant repetition of a single short section. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I can see the sweat forming on his forehead, one bead at a time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in order to make sure that we left no rubbish behind, he’d have us form a line, like a company front in the army, and march across the picnic ground. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Doc Machado wanting to form a peaceful protest. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He looked across Tab’s still form at Taisin, and he noticed how young and vulnerable she looked today, with purple shadows beneath her eyes and her narrow shoulders slumping. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A large group of students had formed outside the door. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We form a triangle together, walking slowly, our eyes scanning the area. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Spilled tea—or any other liquid— forms throbbing spherical globs in the air: the surface tension of the liquid overwhelms gravity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want the truth?” she snarls as she rips up the form and hurls it into the trash. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It may be said that new species are forming all the time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t—couldn’t— understand the kind of camaraderie that forms only after you’ve all risked your lives together. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Paul had wanted to try another dramatic but nonviolent form of protest. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is set back from the street, a cobblestone alcove formed by grey stone walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The first living things were not anything so complex as a one-celled organism, already a highly sophisticated form of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone interested in music theory or history, or in arranging or composing music, must have a firm understanding of form. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He never woke to see the shining silvery form bending over him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Their eyes met, and what she saw in the bilious melange of green and orange was not shock, or guilt, but a form of challenge, or even triumph. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Memories of a wonderful love, unselfish devotion, and death in its saddest form. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mrs. Ruth is finished filling out her form, we say our goodbyes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And the pain, the first knowledge of absolute isolation and suffering, touched him throughout in its undisguised actual form. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Low-mass black holes could form only if matter was compressed to enormous densities by very large external pressures. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They formed a circle, swayIng their hips and flipping their wrists and taking tiny steps in intricate patterns on the floor. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The early universe was filled with radiation and a plenum of matter, originally hydrogen and helium, formed from elementary particles in the dense primeval fireball. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once this new conception of themselves had formed, no power on earth could alter it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He delivered the bad news when needed and administered a strict, no-nonsense form of discipline that mainly worked by keeping students so in fear of the threat of getting in trouble that they behaved. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And you’re so angry that society is treating you like this that you take drugs and shoplift and form gangs in revenge. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Human touch. Our first form of communication,” she says, her voice loud and clear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He darted around the crowd forming on the steps and pushed his way into the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly bursting into light and the vision of eight hundred eyes that had gathered to see them prevail, they spread out thoughtlessly, the layup lines forming without conscience, animals of habit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the Dragon King was right. Maybe the magic takes a different form in our land. Maybe that’s why you don’t need words for it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did, forming into a tight pack behind the door as they entered, one by one. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In liquid or gas form, molecules whiz dizzily in space, moving randomly, like particles of dust. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is a familiar form of black complicity with racialized systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dimple sank down on her bed, a lump forming in her throat. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I stood stiff and solid, swallowing the bitter lump that had formed in my throat, and swore to myself I wouldn’t cry, wouldn’t beg him not to go, wouldn’t even miss him when he left. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A shadowy form that had been crouching silently below in the darkness made a spring and landed right next to Tucker and Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother takes the last form and seals it up in an envelope with the rest. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While I was away Francis had taken up the structure of the DNA molecule in the A form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She brushed away a band of sweat that formed on her brow. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She was thrashing around like a person having a fit and trying to claw my face with her hands and I thought maybe she was suffering from some form of mushroom poisoning. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ozone is a form of oxygen in which each molecule bears three atoms of oxygen instead of two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over there, large black-and-yellow butterflies formed the shape of a boy, who chased her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wind formed a halter and brought the beast to a stop. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He could sense the red batde forming today, coming like the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PAC declared that they intended to overthrow white supremacy and establish a government Africanist in origin, socialist in content, and democratic in form. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is not agreement in opinions but in form of life.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The harmless bacteria had somehow “transformed” into the virulent form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Fencing is physical—balancing form, distance, and precise moves. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, the power of fire was not limited by the form, structure or strength of the human body. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ingman scoops sand with his hands and tries to form a pyramid. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He began to glow, and I knew enough about the gods to avert my eyes before he revealed his true divine form. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Billy expected the Tralfamadorians to be baffled and alarmed by all the wars and other forms of murder on Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z