| 单词 | angle |
| 例句 | It looked easier to keep angling to the left but quicker to go straight for the top. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He squeezes the ball at me again, but the opening is at the wrong angle, and the paint sprays into his mouth instead. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As Shadow ran he saw Constance dash across the grounds at an angle which cut him off from the stairs up to the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He was cracked in the head many times when a length of iron bucked at an unexpected angle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “No. You must have been too far away. Different angle. I don’t know.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The night is so clear that the water reflects every stray angle of light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His head is a little below mine, so that when he looks up at me it’s at a juvenile angle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped to the side to get a better angle on the button. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It’s important that you approach slowly and with caution—and preferably from a posterior angle, where they have little to no vision. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He was the only person there without cuffs on, and when Moss saw the unnatural angle at which his arm bent, he understood why. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Her arm was bent at a funny angle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Jo’s angles are much softened, she has learned to carry herself with ease, if not grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Stack collapses weren’t that uncommon, and if the scaffold supports buckled at the wrong angle, the domino effect could bring down four or five of the neighboring stacks too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Kendra could see no sign of a house, only the driveway angling out of sight into the trees. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She wanted our heads bowed just right, our toes together and pointed, our elbows at the proper angle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have fallen flat on her face if her arm weren’t being held at a cruel angle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He spent hours each day running around the house measuring the angle of things with his new steel protractor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The uniform was too large, and the starched shoulders stuck out in crisp, unnatural angles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The angle of the climbing sun snuck a slash of rays under the edges of its wings, shining a jagged shimmer along the sharp tips of the huge metal feathers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They all held polished violins under their chins, the bows poised at identical angles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m constantly angling for the best price, the most attractive bundle of goods, the newest option. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z From this angle, it was easy to see that the large black stones on top of the hill were arranged to look like a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There were scenes of the Houses of Parliament, Lambeth Bridge and the Eye, from different angles. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It climbed through several switchbacks and, for a stretch, rose at an angle so steep you had to walk on your toes; if you tried walking flatfooted, you stretched your calves till they hurt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And then, at the edge of the cliff, the road comes to a lip and takes a sudden angle down and to the right. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It seemed like a safe place, and safety was all the robot really wanted, so she stood there, motionless, all perfect lines and angles set against the irregular shapes of the wilderness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Wrinkles angle outward from the narrowed corners of her eyes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes, trying to forget the twisted angles of his bloodstained teeth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Each of the edges was neatly labeled with a small letter, and each of the angles with a large one. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z We both stand, the trunk in our hands, our feet angled on either side of the rooftop. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Designs of fruit and flowers are carved into the molding and small, fat children with wings look down at us from every angle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hell no. I got some game in me. I gotta get my angles right.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The best photos were taken at dawn, in the late afternoon, or at dusk, when the low angle of the sun produced rich, warm colors and long shadows. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Momma, with her long dark curls and sharp angles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It hung before me at an odd angle, clam-shelled open from throat to crotch, as if it had been unzipped. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The crash site was cordoned off for 2 days as they took photographs from every possible angle, including the air, and sifted through the wreckage. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The thing can easily capsize or be swamped if the bows do not meet the great combing breakers at just the right angle. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He feels like he’s getting punched from multiple angles and can’t figure out where to block. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Putting on a show for the master was a familiar skill, the small angles and advantages of the mask, and they shook off their fear as they settled into the performance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I started on the left wing, and I figured out that I could get these thin lines by angling the pencil tip. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I kind of slide over to the chain-link fence, get a better angle on the scene. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had she learned to smack the ball smartly on the steps, angling it right or left, than the other players revolted. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The Time Suck angled its snout his way and took a slow step closer, too. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Boo did that pigeon thing where he regarded her at an angle. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He has a French face, lean, whimsical, all planes and angles, with creases around the mouth where he smiles. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved the camera lens to show all angles of the room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I understood the details on Astelle had come at me from a different angle, I understood that, but so what? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They crept down 200 yards, feeling the angle of the slope grow easier with each step. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “I’m actually a highly sought after director on this circuit. I specialize in goat sacrifices and masterful film school angles of aunties with muffin tops.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The skull moved subtly under the features, the angle of her forehead tilting back, her chin becoming more defined, her jaw stronger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Everyone seems to be playing up some angle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were almost as big as a normal pretty’s, but they angled upward like a wolfs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Oh. Maybe the angle is weird. Looks like she forgot to put on pants.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The coin of land was now at a forty-five-degree angle, and within minutes of completely sealing the hole in the earth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The angle of the shot, along with the fact that there was no gun present, ruled out suicide. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His heart skipped into his mouth: He dropped to his knees at the pool’s edge and angled the wand so as to flood the bottom of the pool with as much light as possible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We’re on a sharp angle, and we’re crowding the car next to us, so I suck in my breath to shimmy out my door. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z From the corner of my eye, I saw him get slowly to his feet and angle across under the streetlight to my side of the street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z New trees would lean toward me at mountain angles, but when I looked for the village, it would have vanished under the clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon on the way home from the store: light angling through the trees, cicadas clattering high in the branches, the twins racing and laughing with Wash, her not needing to say anything. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My bedroom was the converted attic of our house on Wibaux Street, with peaking rafters and weird angles, and it just baked during the summer. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I examine this writing from every angle, trying to figure out if it could be Cordelia’s, disguised. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From his angle, it looked a little ridiculous, but he suspected it might appear different if he were in the guy's position. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Bull straightened his arms out behind him in the angle of an F-8, then ran as fast as he could toward the table keeping his eye affixed on the arms of Captain Johnson. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I take in the angles of the room, the slant of light flooding through panes of glass, the planes that separate us, the irony of drapes to create darkness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Gideon is all slim muscles and interesting boy angles, and it’s hard to formulate an answer. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There was nothing to do but go back down the way they had come, and angle off toward the next pass. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Every line and angle and color screams just how much I like him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I think about it from several angles, but keep coming to the same conclusion. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She angled the credit card carbon so he could see. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z With each reading each book took on new life, exposed new angles to the story, with the result that I was never bored. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All I saw was the pole, bent at an acute angle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had found a Spanish-language channel that, if I angled the antenna just right, I could see through the static. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bastian demands that they memorize maps, study the angle of the sun, cut their own belts from cowhide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The flimsy structure was still settling into the sand, causing the floor of each room to tilt at a different angle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Amelia had sent a picture of herself, taken at a sharp angle and heavily filtered. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A treacherous, icy wind seemed to dart around from every angle and then zip up sleeves and pant legs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z May’s head was angled to the side, and her eyes were fixed on a cross-stitched picture of a birdhouse that hung on the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned, and the camera zoomed in on him at a different angle. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He tapped the ball, altering its angle and freezing the goalie. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They angled and tipped it until a fine delicate balance had been achieved. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She set her cheek against the sharp angle of his collarbone, so that his hair tickled her cheek. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Which is perfect timing from every angle: the enchiladas Scoob and G’ma stopped for are ready to make a swift exit, and there’s no public toilet for him to use. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The stairs slanted at an awkward angle, making them even more difficult to climb. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She couldn’t see the Map Room from her angle. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He draws two question marks at odd angles bisecting each other. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was there in his light eyes, the way they angled down and avoided roundness just slightly. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The edge of the ice sheet was particularly steep where she had fallen, but just below her, it banked at a shallower angle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z My eyes followed its angle downward, to the gun pointed at Zu’s head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Nick was feeding me the ball from every angle and we were moving away from them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Legs at a right angle. Right foot forward, left foot back and perpendicular. Knees bent. Strong core. Strong balance to move forward or back. To strike or defend.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z As Chronicler gathered his paper and quills, Kvothe studied the angle of the sun through the window, a pensive look on his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Looked at the problem from all angles, added things up from all sides. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Quibbler’s going for a new angle, then?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Quang-ha puts everything in a different place, setting the couch and the chairs on an angle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail—the distance was too great to allow a proper angle of sight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He turns his head, and his disheveled eyes angle for mine. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Tally closed her eyes, taking a rest from the sharp angles of the woman’s face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z How a curve meets a curve and the perfect angle of a corner piece. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I veer in his direction at such a sharp angle that the edge of my board protests against the pavement, leaving a long, black line. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Beneath it, a keyboard was set into the wall, angling out enough for someone to type on it with ease if standing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His little remaining head fuzz and my crazy ’do were both sticking up at odd angles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Heavenly Father, deliver us,” I said, although I didn’t care for this new angle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been reinforced with pieces of wood that stuck out at odd angles and made perfect hand- and footholds. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Light pours in from all angles, and the city unfolds around us, glass buildings and the arc of train tracks, and we are high above it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “And check those out,” said Miguel as the vehicles gracefully glided into a reserved row of angled parking spaces. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Nathan put the last water bottle into his pocket, where it poked out at an odd angle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was down Honey Lane in the angle of a jutting wall near Black Friars entry. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Behind her, the aquarium cover juts out at a crooked angle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A shoebox-sized package is propped against the front door at an angle. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Some pointed straight and high like an equilateral triangle and others were angled like a sail in the wind. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When he kamikazis the corner at 500 mph, at an absolutely fatal angle, she raises both hands in the air and whoops in delight. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I push it into Africa’s coast and angle the thread to New York. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Lee moved five dried lima beans in patterns on the table—a line, an angle, a circle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He took three steps back, squared himself like he would do in a drill, and bolted forward, angling his shoulder toward the door. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Caton had done himself especially proud on one of them, cutting all the waste metal off it until the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As we returned to our feet, Emma angled toward me and breathed the word Gypsies, then nodded at the closest horse. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Pi looks up at me, his head angled. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a shadow anywhere in front of me, and every object, every angle and curve stood out so sharply it made my eyes hurt. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The angle of his head, looking over his rimless glasses at me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I whittled an angle on that twig, and bound the two angles face to face with a strip of green bark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A razor-sharp claw had ripped down on an angle across his right eye. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed out flyers, pamphlets—A Message from City Councilman John Kwang—buttons, ballpoint pens, keychains, lapel pins, every last piece of it stamped with his perfectly angled script, simply signed, John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And everywhere they went, Citra made a point to take a family picture...each from an angle very close to that of the nearest public camera. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Rain slanted in the lights, which were angled to cast long, dramatic shadows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She doesn’t speak, but I perceive her angling her body toward me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “That was just lucky,” Caleb says, turning the gun over and over to see it from every angle. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The angles of her face curve into a perfect heart shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The fourth one was a red pickup angled into the curb, not parked parallel like the others. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Rocks came bouncing down horn the castle to crash among them, and arrows and spears as well, but the angle was steep and the missiles seemed to do httle damage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Determined to do the job thoroughly, they covered every angle of the problem. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I soared downward, but at a controlled angle, like a kite in a dive. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Arms wide, I angle myself to keep him from getting past, and it works. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He was wearing his school polo shirt and khaki pants, holding a book at an angle to block the sun as he read. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Her face happened to be angled their way, stuck in a wide friendly smile, but it would’ve been that way even if time weren’t frozen. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z From that angle, it almost looked like a big town. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The train rights itself, the angle falls behind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He used to straighten his tie and adjust the angle of his hat in the rearview mirror before pulling his sample fans and electric brooms from the trunk. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The road angles down the steep hill and into a tiny town, the last outpost of civilization before the mount. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Its shell is a pointy oval, bisected at an angle, like a shield with a daisy on one side and a tribal flourish on the other, its flippers extending in pointy arcs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The angle at which the rest of his arm met his elbow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s all elbows and angles, even in his high school team jacket. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Left arm is back and up at a right angle, the left hand relaxed at the wrist. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It sits at an angle on my mom's bureau in a frame made from seashells. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z At the angles are funnel-like openings for nets or basket traps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Covert CIA teams had previously photographed the site from every angle. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Felix fished out his math notebook and started calculating angles on triangles, while Freebie tried to bite his pencil. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Red stood by her, his bad leg angled out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At least, he saw it from some angles. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the seasons changed outside the windows, as the weeping willows shed their million leaves, as snow fell on the flat roof and the angle of sunlight declined, Desdemona remained in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Looking up from this angle, it’s like the world’s tipping inward: dizzyingly tall buildings and a bright fireball sun. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z That's when he tried to kiss me good night for the first time, and I angled my head to offer a cheek. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her head had fallen backward as though in hilarity, the angle opening the wound so that a section of windpipe gleamed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If the two sticks cast shadows of equal length, that also would make sense on a flat Earth: the Sun’s rays would then be inclined at the same angle to the two sticks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the angle of the sun through the trees and thought about how far we had walked. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I wanted the judge to understand that we weren't simply defending Mr. McMillian from a different angle than his original lawyers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He had pushed his body against hers, pushing her dress right up above her knee and had trapped her where the shelves met at right angles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They stuck their long spears in from different angles and carried it between them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The anxious woman leaned on her desk, and her brow knitted into a strange pattern of angled, intersecting lines. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “You have to play in a boxed area and you have to stand at a right angle to the wind,” he said proudly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The left front leg was hanging at a broken angle, and none of the white people at Prewitt wanted to bother with the bull because the meat would be tough. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He turned the rack this way and that until he was satisfied with the angle of the bright light it cast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But just shifting her position that much put her at a different angle; now she could see the edge of a piece of paper sticking out of the top of Mom’s drawer. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I step to the right to get a better angle on the door, and my double hops to the side, her shoes scraping the dirt, to block my way again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I don't know what happens to people when this ride is working, but when it isn't, the passengers hang in the air at odd angles, harnessed into legless metal love seats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I scroll past one of the camera angles and then pause, and scroll back. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lizzie’s granddaddy was propped up in a bed, perched on his angled elbows so that he could see out the window. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I lean farther forward, my heart hammering in my chest, trying to get a better look, but the angle’s wrong and I can’t see her now. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But his tummy, even angled and sucked in, was a real problem. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z This attach^ case' - he nudged it with his foot - 'is chock-full of notes on every possible angle one can imagine.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Trying to answer that question by measuring angles and distances would be much more complicated than simply holding up a mirror. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One of them, a tall boy with sand-colored hair and long arms and legs that seemed all bones and angles, stood at home plate and commenced hitting balls out to the players. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Edwin gunned the engine and angled out of the bay, refusing to look back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He studied the door of the cabinet and decided that it was open at about the same angle at which he had found it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dense with bronze rust, and its jagged angles nibbled at my palms. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The international press was simply saturated with stories of violence from Africa, and this one was particularly bland and pedantic, the deputy editor wrote, but perhaps Richard could do a piece on the human angle? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And the man who cranked the sugarcane press gripped the palm fan that he ordinarily used to chase away flies, agitating the air from every conceivable angle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z One of the bat’s wings folded in, but the other extended at an awkward angle, clearly broken. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He sighed so big his shoulders slumped where they curved out of his faded undershirt, so thin I could follow the angles and ridges of his scars like tattoos under fabric. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “We get a lot of butterflies,” I said, angling the shovel. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Between Westerly and Mystic, the tracks are at an angle, embedded into the sloping land, so that the whole train threatens, ever so slightly, to topple over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Con asked, grunting as he lay down, trying to prop his leg up at a more comfortable angle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They were still going downhill, which should have made traveling easier; but the ground sloped at just the wrong angle—too steep to jog, too treacherous to let her guard down even for a moment. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He is studying me as if trying to figure out my angle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Here we go,” Princeton says, as they begin a lesson on such concepts as parallel lines and complementary angles in the quiet coziness of the family’s suburban home ... The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z There was such an elegance in the lines of it, such a perfect sculpt to every angle and curve that he was almost unreal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The way to reveal a helix was to tilt the oriented TMV sample at several angles to the X-ray beam. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “She wants a new angle, Hagrid,” said Ron wisely as he shelled salamander eggs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The creature had spiky fur which stuck out at odd angles all over. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His fur was sparse and tufty in places, and his hip bones protruded at sharp angles. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sharp angles of the plum twigs, their blackness stark amid the airy white blossoms. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But the wheel to our right is angled so that it can only be pushed forward or backward from where we’re standing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But now its limbs were broken, dangling at odd angles, punctuated by occasional wisps of brown leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The path ended here; all around us the ground fell away at crazy angles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This is as impossible as trisecting an angle with a straightedge and compasses—unless gods and mortals are allowed to have an infinite amount of sex. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The stone ceiling was low and angled, the paint cracked and blackened from the heat of a raging fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They say, “Listen, it’s really very easy. Imagine left-right. Imagine forward-back. Okay, so far? Now imagine another dimension, at right angles to the other two.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The kind words were genuine, for the doghouse was a handsome piece of work, of nice proportion, with clean angles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When it came from an angle, it gave us a stiff shove towards the edge of the ridge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He imagined the homemade box was probably full of nails or broken glass set at cruel angles for a similar purpose. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He was all angles and bones and papery skin, like a cricket. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z On the smaller monitor was a graph that started high on the left and descended to the right at about a forty-five-degree angle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was a pile of Ivans sleeping in front of the fireplace as there had been the other morning, resting on one another at various angles. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Her heart thudding painfully, she climbed in among the fallen branches, hauling herself through the familiar boughs at their unfamiliar angles, and balanced herself as high up as she could get. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The fourth one had a stripe at an angle and was evil. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Woolf angled Seabiscuit out to go around Today and gave him a whack with his whip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It angled from the corner of their yard to the front steps. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t know why,” he said, as if holding it to the light, and angling it now here, now there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees have slight bends in their trunks, careful angles of their palm leaves. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I could see the exhaustion in the angle of his body, in the sideways droop of his head and the half-collapsed heaviness with which he was resting against the wooden railing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Upon reaching the top of the rock steps at 28,400 feet, he was confronted with a series of short but troublesome rappels that angled along the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z From whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening, seemed to be pointed straight at you. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z During a lecture on triangles, I had the sudden insight that there was a relationship between the three sides and the angles they formed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Cornerback Stan Wilkins has a perfect angle on him to make the tackle, a chance to “hit the snot out of ’im” as the coaches like to call it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Woolf angled him inward, keeping him close to War Admiral, letting him look at his rival. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonathan lengthened his stride, turned a sharp angle, then beat his way to the creek. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Bailey walks around, looking at her from every angle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The hat seemed to isolate Luster’s skull, in the beholder’s eye as a spotlight would, in all its individual planes and angles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Mrs. Dalton stood up and her face tilted to that upward angle at which she always held it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When his inspiring dissertation was finished, he gave the men the colors of the day still one more time, stressed the angle of approach and reviewed the weather conditions again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On top of this workers would set down a layer of steel rails stretching from one end of the pad to the other, and over this a second layer at right angles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A young woman gazes at the camera, her head tilted at a slight angle. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On the eastern side, in the angle of two piers, there was a great door, high above the ground; and over it was a shuttered window, opening upon a balcony hedged with iron bars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes they like to keep it to themselves until the last possible moment, when it’s bouncing around inside of them like a Super Ball and finally finds the right angle to pop out. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He lifted his tail off the ground and held it at an angle and marched in time to the music the minstrels were playing on their guitars. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Winston dared not turn his head even by a millimeter, but sometimes her livid, gasping face came within the angle of his vision. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The next charge struck die angle at the boulder, at the colors, lapped around it, ran into the new line, was enfiladed, collapsed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Once again, we fell into our spying positions, angling ourselves at the cracked door to see, while pressing our ears against the air. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And seeing them from this angle was disturbing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He angles his head against the window and watches the autumnal landscape pass: the spewing pink and purple waters of a dye mill, electrical power stations, a big ball-shaped water tank covered with rust. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was entirely graceless, rather tall and badly angled, built of dark red brick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Each held Us spear at right angles toward the left, and, before the Wart could say anything further, there was a terrific yet melodious thump. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly two pounds in weight, a tribute to Brother Alf’s angling skills combined with the youthful muscles of Matthias and their joint enthusiasm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Standing on the platform in the midst of the crowd, high enough that they can be viewed clearly from all angles, are two figures, still as statues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Pet inclined its head, the horns angling, but kept silent. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z De Roos had been pushing this angle since the last campaign. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their limbs stuck out at awkward angles through the wooden bars of the cage, and at the sudden sunlight they cried loudly, scrambling over each other to try to get out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Platt dropped to the mat on her stomach, her arms and legs at crazy angles, as if she’d fallen from a stepladder. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The pawnbroker looked at it from various angles, and after a minute of intense inspection said, “I can do one fifty for pawn,” the pawnbroker said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Problems about triangles, rectangles, and circles didn’t make any sense, no matter how much he squinted at or angled the page. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Its sharp-pointed prow lifted it at an angle from the stone floor of the docks, and though its shelter concealed him he could still watch the doorway easily. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He isn’t moving, but standing at an angle where I can see him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The knight's leg was trapped, the arm he'd used to break his fall twisted at a grotesque angle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Holding one of the nails in his right hand, he showed me the right angle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The headline and the camera angle were enough to suggest they were together. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Then, as the angle of incline lessened, as the mound— the hill—flattened, nearing the bottom, the sled’s forward motion slowed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The tiercel appeared in the mist, flew close to her, then dove earthward at a steep angle. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Take Civil Service,” said Johnny starting on another angle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go down there!” said Alice suddenly, pointing to a street of little shops at right angles to the current. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He showed them, as he had the day before, a cabinet inside which fourteen coffee cups hung on angles from brass hooks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I decided on the L-shape, stood back, adjusted the angle, and then went to get the sheets out of the bathroom closet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Not because she was cute, but because she danced with Boj angles, who was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Luce had another light on a stand, which he angled to suit his purposes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The pole careens sharply forward, toppling at an angle against the wall of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She hit the screwdriver at a weird angle, and it flew into the bushes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Max kneels on the patio in the dusk, going over his airplane, checking the angle of its wings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It tacked well off from them, and then, at the end of a long angle, it tacked again and came back in with the sea breeze;Turner began to row to cut across it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Whatever was about to happen to me apparently had a mental- health angle — I had become what my mom refers to as a “student concern.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughed and tipped his hat down over his eyes and changed the angle of his cigar and the expression of his face. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Its triangular, speckled head angled up, jaws wide, stuck mid-hiss just inches from Mr. Reynolds’s toes. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She posed with her arms held at a fancy angle, looking sideways at the wall with a sad expression. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The white world tilted at a sharp angle and the icy wind shot past his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It is a variation of the basic principle that if you know one angle and one side of an equilateral or right-angled triangle, then you can determine the other angles and sides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the mouth came closer, my eyes went straight to the huge, serrated teeth, gnarly and sticking out at different angles. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He becomes more deliberate, attacking from new angles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Pet moved its head, and the smoke angled newly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “If it doesn’t look like a hustle, you got to look at it from another angle.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z From this angle she looks just like her brother, Will, my friend, the one I shot. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She saw the trees on the far bank at a strange angle; she saw the gray sky lurching above; she saw Maila battling against the current. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And we say, “What are you talking about? At right angles to the other two’! There are only two dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting as far away from me as the desk allowed, but his chair was angled toward me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I looked at a table of measurements of white shark teeth with its tall columns of numbers for height, width, and angle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Mae held it up to the light, examining it from every angle. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When I blink, I see Rita’s sister on the pavement below the train tracks, limbs bent at strange angles; I see Rita screaming and sobbing; I see myself turning away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Dad and Uncle Robert started discussing business and I wandered away, trying to get a better angle on watching the continuous miner and the shuttle go through their choreographed dance of mining coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I found myself doing calculations I’d failed at in geometry class as I determined the angle to cut the round pill. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They moved on stealthily like stray cats, past chimneys, aerials, and Capricorn's floodlights, which were angled downward and left everything behind them in the cover of darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He inspected them from every angle, the boys watching him closely. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It had a long centre section and two little end sections that could be angled backwards to deflect the wind. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, Hoagland had waited to come at us from an unseeable angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The drops enter through the kitchen window at impossible angles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing tails and a stovepipe hat that rested at an angle above his dark glasses, smiling through the smoke at the people who resisted his appeals. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The glare off the windshield made it difficult to see well, but the two torsos angled their way were clear enough. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The angle of vision from the window protected him for the moment, but he knew he and Chuck would be seen if whoever was in there pushed his head outside to get a better look. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He held the position, without quivering a muscle, for nearly five minutes as the photographers scurried around him, cameras grinding, shooting him from every angle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She ate it in a few bites and then angled back across the clearing, searching again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z You turned it around and around, as if it looked different from every angle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Wayne tries to look into his characters from every possible angle: up close, from a distance, how others see him, whether he sees himself realistically or believes his own lies. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Soon every Dauntless in the building will rush toward us from every angle, and we will be trapped in this pale maze. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His arm was hanging at a very strange angle; riddled with pain, he heard, as though from a distance, a good deal of whistling and shouting. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They were at an odd angle and all I could see was the shoulder of a black coat, with a silk scarf blown out in the wind behind it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was light gray with white trim, all sharp angles and expertly painted wood tiles. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A bun, which he had fashioned out of an un-even coif and tried to angle forward, did not hide the fact that his hairline was in full retreat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The water angled up and then dropped with a wave, and I saw it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His legs jut out from his body at right angles. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They fidgeted in their seats, subtly adjusting their grips on the oars, shifting their weight, adjusting angles, trying to keep their muscles from knotting up and freezing in place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The altar wobbled and threatened to overturn and the collection table sat at a rakish angle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Oomen was made like a scarecrow—not scrawny, but as if beneath his clothes, his body had been put together at wrong angles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In a rose garden, a rose is a rose because of geraniol, a 10-carbon compound, and it is the geometric conformation of atoms and their bond angles that determine the unique fragrance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ball ripped through his chestnut-colored hair, cut the skin, penetrated the skull, and because of the angle of Lincoln’s head at the moment of impact, made a diagonal tunnel through Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i’s. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His angle of vision for the new American nation was decidedly western. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Inigo had never seen a king bat, knew nothing of them; how fast were they, how did they come at you, at what angle, and how many made each charge? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A charred bundle of hay, still smoldering, leaned at a drunken angle against a pile of rocks, spitting distance from the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She had a special way of angling the mirror on the medicine cabinet door toward the mirror over the vanity so she could check herself from all angles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z If we examine the shadow of a cube in two dimensions, we notice that not all the lines appear equal, and not all the angles are right angles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been gold at first, but now I saw how they shone iridescently— like the rainbow colors you see on a soap bubble if you look at it from the right angle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The man just glared back, angled his body away from Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Her hull had settled on the marly bottom at a slight angle with the bow aiming upward. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z David angled closer and handed her a small bundle. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The combination of climate change and human hunting is particularly devastating for large animals, since it attacks them from different angles. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The one who taught me how to angle the blade beneath my chin when I shaved. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The bathtub had fallen partially through the floor, listing at an angle like a ship about to sink. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But need the angle of reflection be equal to the angle of incidence in any universe? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My marker squeaks as I write each huge red letter: D tipping forward, A leaning back, N shivery, C stretched tall, and the lines of E poking out at funny angles, the word itself dancing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose the strange angle of her smile was the result of the stroke, which is what had caused her to fall and break her hip. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But after closer investigation I found that I was lying on my stomach with my arm bent at a right angle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheriff Dean stepped to the side, studying Jinx from a different angle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The signs surrounding the triangle indicate that the altar should have one angle facing south. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His elbows jutted out at awkward angles as he lowered himself down onto the cool sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z How swift and brave and graceful in his long trousers with bicycle-clips around them and his scarlet school cap at a jaunty angle on his head! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Gently, I trace the end of it up her arm, over the sharp angle of her shoulder, slowly making my way to her neck. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Obviously, she says, the Nautilus had collided with something and then heeled over at a sharp angle . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He looked back at William, one eyebrow tilted at the old familiar angle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Sensing the problem, the ascent software angled the ship into the wind to counteract it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My days angled off Miss Kirwin’s class, dinner with Bailey and Mother, and drama and dance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie noticed how he put his feet down at an angle so that the whole foot was on the step instead of just the heel part. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Egypt is a yellow trapezoid with one right angle, and looks like the cornerstone of a pyramid. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The light was at an angle that glinted off his tiny spectacles, and I couldn’t see his eyes behind them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She leans over my bed and angles the jalousies open. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z For perhaps five seconds it was within the angle of Winston’s vision. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z On sidewalks turned to satin figures move shoulder first, the crowns of their heads angled shields against the light buckshot that the raindrops are. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked it up into a French twist and looked at myself from different angles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Out of angles to play, he gave up a name of a local gambler. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I reasoned that tightening the inner angles would allow the egg to handle a bigger impact.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He put on his boater with its wide black band before a mirror, to keep the angle shy of jaunty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have noticed that it fell at an angle, almost as if it were drawn to the draccus. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Several times he jerked upright, his neck aching because he had fallen asleep, slumped at an awkward angle against the side of the tent. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The nozzle was tricky, with its two internal angles that had to meet precisely to form the throat diameter I’d specified. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I held on by her flat hips, angling her and helping her to let me in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It should be the easiest, because I knew that strip angled against the Pacific better than any place in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rough-hewn,” some might have said, or even “thuggish” on account of his broken nose, which made a sharp angle in profile, and from the front skewed distinctly to the left. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Unlike the other constituents, they obeyed no simple-minded rules telling us the angles at which they would form their respective chemical bonds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The corpse was angled steeply into the muck, upside down, like a diver who had plunged headfirst off a high tower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Greenfield urged the boy to counter the parental arguments, to start looking at the situation from different angles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Aymo lay in the mud with the angle of the embankment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He pulled the corpse between them and tried to make him bend in half, but the man in black was so stiff Fezzik really had to perspire to get him at right angles. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Dad picked up a six-foot length of angle iron and handed me the end. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Adam tossed down his drink and poured another and rolled the glass at an angle in his hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The cavalcade, following the sweep of the drive, quickly turned the angle of the house, and I lost sight of it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The hands were extended, slightly off the horizontal at a faint angle, like a gull tilting into the wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His arm is now bent at an obscene angle, and we all hear a POP. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I started walking away from the barge at an angle to cut Louis off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Denna and I came at it from two different, unapproachable angles before we finally found a way in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He lifted Sophie’s picture and kept turning it, his eyes darting back and forth, as if he might steal something new from the shape of her face, another profile, an unwitnessed angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From the angle of the light streaming in through my bedroom window I can tell I have been sleeping a long time; it must be late afternoon, early evening. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It stopped against the curb, with its back end sticking out at a forty-five-degree angle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Dad had decided it was time to salvage the angle iron stacked all around the farm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Somebody is going to look up here, and if they are standing at the right angle, they’ll see me. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was a dangerous player who was always working an angle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He goes on to check the socket from all angles, making small marks on the plastic as we go over the pressure points. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He twitched once and lay motionless, his legs bent at unnatural angles, a pool of his blood soaking through the sand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When they finished stuffing the bread bag, Emily held up the concealed book, twisting it to view from all angles. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Thus imaginary numbers are in a sense numbers at right angles to ordinary real numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There, a birch tree angled out from the stone wall. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z You could tell from the heads angled his way. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z As he angled along the bottom, he searched the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It knew when to angle the ship so the ion engines would be aimed correctly. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been allowed to keep the angle iron, and it was now stacked—four hundred thousand pounds of it—in tangled mountains all over the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The hard angles of his face have the deep richness of a black calla lily. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z From whatever angle you approached them, they looked the same. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Besides, he had to hope no one had set due south, particularly at an angle to his own set. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After examining herself in the mirror from every angle she could manage without pulling a muscle, Penelope concluded that she was pleased. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He was a real hustler, too, always trying to cut a deal, work an angle. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Today races are filmed from multiple angles to ensure safe riding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She was crowned with braids and vines and what he first took for butterflies but quickly saw were orchids, with a single long white feather at a jaunty angle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s another village scene, and the camera is angled to show several women seated around a bonfire. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It had the sleek, aerodynamic design of a hunter, every angle purpose-built to reduce drag to the merest fraction. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It still sticks out at an unnatural angle and has a bump on the bone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The round had entered at a steep angle, smashing down through the hip and colon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhead the little man with the spyglass and the red breeches was swinging in the wind—observing Boston from a variety of angles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of them angled slightly away from each other for a better view of their flanks, in case something dangerous tried to sneak up on them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And she was wearing the fake diamond earrings she always wears that sparkle when the sun hits ’em at a certain angle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Frank studied the angle of the bolt in the mast and pointed toward the top of the cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My dad raised his beer bottle and angled it toward the light. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I’m investigating acute angles and their effect on impact. Mr. Neely said I could use it for my scientific process project.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He took his T-shirt off and stood to the helm, not sitting but standing with the tiller handle against his leg, the boat heeled over at a mild angle. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The foot on it was angled forward like a ballerina’s pointed toes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I saw a bullet-pocked sign half buried at an angle in a heap of debris. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “And this light,” he said, adjusting the angle of the pencil beam, “and that’s it.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I could see the window in an angle of the passage, the curtain blowing softly, backwards and forwards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I crept along the outer rim of the lava lake, hoping I could get a better angle to see what was happening in the middle. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Its outbuildings had caved in, and the privy stood at an angle. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Letters were multiplied by symbols, crowded into parentheses, and set upon by dwarfish numbers drawn at odd angles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The light hits at all the right angles, and when I look real deep, I am happy with the image of the girl in my head. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Madame says, “Really, Hubert, it’s gloomy as a graveyard in here,” but Marie-Laure ventures a bit farther, the soles of her shoes slipping, the floor angling down, and then her shoes touch water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We sat cross-legged on the floor and squinted at our scripts as we angled them toward the light under the curtain. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Bitter was clutching a brush between her fingers, her joints locked in angles that looked painful, her eyes partially closed and her mouth slightly open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The angle between i and the x-axis is 90 degrees. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The next chapter began with an N. An animal with a furry tail sat perched in the angle between the second and third strokes of the letter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When I saw that the smoke trail was angling off to the left of the tipple, I knew we’d escaped at least that particular disaster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Why go to the bother of drawing lines and angles inside a dot, if those patterns weren’t going to show up unless you enlarged the dot again and again and again? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He placed the responsibility for fashioning a suitable new vacuum chamber in Livingston’s hands, and then vanished from the laboratory to go “angling for funds and other support,” Livingston recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Is he simply working the Lover Boy angle he initiated at the interview? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The waiters have those soda jerk caps set at an angle, and the right haircuts, a close shave up the back of the neck. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From every angle there seemed to be someone throwing punches. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s spray-painted in red on the blank expanse of wall above the staircase leading to the second story—that large X with each arm continued at a right angle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It glints, throwing tiny shards of light as I make adjustments to the angle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The tunnel angles upward and there’s light at the end, and standing at its mouth, calmly reading a book, is a young man. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His neck twisted at a broken angle, a fleck of bloody foam on his lips. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “It depends on how you frame it. What's your angle, your thesis statement? What are you trying to say?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She plays this over and over in her mind, from one angle and then another, in bits and pieces like a torn photograph. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At first Kaede couldn’t understand why Con’s left leg was bent at such a strange angle, but as she walked the last few feet to him, she realized that his face was white with pain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I knew it was only shadow and the angle of the sun, but still it’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I tap the glass in front of me a few times, and the camera angle switches to one inside the building the invaders have just forced their way into. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His red hair sticks up at odd angles, and a bandage wrapped haphazardly around his bicep is stained with blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One second, barely nudged at the wrong angle, and it’s like all my months of physical therapy and recovery and carefulness have been erased. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When they took shortcuts down alleys and between restaurants, the beast leapt onto walls and rooftops, chasing them from impossible angles. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A street turned off at right angles, descending, and became a dirt road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Per her specifications, it was angled so not a hint of the mine could be seen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s very low today,” he said, and angled the machine to take another reading. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I kept working the shutter, getting angles we didn’t need, even though I’d long run out of film. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Addie is perched on the edge of her seat, projecting her upper body at a sharp angle. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The road, where it angled across the meadow, was just ahead, dazzling white in the open sunlight. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The shifting angle of a perfectly balanced leg. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It should have stood at a clean right angle to the main tower, but it was angled strangely, as if it had been hastily built. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Something in the shadows or the angle of the dim light told me that noon had come and gone, and afternoon, and that evening was coming behind the clouds. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Abandoning the well-worn path, he angled back and forth up the side of a wooded ridge. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We were to do our own navigating by measuring the angle between various stars and the horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It sloped at weird angles and was slimy with moisture. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z If he got the angle wrong he’d likely break his leg, but that would be only a minor problem that could be dealt with, and then at least he would be inside the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A Jesuit mathematician did the geometry calculations to determine the distance to a stockpile of gunpowder the Dutch had brought ashore and the angle of elevation at which the cannon should be set. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The subtle angle he’s leaning toward tells me that he favors his left. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They were less books than notebooks, filled with rambling transcriptions of his own internal conversations that ricocheted off one another at unpredictable angles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At John Street the road angled and became Main Street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kowalski picked up his presentation notes and angled out of his seat. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The angle of fight from the workpad caused one half of his face to be in shadow from the cot, the other in that pale blue glow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Her mother had lined the walls with tall mirrors so visitors could see the artifacts from all angles. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s shot from behind, and it’s strange to see myself from that angle. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The other headed outward, northward and angling toward the sea. she quoted from the next line of Shay’s note, and wondered how far north she was going. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Imagine that you can shine light at the cube from various angles and record the shadows that are formed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Over against the building, a large blue pipe ran up on an angle from the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Ron simply sat admiring it from every angle until the portrait hole opened, and Hermione came in, accompanied by Professor McGonagall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Straining his neck downwards at an uncomfortable angle, Ragear was able to get his teeth into the tough climbing rope. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Her body starts to sway, and her clasped hands rock beneath her chin until it seems she is all loose, swinging angles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, both Francis and I had the impression that the most satisfactory angle of rotation between two adjacent bases was between 30 and 40 degrees. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Somehow I landed facedown, which forced the antenna to a strongly oblique angle that put a lot of torque on the hole in the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On the field, Riefenstahl’s cameras moved slowly up and down the ranks of the boys, lenses angled slightly upward toward their faces. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then he held Tyger’s arm at an unnatural angle, with just enough leverage for it to hurt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They're snapping at each other as they move forward and back a few times, trying for the right angle to fit this couch through the entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I fly straight through the floating isles like a ghost, angling up to go as high as I can until I can’t get any farther from land. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Choosing a spot that was a couple feet above the rot, I cut at an angle so the rain wouldn’t set right on it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They must be working a completely different angle. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The hunter’s rifle is angled just so rests on the dead animal’s broad flank. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I threw my hands over my crotch and angled my body away from her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Well, there was this whole business about the stab wound and how it was made, the downward angle of it, you know? 3RD JUROR: Don’t tell me we’re gonna start with that. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The makeup rounds and fills out the sharp angles of my face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I pick it up and put it on, adjusting it so that it sits at a jaunty angle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Even worse, the uncomfortable impression arose that there were no obvious restrictions on the bond angles between several of the most important atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Besides the whole Sparkle angle, I'm psyched to do something outside of the shadow of my superstar brother. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It needs to be quickly retuned to transmit on multiple frequencies, the little doctor says, and it needs to be able to measure the angle of the transmissions it receives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I shove the stunner under the waistband of my jeans and climb onto a desk to get a better angle on the window. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But of the whole business there was one angle that bothered him; he should have gotten more money out of it; he should have planned it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a strange angle,” he said, laughing quietly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The way she holds her face, it’s like she always knows the best angles. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Above and behind, at various angles, workers pack sand into core molds, or hammer plugs into molds, or put casting boxes into the cupola furnace. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I considered them from every angle, pictured the treasure safe in them, and made my decision as morning came slowly on. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her golden nose quivered, tipped by a semicircle of black fur and two angled nostrils. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The camera people made Erlan and his brothers blow out the candles on their birthday cake three times, because they said they couldn’t get the angle right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The camera angle shifted in the video, zooming out, then zooming in again on a dark-haired man standing next to the Mom-who-wasn’t-Mom. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “We always see things from the same angle,” the boy continued. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Mark was finally catching his breath, and the four of them started running across the dusty yard, angling toward the street that would lead them back to the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His scabbard rippled like a spider’s leg, stuck out at a ridiculous angle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I brought some strap iron, Mr. Hamilton. Would you make some angles for me? The whole frame of my header bed is fallen to hell.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But he hesitated just enough to let the Phoenix goalie move out to cut off the angle. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It was the size of a small fishbowl, bright coral, with colored straws and paper parasols and bits of fruit sticking out of it at frenetic angles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He spread them by the fire on sticks angled into the sand and piled on more wood and went and sat by the boy again, smoothing his matted hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Pet angled its head, and she could almost see it thinking, matching, measuring. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Melissa was looking at her reflection from every angle she could. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Even if there is a knifelike slice in the sleeve over his shoulder, I can’t see it at this angle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I had coasted along the lower wall of the orchard—turned its angle: there was a gate just there, opening into the meadow, between two stone pillars crowned by stone balls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Dirt was in every corner, angle, crevice of the monstrous stove, and lived behind it in delirious communion with the corrupted wall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What most spectators had not realized was that the bridge ran across the estuary at a slight angle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m sure we were a shocking sight: our clothes were mud-splotched, our hair greasy and sticking up at odd angles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When they were aimed upward, they sent the wind at an angle around and through the rest of the aeroplane so the machine would go up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The illumination from the lamps accompanied the fading sunlight, while the slight angle of the lamplight created soft shadows across his subjects. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The gray windows of the house slanted at strange angles. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It was all a question of the angle and radii at which the DNA strands twisted about the central axis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z You can use a cross-staff, for example, to measure the angle between the horizon and the sun at midday. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When they finished stuffing the bread bag, Emily held up the concealed book, twisting it to view from all angles. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z An old black- and-white snapshot, a baby in a swing, wide angle, nobody else in the picture. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Her hover ladder stuttered to a stop, then shot sideways at a forty-five-degree angle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Petra held the phone at an angle so that Calder could hear, too. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Raising a number to the nth power multiplies its angle by n. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I could see Renfield’s figure just disappearing behind the angle of the house, so I ran after him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Within this angle there is a separate little neighborhood. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Later it was explained to me that each eye sees the same object from a slightly different angle, so that each eye has a slightly different picture. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her leg splayed out in an unnatural, bent angle. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Each time the ring was true, and already the curve of the metal was beginning to assume the proper angle. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was on a forlorn stone wall facing the mesarthium one, and the alley was too narrow for Lazlo to get an angle on it from a distance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He persists in asking Marie-Laure to run her fingers over it, to recognize different houses, the angles of streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It involved a glass test tube in a special holder, suspended over an angled mirror. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They came at him from every angle, wrestling for control of an arm or a leg, trying to get him to the floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no curves here, no trees; only angles, lines, squares, bricks and copper wires. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When she saw one photo taken at an unflattering angle, she examined it for a while and found in it a small and wicked pleasure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And yet we all gathered in Ma Charles’s living room while I angled for a better picture of the crowds gathered outside the launch pad down in Florida. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Sticks placed at different angles to the Sun’s rays cast shadows of different lengths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, and again, backing away, coming in closer, dropping to one knee, pretending I knew how to get good angles. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His joints are swollen and twisted in painful angles, and he's got a hacking cough that proves he spent years in the mines. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When I came out of the subway, Lenox Avenue seemed to careen away from me at a drunken angle, and I focused upon the teetering scene with wild, infant's eyes, my head throbbing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I speak the words into the dark, crowded angles of my folded arms and legs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z If this happened to the two wings of the aeroplane, the two sides of the aeroplane s wings would be presented at different angles to the wind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Laman throws down his library card from the loft and tells me get him two books, one on angling, one on gardening. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there’s some magic perspective inside the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Struggling to get the right angle, he was suddenly distracted. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer’s perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts. the marital, the medical, and sometimes both at once. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her cigarette was angled peculiarly between her fingers; it burned dangerously close to one of her knuckle grooves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She keeps her body angled away from the poster. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Madu appeared in Kainene’s house two weeks later, much taller-looking now because he had lost so much weight; the angles of his shoulder bones were visible through his white shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There are dozens of photos of Darren on the ground covered by police—from different angles. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I can see my reflection from all angles: the gray fabric obscuring the shape of my back, my long neck, my knobby-knuckled hands, red with a blood blush. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Its head stuck out at a right angle, and its eyes blinked fitfully. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The snake heads snapped at it from different angles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z If you looked at them from one angle, the threads were invisible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There was no doubt about it: Alexandra Finch Hancock was imposing from any angle; her behind was no less uncompromising than her front. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The snowflakes were bigger now, and they fell more heavily past Lizzie arid Turner, their sharp angles slicing into the bulky sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I mean, she literally turned her head to the side and looked me up and down, as if seeing me from the sideways angle would help her better see the lie. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She would poke at them, swiveling in the mirror to see them from every angle, running her hands down her new body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I sometimes dreamed about sine, cosine and tangent, about mysterious angles and concussed computations, but for all this I made no real progress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But coming on it now, from the water, with Lizzie stroking and angling her way to the point, Turner felt as if he was on the brink of a discovery. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I sat in between my mom and brother since my dad was off getting a better camera angle. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He walked fast, his body at a forty-five-degree angle to the ground, as if he was leaning into every step. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Here an angle is formed, the avenue and its streetcar tracks on one side, the river and levee and railroad tracks on the other. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he held his head at a different angle. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Billy Pilgrim was lying at an angle on the corner-brace, self-crucified, holding himself there with a blue and ivory claw hooked over the sill of the ventilator. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He angled the mare away from the fire, away from Petey, but only had to lift the reins and the mare knew to pause. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They crystallized in the bright air and hovered, twirled a bit to catch the light on their angles, and then waited for a breeze to waft them away. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Since his wife had read the letter from Abelman, her mind must have been working ov er the matter from every angle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Harris had waited until he was sure he was alone before angling the Swiss Army Knife from his pocket and cutting through his restraints. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The bombsight would then take over flying the plane, follow a precise path to the target, calculate the drop angle, and release the bombs at the optimal moment. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z If you are standing down the road, the cart is traveling at right angles to your line of sight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From this angle, Turner could not tell whether Willis’s nose was straight. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z From my angle I was a girl again, white belly, dark triangle, foreshortened legs shaved smooth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once armed and armored, Theon climbed die watch- tower at the angle where the eastern and southern walls came together to have a look at his doom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bees know enough geometry to make row after row of perfect hexagons, angles so accurate you’d think they used rulers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And again, just like Guantanamo, all prisoners could be seen by anyone, from any angle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The boxes were stacked crookedly, some stacks leaning into others, with only their opposing angles holding them steady. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His dark goggles angled in their direction, he yelled, “Take the camera and run! Whatever you do, don’t take any more pictures!” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There was charm, both in the color, which exactly matched her eyes, and in the angle, which made her face look dramatic instead of simply thin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If he sits at the right angle and cranes his head back, he can barely see. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The ship rocked violently as a wave took it from an unexpected angle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at Lindsey, who was standing on one foot, bent over the pool table at an absurdly awkward angle. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z When it is dark he sees that their images are reflected at an angle in the glass, hovering as if outside the train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mariam could hear the buzzing of a fly somewhere, could make out the outline of the cast-iron stove in the corner, its pipe jutting up, then making a sharp angle just below the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z One of his legs is bent at an odd angle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Miranda nodded, glancing at her reflection in one of the angled mirrors that lined the counter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I was working on S’meggs a little more and I added just a few tweaks. We didn’t test it from the height it’ll actually be dropped from, so I adjusted the angles a bit.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And between each object is a ninety-degree angle, so the circuit becomes a perfect square. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw everything and calculated all the angles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I noticed the way the roofs all sloped at the same angle on one street, then shifted to a different angle on the next. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Redemption dragged the bench over and levered half of it so it was at a right angle, a narrow L. Pet lifted Hibiscus easily with one hand and deposited him in the seat. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Enormous slabs of ice jutted out of the pack at all angles. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Mrs. Croft pressed her head at an angle against the cushion to get a better look. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They ought to have moved with the angle of the sun, but she was sure they were frozen in place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If we had leveled out with any more speed, or at any steeper an angle, we would have totaled, or even flipped. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She shakes the pan to loosen the crepe, then angles it downward and swoops it in a circle. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z "The U-2 required very little runway for takeoff; a thousand feet would suffice. Within moments...you could begin climbing—at better than a forty-five-degree angle." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And when Mini angled the compact to reflect the portraits of screaming women, the paintings revealed something very different: skulls. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Bengalis like Masjid learn early how to save ten minutes' worth of words by raising an eyebrow, wrinkling a nose, or tipping a head at a specific angle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nora wore a black hat full of sharp thin feathers that corresponded to the sharp thin angles of her face. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Viewed from a certain angle, there was a kind of artistry to it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The line representing fixed costs was flat, and the one representing variable costs angled upward. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She then bent each piece of the rod into several sharp angles, leaving tiny cuts on her hands as she did so. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Dimarion isn’t a man for bygones. Do you think he’s angling for a fight?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “She thinks you’re one of the bombers,” Frankie said from behind her, and she angled so she could look back and forth among all three boys facing her, even as she wanted to scream. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He took a half step, angling himself between me and what was coming. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I gazed at my image in the mirror from different angles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Reynie, because of the unfortunate angle of his neck and the weight of Constance upon it, was only able to see a bit of floor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d start talking about angles and load-bearing joints until my eyes glazed over. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And on the pyre, his legs trapped among books and flaming logs, his torso slumped over at a gruesome angle, the body of Michelangelo di Bologna burned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Everywhere she set up cameras, Riefenstahl made sure she had the most flattering angles, generally cast upward, for filming the ultimate stars of the show, Adolf Hitler and his entourage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He slouched down in the driver’s seat, angling the rearview mirror to give him a view down the alley to the street in front of the building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Just in case Dad was called out by the black phone, I angled away into the trees so he wouldn’t see me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 I move it this way and that, viewing it from different angles, covering portions and then revealing them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I adjust the blade’s angle to maximize side-to-side damage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He examined the Plant from this angle and that. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The press was there, of course—craning to get a view of Sasha, like paparazzi angling for a shot of the royal family. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We all talked about S’meggs, then Twig talked about velocity and Dari talked about angles. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It angled slightly over in the direction of what we called Rocket Mountain and kept climbing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I practice drawing perspective, angling the lines of the corridor narrower with each door to pass. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Tied, and stripped of its main and jib sails, the dinghy floated at a perfect right angle away from the far end of the pier. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with yellowed clippings from the local paper, angling competitions, soap box derbies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Now, there are 60 minutes of arc in an angular degree, and 90 degrees, a right angle, from the horizon to the zenith. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The thick mustache with twisted ends accentuated the sharp angles of his cheekbones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After she had offered the challenge, all he could think about was learning in school how shark teeth angled inward so fish could swim in but not out. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was dead low water now, and the ship was heeled at an angle, the propeller showing clean. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He was jumpy and quick, all sharp angles and sudden movements. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She kept turning at right angles and having to fight her way back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A kerosene lantern flickered orange in the window of Hatsue’s home, her door stood open, ajar ten inches, and an angle of lantern light spilled across her porch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Look at the concentration in her face, judging the angle, never fudging a shot, taking each nettle with inhuman precision. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The extra space allowed her to examine the star chart from various angles, which was exactly what she was doing at eight o’clock Saturday morning after nudging her sister out of bed. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When he’d put some distance behind him, he angled toward a brick restroom building, hoping to duck behind it and hide. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Dim light comes at a cautious angle from the bathroom farther down the hall. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He pulled on his gloves, removed the shroud of blankets from Carl Heine, and then, methodically, using angled scissors, cut away the rubber bib overalls, dropping pieces of them in a canvas bin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Each afternoon Mrs. Sen lifted the blade and locked it into place, so that it met the base at an angle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Dumbledore’s eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms and legs, he might have been sleeping. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Both of his forearms are bent at nauseating angles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Juanita tore the map out of my hands and flipped it around looking at it from all angles. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The eyases crouched against each other, holding their feathers at slight angles that shed the water in rivulets. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Near the top of the ridge, I paused and angled into the trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Pale bodies—human bodies, but mangled, arms bent at odd angles, too-wide mouths with needle teeth, empty eye sockets—topple into my bedroom, one after the other, and scramble to their feet, scramble toward me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The Prospector had a big flat surface about four feet high and six feet wide, and it rose up in the air at an angle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Once out of my suit, I did some practice navigating, finding several stars and measuring the angle between them and the earth’s horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sketching in the air, I do the living room: a deep, sunken green, and a school of shad angles toward the landing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He moves away from the wall, bends his knees, angles the camera. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He tried to peer toward the front of the train as it approached the West Oakland station, but the angle was wrong. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In math I spent the entire time thinking about how Momly's arm was probably at an obtuse angle when it broke. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Besides the Jesus angle, she was probably happy to believe that Dill was excited about something again. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My arms tremble as I hold the scythe up in the ready position: vicious curved blade pointing down, body-length handle at an angle across my chest. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said Isa dreamily, admiring herself from different angles in the mirror, her impeccable posture making her look stage-ready for Carnegie Hall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I would have put some stitches in it myself, but I couldn’t get a good angle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But before he could strike again, a guard grabbed him, pulling him away with a force that yanked his shoulder back at an unnatural angle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There is a body on the pavement below us; a girl, her arms and legs bent at awkward angles, her hair spread in a fan around her head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The book had clippings, cut out in ninety-degree angles as square and true as in an architectural rendering, of every story written about the Permian team that year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She crawled forward and then at a perpendicular angle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I beheld Richard Parker from the angle that showed him off to greatest effect: from the back, half raised, with his head turned. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This was graffiti, scrawled at all angles and in different sizes, the lines overlapping each other, as if the writer had been so filled with fury he couldn't stop himself from attacking the metal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It’s the same symbol, same color, same right angles. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z "You think he's angling for a share of the reward, Billy?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The streets looked unfamiliar in the dark, as though I was seeing the buildings from a different angle for the first time. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “When you took a question to him,” one student remembered, “he would spend hours—until midnight perhaps—exploring every angle with you.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I curled the two ends outward, so when the coat hanger was around my head, the ends angled away from my face and formed hooks to hold the rubber band in place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If she went to sleep in a magical position, knees crooked just right, head at a magical angle, fingers all crossed one over the other, in the morning she would be a boy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, the thick lenses magnify Lolo’s eyes, so they look really big and green from some angles. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He lay at an angle in the door opening. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The harpsichord plucks along, the violins make big baroque flourishes—the low, angled space of the attic brims with sound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I move to the left—careful not to slip in the water, my feet angling on the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Elsewhere teams of slaves were raising ramps of stone and sand beneath their mangonels and scorpions, angling them upward at the sky, the better to defend the camp should the black dragon return. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even from that distance we could see the terrible angle of his neck, the shoe turned the wrong way, the trickle of blood from nose and mouth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The aeroplane had no solid body; it was only an empty frame about twenty feet long, four feet high in front and angling up in back to only about a foot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z One fork of the dead tree angled up. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Once they had passed a certain point it created a difficult angle for the defenders on the wall to fire at them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ethan, who never said much, had a lot to say about the camera angles and background music and described the star's performance as subtle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z How familiar the village looked, even from this strange new angle! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z No angles angels showed up in the sky, and nobody sang any pretty carols. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She was out in the corridor, standing very still, her head angled to one side to give her a view of what I was doing inside. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seen pictures of the Azadi Tower, and it was stunning—gleaming white angles intertwining into a tall edifice, with intricate latticework that made me think of The Lord of the Rings. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But then one of the kids in the group saw the weird angles in the flowering chasm that floated holographically around us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He set his hat at a jaunty angle and raised his hand good-bye. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They even had it from multiple angles: Me and Teddy reaching through the gate. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But there was nothing; her laughter softened the angles of her chin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Brown dust engulfed the plane as we slid down the field that angled out to the right. Both the swift turn and the thick soil slowed the plane, and we came to a jerky stop.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She angled her face this way and that. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He held the oaken staff and its brass cross angled ahead of him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two long panes of chest-high, dirty, gray-tinted Plexiglas lean against each other at an acute angle, held up on the other side by the wooden wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The path toward Pol was clear at last, and Kaede saw that the guard’s neck was bent at an unnatural angle, and his left thigh had been torn into a mass of bloody flesh. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Every night, after locking my bedroom door, I angled my desk lamp just so and began to count the hairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Eager for some kind of human interest angle, Meryl quizzed her about her career high points, her Quaker ancestors, and her Riverbank years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Of all times he had wondered about the mute to neglect such an angle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z If the blade entered the water at any angle other than ninety degrees, the amount of power generated by the subsequent stroke would be compromised and the efficiency of the whole boat reduced. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Meg picks up the centerpiece and examines it from every angle. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Jake recited the clues, editing out words like stone pillars, fire pit, and pirate’s treasure—keeping it all very geometry-ish, with points and angles and lines. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z After picking up additional passengers, the train slipped into a tunnel that angled downward. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z That first day, the words were merely sounds in the air, broken like shards of glass, beautiful from a certain angle and jagged from another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I saw I was fishing on a wrong angle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were so far up, and at such an angle, that nobody below could possibly see them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The longest stretch, atop the hillside, runs roughly parallel to the riverbank, a few hundred feet below; extensions at either end angle down the hillside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He grew thin and gaunt, and the angles and bones of his face and hands jutted like sharp peaks from beneath his skin. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to point it at his chest, but at this angle all I have is his back, and a bullet in the back could go straight through him and into Alyssa. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We both tiptoed down the hall to the living room and found Mama angling the jalousie just so. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept spinning the ball, hitting it soft, angling it sharply; he played what is commonly called “junk tennis.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly it was the old pleasure that he always derived from mastering new tools and solving practical problems—working out the angles and planes at which the cedar would or wouldn’t cleave cleanly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The workpad’s screen had been destroyed, the entire flat panel of the device bent at a weird angle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I slide back, angle my torso, and the foil tip slips right by me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He pulled the silver cuff off and held it at a different angle to let its polished exterior shine. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The next day Gogol sees his mother sitting in an angled bed, a plastic bracelet around her wrist, her stomach no longer as hard and round. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The girl increased the angle between the receiver and her ear. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z There were angles and bumps and bends everywhere, but none big enough to conceal me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Pearl stayed just as she was, staring up at the half-clouded sky, and Mia leaned out almost to the waist, angling for the right shot. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When he reached the car, the figure doffed his cap and recited in a loud clear voice: “My angles are many. My sides are not few. I’m the Dodecahedron. Who are you?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Angle down to the left, then turn and angle down to the right. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z With the women strapped to tilt tables with their heads angled down at 65 degrees, a cardiologist checked their heart functions as an electrocardiogram recorded information every five minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “You are right. I was looking from a different angle.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We can imagine generating a cube in the following way: Take a line segment of a certain length and move it an equal length at right angles to itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She could lie in her cot and tell the time of day by the angle of sunlight pouring through the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As though he is about to ride in some black chariot at a forty-five-degree angle down into the abyss. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Beat-up cars sat at odd angles out front, as if people had jumped from them without parking. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Some of the tines were snapped off, and others were bent at sharp angles. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z From the angle Pez is holding the phone, he can see Wales rolling by though the car window, dramatic and plunging. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I walk back into the room to give it another look from another angle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Its face was as solid as a mask, the interlocked feathers unmoving, yet the way it moved its head, those small angles, they communicated a world. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He's standing at an angle where he can see Alicia as she talks. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They also contained patterns of their own, intricately drawn lines and angles. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The road angled up to the plateau, cutting a line through more tall houses and shops. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And from all angles, from in front and behind, came the wailing sound of sirens. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The car is at an angle, and I feel like I’m on a carnival ride that got stuck. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “It is the angle we’re looking from and nothing more,” said the Sicilian. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Well, by definition, i2 = –1—a point whose angle is 180 degrees from the x-axis; the angle has doubled. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t get a big head or anything,” Adria said, angling her straw to get the last sip of her smoothie. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That night Keeler had his turn at hearing about the moon and trying to check the angle of Polaris. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I love the rebound, boxing out, figuring angles and positioning myself, willing the ball into my hands. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He turned slowly, his arms spread out so I could admire his new suit from all angles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The angle would allow them to throw farther, if not as far out into the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In uniform circular motion, an equal angle or fraction of the arc of a circle is covered in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes—when the angle is right and Shoji doesn't notice I'm looking at him—I can see our dad and none of our mom at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There are scores and scores of his versions scattered about the room, myriad trunks of him, thistling branches, specied and catalogued, a thousand stills of him from every possible angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The meridians are perpendicular to the parallels on the surface of the globe; that is, they meet at right angles, or ninety degrees. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I moved my chair back, pretending I was searching for the right angle. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They lay in the grass, their foreheads almost touching, their bodies stretched away from each other at a 180-degree angle. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I think about Understanding Our Universe, of its diagram of the sun’s rays angled in the evenings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Changing his angle and looking closer, he saw the rock behind which Lyra was lying. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He took the red straps to his anvil and punched screw holes in them and bent the angles with his hammer and the forked sparks leaped out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I change the angle of the knife, turning it so it’s against his neck. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I just hoped it was the angle of the sun which was causing the rough appearance. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And more, was this all some elaborate ritual to get an angle on me? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My dad has bruises on his face, and he stands with his shoulders slightly slumped; he’s holding his right arm up at a weird angle. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z By comparing what the two observers see, it is possible to measure an angle—called parallax. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their angles had prevented their seeing that particular fissure in the rocks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing the uniform of the Guardians, but his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing his forearms, tanned but with a stipple of dark hairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to contradict a goddess—it seemed like an exceptionally bad idea at every angle—but in this, he couldn’t think of another possibility. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Move the square an equal length at right angles to itself, and we have a cube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each solar cell is on a lightweight lattice that holds it at a 14-degree angle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From this angle the pedestrians appear squashed from above, like deformed children. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There were two windows, but they were small and so high up that you could only see the sky, and you could only see the sky if you angled your head just right. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The body of Dragonwings swung back and forth drunkenly and then hung at an odd angle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit’s temperamental outburst had left him hopelessly beaten, but as Pollard angled him into the stretch and asked him to get his mind back on running, Smith witnessed something he would never forget. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We think they don't have eyes, but they see the angle of the sun and the rise of the moon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Small, piercing lights come at me from all angles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Beneath it, the bell tower angled down to the clapboard front and granite steps, hewn a hundred years ago by the first congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z When Ophie had begged him to stay, he’d taken the arm of a pretty white lady and walked away, his hat at a jaunty angle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared on the platform before them, his cigarette holder angled jauntily upward, the crowd roared its welcome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were all hard angles and harsh tones, and he soon felt his tongue stick to the roof of his mouth, everything dry once more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The glare off the windshield made it difficult to see well, but the two torsos angled their way were clear enough. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He touched the sharp angle of his nose. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The rover was made for traversing extremely rugged terrain, often at steep angles. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can your illusions be viewed from all angles?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He drew me against him and angled the shochet’s knife across my throat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With a quick glance to make sure the bridge, path, and shore were still deserted, he switched the light on again and angled it against the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure the journal isn’t quite at the angle I left it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The right leg was only three-quarters as long as it should have been and had a small foot bent forward at a very strange angle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In the arena, I’d played that romance angle for all it was worth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It did not dive, but the nose went down slightly and the down-angle increased the speed, and he knew that at this angle, this slight angle down, he would ultimately fly into the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He glances at Ms. Lionel at the library desk, and she looks up at that moment, her face in its typical pose: angled, with one eyebrow raised in perpetual curiosity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He’s got bushy red whiskers and orange-red hair, sticking up at crazy angles from his scalp. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z First I whittled an angle on one end of the twig. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Father gripped the frame of the wing tighdy with his left hand and pulled back sharply with his right, so that the front rudders angled skyward. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Is this what I’d been angling for, with my notions of rescue? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The bow tilted up at a horrifying angle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Some of the men prepared to jump as the ship leaned onto its side, but Endurance came to rest at an angle of thirty degrees to port. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Unwilling to remove an inch off it, Mom made us wedge it against the ceiling at an angle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Like I said—let me get back to you guys. I’m workin’ on a few angles of my own. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We had to dive into the earth’s atmosphere at precisely the right angle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I replayed every interaction in my head, analyzing them from all angles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sissy had to listen, to go through again all she had gone through with Johnny, only this time from Katie’s angle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The net got snared on the array of spikes jutting out at all angles from the tail, and now it was tangled front and back. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He’d taken the picture in the crisp morning light, looking down from a steep hill as the street shot down at a nearly ninety-degree angle, stopping at the sparkling waters of the San Francisco Bay. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A helicopter hovered over the far end of the field, tilted at a crazy angle, and then flew off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Milky Way, a vast celestial river in Andean cosmology, crosses the Peruvian sky at an angle of about twenty-eight degrees to the earth’s orbit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He gets the claw going and surveys the case from all angles—crouches, tiptoes, shifts left, shifts right, adjusts the claw, rinse and repeat—and hits the button. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The light from Seed Collector reflected and rebounded off the million angles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As a photographer positioned everyone for the best angle, the foundation’s director pushed me forward. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z His usually straight nose had tilted to a crooked angle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z All the photos on this page are taken at an angle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I got the first cut, but again, when I started cutting the interior angle, the bar worked its way out of the jig, and the tool dug in and broke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Because of the way the house was settling on the eroding hillside, the floors and ceilings and windows tilted at different angles. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He may have used generalities, “What if a boy got in a fight...” to keep all the angles open until he’d investigated every single one. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then there came an iron thunk against the goal post, which bent at a sudden angle around Doug Swieteck’s brother’s head. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But then my scratching hands find it, the memory of my mother’s face, and the strange angles of her limbs on the pavement, and the blood seeping from my father’s body. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The strange metal of his namesake clings to him from forehead to jaw like silver paint, revealing every feature of his face, from the thin eyebrows to the hard angles of his cheekbones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I thought about the situation from all different angles and in all different ways. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Gatlinburg is a shock to the system from whichever angle you survey it, but never more so than when you descend upon it from a spell of moist, grubby isolation in the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Selling slowly evolved into hustling because Sizwe saw all the angles and knew how to exploit them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He is running as camera looks from high angle, and we can no longer distinguish STEVE. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Faint twilight angles through smoke and shutter slats in hazy red stripes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If I angled myself a certain way, I could trace the coastline and glimpse a narrow seam of the South Side with its low-rise rooftops and intermittent stands of trees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He stared at the worksheet, supposedly remedial, and tried to wrap his mind around the shapes and angles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We reach the end of the path and stand at the bottom of the chasm, where the rocks form unsteady ground, rising up at harsh angles from the rushing water. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Change the angle of your wings,” said his mother. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A single shot from Mr. Flux’s camera could freeze them all, so Otto made sure to approach the clock tower from an angle where they couldn’t be seen from some high window, easy targets. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Using some vertically plumb object continued . at Alexandria on the day of the solstice, he measured angle a, and therefore angle P, at 7.2 degrees. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Well, my journal was starting to look like some kind of weird origami factory, with page after page folded on different angles and edges sticking out all over the place. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Four judges walked around and around the table, looking at them from all angles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind, however, was gusting erratically out of the west, quartering across the racecourse at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, pushing in bursts and fits at the starboard side of the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He nails two pieces of wood at right angles, with another nail for the trigger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her face was all angles and light, with fawnlike dark brown eyes, a straight nose, full lips painted just a shade pinker than their natural color. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The way it was angled in the fork, it seemed to be on display, for their benefit or enlightenment: this is a leg. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Not like mine, which poke out at all the wrong angles in places. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Four cars had been abandoned at haphazard angles along Hill Street, and one near the intersection of Hill and Ericksen had slid into a parked pickup truck, crumpling the driver’s-side rear panel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It stuck up at a jaunty angle, refusing to come out. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There are even more now than last Monday, following the angle of my eyebrows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The man played and went on, Ben keeping pace with him until the fence turned at right angles, and he clung to the fence, watching the people move on and away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z From one angle, he might look like lichen or moss; but from another, he was as stunning as a phoenix, his coat sliding from gold to silver to fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That there, the angling of the antenna, is how I'll know if it linked up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In one of the suitcase’s inner pockets was a black ceramic bird, its yellow beak angled up and open. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z O’Dell leaned back at an acute angle and shoveled a little sugar in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time the sun angled low enough to slant its rays under the citadel’s outspread wings, it had gone beyond the edge of the Cusp, and only traded one shadow for another. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Maxine teaches him how to paddle properly, angling the oar and drawing it back through the still, gray water. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He went straight ahead, at right angles to the stream and away from it, through the trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It was only by holding my hands at a certain angle in the sunlight that I could even see them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad in the chair, his head bent at a painful-looking angle, his mouth wide open. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It had been bandaged into a ninety-degree angle as if she were perpetually waving to an unseen crowd. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Doc opened a bottle and poured gently into a glass, holding it at an angle so that very little collar rose to the top. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Below his knee, his leg bones had been broken, and they had knitted back together at an odd angle. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Man in the White Shirt angled towards them. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Every photo is taken from an angle facing away from his wounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z His voice was thin, and he held his fierce lunatic head at an angle of bizarre arrogance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The door was angled, so I felt certain that Mai couldn't see me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Heavy branches stretched out almost at right angles to the thick trunks and gave Nhamo the idea of making a platform. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For about twenty seconds he measured up the angles, breathing through his nose. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Well, I was looking up at you. This angle would be different,” I said, observing him. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I noticed that he no longer angled the chair to sit as far from me as the desk would allow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z So that's what makes you so cocky, I thought, seeing now how the light struck him at an angle and made a wedge-shaped shadow beneath his nose. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He got a perfect kiss on the black, sending it into the corner with the white spinning back for a good angle on the yellow. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Could you use those tools to trisect an angle? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His truck was parked at a wild angle on the gravel patch, but all the lights were off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z His fingertips didn’t even reach the tips, which kept folding at uncomfortable angles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Soon the path reached a rounded angle where the mountain-side swelled out again, and there it suddenly entered a narrow opening in the rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We've come to an intersection where three streets cross each other, veining off at odd angles so that the sightline cuts off after less than twenty-five meters. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Eighteen years earlier, crossing a street in Cambridge, he had been hit by a car, and the surgically repaired leg canted out at a slight angle, making his gait a little awkward. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If the angle was almost overhead, I knew it was around noon. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She craned her neck to investigate the possibilities of a clump of bushes to the right and then withdrew farther to obtain a better angle for viewing its dark recesses. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Javier arrives before dawn in an unraveling tweed suit, his face sunken to flat angles, and collapses on his mother’s back porch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z George’s fingers are bent at harsh angles into Amar’s shirt, the knuckles white with tension. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Her posture was ramrod straight; her back at a perfect right angle with the ground. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But he kept himself rigid, held himself at an angle so as to not get too close. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In an angle formed by a projecting house front three men were standing very close together, the middle one of them holding a folded-up newspaper which the other two were studying over his shoulders. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She had a delicate, chiseled face, black eyebrows angled like a soaring seagull’s wings, a small straight nose and luminous, nut- brown skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether any one spot on its surface was hot or cold depended on its angle to the sun. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, each in an angle of the great tree’s roots, they curled up in their cloaks and blankets, and were soon fast asleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Each locker has slats, which are angled upward. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her dark hair was down around her shoulders and curling with the humidity, but her skin still looked as though it had been pulled taut over the sharp angles of her face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The cross-staff is merely one of a series of instruments, such as the quadrant and the sextant, designed for measuring angles by taking sightings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was disoriented, as though my world were blurred and leaning to the left, like a photograph snapped from a twisted angle and out of focus. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dri was as far away from me as she could get, at the last part of the log before it started to angle underwater. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I just stood there while it did most of the work, blasting me from all angles with jets of soapy water, then rinsing me off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A diminutive boy in a wrapper of what looks like birch bark, his wild hair sticking up at odd angles, walks to the dais. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I saw an arm sticking up from the mound of rubble and the hand was twisted at an impossible angle from the wrist. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange because it was circumscribed, because it was concentrated on a angle intention. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly my friends are on the screen, waving, angling for face time, hamming it up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Her body was all sharp angles, but there was a softness in her eyes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He stood up and walked over to the window on the other side of the train, as if he might be able to see the problem from that angle. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Wright gave the photo one last long look, then set it back on the mantel and angled it carefully, wiped a speck of dust from the glass. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He cannot see her view—the angle of his vision, the slant of her finger, makes it incomprehensible to him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She took the blow this time, angling her staff so he hit the bottom half. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But, the thing is, no matter how much time my thumbs and I spend with the curves of imaginary women, I am much more in love with the right angles of buildings. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He has big floppy curls that soften the angles of his face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I figured out that each angle has to be about 51 degrees to have seven equal pie pieces. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Kaisha had her phone out and was snapping photos from multiple angles. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But a couple of them were really close to the ship, busy doing something, though Mark didn’t have a good enough angle to see what. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Dicey looked at the back of his round little head, where the yellow hair stood out at crazy angles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The world seemed askew somehow; the shadows fell in the wrong places here, or perhaps her eyes simply weren’t accustomed to the angles in the buildings and streets. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I hadn’t noticed the sharp angles that made up her nose and chin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We seemed to be angling down, heading deeper underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The light from outside was cut into strange strips, weird angles, by the cheap lumber somebody had used to do a half-assed board-up job of the windows. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Pete’s neck broke instantly; his head rested at an awkward angle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadows leaned at angles I had not seen before. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He angled another dish into the dishwasher and chuckled. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z From the outside it looked like an oversized cottage, all wood and peaks and log pillars holding up odd angles and juts. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The sun, falling in the west, to the left of the Chevy, snuck into the car at an insidious angle, causing Reggie to squint. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He watched her from all angles of the room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Her brows black and drawn in an angle of defiance. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The two huge machines faced each other, with their tall metal booms stretched out at an angle, like two medieval horsemen with their long swords tipped forward. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z When I turn back, Jason’s coming up behind me, his fingers resting in sharp angles on his communication book, his eyes fixed on the water. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have to see his eyes to know he’s taking my measure, checking the angle of my scim, scrutinizing the fit of my armor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The floor, consisting of narrow planks of treated wood, was flat and the vertical sides of the buoyancy tanks were at right angles to it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the angle of the light or something in the way the face spread out with the smile, but Bull caught a glimpse of a crooked nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their bodies were splayed out at odd angles amidst candy wrappers and empty beer bottles. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z From her angle of view in the tree, Mrs. Frisby could see only the top of this trench, and not down into the bottom. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Its polished bronze doors shimmered like a hologram, so that from different angles lightning bolts seemed to streak across them. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z That is, the force driving the pieces of plutonium together had to be exactly the same from every angle. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time I was kneeling and I’d sort of tipped forward, and my head was at a horrible angle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Mr. Reilly liked them. I discovered that by painting the house face-on, instead of at an angle, I can create this really cool feeling of desolation and vacancy.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Actually, it was more like a crazed belly-flop, and all the air was sucked out of me as I hit the water at a funny angle. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He licked his lips and turned his head at an angle, so that his gaze avoided the embarrassment of linking with another's eye. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Imagine colorful wooden doors in odd shapes and windows at wonky angles embedded into the rock. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They speak different things just by the faintest of angles. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Ben drew the ranch from different angles: front, back, up high, down low. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z A glance at his emaciated body,jutting out at harsh angles from under the sheets, testified to the contrary. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Obinze had always been struck by how important it was to her to be a wholesomely agreeable person, to have no sharp angles sticking out. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She angles her body toward us and folds her hands in front of her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The tent is enormous, as tall as the sky and supported by long, straight poles jutting at various angles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The bus had two couches set up at a right angle, with a coffee table in the center “for drinks and feet.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z After climbing eastward for some time it bent back upon itself at a sharp angle and went westward for a space. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Dad reached over and picked up the spirometer and started inspecting it from every angle. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He stood at an angle that only allowed sight of the beast’s action, not the result. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Measure the length of the baseline between you and me and the angles of our two corners and the rest can be simply calculated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z With sudden energy, he thrust out his chin at an angle. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The dessert-truck angle was my idea, our way to remember Lolo. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The packets leaned against each other at angles and lay in untidy stacks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I moved to a water-stained patch of concrete floor directly beneath the hole in the ceiling, sat down cross-legged, and angled my body so the light shone upon the book. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It's brown and straight, and it's cut on an angle so it grazes the jawline on both sides of her face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But from here, the high angle gives us a clear view. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z This one was bigger than most, with the jagged angles and uneven limbs that were Leen’s signature, since she built most of her machines out of whatever found junk she got her hands on. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Its long, slender legs were stuck out at odd angles where it had fallen and its mane was spread pearly-white on the dark leaves. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z If the angle was too shallow, we might skip back out of the atmosphere and miss the earth entirely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She frowned and walked around it, inspecting the weaving from every angle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "The game is up," says Duke, his head angled heroically. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Pong picked it up and stuck it out between the bars, angling for the peg on the wall. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z For one thing, I was certain its body of knowledge concerning plane curves, angles, and polygons would help me design my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The men had to sit awkwardly on crates and packing cases in order to dig their oars into the water at the proper angle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His face was all angles, with a sharp, pointed nose and a triangular chin covered with stubble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Fifty yards into the clearing, about halfway to the hut, a massive oak tree jutted from the ground at a forty-five-degree angle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The walls would each be over two hundred feet long, and come together at a slight angle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Henry,” said the first Lisa, leaning forward and jamming out her half-smoked Vantage so it crooked at a right angle in the ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There were cut lashings of net twine visible there, loose ends dangling, ten or twenty figure eights, cut through cleanly on an angle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z With the changing angle, Marco appears almost solid one moment, and transparent again the next. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He turned toward his car, which was parked at a haphazard angle in front of our house. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z There was a broken spear in his belly, and his furry goat legs were twisted at a painful angle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The flash left Mr. Flux stuck in his sprinter’s pose, arms at runner’s angles, one knee high. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn’t belong in these parts. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But for a real tesseract, in four dimensions, all the lines would be of equal length and all the angles would be right angles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her handwriting was large and lovely, although it ran at a crooked angle down the page. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Deemer angling to cut him off. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He was wearing track shorts; his legs were spread in front of him in a forty-five-degree angle, so he was taking two-thirds of the seat. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He did not stir, but remained exactly where he had fallen, with his left arm bent out at an awkward angle and his mouth gaping. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was only the face of the guard, his M-16 by his side, the floodlights coming from every angle, illuminating the faces of Zeitoun’s fellow prisoners, all drawn, exhausted, half-mad with fatigue and confusion. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She jumps out of bed and goes straight to the mirror again, examining herself from all angles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I’ve studied the Texas problem from many angles and for many years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling was low and angled, but moonlight streamed in from a high window covered by slatted shutters at the far end of the hall, and there was just enough light to see. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Watch closely: Lefty, setting his derby at a rakish angle, walks down the sloping streets of Bursa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The robots, dwarfed by the mighty L-tube, lined up before it, heads bowed at a stiff angle, while Cutie walked up and down the line slowly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The gaslight burned harsh on Frankie’s face, stoking a fire in his tawny eyes and carving his features into cruel angles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Alternatively, at night, you could measure latitude directly by measuring the angle between the horizon and the Pole Star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The window blinds were kept at an angle exactly as I liked them. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Measuring angles amounted to eyeballing shadows on a compass, which might do for gross approximation but could not yield very accurate results. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It's a right angle in a pressure vessel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were so many sharp needle points sticking out at unexpected angles that it was like juggling a porcupine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z From certain angles, she looked a bit like a large, good-tempered toad. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “It’s a possibility. We have to consider every angle.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The knife struck his collarbone and angled off to his shoulder. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She angled the face so it reflected sunlight onto the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A piece of decorative wood paneling was peeling off and hanging at an odd angle. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The far wall, like her far wall, sloped to make the roof outside, and inside a perfect angle for his hawk eye stickers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In contrast, an angle either twice as large or twice as small looked incompatible with the relevant bond angles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He noticed his right arm was sticking out at a weird angle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The logs crossed each other at slight angles. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a whirlwind, dark and swift, and in the middle of it a gentle oval-shaped stillness, shaped like a bicycle wheel seen from an angle: the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been compensating for it by aiming our rockets at a small angle against whatever direction the wind was coming. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We walk around one of the plates on the right side to the back of the stage, which rises at an angle from the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Above the stove was a mirror, angled so that people sitting in the audience could view the top of the range. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z By the time Cole paused to catch his breath, he found himself outside the bay, angling toward the next island, maybe a mile away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The slope lengthened until a new balance point was reached, one defined by the complex interactions of countless tiny particles and their ability to maintain an angled shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She examined it from several angles before washing the pane, thoroughly. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We angled down toward a giant marina, where more yachts of weird shapes and sizes floated. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Only the man’s awkward angle and the height of their nests had kept them alive so far. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In one way, fishing these creeks required finesse; in another way there was nothing even remotely connected to the fine art of trout fishing about this angling process. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It almost makes me want to draw a pink triangle and then measure the angles and sides and figure out the functions. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She walked to the cage, peered in; then she circled around it, viewing the goat from every angle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Brit-Brat's craziness reminded me so much of Cotton's, jumping around, clapping, telling me to make sure I'm getting good angles with the phone. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z He found the opening in the rock formation but could not enter it from that angle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With trig under our belt, all we would need to do was build some instruments to measure angles and we would be able to calculate how high our rockets flew. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “How do I look?” said Hepzibah, turning her head to admire the various angles of her face in the mirror. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But the scenes continued to play in my mind: The severely angled deck. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He thought it gave him a rakish daring look, especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Great black pig-iron pipes a man could crawl through small, bright brass pipes no bigger around than your thumb There was a vast network of stone tunnels, branching and connecting at odd angles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then she broke open one of those sterile packets that needles come in and took out a truly large one, which was bent in the middle at a ninety-degree angle. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Since 1990, when Dr. Strayer had begun digging into the issue of driving and attention/distraction, he’d studied the subject from numerous angles, amassing a host of papers on various nuances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was a small postern-door that opened in an angle of the burg-wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Some hung at weird angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Joanna was advising us, coaching us on how to find good angles. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Tally angled her board closer and jumped onto a large rock next to David. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A simple exercise but he loved the ordered lines, the neatness, the stark beauty of planes and angles. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I judged it best to look away while she did so, but with her person positioned so closely, this could only be achieved by my twisting my head away at a somewhat unnatural angle. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The wheel on that side had buckled, so the plane sat at a crazy angle, the opposite wing high in the air. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Every measurement—every angle and width, all the spaces separating the molecules—was nearly perfect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She had drawn-on eyebrows and hair that sat on her head at a weird angle. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He explored the angles of her collarbones and her hips, all the time willing his body and his mind to work better together, willing his desire to bypass his anxiety. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Obsidian towers and spires rose out of the walls at an angle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Frightful tried to read the angle of the sun’s rays, but a gray-blue haze cut them out, and she could not get their message. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I imagine my body plummeting, smacking into the bars as it falls down, and my limbs at broken angles on the pavement, just like Rita’s sister when she didn’t make it onto the roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A tight-fitting little black coat and skirt, white satin blouse, small chic black toque perched at the fashionable outrageous angle. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z From this angle, Grace can see Maya’s eyes, Joaquin’s nose and jaw, Melissa’s hair. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Whoever is leaving them seems to be angling toward a tower with an antenna. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z With her head at such a funny angle, Jinny couldn’t see very well, but she could hear it when Ess began to laugh. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Finally, far up the dock, someone spotted a baggage chute descending at a sixty-degree angle to street level. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It seemed as if bullets were falling into the forest from all angles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I’d watched him sketch those blueprints, watched him perform the calculations, altering this angle or lengthening that beam. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This is the angle from which she sees the world. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Look, I’ve heard you talking to Ms. Bethune about angles, light, speed, and all that other photography stuff. It really sounds like you know what you’re doing,” she said. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Still, the shape and odd angle of both of Kaitlin s legs made it clear the damage inside them was severe. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We angled the lantern just so, and he loosened the bronze screws that had grown dark with time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not push his chair in, but left it angled out like a door in midswing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The blade caught the charging horse in the throat with a meaty thunk, angling upward, and Tyrion almost lost his grip as the animal screamed and collapsed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It figured the angles and located the offender. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The angle of the lines was too steep. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I stood on my toes, trying to see into the mass of people, but the angle had changed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hair’s been chopped short, in a sharp angled bob. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Everything was right—the angle of the sun’s rays, the wind, the temperature, and the magnetic field of the earth. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The floor drops off at a sharp angle, and several stories below us is a river. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The creature angled its face at her, horns dark against the slate-gray walls. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Each angle of it induced a different impression. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She jumps from a wooden step, then climbs up an angled piece of lumber and jumps again. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Joon picked up the box, his head angled away from the odor. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see what Velia was talking about at this angle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He was walking back and forth, admiring the skiff from different angles. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Raheem patted my shoulder then withdrew his arm, his jaw set at a decisive angle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I examine it from several angles, as if I’m considering buying one for myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Beyond rose Middle Mountain, just 2,500 feet high but acutely angled and an entirely different experience on a hot day with a cumbersome pack sagging down on tender shoulders. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The man before them was noble in appearance, and the shadows played across the planes of his face in a way that made their angles harden; his aspect connoted dignity. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If ever these lines strayed from perfect, if someone should move his by scooting backward too vigorously, or trying to get just the right angle to pass a note, Mrs. Jacobs got very cranky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z You can tell her mentor didn't have any trouble coming up with an angle for her. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They had known all the angles, but beneath that surface they were poor, ignorant, untrained black men; life had eased up on them and hyped them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I angled it so it would dance away from me instead. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z All 25 of the courses take 414 days, and vary only slightly in thrust duration and angle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His face seemed to have new angles, a tightness I didn’t recognize. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He reminded me of a vulture, his neck too long and bent at odd angles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I wished Chubs had turned at an angle so we could have made out what he was saying. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Gebu was just turning to climb the stair but, in the instant before the angle of the stairway hid him, Ranofer glimpsed a bundle under his arm. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Instead of holding the camera level against her chest, per the instructions, Mia tipped it at different angles, knotted her makeshift straps higher or lower. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Sweaty strands of my hair are stuck to my lips, my face; I can feel them sticking out at odd angles from beneath my pink beanie. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He lay on his back, his head turned at an angle that Tally instantly knew was utterly wrong. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But after five minutes of pinching my skin and studying every angle in the reflection, I see the fattest person in the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They were painfully difficult to draw; they required precise lengths and angles, or they became something else entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Several Ivanov sons were asleep around the fireplace, resting on one another at various angles. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She angled toward it and, with a groan of relief, let go of the rock. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Naomi had to admit that the angles and lines made some sense to her, at least more than when she was sitting in math class. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I made sure to know where she was going, who’d likely be there, the particular milieu, whether dancing or a sauna might be involved, those kinds of angles. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Booth sees that Clara Harris and Major Rathbone are sitting along the wall to his far right, at an angle to the stage, and the Lincolns are along the railing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Though it was nowhere more than three feet high, the angle where it met another, lower wall still offered some shelter from the elements, and night was coming on fast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Whenever I believed I had come up with something, I probed it for every sort of oversight, tested it through from all angles. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She took out her sharp hatchet and expertly chopped into the tree at regular angles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The pitcher looks at the batter’s stance and how they hold the bat from one angle, and the catcher takes note of the batter’s swing from a different one. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z They are squeezing him from every angle, but he can’t see them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Wyrdmarks stared up at her, their intricate curves and angles speaking a language she couldn’t yet begin to decipher. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It gives you time to talk to them and flirt, to really get acquainted, and they’re flattered; and meanwhile, you’re getting to know their face, to love its angles and its proportions. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was old and some of the twigs stuck out at odd angles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Niceron explains how to produce anamorphic shapes: shapes like the skull in Holbein’s Ambassadors, which takes form as a skull only if you view it at a sharp angle to the picture’s surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were no angles; walls, floors, and ceiling faded gently into each other and in the cold, metallic glittering of the hidden lights, one was surrounded by six chilly reflections of one’s bewildered self. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In the daytime, the hospital was a maze of teeming, angled hallways, a blur of blazing-white overhead fluorescence. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He has this style of drawing that’s all movement and sharp angles and bold pencil lines. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But a tiny number— about one in eight thousand—bounced back at a sharp angle, some even ricocheting directly back at the source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Below them, the roller coaster is a jumble of angles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They compared the speed of light in the direction of the earth’s motion with that at right angles to the earth’s motion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From this angle, they could only monitor the trailer’s two main exits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My mom bought me an Advantix camera, which was so small it fit in my pocket, but it could still zoom in for close-ups or out for wide angles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Wiry black whiskers sprouted from either side of a mouth crowded with yellow teeth that jutted out at all angles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The reporter thanked Miss K for letting her visit—good story—great angle—sorry she couldn’t stay—mayor cutting ribbon for opening of new auto-parts shop—meeting of the school board. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it's a wing,” Prosper agreed after haying studied it from all possible angles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The wall was to my right, at a wide angle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman crouched down, her wooden leg angled out awkwardly. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The art establishment finds these artists too avant-garde in their use of light, a bright palette, visible brushstrokes, unusual composition, and strange angles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It’s my birthday,” I said, angling for sympathy. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “And you got a call while you were in the bathroom,” Heidi says, her face in a bunch of angles, like a Picasso. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Two huge towers flanked the castle’s main gate, and smaller ones defended every angle of its walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Norwood, whose first love was trigonometry and thus angles, decided to bring a little mathematical rigor to navigation and to that end he determined to calculate the length of a degree. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She was all angles, he remembered later, knees, mostly, and elbows. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the horns of the celestial ram was bent at an uncomfortable-looking angle. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Even worse, it focused on the angle she most wanted to avoid—the fact that she had cracked Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The leg came down at an oblique angle and snapped. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of heading to the door, I angled toward the dark shape. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Now the angles of the walls were skewed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Seeing it from this angle made me understand the references to being “on the horns.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Old-fashioned biplanes hung on strings from the ceiling, tilted at crazy angles like they were in the middle of a dogfight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I drove him at a different angle from the load, hoping he’d have better luck. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Or as an American friend put it to me much later: “Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it’s going to pass through nine murder victims.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn’s eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z TV cameramen push through to get a better angle, and the reporters are snapping photos like crazy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can only see the smooth side of her face from this angle, the limp but curled hair, the full mouth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She lay at an awkward angle, her stern tilted, and there were a number of rowing-boats already pulling round her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He began by making a slow circle around the bird, studying her from every angle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Take any complex number and measure its angle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Minerva, who had seen RiRi dangling from the man’s meaty grasp while her arm twisted at a sick angle, was frantic to claw past and into the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He stayed exactly where he was, trying to find the best angle, right until the sidewalk opened next to his feet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z "Surely there's something to be found out on the financial angle, there?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Both ends of the scarf stick out at odd angles, like hair that won’t settle down. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “So, you had a good angle of my nostrils,” he said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Ambulances were parked at urgent angles alongside the rows of SUVs and hoopties. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Her mastery of camera angles and lighting, too, is rare in an individual of her age. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mom is lifting her phone, taking pictures of the forest from every possible angle. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The cars were in a big cluster, parked at odd angles, some with their tires in a rut, some without tires at all. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z They pay attention to shades of eye shadow and online games and which angle makes them look best in photos. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This postern was the least of Harrenhal's gates, a narrow door of stout oak studded with iron nails, set in an angle of the wall beneath a defensive tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Toward the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The beam was broken and hung down at a forty-five-degree angle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Turning around, she places one foot at a right angle to the other, as in ballet position, and clasps her hands. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Since his accident he had unconsciously taken to wearing his hat at a rakish angle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Our driveway is crowded with cars parked at screwy angles in a hurried way. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He lifted one of the crisp bills, creased it in the middle so that it made an angle, and then he scratched a match under his desk and lighted the bill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The grandstands at the finish line slowly filled with people fanning themselves with their programs—men in fedoras and Panama hats, women in flat-brimmed hats perched on their heads at jaunty angles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In order to provide raking and flanking fire along every wall, forts needed to be designed on the page, with carefully measured angles and distances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z People were not supposed to be twisted bone and tubes that popped out at crazy kid’s-toys angles. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Trepid said, turning a full revolution so that the girl could see it from all angles. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z But on the fifth try, I manage to swing the latch up at exactly the right angle, so that when it comes down again, it clicks into place with a heavy noise. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The tin was magic; it vibrated and produced a different sound depending on what angle the water hit it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Mama sneezed when she looked Behind the camera: the snapshots are blurry; The angles dizzy as a spin on a merry-go-round. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Right angles had clearly been abandoned below ground level. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It floated to the floor and landed without a sound, lying there as if it hadn’t done anything, all angled in its pleats. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The wood looked different from here, the leaves seemed higher and much farther away, and the trunks were at an odd angle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He pulled on a T-shirt and sat down, angling his screen to see her better. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He eeled in through die cables and formers, wiggling and pulling until he was inside the tail with his head clear of the surface of the water and his legs down on the angled floor. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we started angling to get into the wide world again the first question I wanted answered was this whole small-pox epidemic thing. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, the angle being measured is not between the observer and two distant objects, but rather the stars are being read as if they were the hands of a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the floor beside him, clutching his leg, which stuck out at a strange angle, was Ron. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I thought about how my mother and sisters remembered my father, how they knew his face from every angle and held in their fingers the feel of his hands. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And there’s another angle to this thing, too,” Lee added, and told Grumman of the witch council at Lake Enara, and the resolution the witches had sworn to. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There are many places to stand and paint the mill from different angles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They spoke of the Epic Ellisons no more as they sailed back into Fry—same scene, different angle. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Emo played with the teeth; he pretended to put them in his own mouth at funny angles. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the military camp, the city looked chaotic and colorful, with buildings crowded together at haphazard angles. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Surrounding the main drawing are detailed sketches of twisting branches, capturing several different angles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was my goal to produce dresses that the great mass of the people could afford, dresses that would—from the business angle—sell equally well to both large and small, city and country stores. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z |
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