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单词 gap
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"I want that gap down to four minutes," Teddy said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gap isn’t wide enough for me to get a good grip. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z
This “achievement gap” is a phenomenon that has been observed over and over again, and it typically provokes one of two responses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
He pointed his Transvice at the broken window, where a man’s arm had snaked through the narrow gap and was groping along the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
When I get to the gap in the fence, I kick more of the hill away first before I try to fit through. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gap in the conversation yawned wider until Travis chimed in. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
We made the most of the gaps in his schedule, having meals and seeing friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
She pointed up to where the road led through a gap in the hills. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
We ran out of the kitchen, slammed the door, and stuffed rags in the gap beneath it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Through a narrow gap he could see a green lawn and bright pink flowers, but only enough to make him want more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The weight of his body pulled down the bottom strand of wire, pinning it against the snowy ground and Creating a small gap in the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
My own fingers walk and bridge the gap to cup hers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
“Sally said it seemed dumb to name a place ‘Gap’ when there weren't any gaps anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
Mama closed the gap between them and took Koffi's hand in hers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
At last, as he neared the final turn, he saw a tiny gap open before him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
As the nights grew warmer and the leaves filled the gaps in the forest, I started to sit out on the deck and look at the stars at night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
He must have stood a while near the end of the gap, resting or looking, because it was twenty minutes before he came out, walking somewhat more slowly, and started toward the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
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
Some great gap lunged between the print and the child. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
It also means that whatever gap remains can be linked to a handful of readily identifiable factors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
It could not find a big enough gap. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“There is a bigger gap between the average person and what they are aspiring to,” Schor said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Through the gaps in rubber inner tubes and children, Werfel saw his beloved Skardebek darting down toward him, her little black eyes fixed on his eyes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
Turning, he looked back at the three men, framed in the gap, and wondered why they had allowed him through. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
Or maybe Kronos had a magic way to span the gap. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
Mr. Keller runs his good hand along the seams of my model like he’s checking for gaps. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
“Hello?” he yelled, peering through a gap in the wreckage wedged in the doorway to see into the room beyond. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
She felt around, once she had rested a few more minutes, and found that she had landed in a gap between two ice-covered rocks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
She wasn’t expecting him to close the gap between them in two strides. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Her blue skirt gaps open in the waist. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
The board was put back in the door so the police wouldn’t notice the gap, but then a swift kick from outside sent it flying to the floor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Mr. Griffiths told us that he wants to make sure we’re making good progress with our research and that we discover any gaps before our big presentations, only four weeks from now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
She was to leap from the top of a jagged boulder across the gap to a flat granite surface. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Water and grime lapped around Nailer’s cheeks and jaw as he peered up through the gaps in the planking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The air in the gap was heavy with fresh creosote fumes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
Reaching across the gap between the two horses, he grabbed Seabiscuit’s saddlecloth and pulled back hard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
That gap, that enormous gap, is always there. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
She gets up to put the book away, searching for the gap in which it had stood. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Xan set it up between them and looked at the girl through the gap. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
The virus seemingly crossed the gap, with catastrophic consequences. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
So Sarai rose to her toes, erasing the last little gap between their flushed faces. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
A wide smile stretched her dark-complected face, revealing a gap between her front teeth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Eventually, it sealed the gaps around the hole and reduced the leak to something the suit could counteract. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Trying to fill the gaps between her own synapses. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
There was a small gap between her two front teeth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
There was a gap between a trash can and the wall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
So was the gap between black children’s test scores and those of white children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
I took the train back, but Maddie had to wait for a gap in the clouds. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
Instead of risking another plunge, Frankie picked up a board leaning against the roof's low wall and positioned it over the gap. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
As Pollard waited for a gap to run through, a horse blew past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The lane curved to the right and when they rounded the corner, it was to see the very edge of Ogden’s frock coat vanishing through a gap in the hedge. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
A little trickle of cold air floats in from a gap between the window and the sill. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
She holds it out, and I swiftly close the gap to get it, even though I have no need for it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
“Ruined houses and bombed blocks of flats made gaps in the vista,” remembered Haukelid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
As it turned out, their relatives had correctly predicted their fate: their age gap would lead to long-term problems in their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Thus there need not be a large time gap before Maurice’s research efforts were in full swing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
The moon was growing again, and its milky light spilled through gaps in the tree’s canopy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
There’s one last gap in the middle of my heart collage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
Again their sweet voices reminded him of the gap in his own childhood, as he leaned against the cedar to watch them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
At the very least, the border patrol would keep an eye on that particular area of the river in case anyone else tried sneaking through that gap in the fence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
Pent up from trailing the field, Seabiscuit spun through the gap like a bullet rifling down a barrel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
In a matter of strides, he closed the gap between them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Eventually I compromised, and walked half a mile in the wrong direction toward the gap, keeping the store between me and his line of sight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
This highlights yet another payoff of the passive voice: it can unburden memory by shortening the interval between a filler and a gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
In these close quarters, I was unable to back up without the risk of ensnaring myself in the ropes or breaking my ankle in one of the gaps between the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
It took us all day to get there, but at sunset we were walking through the gap in the acacia-branch fence that surrounded our camp. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wide gaps in his gums were tinged a subtle tawny color. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
The inside was horrible; it smelled strongly of seaweed, the wind whistled through the gaps in the wooden walls, and the fireplace was damp and empty. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
Nok turned around and wove around the marchers, pushing her way through the gaps in the sea of bodies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
A few seconds before she took the jump across the gap, the metal-detector lights winked out The board dropped away, and her stomach seemed to go with it, leaving a hollow feeling inside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
There was no lack of helpers to tear open the blocked gaps in the south wall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
He heard Ron give a strangled cheer, and they turned the next bend to see his eager face staring through the sizable gap he had managed to make in the rockfall. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
She'd brought them here, shoved them through the gap in the nearly closed door and turned to race back for more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
I had spent the last year trying so hard to re-create myself, just being seen by an old pal would feel like bridging a dangerous gap between my current self and who I’d once been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Late that afternoon we jammed aboard a gigantic Mi-17 helicopter and lifted off through a gap in the clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Harry saw Mad-Eye Moody limp into sight through the narrow gap between their heads. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
So when David left with my father and mother, and then later the dog disappeared, I assumed he had gone looking for David, through the gap into the deadness. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
A quarter mile to the east, pinched between the Nuptse Wall and the West Shoulder of Everest, the Khumbu Icefall spilled through a narrow gap in a chaos of frozen shards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
There was a locked door and a window cracked open, wisps of fragrant steam curling from the gap. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
The gaps between the buildings narrow and the roads are smoother as we near the heart of the city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
He had this big gap between his two front teeth. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
Even fishier, according to the medical examiners, there was a two-hour gap between the estimated time of death and when the cop called it in. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Staying up on the hillside, near the top of the ridge, I worked my way to the far end of the valley, almost to the gap and the steep cliff on the far side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
He tried to smile, but his tongue went instinctively to the gap where a tooth had just recently been. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
She had a small gap between her teeth and faded pockmarks on her chin, yet her eyes were beautiful, with thick, flaring brows and liquid flourishes that extended beyond the natural width of the lids. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Emily stopped and peered inside through a gap between two books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
Sweet, unfettered ocean air pours through a gap in the wall he cannot see: the air throbs with it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
I step forward, closing the gap between our bodies, stand on tiptoe and kiss his lips. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Unseen by Booth, he walked up to one side of the barn and peeked between one of the gaps in the barn walls. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
My own fingers walk and bridge the gap to cup hers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Then he loosened something, and a ragged gap of light appeared, like the hole in a wall. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
The data also show the black-white gap to be a recent phenomenon. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
He tied one end of the rope to the boat, threading it through a gap between some boards near the top. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
In fact, there is essentially no black-white test score gap within a bad school in the early years once you control for students’ backgrounds. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
At the end of the pasture, hidden in the trees, stood a slave-time log cabin covered in boards with gaps wide enough to see through. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
She uses an arm to sweep a smaller reporter out of the way, then grabs Justyce by his elbow to pull him through the gap. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
It was difficult, almost impossible, to bridge the age/time gap between us. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
He was as startled as she was, but with more freedom to move, he was able to thrust a hand into the gap and seize her arm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
By the time he had found the gap, right down at the far end of the wood, the sun had come right out, the sky was clear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
After a deep breath to psych himself up, Mark sprinted for the left side, wondering if shots would ring out or soldiers would rise out of the darkness in the gap, waiting for them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
They would strike camp again and head west over the ice, trying to narrow the gap between themselves and the islands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
On either side ahead a darkness began to loom through the mist; and he guessed that they were at last approaching the gap in the hills, the north-gate of the Barrow-downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
A wave of numbness spread fanwise from his stomach over his entire body, including his head and eyes, making his mouth gap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
A gap through which is visible... a glorious light. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z
She was always smiling, showing that little gap between her two front teeth. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
To her dismay, the gap in the tent seemed to be getting farther, not closer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“Watch for splinters, son,” his mother warned as he walked over the gapped wooden slats to the dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
All I've learned here in nine years from my mother and my teachers is not enough to fill the gaps. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
But he pulled himself along the elevators to the end and there he found a gap that went in up by the hinges where he could feed his rope through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
I squeeze through a gap between the barriers and hold the cups out to runners passing by. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
The rivers of the mist world flowed into the void, which was called Ginnungagap, the “yawning gap.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
Often, they ended up being recruited for jobs that had nothing to do with what they were good at, just because there was a gap to be filled. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
It was in the way his hair met his golden skin—in the tiny gaps between the strands, in the way it fell across his brow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
On all four sides of the Glade, only the right walls were moving, toward the left, closing the gap of the Doors. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
I pick it up and hand it to him—and that’s when I see the gap. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
She crept along until she found a gap and squirmed through on her belly, keeping well hidden until she saw what made the smell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Tozier on the rock with the flag in his hand, Tom plugging the gap, bayonets lifted, that last wild charge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Maybe “straight past the gap” was the only important part of the due, but Tally had decided to treat the note like a magic spell. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
He was wearing a white short-sleeve shirt, so you could see his elbows were hairy, and he had a gap between his two front teeth, like Dad had. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
The last of the sun shone into it, through the gap between the Library and Palmer’s Tower, and lit up the heavy pictures and the glum silver the Master collected. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
It was so natural and clear, the right thing to do: fill the gap with the body of my brother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
As soon as the gap was wide enough, Malcolm drove La Belle Sauvage forward and through, and into the darkness beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
The gap was large enough to wriggle through. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was dark inside, and little wisps of mist came swirling out as the gap grew wider. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Most Americans are staring across a widening income gap between themselves and the very rich, making such vertical desire all the more unrealistic. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
He’d go right back to fill the gap he’d left in the half circle his mates had formed at the front of the cave. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
Spying a gap in the traffic, Roy ventured into the road. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was face-to-face with the enemy plane across a three-mile gap, on a collision course and closing fast. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z
People squeezed into the gaps between abandoned vehicles or against shattered walls and doorways. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
The other place I always go is the gap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gap between his front teeth made him look friendly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
They wanted to feel the past once again, to bridge the gap to that time forty years earlier when the slithery moves of Santone Townsend had swelled their hearts like nothing else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
But now there were large gaps in the track, and new cities built on the sea, so they had to travel inland more than once. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Mark faced the gap between the two boards of the window. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
“But we’re supposed to go to high school together, then do our gap year in Paris before we go to New York for college, remember?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
“My own fault, Artemis. Apparently I left a gap in the curtains. Mrs. Fowl couldn’t sleep.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
And he waved his hand to a little gap in the trees, where Mary Poppins and the Match-Man could see several wooden horses whirling round on a stand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z
I slipped it into my handbag and rearranged the remaining watches to cover the gap. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
I secured the door behind me and closed the gap beneath it with my cloak so that no glimmer of light would give me away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The brothers were trapped forever in Ginnungagap, the vast gap between the fire and the mist. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
One of them is wearing a backward-facing baseball cap, with a tuft of black hair sticking through the gap. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
It was now Adams’s turn to attempt a bridging of the gap. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I help her guide the end of the ladder through the classroom window and across the gap between buildings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
She looked to Grace’s father again, someone to help her bridge the gap between words. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
In many urban areas, the gap is far worse, rising to more than 37 percent in places like New York City. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
From that weird angle, through the gap between the wall and the shower curtain, I could see a slice of our backyard out the little window over the toilet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
He pointed Seabiscuit’s nose at the gap and asked him to go through. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s like a gap in the air, a sort of window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
There had been the politeness of his marriage, the elaborate courtesy of the double bed, he had suffered from the cold gap between his permitted behaviour, and his desires. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
It hobbles out from the gap in the door and lands at my feet. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
“He’s admitting to you that the gap is closing. That he has to practice if he’s going to beat you from now on. He’s admitting some hard things. He’s admitting that he’s getting older.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fact is, Fischer’s first win over Spassky was more than a narrowing of the gap. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
There was just enough space for him to breathe if he craned his neck back and stuck his nose into the small gap between the water and the bottom of the boards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Brian was standing there, looking through the gap in his jacket—which was still pulled up over his head—when he heard Derek come up alongside him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z
Ron thrust an arm through the gap in the rock to pull her through first. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
“There was a big black thing,” said Harry, pointing uncertainly into the gap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
There was an instant fall of earth and a gap opened where he had been digging. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
The gaps showed me bruises on her arms and the backs of her legs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
He was closing the gap between himself and Koffi with each step. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“We still have too many gaps,” I said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
The roof was built with an overhang, so that a narrow gap separated the two buildings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Deemer saw him coming and closed the gap between them in three long strides. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z
Mud closed around the stick for a moment, then shrank away, leaving a small gap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Leon’s breath filled in the gaps between the words as if he’d been running a long distance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Marmalade pointed to a nearby booth, where an ordinary man with wispy blond hair and a gap in his front teeth was regaling his tablemates with the story of Lady Delune. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Cheeks burning, I pushed two quarters through the gap under the window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
So I said, “I, too, am going to take a gap year. I am going to take a year and go to the township and hang out on the corner.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
It was the midday interruption of the Gathering, a lengthy gap in the day for food and rest. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
As he approached high school, Craig had been sought after by some of Chicago’s top public school coaches looking to fill gaps in their rosters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Another fly emerged from the gap in his teeth and took off. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
Up here, up near the end of the road, up near the top of the mountain, the wind was a living thing that shook the truck and snuck through the gaps in the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Thomas helped as the Builders gathered every loose item they could find and piled them in the gaps, nailing things together as best they could. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
"Every few minutes. Sometimes there's a gap, based on the satellite orbits. But it's enough that we can track all his EVA activities." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
He prodded the straw to close the gap but to no avail, so he threw his arms up in mock despair. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
The short one smiles, revealing a gap where his front tooth should be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
His momentum made his gaze shift up when he let go, and he caught a last glimpse through the small crescent gap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Buka lies out of sight of the closest island to the west and could have been reached only by crossing a water gap of about 100 miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Although a number of artists have been competent in both painting and sculpture, only a handful managed to bridge the gap between them with complete success. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stepped inside and pushed it closed behind me, leaving a gap of a hand's breadth to let a bit of light into the windowless room. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
In the gap left by the half-closed door, I could see a telephone cord stretching from a wedge of cluttered desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Daylight showed through the roof, and wind and rain shuddered through wide gaps between the wallboards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
His straight baby teeth had given way to buck teeth and gaps, his chubby cheeks had thinned into his approaching adolescence. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
He gives the other copper, who has a big gap between his front teeth, a bit of side-eye before looking her up and down like a sweet in a display case. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
I do need to figure out what I’m going to do, because I’m certainly closing in on the end of what’s an acceptable amount of time for a gap year. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Many have roofs of tejas, some already slid off to the ground, leaving gaps. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
He took out the coil boxes, scraped the points, adjusted the gap, and put them back. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And — several paces nearer, the gap between them closing all the time — Harry saw that the thing in the person’s arms looked like a baby ... or was it merely a bundle of robes? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I close the gap and stare at the perfect brown skin exposed by the open buttons of her shirt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
By that time he’d gotten most of the window closed, but there was still a small gap at the level of his chest. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had sensed rather than heard it: someone or something was standing in the narrow gap between the garage and the fence behind him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
The crowd parts, and I nudge Laura to lead us through the gap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
At last, I see my window—a gap where two security bots have turned away and left a narrow, clear path to the man. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
There was a gap—time for hearts and minds to connect. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
And then he leaped back, because into that gap there came a small furry golden hand with black fingernails, and then a face—a nightmare face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
"They needed a lot of velocity to close the gap in time. They used all the fuel they could spare to get going fast enough. But now they don't have enough fuel to slow down." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Through the gaps in the floor, I started to see lights far below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
Directly above their heads, a rectangular gap was open to the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
He smiles, exposing the gap between his front teeth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
A gap in the fence is a magnet. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had only been given one instruction: that it was the task of the guards to prevent anyone from coming through the gap in the wall from the village, by any means possible. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
And the gaps are widening, say people who have re-searched social factors in health. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
With a swift movement he levered the fourth step an inch forward, exposing a long dark gap. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
The road there leads through the gap and on to the Amish farms beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
There were no pictures on the walls, no carpet on the floor, only rough unpolished wooden planks, and there were gaps between the planks where dust and bits of grime had gathered. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z
He didn’t know that here was a gap slowly filling with legend, much less that it was his legend. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
He's big and broad and unable to slip through the small gaps in the crowd like I can. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
I shuddered and, breaking into a trot, closed the gap between myself and the stranger's horse. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
But it was laborious work, and once he’d listed all the ones he could recognize and left gaps for the rest, he and Asta both felt they’d spent enough time with it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
“Until they ask about my gap of unemployment. I tell them the truth, and suddenly I become another junkie in their eyes. I don’t hear back.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
In other words, the black-white income gap is largely a product of a black-white education gap that could have been observed many years earlier. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
We watch, frozen in fear, as the figure slips through the gap in the brick wall that leads to the old part of the graveyard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
After the Ouachita mounds, there is a gap in the record of more than a millennium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
I’d been invited to attend a special three-week summer orientation program, meant to close a “preparation gap,” giving certain incoming freshmen extra time and help settling into college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
I watch in horror as her cannula tubing catches again on a gap in the stone footbridge, her head jerking back as she loses her balance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
Others, not as tall, close the gaps between skyscrapers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
Emily stopped and peered inside through a gap between two books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
He held out his left hand with the thumb and forefinger curved round, indicating the gap between them to be about as long as the thumb itself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
We are deadened by the strain—a deadly tension that scrapes along one’s spine like a gapped knife. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
He also firmly defended the idea that atoms moved about in a void and that there was literally nothing in the gaps between atoms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
Light slipped out from a gap on one side. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
He saw more guards standing in the shadows and Celia in a beam of light from a gap in the curtains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
It was a hatchet; not sight but touch told him —a hatchet with a heavy worn handle and a heavy gapped rust-dulled blade. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
The long distance between a filler and a gap can be hazardous to writer and reader alike. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
I want to smell his neck, bury my face in that broad, muscular gap between his shoulder blades. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Why do you blame yourself for gaps in the education of others?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
My mother who laughs when she says this and shows a large gap in her mouth where she lost three more molars to the dentist last week. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
The gap between the rich and the poor stretches as wide as it did in Fannie’s lifetime. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
Frozen cars occupied the road, nearly bumper to bumper, only the narrowest of gaps between them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
A narrow gap appeared between them, and the River swept the boats towards it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
Take the coaster straight past the gap, until you find one that’s long and flat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Yet the technological gap between them and the Spaniards was not very great, perhaps a few centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her momentum had carried her to the other side of the gap! Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Gramps pointed to a gap in his teeth. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
All through that starless night, your breath came in wheezy gasps as raindrops wriggled, like silver snakes, through the gaps in our tent. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap further up, close to the gnarled trunk of an old crab-apple tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
It felt like this ten-year gap in my life closed right up in an instant, like only a day had passed since I’d last seen him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
As they rose through a gap in the dunes, they heard the sea and tasted a salty mouthful before they saw it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Some kind of action where there’s a scene of the crime, a sequence of events with anomalies or gaps you can see, and empirical proof laid out on a white-clothed table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
She frees her hips, her legs follow, and in an instant she’s gone, leaving only a porthole-sized gap where she had been. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
Seven minutes later, their single engine had pushed them into a good orbit, below and behind me, and they then began a carefully calculated three-hour chase to close the gap. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Seabiscuit thwarted his efforts, ducking into the rail in the gaps between dogs, swerving out to avoid them, then cutting in again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
But even to pose that question is to illustrate the gap between ancient perspectives and our own expectations of mass literacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Corporate sponsors, green technology partners, and microfinance nonprofits have helped fill the funding gap, and individual contributions are more important than ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
At Down, with a gap in the letters, Emma feared the worst. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
It seemed as though gaps in time were a tradition with her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
I pulled the curtains to darken the room, but the grey morning light found its way through the gaps at the side. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
He turned and dashed back through the nearest gap in the hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
It bent somewhat towards the west so that at first all was dark ahead; but soon Frodo saw a tall gap of light before him, ever growing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
Heat filled my blood, the gaps in my bones. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Y’all come on down and gather round, horseshoe formation — thank you. Some of y’all can fill in here in front where there are gaps.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
The walls of the crevasse narrowed down to a thin gap, a few feet from the top, and then widened out again below. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Once more, fallen stones blocked their way, but this time there was a narrow, jagged gap. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
I tried to choose a figure that would not sound too drastic yet would necessitate my coming back to fill in the gaps. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
“You will not answer my questions, yet I should answer you?” she chides, but with a smile, revealing a gap in her front teeth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The gap was closing between the oncoming car and us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
Through a small gap in the door he could see the Vole family. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
Eventually, I discovered a small gap through which I proceeded to squeeze my person, but only at some cost to the shoulder of my jacket and the turn-ups of my trousers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
He leaped across the gap, negotiated the wall on his hands and knees, and then lay down on his stomach. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
He veered, he dodged, he forced them to overshoot once, and the men on his deck fired their pistols across the gap. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
He pushed on the pilot’s body, but it was wedged tight in the narrowing gap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
He pushed his tongue nervously into the gap in his front teeth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
Inside the gap, I spied a patch of green. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
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
The girl smiles her big tooth, little tooth, gap tooth smile. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Our present lack of such ultimate explanations leaves a big intellectual gap, since the broadest pattern of history thus remains unexplained. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Every rabbit he had brought must be sent underground to dig and every blocked gap in the wall must be opened. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dandelion, well in front, dashed up to the gap and checked, twitching and staring. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
He has a gap between his front teeth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
He wasn’t cutting cane, since he doesn’t chew it—I think he’s a little vain of his strong white teeth with the handsome little gap in the center. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
To bridge something means what you’d expect—to connect or to span a gap. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She has big bones, square teeth with litde gaps between them so that you can see each tooth distinctly, skin that looks rubbed raw as if scrubbed with a potato brush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Now, after a gap of 37 years, the fever was back again, infecting and killing more and more people every day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
This left four gaps, which were filled with more triangles, and so on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
What, then, motivated Adams to extend his hand across the gap that existed between Quincy and Monticello, then write more than two letters for every one of Jefferson’s? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
For several years, South Korea helped fill the gap, giving Pyongyang half a million tons of fertilizer annually as part of its “Sunshine Policy” to try to ease North-South tensions. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
Burden Creek has none at all, and after they merge, downstream all the way to the gap and out, the water is clear and dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
And we filled the smiling gaps of our sentences with familiar Spanish sounds. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Well," he said, "I'm off to see her. She's down by the gap." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
When they started work, the gap was only 52 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
You couldn’t help notice her two big toes sticking out from the gap, because they were painted with matching dark pink nail polish and were very bright. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fadi spotted a gap between two women in burkas and dove in. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
This time, he closed the gap between them, placing a wrinkled hand on Ekon’s shoulder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
If I stand on my tiptoes, like Tyler, I can reach a fairly wide-open gap and see in. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
Some time after six o’clock they reached the gap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
“Him be gap in wall like old worm mouse say about,” Warbeak chimed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
There was no gap between the punt and the dark mouth of the culvert. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Finally, I came to a place where the crevasse narrowed down to a thin gap only about two feet across. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Large, grounded icebergs made wide gaps in the ice as they streamed past them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
In the two little gaps left, Archimedes inscribed more triangles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Pictures spilled across the floor, leaving new gaps in my photograph-covered walls. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
Evelyn removes her glove fingertip by fingertip, reaches across the gap, and shakes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
We lived in the gaps between the stories. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
By an effort of courage against all instinct, Hazel forced himself forward into the gap, with Fiver following. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
When they did, they seemed to be studying the gap between what he was and what he should have been: a real twin, a double of Cari. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
The difference can be appreciated by visualizing the wh-words in their deep-structure positions, before they were moved to the front of the sentence, leaving behind a gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
The gap in the boards would be wide enough for me to slide down inside, into the space between the floor and the ground. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
The two oaks grew close together; there was a gap of only a few inches between the trunks at eye level, an ideal place to see but not be seen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
The story of how Tyler decided to leave the mountain is a strange one, full of gaps and twists. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, a gap opened up in front of Tally, spanned by a crumbling bridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
And, having assured himself that his friend would be safe in the empty inn, Tommy walked back through the village to the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
Then they pushed themselves up again, and struggled on to the next gap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
Wriggling around he cried, “Stupefy!” and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scattered to avoid it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
It was like delicately searching out the gap between one stitch and the next with the point of a scalpel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
The challenge then becomes timing the electrical impulses so they energize the gap at the very moment the particles cross, which means generating them from an oscillator working at a fixed frequency. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing—one of May Belle’s puzzles with this huge gap where somebody’s eye and cheek and jaw should have been. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
One of the biggest gaps in GGS’s geographic coverage involved Japan, about whose prehistory I had little to say in 1996. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Sure enough, after a while, the leader tried to jump a gap that was too wide. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had bright hazel eyes and a shiny, toothy smile with a slight gap between his two front teeth. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
First of all, because the average black child is more likely to come from a low-income, low-education household, the gap is very real: on average, black children still are scoring worse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank-notes and a stream of gold fell out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
The clouds were parting, and through the dark gap a figure was speeding down: small at first, but as it came closer second by second, the form became bigger and more imposing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
She sighed, then, in her turn, and stared up at the sky through the gaps in the trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
In a gap between two tunnels, a nurse was delicately probing with a long fine syringe into the gelatinous contents of a passing bottle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You see,” she explained to a very skeptical Glerk as she drew a large chalk circle on the ground, leaving a gap open to pass through. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
The gap is, however, often more apparent than real, for the meaning is usually intelligible to the imagination at some level. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
"The intercept distance was going to be way too big. So they're using the attitude adjusters to close the gap." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
There is a flat, leaky roof, which does not touch the top of the metal cellblock but leaves a gap of maybe ten feet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I could just see the stone chimney of the cottage through a gap in the dark trees. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
He crouched down and peered through the gap at the bottom of the cubicle, just in time to see a pair of booted feet climbing into the toilet next door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Stray snowflakes seem to drift through the rooms, blown through gaps in the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
When he reached the gap, I lost sight of him—there is no way you can see into it from the hillside where I was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
It was during this gap that Vesalius opened negotiations to take up the post, and if it hadn’t been for his ill-fated trip to Jerusalem he would probably have got the job ahead of Fabricius. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
All they needed was for one chest to close the gap, even accidentally, and it was on. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
After a pause he said, “You’re going to be the big star now,” in an optimistic tone, and then added with some embarrassment, “You can fill any gaps or anything.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t know if it’s because she’s mad at me or because, despite a gap at the waist, the pants pull kind of tight across Tia’s behind. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
On the bedroom window, there’s a gap between planks. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z
He shot Harry a nasty grin through the gap in his mother’s arms. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
A tuft of his black hair is sticking through the open gap. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Khoury presses on, and I slip through a gap in the rear dividers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
All was a blur, bloody and gray and flashes of steel; Thomas tried not to look left or right, only ahead, through the narrow gap formed by the Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Once again, recall, I have gaps in my hand to remind me. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
Looking back, the last thing Bigwig saw was the face of General Woundwort staring out of the gap in the willow herb where the boat had lain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
That gap...Is that where the abandoned house is? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
He closed the gap between himself and Koffi, flung his arms out, and barreled into her so that he was draped over her as they both toppled to the ground. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Worse yet, even when the parents’ income and education are controlled for, the black-white gap reappears within just two years of a child’s entering school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
None of the gaps were big enough for him to hide from his father’s machete reach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Teddy’s face broke into a wide grin, showing off the gap of his missing front tooth. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
The pebbled surface is a magnet for grease and dirt, and you can pretty much forget about reaming out the gaps in the keyboard. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
I put my mouth to the biggest gap. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
The gap between the two halves was smaller— or had she forgotten? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
The apples of her cheeks are pronounced and a little pudgy as she smiles, and she has a gap between her two front teeth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
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
In their rush to slip away, they’d left with few supplies, and riding in the gaps between train cars meant it was impossible to scavenge for food. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
He saw another long gap, sent Ruel Thomas to this one. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
There is something of a gap between me and my new schoolmates. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
“It means you can find her if you can find the gap.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
There, choosing a gap between the watchers, he passed like an evil shadow out into the night, down the slope and away westward towards the river that flowed out of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
They did concur, however, that a discernible gap of time separated the two shots. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I looked at the dance floor; a wide gap had formed in the center of the floor, where two couples whirled gracefully. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
I moved from one bed to the next, peeking through the gaps between the curtains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
They don’t see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, and to them, mitigated speech from a pilot doesn’t mean the speaker is being appropriately deferential to a superior. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
He is smiling, whistling through a gap in his teeth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
The ability to make art is one of our most distinctive features, for it separates us from all other creatures across an evolutionary gap that is unbridgeable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the gap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
An antique four-poster bed threw shadowy spires in the darkness, and a pale sliver of light poked through a gap in the velvet curtains. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
Had they gone through a wide gap someone had cut in it, a hole so big she could not see it? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
The thought of such a long gap till they might meet again made Liyana’s heart sputter in her throat. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Mouse smiled, flashing a big gap in his two front teeth, as if he was suddenly reminiscing in his mind about some of those moments. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
The draccus grunted again, and another wash of fire ran through the narrow gap below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
She had already aimed the spear there, guessing that his panic would send him into the nearest gap. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I gripped onto the edge of my seat, curling my fingers into the gaps between the wires. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Modern artists can pose a gap between their intention and the viewer’s understanding. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flashes of colored light gleam through gaps in the canvas to slide across our faces: young and old, dark and pale. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
She did not turn around but kept on scrubbing at the gaps between her fingers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
It was only at the very last, as their fingers brushed across the gap, that something niggled at him . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The work to get there had been one-sided, of course, with Barack alone trying to fill every gap and understand every mystery the senior Obama had ever created. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Frenzied with distress, Hazel leaped out of the gap and squatted beside him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then she stared at the gap in the wall and bit her lip. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
It only widens the gap that men of good will are trying desperately to bridge with understanding and compassion. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Holding up my phone, I fit the camera lens in a gap in the books at my eye level. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
Leftover bone was used to fill the large gaps where my eye sockets had originally been. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
I pull myself out of the water and settle on a bridge—then yank the bridges together so that they close the gap in the center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The dog, following, thrust its head into the gap and pushed, barking with excitement. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
The stream merges with the other one, the pond stream, farther down the valley, and they flow out the gap as one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
Shagga went bursting through the gap before the shields could close, other Stone Crows hard behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
He palms it and kneels in the dirt to adjust his laces, tucking the phone in the gap between his sock and boot. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
Jane and Michael had a good view of what was happening, through a gap between a panther and a dingo. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z
An old man with gap teeth is on his front lawn, shouting into the microphone: “Where would I go? This my home. If go to the Superdome, who’s going to protect my house?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z
The disappearance of the trees paused and, when the dust settled to a solid haze, there was a flash of yellow in the gap. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
Now I saw it totter and dissolve, and a body in a white blouse and green skirt plummet into the gap. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
“Just write whatever you want,” Levi says with a fake smile, and I notice the gap between his front teeth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
They agreed that a gap of three stones was acceptable, if Justin left thorough instructions for completion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Moss was so little, just gaps in his teeth and scabs on his knees and tangled hair and shining eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
There was a three-foot gap in the trees directly opposite and, in case there was any possible doubt, a white blaze painted on a stout oak. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
A puny arrow connects the filler who with a gap right next door, and the reader gets instant gratification: no sooner does she come across who than she knows what it’s doing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
He padded forward warily to sniff at the gap in the stones, and then retreated, as if he did not like what he'd smelled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I knew every alley and every street, every back wall to climb over, every fence with a gap big enough to slip through. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
A few gaps in Steve's smile would just add to the big, creepy goon look he was rocking. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
But there is a puzzling gap between the scale of the changes in policing and the size of the effect on places like Brownsville and East New York. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gaps in pay, education, and health have not become a major political issue. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Her jack had wrenched a small gap in the metal, not big enough. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
She hoped that turning twelve would solve this—build a bridge across the gap. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
He stood amidst a small gap in the trees revealing a narrow, overgrown drive. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
Leon was already moving away, and as Cecilia and Paul Marshall followed him and converged on the gap in the thicket she said, “I’d rather have something bitter. Or even sour.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
With a final kick, Mark knocked the pilot free.The man disappeared through the gap and the ramp door slammed shut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
They had to circle some distance west before they found a gap large enough to admit the horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
A long snowfield lay between them and the next gap, and on crossing it they discovered a crevasse so deep that “two battleships could have been hidden in it,” as Worsley said. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
Much more serious, though, is the moral gap left unfilled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“In order to do this, we will need Dauntless’s help. They have the weapons and the combat experience. You could bridge the gap between us and them.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
However, leaving the sarcastic, mocking side of myself behind turned out to be a bad idea, because nothing really stepped in to fill the gap. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
Alex looked up and could see the fresh torn gap in the tree where the limb had fallen from. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
The pay gap is often even greater when broken down by race, with Latinas making 54 percent and black women making 63 percent of what white men make. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
They stood on each side of the gap in the wall, and they waited. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
He nodded politely to the guards on the gap as he approached, recognizing them both. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
He had gaps between his front teeth, and the squinty eyes of someone who had spent most of his life outdoors. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
Did he have a gap between his front teeth like Dad? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
And if Finn hadn’t ridden the Night Mare, hadn’t glimpsed the gaps for himself, he would have thought Charlie was crazy. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
If they didn’t hit the gaps between the cars just right, they’d wreck and become road scabs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
But eventually I was going to have to translate the play into ordinary script, and then the gaps would be as ostentatious as the slashes in the clothing of those young dandies I'd seen. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
Behind the oil burner, a dark gap showed in the wall at about shoulder height and ran back under the breezeway, out of sight. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
They shimmied through a gap in the iron fence surrounding their school, just small enough for a Witchling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z
Before locking herself in her own room, her shadow hovers at mine, darkening the gap between the closed door and the floor. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
Maddie waited and waited on the edge of the simmering crowd, looking for a gap. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
If I had dared, I would have gone after him and tried to bridge the terrible gap that had come between him and us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
When Ash woke up, Gwen was still asleep, and the early dawn light was sliding through the gaps in the shutters over the dormer window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Halfway up to the next gap, Shackleton called a halt for a meal. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
The big banana-tree leaves grow right up against the shack’s filthy back window, leaving narrow gaps perfect for spying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
The tree stopped fighting, and Lupin, too, disappeared into the gap in its roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
It was the fearlessness about her, about the way she gestured as she spoke, the way she smiled to show that wide gap. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
It was smeared with mud and the torn rag was dangling from the gap he had stuffed it into. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Gary was fifty, with that smooth Lacks skin, a thin mustache and soul patch, and a gap between his front teeth that the girls loved. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
The gap wasn’t as wide as when we’d first started out, but there was distance between Cecile and my sisters and me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
Marcus closed the gap between us and placed his hand flat against my chest. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
They squeeze through Drake’s Passage, the gap between the tip of South America and the end of the Antarctic Peninsula, a distance of only 620 miles. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
It took me a good while to heft my body into the gap, but at last, after many tries, I managed it, and crouched at the mouth of the darkness, like a troll. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
When Florida heard Dallas moving around, she unwrapped her head and blinked at the soft gray light sifting down through a gap in the leaves overhead. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
The roof sagged from the two rough posts which held it, almost closing the gap between his head and the rafters. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
And now he was walking past the trees, through a gap in the enclosure fence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
My eye is starting to swell some and I notice a gap on the side of my mouth where I lost a few teeth. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
While the younger man examined the gap between the door and the frame, the older man said, pointing next door: “Any idea who lives there, miss?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Normally the most expressive thing about my mother’s face was the gap between her front teeth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
There was a gap under the broken end of a board and here he crept into the field beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
His arms folded, he seemed to have been watching the scene at the campsite through a gap in the trees. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
I did as she said but I soon discovered my new assurance wasn’t large enough to fill the gap left by my old uneasiness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am hiding now in thick woods high up on the west ridge near the gap at the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
Her crinkly gray hair had been pulled back into a thick, braided knot, with leaves and flowers growing out of the thin gaps between the twisted plaits. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
Hardly daring to breathe, Harry edged right up to the opening and peered through a tiny gap left between crate and wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Census Bureau reported in 2002 that there are nearly 3 million more black adult women than men in black communities across the United States, a gender gap of 26 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
I don’t know what happened then because there is a gap in my memory, like a bit of the tape had been erased. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
The metal flexed and bowed under his slender weight as he wedged the toes of his sneakers into the diamond shaped gaps. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
"You've heard it? Now, there's more to chopping someone's head off than giving them a healthy whack. A real master aims for the gap between the second and third cervical vertebrae. That's the sweet spot." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
I slid my backpack off and threw it across the gap. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Their conceptual apparatus is Aristotelian, and they seek to address a gap or anomaly in the Aristotelian scheme of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
She eyed the smooth ivory keys, and then the black keys, which were like the gaps between teeth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Our mother headed for a gap in the wooden boards near the base, with us a few tail-lengths behind. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
A pair of beady crimson eyes peered out through the gap. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
The first thing she did was to push a tall cupboard in front of the gap where the tiles had been. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
I walked to the edge of the pile, and after a quick glance around to make sure I wasn’t being watched or followed, I turned sideways to squeeze through a gap between two crushed cars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
There was a gap right in front of them: the entrance to the vast maze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Below them, a large circular opening had appeared in the largest building’s roof, and three hovercars rose up through the gap in quick succession, screaming toward the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
We waited covertly in the shadows until there was a gap in the traffic and then clumped up the old wooden steps, worn smooth by years of traffic. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
From the pond as I sat I could look down on the field of wheat, a darker green acre in the pasture that stretched toward the gap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
As the fire grew, it lit the inside of the barn so that for the first time the soldiers could also see their quarry in the gaps between the slats. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every time I look at him, I realize that he’s the only family I have left and I feel desperate, desperate to keep him around, desperate to narrow the gap between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Yes, that whopping two-year gap really is insurmountable, isn’t it?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
“Before you ask, the gap of unemployment is due to my past drug addiction,” Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
But why should God leave a huge empty space, at least hundreds of times bigger than the gaps between the planets, between the outermost planet and the stars? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
They emerged through a small gap into a bowl-shaped depression. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Between the tomb and the wall was a gap we couldn’t see behind from where we stood; a perfect hiding spot for a bird. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
In the morning Max pulls her through a gap in the old walls and out onto a beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
I turn to the window and, without moving the curtain, watch through the sliver of a gap. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
“It’s mustard seed,” she said through the gaps between her teeth. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
There’s a lengthy gap as he considers the question. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
The woman laughs, showing a gap in the back of her mouth where she’s lost a few of her teeth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
He had seen the shed before, lots of times, through a gap in the tall hedge that ran round the garden of Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z
She strode to the iron fence, putting her hand through one of the gaps. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Shay eased her board forward, ducking to pass through a gap in the crumbling wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
These little invisible gaps were anywhere, but not everywhere, or any slash of the knife would open a window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
And neither had she, the two of them hiding behind their mother tongues as if there was no way to bridge the gap. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
All of them were peering through the gaps in their own hangings, heavy-eyed and tousle- haired. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Chubs was still trailing behind, the gap between us growing with each mile marker we passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
The first Rebel infantry came in that way, down the narrow gray road from the mountain gap. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Down below the gaps in the ties the river ran muddy and fast. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z
The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
All at once the gaps in her knowledge seemed too great, and a cloud of panic engulfed her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Through the floor's gaps, I see my mother sitting at Eden's bedside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
There’s a good one-inch gap between the fabric across my mom’s back. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
There are even a few gaps between dilapidated buildings where Scoob can tell there used to be...well, more building. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z
Their strides were evenly matched as they closed the gap between themselves and the fleeing beastkeepers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
From these, he gleaned that Widerde’s “general approach” was to accelerate ions on a straight line by delivering to them repeated kicks from a series of charged electrical gaps. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
First I folded his right ear and sliced out a three-cornered gap in the top side, a mark that we called an overbit. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
She remembered her first time across the gap, how angry she’d been. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
On the other side of the narrow gap that led into the open sea was another high headland. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z
For she remembered his words: the energy that links body and daemon is immensely powerful; and to bridge the gap between worlds needed a phenomenal burst of energy. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer’s tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
Cade Hernandez raised his right hand in front of his chin, nodding confidently and gapping his thumb and index finger about three-fourths of an inch. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
I sneak a peek at her, leaning over one of the eighth grade boy’s notebooks and pointing out “a few gaps in the logic here.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
This time the ladder is more stable, and Christina makes it across the gap without trouble. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
He came to a wide gap which had been trodden into mud by cattle. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
But still the door continued slowly to open, and only the Count’s body stood in the gap. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
He would sit on my bed and tuck me in, and then he would start telling me a story, leaving gaps for me to fill in with heroes and monsters. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
Since longitude was the missing piece of knowledge for oceanic navigators, all the early modern studies of the magnet were alert to the possibility that they might be able to fill this gap. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The man from Bat Lady’s house was across the street now, but I was closing the gap pretty quickly. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
He is so close now that, if he wanted, he could lean forward and kiss me—and I find myself leaning toward him, too, hoping that he’ll close the gap between us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
She swerved that way and saw a gap between the coal-spirit barrels and the end of a corrugated iron shed, and darted for it like a bullet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
And she closed the gap between their lips. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
A stomach-churning stench hissed through the narrow gap between the dumpster's lid and rim. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
At a gap in the circle a great dark wolf-shape could be seen halted, gazing at them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
This sentence is encumbered, among other things, by a long stretch between the filler of the relative clause, the former United Nations diplomat, and the gap after tapped seven words later. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
“Between the island and the Teeth, there’s a gap.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
To my surprise, our wiry wherryman, spurred on by the promise of more money, slowly closed the gap between Nick's boat and ours. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
The position of the gap indicates the role that the modified phrase played in the deep structure; to understand the relative clause, we mentally fill it back in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
“I’ve been out on the bay, and been through the gap, but I don’t know if it will work or not. Not like this.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The curtains are pulled and pinned together so there’s no gap. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
There was a gap between the cage and the steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
She twisted and turned and grimaced at the pain while squeezing her chest through the gap in the doorway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
Between her and what she should feel, there was a gap. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Anyway, the point is, there was a gap in Miss Emily’s calendar collection: none of them had a single picture of Norfolk. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
They walked down the dark lawn to the Quidditch stadium, turned through a gap in the stands, and walked out onto the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
“They fill in the gaps and make for pleasant scenery. We wouldn’t want everyone to be a celebrity, would we? They’d do nothing but fight!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
In the narrow rays of light that shot through the gaps in the sides of the shed, I could see the rings of dirt around his skinny neck. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
I never realized how much was lacking from my relationship with her until Lucy wasn’t here to fill in the gaps. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
The silk sleigh rose up through the gap between the arms, coming even with the chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The gap was filled with recreation: unstructured time in the yard or gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She flips a switch at the bottom of the box, and a thread of blue light stretches across the gap between the teeth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross went first, now and then straightening out the rank, closing up the gaps. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
I fill in gaps with guesses where I don’t have actual recall. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
There was a gap of about ten minutes before another talented musician was called onto the stage to sing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Perhaps excavations in the future will help to fill the gap. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
He peered between the gaps in the wood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Our friendship hadn’t suffered from the gaps of high school, like many did. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
Mark couldn’t help himself; he hurried over to a boarded-up window with a gap about two inches wide running across the middle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Through a gap in the curtains around his four-poster he watched snow starting to drift past the tower window and wondered . Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Hand in hand the young man and the fallen star approached the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
The shaman smiled fully, the gap in his top front teeth a message of enjoyment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
Then she leads me through a gap in the stands, onto the track that surrounds the football field. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
But right where the chain link meets the cement wall, I see a gap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Since then, I had been consumed with trying to resolve lingering questions, to fill in the gaps in the FBI’s investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
No one can reach the other—everyone is separated by a good fifty feet of space in the central gap. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“That’s true! He wore a gray suit to work! Did he have a gap between his teeth?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
And then someone stepped out from a gap in the fences. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
There was a gap of an inch and a half between the bottom hem of his shirt and the top of his pants. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
There would be a black, six-foot-deep gap hacked in the hard ground. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
He’s got a cute, slight gap in his smile and makes me feel special. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
She was a tall woman with a huge gap between her two front teeth and the biggest laugh in the neighborhood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
When an item is modified by a relative clause, and its role inside the clause is the object of the verb, the reader is faced with a long span between the filler and the gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Gaze through one of those gaps at a lightbulb and you’ll see faint dark lines, especially near the top and bottom of the gap. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
“Take the coaster straight past the gap,” she said aloud, an incantation to keep away any Rusty ghosts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Hairy, unfinished logs hold up the roof, and there is a gap between where the floor ends and the wall begins, so that one can see a thin line of grass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Those of famous people have a special appeal, for they seem to bridge a gap of time and place and to establish a personal link. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
She poked her fingers into a gap beneath to get a better grip. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I soon learned that the quickest way to bridge the race gap was through language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
There is just a big old gap in the front. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
He searched the air in the familiar way until he found a gap, and tried to bring to mind just what had happened before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Last night I dreamt Scout found the gap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
A horseman with silver scales afire in the sun shouted from the scroll in his hands, his words opening a red gap in his black beard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was very, very quick and had a lot of power; but when I suggested he work on the gaps in his game, he refused to listen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The light was turning gold, and sunlight shone through a gap in the mountains and made a bar of radiance on a wall of rock just beyond the oasis. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
When Gale pulls away slightly, I move forward to close the gap, but I feel his hand under my chin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
In front of them, across the meadow, on the other side of the gap in the wall, now guardless, was the town of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
The wind that lifted spray off the white-capped waves was monstrously cold, and searched out every gap in Lyra’s wolfskin, and her hands were soon aching and her face numb. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
It was round with no windows at all; a metal roof covered most of the opening at the top, but a gap could be seen leading into the depths. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
"Over there, where there used to be a gap in the rock. A sort of hump-see?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
This paper takes advantage of a new trove of government data that helps reliably address the black-white gap. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Boo flew through the gap of the portal, pecking at the line of light as if he were zipping it back up. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
The wind whistled through the gaps in the walls. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
I lay the board across the gap between houses, to the roof of our neighbors’ apartment, where I’ll have a perfect view of the dance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The culture and generation gap that separated us was too immense to navigate. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
The sun was huge and red behind the rooftops of Wall when Tristran and Yvaine crossed the meadow and looked down on the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left-hand side of the road where there was a five-barred gate. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z
“Reducing the black-white test score gap,” wrote the authors of one study, “would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Wooden boards had been hammered haphazardly across the front, but there were gaps I could peer through. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
Lawrence had decreed that the electrical field that delivered the sequential jolts to the spiraling protons should be present only in the gap between the two dees. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“Take the coaster straight past the gap, until you find one that’s long and flat.’’ she wondered aloud. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
In the following days, days filled with dark gaps of time, Odenigbo did not go to Tanzania Bar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“I like to think I make up for the rather significant, err...beauty gap in other ways. Devilish charm and impeccable character, for instance.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
Because there’s a gap between me writing the words and you reading them. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
More butterflies took to the air as the largest fetterling I could’ve ever imagined tried to squeeze through a gap like a T. rex. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
There was a darkness in his eyes that felt cold and foreign, like the gaps between the stars. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
A draft, created by the open door, sucked the curtains into the gap of the open window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
Iorek made at once for the vulnerable gap at his neck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
She did this whenever she was going to give a smile because she had a great big gap between her front teeth. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
She decided to get out of bed and close the gap in the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s hard to make out all his details in the night, but my imagination can fill in the gaps just fine. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
He leaned forward to peer through a gap in the leaves. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
One blue eye appears in the gap between the door and the jamb. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
And he followed slowly after, yawning, the gap between him and the man ahead lengthening with every mile. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
Columbus was the first to see the yawning biological gap between Europe and the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
He spoke with a French accent, and there was a gap between his front teeth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
Gaps showed between the planks, and as the weeks passed and the green wood dried out, the gaps widened. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
She reread the first few lines of Shay’s note: Take the coaster straight past the gap, until you find one that’s long and flat Cold is the sea and watch for breaks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
A man rolling a barrel from a truck yelled, “Hey there!” at the last second, and I pulled up short, sidestepped the gap, and went on my way. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
Theories, it is said, explain phenomena, not data, and it is always possible to open up a gap between data and phenomena as well as between phenomena and theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
No Mo. The books stood ranged tidily on their shelves, except in one place where there was a wide, dark gap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
The whole line shifted left, moving to join with Pettigrew’s flank, to close the gap. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
They wrapped their feet in extra cloth, filled the gaps with balled-up pieces of newspaper, and wore the boots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
He moves forward, closing the gap between us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Marcus presses his index finger to my sternum, in the gap between my collarbones, and leans over me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
Wanting to step closer and close the gap between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
A new term began to make the rounds in policy circles, the press, and private conversation: the missile gap. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
“Unless it’s there, where it flows into that little gap.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Riccio picked a piece of gum from the gap in his teeth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
A huge arm and shoulder, with a dark skin of greenish scales, was thrust through the widening gap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
She was not a slim girl, so she thought the skinniest thoughts she could, and squeezed her way into the gap. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Sunlight trickled in through gaps in the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Through the gap in the wall he could see colored tents being raised, stalls being erected, colored flags, and people walking back and forth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
It was the one place where sunlight fell on the city, down through the gap where the seraph’s wings came together in front and didn’t quite meet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The boy called out to the elders that he was back and walked slowly through the gap in the fence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z
I thumb through the first pages hoping to find something to distract me, like a sketch of a snare, when I notice gaps in the June entries of last year. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
The isolation only worsened what the press had begun calling the “credibility gap”—the gap between what Johnson was telling the public and what the public believed was really happening in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
The gap was nowhere: only an empty place waiting to be filled with life and with existence. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
The gap leaves a direct path to Nyla’s line of sight. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Thomas stared in that direction, through the gap in the walls that served as an exit from the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
It was less than a foot wide: a tall, straight gap in the metal where, near as they could guess, a door hadn’t quite finished closing when Skathis died. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
When that happens, an orbital electron drops down from a higher shell to fill the gap in the K shell. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
He had reached the largest gap of all, and he stood surveying it with his blank, red eyes, as though he could see people standing there. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Wystan Pippin put down his ale, picked up his staff, and blocked the gap with it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
What he lacked was the real-world information that could fill in the gaps of the puzzle he was assembling. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
A pair of mismatched eyes peered through the gap. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
“Then somebody gets brave enough to jump the gap in the roller coaster.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
I stay close to warn him of gaps between the rocks where he could fall. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
The gap between them and Mr. Flux was widening, as the creature he rode didn’t have wheels and couldn’t simply coast down the steep incline. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
But the carbon fibers, usually 500 microns apart, now had a gap eight times that width in their midst. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Aphrodite’s words came back to Piper: You must bridge the gap between Roman and Greek, my child. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
As she does, the crabgrass begins to grow, pushing gaps in the asphalt wider. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Maybe in the chaos at the depot he’d slipped down into the gap between the train and the platform, or hopped onto the train without the soldier noticing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
He and Britain stand and throw their arms around each other’s shoulders, leaving a gap for me to join them in a three-man huddle. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
Involuntarily he reaches up to touch the comer of one eye, feels the wetness there, wants to answer her, wants to find some words to knit those years together, that gap of time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
Just there was the big rock, and the three stones there, that split rock, and there beyond was a gap just there. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
Delia and Juanita closed the gap in front of me and stood wielding their farming tools before them, ready for the next attack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
And the gap steadily grows over the second and third grades. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Several feet away, on the other side of the tent, there was a gap where the edge of the Hema had slightly lifted from the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Valleys, lakes, gaps, creeks, and other important, possibly vital, topographical features are routinely left unnamed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Finally, Minya emerged, easing herself slowly through the gap to stand defiant before Sarai and Feral, Sparrow and Ruby, all of whom were stunned into speechlessness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Bailey finds a gap in the side of one of the tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Across the road, ignoring the cars, the brakes, the squeal of tires; into this gap between tall buildings, and then another road, with cars from both directions. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Nok silently threaded the gap between the crowd and lunged at him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
It filled in the dusty gaps between the stone tiles, and turned everything a bluish silver that made her feel as if she were frozen in an everlasting moment. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
They walked together through the meadow, toward the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
He pointed to the roads that left gaps between the grey buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
I was closing the gap between her score and mine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
She cupped her hand over her eyes and squinted against the afternoon sun to find the gap where her own cott had been. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’d begun to bridge the vertiginous gap between what he told the world and the truth he knew deep inside. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
But the gap in the knowledge of the Wise has been filled at last. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
"This will not do!" the lord roared, and he commanded his servants to even out the road by filling the gaps with uncooked rice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
She gasped with relief when she felt her passenger’s small hand gripping her shoulder through the gap in the armor-plated bulkhead. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
This latter caveat rewidened the gap that the earlier statement had seemed to close. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
On the morning of April the 29th Dunstan Thorn drew guard duty on the gap in the wall, with Tommy Forester. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
"I have my ways," he says, closing the gap between us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Tristran Thorn approached the gap in the wall, from the Faerie side, for the second time since his conception eighteen years before, with the star limping beside him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
They stuffed their shirts into the gaps and paddled by hand, for miles, until they reached the Egyptian shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Even with a shortcut along the lakeside, I'm running just barely in front of the sirens and won't have a chance to widen the gap before I reach my family's house. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
She found bits and pieces of magic in the gaps of the world and squirreled them away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
She joined him, and soon they had lifted half a dozen out of the way, and then she snapped off the battens on which they’d been hung, making a gap big enough to get through. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Several arms slipped through the gap, blocking the door from closing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
The two were poised there, their heels over the gap. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
Clouds of smoke billowed up through gaps in the platform, adding flavor as well as preserving the meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
As we eat, Mama starts telling stories, and Mustafa and I jump in and fill in the gaps. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
He smiled a lot, showing small even teeth with a friendly gap in the middle. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
Before they even were fully reefed, Candless’s crew was leaping across the gap, hunting, pistols in hand. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The hut had no windows, but a few glimmers of light had shone through the gaps between the thatch and the top of the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
In the gap between rich people, a young girl pushes her way through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
The trick is to hold the rope on your left and right while stepping over gaps onto wooden slats. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
A long silence filled the space between them before instinct took over and Ekon closed the gap between them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Riccio pushed his tongue through the gap in his teeth and kept his eyes fixed on Scipio. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
Then I see a gap—my chance to enter his circle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z
The surface was covered with horizontal strips of wood separated by gaps. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
The Ministry of Magic cars seemed almost ordinary, though Harry noticed that they could slide through gaps that Uncle Vernon’s new company car certainly couldn’t have managed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
The brook ran through the hedgerow, and there was a cattle wade in the gap. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
This time they were going south, first through the gap to where the Amish lived to see how they had come through the bombing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
The gaps weren’t in the town, the gaps were in him, the gaps were in his eyes and in his brain and in his soul—he wasn’t built right. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
The two boats churned toward the railroad bridge with Washington in the lead, but by the time they passed beneath the steel expanse, California had closed the gap to a matter of inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The leaders had slowed just a bit, and that had narrowed the gap, but if Moch had raised the rate at all, it was imperceptible. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Doctors would fill the gaps in my skull from previous operations. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
“I obviously don’t know the whole story here, but good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
Struggling against the wind and lashing rain, I tied the ragged pieces as best I could across the gap, but everything inside was already wet. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
What they told me of this world filled some gaps in the knowledge I’d acquired in mine, and I began to see the answer to many mysteries. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
They slide the food tray under the gap in my cell door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Harry felt slightly resentful at this: If their lessons were so very important, why had there been such a long gap between the first and second? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
The Bush administration tax cuts stand to widen the gap between the hyper-rich and the rest of America. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
For a moment he was tempted to throw them wide open, then he sighed and closed the gap. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
It was much wider than the gap in the roller coaster, definitely too far to jump. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Her mainstream, even countrified, looks extended to the slight gap between her teeth and her turned-up nose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
The idea of leaping out of a moving train onto a rooftop, knowing there is a gap between the edge of the roof and the edge of the track, makes me want to throw up. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Then I nearly fell down the gap but didn’t. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
Holding you close, I stepped into the gap between a three-wheeled rickshaw and a motorbike. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Every shadow inside the stable seemed to grow longer as the seconds ticked by, moonlight trickling through gaps between the roof’s wooden planks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
You have to grow' around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
After Nailer and Nita were nearly thrown down into the train gap, they rode with their arms threaded through the ladders. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The wall had dropped away, leaving a curved gap with two shelves. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
The BFG pointed through a gap in the bushes, and there, not more than fifty yards away, she saw a man padding softly across the lawn. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Same day—Tuesday, April 2,1935 It takes me longer than I thought it would to get to the gap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because of income inequality—the widening gap between rich and poor—large swaths of America that had once been solidly middle class no longer were. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Rex paid them no attention; he bounded past like they were standing still and quickly closed the gap on Jordan, nipping at his heels and chasing him out of the park and down the block. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z
“Come. It will be a while before we close the gap. As long as you’re below- decks, you might as well make use of the time. Back to your letters, then.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The mole team dug their claws into the gap, chanting together as they heaved with a will. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
I have to admit the structure did look a little rough, with huge gaps in the walls and a tilt to one side, but at least it stayed standing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Then a flat, wet clod of dead leaves shot clean through the gap and landed clear of the hedge, close to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
A shell exploded in Garnett’s line, another; gaps began to appear. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
In a few strides, he closes the gap between us. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Malia’s been living and working in New York, finishing out her gap year before college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
But in the case of the geometrical sciences of the seventeenth century the gaps between data and phenomena, and between phenomena and theories, are intended to be virtually non-existent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
To fill the gap between 660 B.C. and the earliest historically documented Japanese monarchs, the chronicles invented 13 other, equally fictitious emperors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
There was a foot-wide gap between the steps and the door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Most of the white kids I knew were taking a gap year. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Together, they climbed the creaking stairs, stepping over broken and mildewed missing steps and finding their way around the holes and gaps in the floors to their room. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Mark felt the jolt through his entire body but held on, slipping his forearm into the gap between the handle and the ship so that his elbow took the weight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
I slow down even more, allowing the gap between us to widen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
When the snare is set in the gap, the Black Rabbit knows where the peg is driven; and when the weasel dances, the Black Rabbit is not far off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tough brown grass and weed trees sprouted from the gaps between the cobbles, and the mossy walls of what once might have been a huge stone manse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
What if he could force ions into a circular path, thereby passing them repeatedly across a single electrical gap? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It is no secret that the gap between the rich and the poor has grown, but the extent to which the richest are leaving everyone else behind is not widely known. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
My mother has a gap between her two front teeth. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z
She moved forward stiffly, her gapped mouth open wide as she guffawed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
A woman’s voice announced, ‘This station is Embankment. Please take care when leaving the train as there is a gap between the train and the station platform.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
The doctors warned us that Dad would have gaps in his memory. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Then there is a gap, and he appears again on the other side of it, unaccountably two years older. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
They used leftover pieces to smooth out some other small gaps and bumps in my face and prepared it for the next operation in a few years. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
So the gap between the very richest and everyone else is almost certainly much larger. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
‘The Gobstopper jar’s gone! It’s not on the shelf! There’s a gap where it used to be!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
He looked at the gaps in the roof and sighed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
The hatch door was almost closed now, a five-foot gap at most, moving painfully slowly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
I gestured to the gaps between the grey buildings Elodin had shown to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Bapi’s teeth flashed white, showing the front gap where a fight had cost him his incisors. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
The only way I could see to bridge the gap between us was to become a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
It seemed impossible for Washington to close the gap. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Well, all the carrot and celery sticks her mother had given her for lunch mocked Cas as Frankie finished pulling himself through the gap and yelled that it was her turn. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
There was one gap east of Chambersburg and beyond that all the roads came together, weblike, at a small town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
I looked farther up the slope and saw that the gap widened out again ahead. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
No. There was a sudden hush in the crowd, and he knew that the entire community realized that the Chief Elder had moved from Eighteen to Twenty, leaving a gap. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
Don’t you remember the terrible gap between the ones who could get a man easily and the ones who couldn’t? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was still sitting there when Tristran came back through the gap in the wall, several hours later. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
I pull my bathing suit straps tighter so I don’t have such a big gap in the front. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Squatting, Rashid peered at a small gap that was letting in light and saw black shoes on the other side. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
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
But now there was no one between Madame and us, and as Tommy kept closing the gap, I had to grab his arm to slow him down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
By stringing the fiber along a gap in a stretch of wire—a bent paper clip worked marvelously—he hoped to diffract X-rays and obtain images. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
A heavy, bespectacled kid with a gap between his front teeth, Lloyd was goofy and boisterous—qualities that made him unpopular with the school’s security staff. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Beside him, the Lady had mounted her dragonfly, and now she urged it through the narrow gap into the hammering gusts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
His wide smile exposed the gap between his top center teeth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
But she could not find a stone to fill the largest gap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
There they sat, panting and congratulating one another, watching the gap in the track and waiting for Smith to lead Seabiscuit in and lay down his arms, like Lee at Appomattox. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yes, there are some major gaps in my story. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
He was moving his back foot behind him and trying not to eye the gap down the right-field line big enough to run an eight-wheel locomotive through. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
Logos moves forward, but it leaps over gaps, sidles past obstacles, and—confronted with disaster— shouts, “Look! It’s Hailey’s Comet!” and bolts for the exit. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
I wait in the shadows near my mother's house, close enough so I can actually peek through the gaps of our backyard's rickety fence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
The bullets, he said, would probably just rattle against the plates and fall off, but there were gaps between the plates and there was no telling how heavy the firing might be. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
For a considerable period in Latin transcriptions there were no gaps between words either, if you can credit such madness. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z
Tristran walked through the gap, with the stone wall on each side of him, into the meadow on the other side of the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
He was knowledgeable about guerrilla warfare and helped fill many gaps in my knowledge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
We covered the gaps between wall boards with paper, painted the inside, and covered the kitchen floor using paint and pieces of linoleum we found at the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
We understand the question by mentally filling the gap with the phrase that was moved out of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
He lost his grip, but Alec held him firmly, pulling him headfirst through the narrowing gap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
As the elevator lurches forward, a gap in the metal wall slides open. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
He fixed his eyes on the cottony bits of cloud stuck in the gaps between the pines above him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
With a sheepish grin Reynie slid a chair under the gap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
The global achievement gap: Why even our best schools don’t teach the new survival skills our children need—and what we can do about it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
His livery is pulled tight across his chest, and pieces of fur stick out of the gaps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
But there are irreparable gaps in our historical knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Once they were through the gap, they had only to keep on in anything like a straight line and they were bound in the end to strike the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
Since the bone-tar was pouring down the grate, there was a gap close to the wall clear of flame or fog. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
It’s a queen-sized bed, and there’s a fairly sizable gap between us, but it doesn’t prevent me from feeling the warmth of her body. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
Empty gaps for windows and oddly shaped doorways. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
“Hey!” she yelled as she squeezed sideways through a narrow gap in the broken chemistry tables and reached the desks. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
The gap was as wide as her little finger on the inside, but it narrowed to a hairline outside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gap is in the shape of a very large S, and until you are right on top of it you think you are coming to a solid wall of rock and trees. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
The box was much too small, and the boards gapped in places. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
Grimbold’s men turned aside and passed round to a great gap in the wall further eastward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z
Snow was building up along the battlements too, filling the gaps between the merlons and putting pale, soft caps on every tower top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
I dug my nails into the gaps between the boards, terrified that the floor might give out beneath me at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
When the truck is moving, wind slices through the gaps in the tarp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
But apparently he did not go through the gap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
Through the gap above the dash, I watch his dad’s smile. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
He holds my gaze, and I feel the same pull I’ve always felt toward him, an undeniable gravity that dares me to close the gap between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
Chuck pointed up at the enormously tall gaps in the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
He ventured forwards, and suddenly slipped and fell down a hidden gap between the bales. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
He and Hagrid moved, dreamlike, through the murmuring crowd to the very front, where the dumbstruck students and teachers had left a gap. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
She hurried to the gap, but before she could reach it, the back door of the house slammed open, and several huge black dogs bounded out! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The cubicle wall comes down to only a foot above the floor, and back through the gap a noiseless arm is retreating, the hand clutching my wallet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
The gates popped open with a metallic screech and we slipped through the small gap rust and atrophy would allow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
It was like seeing a gap in a fence. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
Roland G. Fryer Jr., the young black economist who analyzed the “acting white” phenomenon and the black-white test score gap, may be among the next. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
She poked sticky cotton into tiny gaps with a sliver of dassie bone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stepped up to him, closing the gap, and at last he knelt down and took me in his arms. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
There is a gap between me and the guy ahead of me, a space big enough for four people. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
“I’m going to take a gap year and go to Europe.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
The gaps in Vivian’s stories seem to her mysteries she can help solve. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
Through the gap in the wall can be seen a large green meadow; beyond the meadow, a stream; and beyond the stream there are trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
Zizmo follows the shoreline until he comes to a gap in the road where boats launch in summer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
While they were distracted, Emma took a testing step forward, closer to Ms. Morales and the gap in the fences behind her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
Two of the three lions didn’t want anything to do with the Dinka hunters and escaped through gaps in the circle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
It flows more or less parallel to the road, and out of the valley through the gap at the south. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
They valued Mary’s help for this task, as she on her own could squeeze into narrower gaps than the mulefa, and, with her double hands, work in tighter spaces. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Hold your fingers together; you should have tiny gaps where some light can get through. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
He was deep in thought, wriggling his bare toes into the gaps between the paving stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
I was beginning to understand that if I put in extra hours of studying, I could often close the gap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Jan nailed a pinewood board over the gap in the door and went off again with Miep to inform the police of the break-in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
He leads me up and down, across small gaps and Over angular ridges. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
"Wait," he calls out again, closing the gap between us. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
He could not see the gap or anything else, because the green lights were opening again and growing, and the top of the mountain was sliding sideways. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
He had the notion that everyday substances like air, or water, or mercury were mingled with a much finer substance, a fluid which filled all the gaps and prevented the existence of a vacuum. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
Yet they left gaps in the circle, as though waiting for more people. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
But Tally slowed and kept going ahead, murmuring, “straight past the gap.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
I find the gaps I’m looking for and return the titles to their rightful places. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Five feet away from me, that night at the pool, walking to see the lights, on the other side of the glass that last night, always that longing between us to close the gap. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
“And? It doesn’t have to be permanent. You spent a month of your gap year talking to yaks in Mongolia, H. It’s hardly unprecedented.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
By the way, despite our tremendous height gap, he and I weigh the same. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
Directly across the street stood a small one-room shack about seven feet wide and twelve feet long; it was made of unpainted wood, with large gaps between the wallboards where vines and weeds grew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
What’s more, our years of isolation at Manzanar had widened the already spacious gap between the races, and it is not hard to understand why so many preferred to stay where they were. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
The complication was caused not only by the Talmud text itself, which seemed filled with gaps, but by the commentaries that struggled to explain it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Twisting the corner of Uncle Drum’s credit card in the gap between her front teeth. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z
It seemed to cheer people up, hearing those words, and I realized that Mama and Doc were doing a little something to fill the gap that Gran left behind too. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
The black gaps between silver links would close until the fishermen could see, below, a solid mass of silver spinning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Just when he’d narrowed the gap between them, Naomi darted off the road and into a clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
It didn’t have to pause and carefully fit any flesh-on-skeleton mass through the gap, but flowed out with the ease of a ghost, which was what it was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
"Down by the gap. Seems there's a young lady wants to have a word with you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
High John was one folk hero god who maybe could’ve bridged the gap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Holly watched the entire episode through a gap in the tapestry folds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
By that point, four years later, the initially modest gap between rich and poor has more than doubled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
They left through the gap in the wall and flew to the outskirts of the ruins, then followed the vein of iron up out of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
There is a gap in between, where awe has carved a space that words have yet to fill. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
This was such a gap: the silence of aftermath, in the dark of the night on the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, at the melted north anchor of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
It looked like a skinned person creeping on all fours, bent, a horrifying open gap where a mouth should be. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Her fingers found the gaps in my rib cage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Nok remembered glimpsing her mother's dressing table through a gap between the servants' bodies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
I glance at the dark gap ahead I saw in the rock next to the jungle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
There was a big gap between his front teeth, but they looked clean enough. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I know there will be too many ugly gaps for any real picture to exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
There was a little gap in the crowd and we worked our way to the rail to see what it was all about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
My arms—especially my right armache as I inch my way across the gap. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
Clean night air flows through a constellation of gaps in the rock ceiling, and I can barely make out the stars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Sophie, by squirming around inside the blanket, managed to push the top of her head out through a little gap just below the Giant’s hand. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The flames are visible in the gaps between and rising slightly above. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
Here was the place he had described, where suddenly, in this massed section of boulders, was a rift, a deep gap in the rocks, a place where she must jump to the next foothold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
One of our teachers told us that in Africa “the gap” was considered a rare and enviable beauty mark. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The gap at the foot of the door was wide enough for him to slip through. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
But it was rare that there was such an age gap between children in a family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
Isabel seemed more than a little uncomfortable next to him and kept an obvious gap between them open on the couch. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
By the time they walked through the village and arrived at the gap in the wall, Tristran had imagined every possibility, except the one which occurred. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
The man smiled, revealing the small gap between his front teeth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
We would hike to the gap if it killed us, and then try to hitchhike into Hiawassee for dinner and a night in a motel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
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