Else why call class “homeroom”? When I’m grown, I still want to have a nice home. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In all that time his love for her had grown to the point where it had become an obsession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A power that Violet had not lost because she gave the usher boys, and the grown men too, a serious time. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feed for the animals was grown in fields surrounding the livestock pens. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had shaved off the beard he had grown during their journey, and it made him look younger and more vulnerable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With horrified expressions, they looked at me as though I had lied or sassed Grandma or grown a second nose. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as a grown man, I feel privileged to have come from two worlds. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was very quiet and still, and the light seemed to have grown dim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Luckily the vegetables had all grown tall enough that we could easily tell what was weeds and what wasn’t. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nya had heard some of the teenage boys talking about that— wondering why he had no scars when clearly he was a grown man. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bold little boy with wild black hair and laughing eyes was a man grown now, one-and-twenty, and still he played his games. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even as grown women, they lowered their voices in their father's earshot when alluding to their bodies' pleasure. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to see Nicolas, because since they had finished school, he and his brother had daily grown further apart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you guys have grown up with this image,” she said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Owen had grown up in Lancaster, in the north of England, where he had trained as a doctor. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Prideful’s stories were hard to believe, despite assurances that he received his reports from the staff of the place, with whom he’d grown close over the years. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Among them were the mighty water monsters, giant lizards whose toes were as thick as the trunks of fully grown pine trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was proud of Nelson for proving himself a macho before he was even a grown man. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown long enough now that she usually tied it back, but tonight she had had the opportunity to bathe, and it fell loose, still slightly damp, to her shoulders. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Winter is coming, and you are almost a man grown, Bran. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All food was consumed very near to where it was grown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I saw how labored her every movement had grown, and I asked about her pains. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Gatsby's house was still empty when I left--the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But I considered myself to be genuinely misunderstood because my parents and I were not having the same life experiences: They had not grown up in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was a far cry from the towering skyscrapers and concrete landscape of where he’d grown up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A vale it was, beyond a doubt, but no wood had grown here for several thousand years, be it black or brown or green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The girls he’d grown up with in Shaker—and the boys, too, for that matter—seemed so purposeful: they were so ambitious; they were so confident; they were so certain about everything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She herself hadn’t grown to thirty feet tall, or whatever the actual size was of the glowing screen before him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Joel’s cows were harvesting their own feed: grasses that had grown right there, powered by little more than sunlight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

So they have a cut to make them one shape forever, and that’s how you get grown up.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They said she was so strong she could pick up a grown man, sling him over her shoulder and walk with him for miles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Reilly had been standing next to him pointing out the passages in the notebook, the scent had grown overpowering. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to the boys’ washroom to get it off, I looked in the mirror and, gosh, it was like I’d grown a black beard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And now that I’d grown used to his voice, I couldn’t imagine him not saying shall or decorum. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Had I forgotten her? or was I so worthless as to have grown tired of her pure society? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

What had grown up between them had been something fiercer than affection, an understanding that they were both soldiers, that in another life, they might have been allies instead of enemies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Many of them get by by teaming up with another wage earner, a spouse or grown child. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody with a smidgen of training, not even the worst roustabout, would look right in a grown person’s face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had grown tired of the lecture, and asked Dad to talk about something else. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It had grown out of her head and now perched there like a thought she had left behind on the brush. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now half grown and soon to finish school, he slipped only occasionally into old bad habits and almost always caught himself when he did. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Katz and I had grown up together in Iowa, but I had pretty well lost touch with him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I hadn't grown a new skin underneath, like that snake had. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He looked like a grown Fernando and he wore a blue uniform trimmed with gold braid. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was a great one for babies, handling them better than many a grown woman while she was still a child. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seem to remember that at eleven my brood were howlers and screamers and runners in circles. These seem like grown men.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I guess I have grown a little.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If any of us had grown over the year, it was Grandma herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His horns had grown so much they poked an inch above his curly hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But it only brought back the memory of Jordie’s cold flesh, the way it had grown loose in the salt water, the bodies crowding around him in the flatboat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For some of them, their kids were grown and had already made it to a free country. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We are comfortable with accelerations of 1 g; we have grown up with 1 g. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never grown them and cannot remember when my father used to plant them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was grown without the help of fossil fuels, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I saw the list of our staff, which had grown to nearly forty people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They were analyzed before being grown in my laboratory,” Gartler responded. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I forgot to add: The whole package is bow-tied in a billowy, diaphanous, organically grown hijab. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She explained that I was dying because the infection in my head had grown worse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It made everything simpler; it made it easier when their lease was up or she’d grown tired of the town or she’d felt, uneasily, that she wanted to be elsewhere. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Iron is grown dear," Ironbelly declared, "and this chain will be needing much of it, and coke beside, for the fires." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s grown people who always believe the worst, she thought, confident that her contemporaries believed no more nor less than what Jem and Hank had circulated. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It fit me better than it ever had, and I realized suddenly that, even though I was thin and starving, I had still grown. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama s eyes had grown round, taking up more space on her face. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ellie had four children, a husband, parents, cousins, and friends, but felt very alone at this time—and grown out of season. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The population of Nzara had grown in recent years—the town had experienced, in its own way, the human population explosion that is occurring throughout the equatorial regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even more remarkable, she lay atop a bloom of mushrooms that had grown to enormous size at the edge of a creek bed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My nails had even grown out, and Mrs. Merritt had complimented me on them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ma will still make some of our clothes, and we haven't grown much since last year, but she lets us pick out a few ready-made things. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sat down on a bench to wait for Ruthanne and to try to make some sense of this town my dad and I had grown up in. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I'm never going to ask you for anything. I'm a grown woman and I knew your situation when I got into this,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A black vine that has grown branches through his legs and arms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The whole system’s gone to pot. Masks everywhere, grown men threatening children—” “I’m only doing my job,” said the conductor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first he had thought that maybe the Bergs landed in the clearing, but there was no sign of such a spot whatsoever—the vegetation had grown pretty thick. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"You tell me Park all grown up now, almost man, make own decisions. So let him make own decisions. Let him go." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

María Santiago looked exhausted; the lines etched across her face had suddenly grown sharp and pronounced. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Packingtown had grown over the last half of the nineteenth century as part of a massive transformation in the way America’s meat was processed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had grown up with the Ten Commandments— including “Thou shalt not bear false witness”—and with the injunction to love your neighbor as yourself. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had grown thick as thieves since Chiggen had died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“When you are a grown man I will tell you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The children came and sat close to him; he had paid more attention to them lately, knowing that it pleased Nancy, and they had grown fond of him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her, on one side, stood her parents, the man’s beard turning white and the woman grown fat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kay said definitely: “I can’t stand any more history. After all, we are supposed to be grown up. If we go on, we shall be doing dictation.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke had grown thicker, making it hard to breathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He jotted how many days each had grown and how tall they were as well as how many ears of corn there were. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He stared numbly at Riddle, at the orphaned boy who had grown up to murder Harry’s own parents, and so many others. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She would chatter on about the things that she and Father used to do when they were young, for they had both grown up here. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Rome’s apples were at least native to western Eurasia, they were grown by means of grafting techniques that had developed in China and spread westward from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The voice had grown louder and was definitely heading in our direction. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Thus he spent his days looking after this child who had now grown rebellious at having to be in her mother’s bosom as she begged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It is not merely the denial of the housing application but the shame of being a grown man who has to beg his grandmother for a place to sleep at night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cole’s body had grown numb from the icy water, and his teeth chattered uncontrollably. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His faint moustache had grown back, more noticeably than before. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up with the factory manager and was sure she’d get the position and make a little extra money for “odd and ends,” as she put it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A second later, the once-tiny robot had grown to a height of almost a hundred meters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rab had always, as far as Johnny knew, been treated as a grown man and always looked upon himself as such. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serena was afraid that in her absence the boy might have grown much sicker. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Since his growth spurt in Venice, he’d grown into his bulkiness just fine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time grown men would break into smiles as she walked past. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s wonderfully strange to see you as a grown man.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Arm could sense the spirit: an old, corrupt warthog grown fat on the flesh of its young. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We have grown a little apart since not so closely associated as of old,” Anthony admitted to a friend. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice the ground had grown soft and sank underneath his shoes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had changed into so many animals, she wasn’t sure why one more transformation should amaze her...but suddenly he’d grown into his weight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The stem, calyx, rose and leaves were now one and seemed to have grown so. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was his notion that when I got grown, he would give me an interest in the store and take me into partnership. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The whip annoyed him more than it hurt him, she had come to see; his scales had grown harder than horn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I had made it a point to study the location of the maize and potatoes I had planted and had snuck back to the fields to see if they had grown. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Rahel, standing on the car seat, had grown out of the Plymouth window like the loose, flailing horn of a car-shaped herbivore. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of me has grown for a few years.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin looked up, and it seemed to him that the sky had grown ashen-grey, as if a vast dust and smoke hung above them, and light came dully through it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Would they have been happy, out in the wild, or would the dark, twisted sadness between them have grown up even without the Capitol’s help? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown up with. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning Mr. Dussel took our soon-forgotten clashes very seriously, but now he’s grown used to them and no longer tries to mediate. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen said she had grown up eating fish twice a day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every day, the carpet of leaves on the forest floor has grown thicker and brighter, and today I actually slip on them and go sliding down the slope. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had grown to five feet nine inches, an inch shorter than Danny, and I was shaving. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘For you have already grown since I saw you last.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Soon, she received a call from Sverrisson that Bobby had grown substantially more ill. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had never once been to Iran, where her Persian mother and father had grown up. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Large old trees lined most of the streets and had grown so tall and wide they almost touched. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She wondered how big Rickon had grown, and whether Bran was sad. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Santa Claus did not give grown people presents, but that was not because they had not been good. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peanuts grown later in this soil pick up considerable amounts of the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tells my parents, Young Ju is looking very grown up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“The question is, what is Parky going to do now. You are a grown man. You must want control back, yes? This began as your task and it should be yours to the end.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown into an exceptionally skilled killer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That’s one more thing to remember when I’m grown, to tell about the Congo: how the mango fruits hung way down on long, long stems like extension cords. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem possible that Ben, too, could have grown so much older, so slow, so bent- over. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your aged parents have grown tiresome or incontinent, you put them away where others will deal with their dirty diapers and dementia. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a plain shift dress that likely fit her when she first entered the Tower, shortly after her thirteenth birthday, but she had grown taller, and it barely covered her knees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Annabelle’s hair has grown out some, but her eyes look absent and hollowed out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was eighteen, six feet tall and a grown man. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s because I have three older sisters, and so I’ve grown up quick. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You think it would have made a difference if you had grown up knowing that I was there?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You’re all grown up and getting married—and—and it’s too late now.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His prospects were limited by his race, to be sure, but Caesar had grown up believing he was free to choose his own fate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Half the tiles on the roof were broken, and a wild tangle of vines had grown through the windows and covered most of the outside wall. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned around to head for the door and was startled to see Alec standing there, filling up the frame as if he’d grown several inches taller. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Where the rains had fallen, the grass had grown higher than any other grass she had seen, and now it waved golden brown in the wind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It had grown now, and on the outskirts the hurrying newcomers were being softly informed how the baby had been stung by a scorpion, how the father and mother were taking it to the doctor. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mess with boy cousins, and don’t have babies until you’re grown.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Shae's eyes had grown large but he could not read what lay behind them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The two had grown up together and were devoted in a way far beyond usual friendship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya chewed her lip as she walked along on feet grown hard with callus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Underdowns’ two sons, big crew-cut boys shifting around in grown men’s bodies, grabbed handfuls of cookies with their big hands and bolted from the table. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only had three other friends and they were all grown up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother looked at me as if I had suddenly grown horns, as though I had turned into someone who wasn’t her child at all. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I can never get why grown folks will put a kid all alone in a bedroom at night. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

One of the earliest cultivated plants in many parts of the Americas was grown for nonfood purposes: the bottle gourd, used as a container. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Pearl had grown taller, sharing a bed became less and less feasible, and it had been a long time since they’d lain together this way. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d grown up hearing stories about him fighting the Minotaur and stuff, but I’d always pictured him as this huge, buff guy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I never wanted to feel grown up, to be like an adult. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I know you grown and you gonna do what you want, but you on your own here, baby.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Otto had grown a layer of soft black down, and his swollen malnourished belly had shrunk. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Papacy itself had been abolished after Calvin’s death, and a tangle of courts, colleges, and councils, collectively known as the Magisterium, had grown up in its place. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Trembling with eagerness, Miyax asked Uma to tell her more about Kapugen, and Uma, spilling over with enthusiasm, told how the town and its people had grown poor and hungry several years ago. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pregnant Fifi would have to do what is always done in such cases on the Island—marry immediately and brace herself for the gossip when her "premature baby" comes out fat and fully grown. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It put me in mind of those nuclear power plants where blase technicians had grown so weary of false alarms that they’d begun to miss the real ones, with profound consequences. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have I grown to love Reverend Hunt, with his patience and wisdom and his love for me? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Freak clears his throat and tries to make his voice sound deep and more grown up. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

This one, with the passing of the years had grown lean and gaunt and the rock-like bones of her face stood forth and her eyes were sunken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the voices outside my window have grown animated. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She had grown quite fond of the toothless Señora, who no longer bothered with the formality of dentures at all during their lessons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was hidden by the leaves of a bougainvillea vine the Afrikaner had grown over a frame at the side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face, which I had grown used to seeing relaxed and proud, was pinched with what was either annoyance or anger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She was really grown and ready to earn her keep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had eight children between them—all grown, all college grads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most eight-year-old males begin to spend time away from their mothers, traveling with the big males, learning the sorts of things they need to know when they are grown up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

These had been grown elsewhere, because few crops could be raised in the dry semi- desert region of Loun-Ariik. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would appreciate it if you contact me first before you and Jade make plans. Jade is not grown. Believe it or not, she does have a mother. That’s me.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His voice had grown so loud that his horse whinnied nervously beneath him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hadn't I grown up around gambler-politicians, bootlegger-judges and sheriffs who were burglars; yes, and Klansmen who were preachers and members of humanitarian societies? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they still made a show of being a couple—they still did the punching-on-the-arm thing when they parted—I knew them well enough to see they’d grown quite distant from each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cotton clothing is made from is grown in Egypt. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This doesn’t look like a face but like an unknown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuber, something that’s grown wrong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because the pig, with Pacheco gimping crazily after it, had become such a familiar sight all over town, sayings had grown out of the situation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gradually grown blind; his eyes slowly filled with a sky-blue film of which he said, “The clouds are taking over my sight.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Laura, who was littlest, could do this easily in the places where the smallest trees had grown close together. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ann complained how rough it was living on a dirt street, C.P. quickly pointed out that he knew all about that because he had grown up in just such a neighborhood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A chorus of fake politeness, all the things I’ve grown to hate about trying to fit into that world. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still a long way from understanding himself, and she was grown up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For all that, there is one thing Mark keeps thinking that makes it all seem not quite as bad as it could be: He and Trina have grown closer than ever.Very close. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Green beans, snapped always the right length, collards, cabbage, juicy red tomato preserves that came into their own on steaming buttered biscuits, and sausage, beets, berries and every fruit grown in Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being in the suburbs was really unsettling Mark—he’d grown used to life in the mountains, in the woods, living in a hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I feel a profound singularity, here, in a place where I’ve almost grown comfortable. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He said he had grown up in the Bukchang area, which was true enough and seemed to satisfy their curiosity. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Bless me! How old I shall be, twenty-seven!” exclaimed Meg, who felt grown up already, having just reached seventeen. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When old King Edrick Stark had grown too feeble to defend his realm, the Wolf’s Den was captured by slavers from the Stepstones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They listened to the night sounds they had grown used to—the rumble of artillery, stray shots in the distance, a booming far-off explosion—probably sappers blowing a bridge in the retreat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was also impressed with Elya, who seemed to have grown bigger and stronger in the last two months. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Despite my romantic deficiencies, I gradually adjusted to township life, and began to develop a sense of inner strength, a belief that I could do well outside the world in which I had grown up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Time and tide wait for no man. The babe will soon be grown. And then what?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Then do your work and stop minding grown folks’ business.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A bus driver’s daughter, she arrived in New York City from Krakow in the early 1990s, leaving behind a grown son. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"This was only a few years ago. What if those impulses have grown with her, rather than diminished?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I think we were unofficially trying to find some common musical ground or something, because we ended up going back to all the stuff we’d grown up on, all the songs we knew by heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Most of the world’s great cities have grown haphazardly, little by little, in response to the needs of the moment; very rarely is a city planned for the remote future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As another daraja, she and I have practically grown up together in this temple over the last seven years, but we’re decidedly not friends. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The General—his General’s—temper had grown worse and worse. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cult of suicides hath grown up by the burial ground upon the east side of the island, a communion of willed starvation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Bennett’s database has grown to about five thousand names gathered by word of mouth alone. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If you’re from Iran, imagine a big bathtub on a balcony, center stage, behind a pulpit, under a giant cross, and three grown men in white hospital gowns getting in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘His arm has grown long indeed,’ said Gimli, ‘if he can draw snow down from the North to trouble us here three hundred leagues away.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

All four had grown passionate about computing and the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now sixteen and had grown to be almost as tall as my father, but his cheeks were hollow and his clothes hung loosely on his bony frame. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It’s always nice seeing the kids grown up fine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And they have grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins, or even brothers or sisters who are already grown up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I felt like my mind had grown to catch up with the rest of me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was oblivious to the universe of wood life that did live there in layers of ivy grown so thick he could have sunk his arm in it up to the elbow. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are making me fed confused. Suppose you wait till you are grown up and know the reason?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wallace says he’ll turn my name in, but he’s already got six names ahead of me, and one of ’em is a grown man with a car. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s grown more depressed. He no longer wants to get out of bed, and they have him on heavy medication.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mother may have grown up with carriages and gowns, but I had not. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teren measured me against the hilt of his sword and judged that I had grown tall enough to begin the basics of swordplay. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The countess and her daughter-in-law were no longer good enough; he had grown too old for fun, he no longer had the time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The salty smell that she had grown accustomed to was now overwhelming. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just the past decade, the time devoted to advertisements in a typical hour of network television has grown from six minutes to nine minutes, and it continues to climb every year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a bad face except that lately my nose seems to have grown longer, and my upper lip appears to have collapsed against my teeth. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did this mean that the water monster’s pain had grown? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Monday had the stomach of a grown man—she could eat enough for three people some days. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Outside, it is dawn, and the crowds have grown even larger. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Small mammals domesticated as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries include foxes, mink, and chinchillas grown for fur and hamsters kept as pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The house where Billy had grown up used to be somewhere in what was so empty now. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were grown we let them out during the day to roam the neighborhood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Having grown taller and older, I now associated with older boys and I had to pay for my admittance into their company by subscribing to certain racial sentiments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except everyone here isn’t grown—Kay and her three friends are here, nodding and snacking, and fitting right in with all of the adults. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the truth was, those of us who’d grown close to her, we each played our part in preserving the fantasy and making it last for as long as possible. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now they’ve all grown and married and I’m here to play in their room again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it was there in front of me, there was something vaguely embarrassing about the tape, like it was something I should have grown out of. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown more restive every day they waited; much longer and he would have been fit to whelp cubs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Weirdly, the one in the lead reminded Piper of her dad when he’d grown a beard for his role in King of Sparta. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nor would I know him if I saw him again in the kelp, for now that he had grown and his wound had healed, he looked like all the others. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wanting food on that dead isle, they would be flying forth some year when they were grown and hunger came upon them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think grown men might go easy on me, but the only break they give me is not tackling, which Papi made absolutely off-limits. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Curzon had grown terrible thin and was still feverish, but his leg had healed up, and he greeted me at the window every day. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many years later, long after Ultima was gone and I had grown to be a man, I would awaken sometimes at night and think I caught a scent of her fragrance in the cool-night breeze. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Left to its own devices, it had grown knotted and wild, like a circus whose animals had forgotten their tricks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just about age, Alex. It’s about acting more grown up.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I also have two daughters, by now grown up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had tried to repress it, the resentment he felt toward his mother and brother had grown since their deaths. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Weeds had grown up tall around the house’s pale sunbaked stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He just stands there, letting me get all these protests out of my system, letting me feel how heavy the air around us has grown. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the last year, he had grown accustomed to the icy water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The young birds hatched out there and stuck their heads out through the holes to get at the worms and bugs the grown birds brought to them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, Clay and his friends headed toward the north fields, where the corn was grown, whooping like children as they galloped off. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up amidst slavery yet made his reputation by using science. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the shell is inside me now and it’s grown hard and crusty. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had been only a few days, but the women had gathered thorn bushes and circled them around the remains of the cott where Kira had grown up. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen years later—after I had grown up, gotten married, graduated from Fisk University, and had two daughters of my own—my family and I moved back to Birmingham to live. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs seemed extra gangly and he loped around like he didn’t know what to do with the extra inches he had grown. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His brother, the late King Robert, had grown a beard in his final years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had grown accustomed to people staring at Danny, at his beard and side curls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I said to her presently, when she had grown more quiet:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Lucy, it’s just so complicated ...” “It's complicated because you and Mama don’t understand that I’ve grown up!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Let a boar hog get grown without cutting his seeds out, and his meat is too tough and rank smelling to eat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m black,” said David, sporting his freshly grown Afro the size of Milwaukee. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hardly recognized this city that she had grown up in. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her parents had been in an assisted-living home for some time by then, and the house she had grown up in had already been sold. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In some of them there was a hunger for rank—in Jubal Early it was a disease—but Armistead had grown past the hunger, if he ever had it at all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have lived with them for almost two months and we have grown used to being there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Einar had said it may have grown in the years since he had done this. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By being on the spot, troubles are seen at their birth and can be quickly remedied; not being there, they are heard about after they have grown up and there is no longer any remedy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown very thin; she was still speechless, staring, quiet as stone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between them, the snake stretched up, vertical, as though it had sprouted there, grown as a seed from the earth and now impossibly tall. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I paced the lawn to check it hadn’t grown or shrunk. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever could kill a grown Cyclops, I didn’t want to meet. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, “Three, when I’m grown, I’m going to have a cat.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

His father had grown up in Jamaica and had passed down the fire secrets of the Maroons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, my father's condition had grown neither better nor worse. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, sure you can, my son, my darling. You’re grown great as I knew you would. Open the table drawer and then make use of that turnip you call your head.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Alec had already started running straight toward the distant flames, which seemed to have grown in the moments since it had begun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have grown several inches, too. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His muscles had hardened, his hands grown callused. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love’s illusion. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lecture might have gone on for some time, but Gebu had evidently grown bored with baiting him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“But here you are. And you’re grown. And beautiful. You keep proving them wrong.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She was a shadow of the mama Ophie had grown up with, the best parts of her destroyed with a single act of violence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Climbing vines had grown up inside the room and had pressed against the glass of the windows, seeking warmth and light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have grown used to dim lighting and dark clothing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He waited for her to say something, having grown used to her chirping at his remarks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even though she had grown up on a farm, where her father had raised livestock for food, she had never been able to bear easily the death of an animal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, breathing softly through his mouth, he crawled toward the rocks shut away by greenery grown ruthless in sun and air. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticky, however, had grown confused in his fright and would not let go of Milligan’s jacket. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything mechanical. When you were young, every time someone asked you what you wanted to do when you were all grown up, you said you wanted to marry Pelé. What’s happened to that dream?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

For oats, he ladled out carefully measured portions of a fine white variety grown in the Sacramento Valley. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

An intrinsic part of this story would be to describe how these cells, originally obtained from Henrietta Lakes, are being grown and used for the benefit of mankind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’s Finch and I trust him, but you just never know—guys do talk—and even though the Day Of wasn’t slutty, I feel a little slutty, but also kind of grown up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Italian merchants sometimes sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to Syria, where they could buy black pepper that had been grown on the southwest coast of India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you shouldn’t know about it. At least for now. It’s terrible when grown men kill a child.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

By the night of July 3, the boys had grown nervous and unsettled, the magnitude of what was at stake starting to sink in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I knew she worried that we’d be mistreated in some way and sought out a grown, brown face to look out for us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My bad, I must’ve missed the memo that you grown. Last time I checked, you were sixteen years old, Brianna. Six. Teen!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was a local boy who had grown up near Fort Detrick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the fact that his hair was thinning and he’d put on weight and grown a beard, he was the unmistakable, broad-shouldered, swaggering Bobby Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The different languages were never a problem for me: I had grown up speaking Swahili and knew it well. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Vonetta had grown taller but not tall enough to stand eye to eye with me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Not a grown woman, not a threat. A child. Do you know how I felt when I was told that two grown men manhandled my child?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Helmuth believes in prayer, believes in God, has always believed in God, even now doesn't believe that God has abandoned him but has grown closer. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

You know your life has grown pathetic when you’re thrilled to have a covered wooden platform to call your own, but there you are—we were thrilled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mark squints—his eyes have already grown used to the darkness—and tries to see the source of the light. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Cook’s children had grown up in the house but had left and gone off to other places a couple of years ago, California and Boston and the like. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The night had grown cool, and when he breathed through his mouth, mist filled the air in front of his face. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My loathing for Arnold had grown to such a point that I eventually found a way to make him die. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown on him like any other sport. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was fourteen years old, pretty near a grown man. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But by now, Chapman and all of the law enforcement officers had grown tired of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I hear she looks like a young girl sometimes and an old woman sometimes and a grown lady other times. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He supposed that when he was grown up he’d help his father in the bar, and then take over the place when his parents grew too old to continue. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I swear, Paul, you’ve grown half a foot this year. You probably don’t have anything that fits. Including what you have on now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This, I know, is her way of telling us to go to my room, close the door, and let the grown folk be. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lately the tenants had begun remarking on how grown up she looked. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Would she have grown up to have a long and happy life? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain to Baldwin, who had grown up just blocks from me in Harlem, all that “Sonny’s Blues” had meant to me, but I couldn’t. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His voice had grown soft, and he had merged many accents and dialects into his own speech, so that his speech did not seem foreign anywhere. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would seem that despite having grown up in a Muslim country, she would have heard it mentioned once or twice, but no. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had never thought much about religion or God, despite having grown up Christian. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There were five young ones in this settlement, one almost grown and the others somewhere in between, and being smaller than the adults, they could not manage the seedpod wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The men on the Redwyne galleys had grown lax after so long, however, and they had slipped through the cordon smooth as black satin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was that her waist had grown thicker and, in a surprising way, had stiffened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Every one of them had come from humble origins or been humbled by the ravages of the hard times in which they had grown up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Somebody in that house needs to be grown,” Momma says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was not very suitable to a place which felt as if nothing had ever grown there since the beginning of time, but it was the one he could remember best. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She tossed her hair, which had grown long, and went on more cheerfully. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though my throat feels sore from singing, our pile of money has hardly grown in the last few days. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I guess I had grown some; my pants and socks did not meet anymore. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusty bell hung under the pointed roof, and barely a meter lower down a seed carried by the wind had grown into a stunted tree that now clung to the sand-colored stone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The pits were just a little smaller than the cells, dug down the height of a grown man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grown used to running the Maze, but this was completely different. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His lips had grown to the size of tree branches and hung off his jaws in a floppy mess. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My father looks at the harvest of caterpillars as if he’s grown them himself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown so used to dancing and to the happy feeling the star had given her that she wanted to do a Sailor’s Hornpipe and to have the star on her horn again. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Someone had lived here long ago, and the vine had grown so heavy, part of the arbor had collapsed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing had grown wild from months of neglect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse followed still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I had grown to six feet and had the appetite of a growing teenager. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I want your hair grown back in and I want it grown back in fast. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, 95 percent of the cotton grown in the world today belongs to the cotton species Gossypium hirsutum, which was domesticated in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Across the Central Plaza, she caught a glimpse, in the Dwelling area, of the small house where she had grown up. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Agents discovered that Hale had grown up in a wooded grove only a few miles from Campbell. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’d grown tired of both the bathroom and the library, and enough time had passed that I no longer felt too self-conscious about eating alone. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was because it fed on living things and had grown so fat and swollen in its greed that bits of the people it had eaten dripped from its scummy lips and crooked teeth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Safer, yes. Wiser, no. He is a man grown now, and this is the road that he was bom to walk.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The Spirit will move in them the way it moved in our congregation when you sang and played. And when I get out, our congregation will have grown tenfold.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She’d been by herself, lugging a duffel bag big enough for about three fully grown adults, but she actually looked kind of hot. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Even the weathers had grown milder, and the wolves that had once come ravening out of the North in bitter white winters were now only a grandfather’s tale. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I tripped myself up, I realized that I had grown taller over the summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was fourteen but, feeling very grown up, I lit it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie had grown up in Georgia and had heard the stories. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It has grown considerably darker in the room and it’s oppressively still. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in a world in which horsemanship was as essential as breathing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘She’s designing you a beautiful mark so when you are man- grown and master smith you can stamp your silver with it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the Fifties and Sixties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The old man had grown noticeably more cheerful after receiving the four dollars. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“No. I tried everywhere. The relief centers are empty. I saw a grown man sitting on the floor in front of one building and sucking his thumb,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle claims I’ve grown up in the months since he has been gone. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Had they grown up under different circumstances, they might have thought about becoming economists or writers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s grown now. You can do whatever you want to,” Ophie said to Colin, and the boy smiled for the first time ever. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Annabeth didn’t know if it was a good idea, carrying around a cat grown from a prehistoric tooth; but obviously it didn’t matter now. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Initially the dial is set at 1 g' and everything behaves as we have grown up to expect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ek, who had grown to the size of a respectable town house, laughed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had appeared before this magistrate on numerous occasions in my professional capacity and we had grown to respect one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the part where Pa was supposed to scold Fern for getting into grown folk’s business. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A little girl in a room full of grown men, wondering which one is her husband. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Learn to listen, keep your mouth shut, let the grown folks do the talking. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got attention by acting grown up, and my mother bragged about how early I was toilet trained and how clearly I spoke. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Even though Lena and I are still friends, we have grown naturally cautious about telling each other too much. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My skin has grown pale and smooth from staying inside most of the day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was a grown woman, I became pretty again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, how many grown kids spend all their free time building Lego cities in dusty old storage rooms? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

You always see twins dolled up together as kids, but you never see two grown women running around in identical outfits, holding hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first is that it has jurisdiction only over foods shipped in interstate commerce; foods grown and marketed within a state are entirely outside its sphere of authority, no matter what the violation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I know you probably don’t think so. You must think you’re grown.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later his shoulders ached like nothing else and his fingers had grown almost numb from gripping so hard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had been given a week in his cupboard for this, even though he had tried to explain that he couldn’t explain how it had grown back so quickly. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Hawaii was also unique within Polynesia in using mass labor for aquaculture, by constructing large fishponds in which milkfish and mullet were grown. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe had I grown up in a tribal reserve like my parents, maybe had all our neighbours been believers in voodoo and superstition, everything would have made sense to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grown up in the homelands, where you had to fight to survive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The air in the tavern had grown heavy, and the weight of the day pressed against my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was still quite small, by the time I turned sixteen I had grown very strong. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Signora Grimani beamed at Victor as if he had just grown a pair of brilliantly white angel's wings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie knew better than to ask such a thing, to wonder why it was that all the grown folks said nice things about people even when they were lies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

By then our distrust had grown stronger, and they didn’t get many volunteers from the public. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I still hadn’t grown an inch by the date of the award ceremony, but I was determined to be seen as authoritative nonetheless. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’d grown up boiling even the water I used to brush my teeth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cardan reaches for it, and because I have grown up in Faerie, I am not entirely surprised into a scream when the door’s eyes open. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My kid cousins were full grown; my aunts had grown old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The smell of roses and blood has grown stronger now that only a desk separates us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I see in my head is Natalie holding hands with a grown man. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in a profoundly religious home in La Porte, Indiana, where his father had been a Methodist pastor. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a far cry from what I used to eat in Cuba, but like lots of things in America, I had grown used to it and now actually liked it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

His waistline had grown slightly over the years; his suspenders now pulled his pants above his belt line. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My hair has grown out, though it isn’t as long as it once was. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Kathy was one of nine children, and had grown up with very little, and Zeitoun, the eighth of thirteen children, had been raised with almost nothing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had grown up in the greenest, most beautiful valley on the island. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome and I had chosen a home in an integrated neighborhood, some distance from where I’d grown up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had also grown accustomed to the youngest daughter’s prophecies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me look at you. You have grown since last we met.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown about an inch since I cut it, but it was still just a bit under my chin. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bella had grown up in the Bronx and attended a tough high school near where I lived; his brother was a cop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is almost her size now; he’s grown so much these past months. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We have grown into everywhere, spreading like a new growth over the entire surface, touching and affecting every other kind of life, incorporating ourselves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students were not about to squander their momentum, however, which had overnight grown greater than at any time since the lunch-counter movement had commenced over three years earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if my visitors have grown tired of me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But she had grown close to Beatrice, and she hoped Mandela was just going through a phase. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Bien had grown up playing soccer in a refugee camp in Mozambique on a patch of bare earth with goals marked by small piles of rocks. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I felt silly and wrong calling a grown person Brother So-and-So or Sister Such-and-Such, but thanks to Cecile, we now had brothers and sisters we had never before laid eyes on. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was herself and grown, and yet this was no protection. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He must have grown half a foot since the first time I’d seen him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The tree has grown twice as tall as I stand on tippy toes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Already my mother would admit to foreseeing herself in her own mother, a woman grown old, bald and bowlegged, after a hard lifetime of working. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re talking about fully grown teenagers being taught this way, for generations. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we stood, I saw for the first time that I was grown taller than Bono. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a little mark, like a dimple, in each of her ears, where the punctures for earrings have grown over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

More often than not the sacks bore the name of the farm where the corn had been grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t safe, and she wasn’t free, and Weep’s problem had just grown much more complicated. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her other teeth had grown into thin white needles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You handled it pretty well. I’ve seen grown men faint dead away!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nathan planned on comparing the measurements and number of ears by the days they had grown instead of directly comparing them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The youngest of Lord Steffon's three sons had grown into a man bold but heedless, who acted from impulse rather than calculation. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Because it was the music we'd grown up with, I liked to think that my sisters and I had a genuine appreciation of jazz. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You mighty grown up this morning,” his mother said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the center of the platform stood four sea demons, but these were fully grown, at least eight feet tall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why they needed a grown man to go in there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I bit down on my tongue and closed my eyes and tried not to scream as they pulled out the splints along with the tissue that had grown over them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She undid her hair and turned around to see how long it had grown. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Far as I’m concerned, it’s nothing more than an excuse for grown men to behave like schoolboys.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Too busy to notice my neat stack had grown into uneven bundles with either more than fifty or less than fifty newspapers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard women reveal to men that the children they’d raised were not theirs and elderly parents inform grown sons and daughters that they were disowning them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And I had grown accustomed to secrecy and the excitement of our plotting. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For the longest time I swore I was behind on the puberty game since I haven’t even grown a mustache, but Dylan’s actually the freak show here—handsome freak show. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I don't get why a grown man would want a teenage girl hanging around his place if he doesn't have ulterior motives.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first glance she appeared to have grown into the skin of her mother. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The abbot’s eyes had grown wider and wider. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You already grown up, Mr. Rock,” I say. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

My mother had long ago grown weary of trying to get Daddy to finish up his university courses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glowering sky hinted of rain, and it had grown colder. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down on the women who had grown accustomed to bullet holes over their dinette tables, who watched All My Children and ate Doritos all day and didn’t seem to want anything better. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All the Poppers had grown terribly fond of the funny, solemn little chap, and Mr. Popper’s heart was frozen with terror. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it had been mainly a time for listening and, being a talker, I had grown impatient. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached a set of trees grown close together like friends sharing a secret. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This, in his opinion, is the biggest difference between them, a thing far more foreign to him than the beautiful house she’d grown up in, her education at private schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t noticed how cold it had grown. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d met with him a couple times before, and had grown to trust him. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’d grown up at Camp Jupiter, so hopefully his familiar face would make the Romans hesitant to blow the ship out of the sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Old T.R. trotted ahead or dropped behind or went dashing off across worn-out fields grown up in broom sedge. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes, his nose, his mouth—all his facial features were a bit too big for him, like they’d grown up but his face was still a kid’s. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Harry, though still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few inches over the last year. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She’d been neglecting her hair, which was darker and straighter; her body had grown stubby, her face round. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll never forget the first time I went to a fancy restaurant as a grown man and someone told me, “You have to try the bone marrow. It’s such a delicacy. It’s divine.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Several years back he had told Bernabe: “Six hundred years ago maybe you could have grown up to be somebody like Michelangelo.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing those clothes, I felt as if I had grown new hands and feet and I would now have to learn to walk in a new way. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tear a grown man’s limbs off his body. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“And I shouldn’t have to tell grown people how to act. This is their program.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, how the anger and hatred had grown in him through the years. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I had grown weary of the constant travel. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’d pushed the dresser against the room’s only door and tied the window shut with a length of rope despite the fact that it was too small for a grown man to fit through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A grown man reduced to trembling at the thought of entering an empty building—even that empty building—because there might be skeletons there? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We’d grown up together in the church, attending the Easter egg hunts as children and later participating side by side in the youth programs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the mother and her children had not come down the path on this day, the pinched tree branches would have grown larger and the fat-bodied spider would have lived. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that the kind that eats fully grown men for breakfast?” the Head of the Fire Department asked, going white as a sheet. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to the place where Papa had grown up, and it didn’t look destroyed! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was still on the island, after all these years, old as dirt but sustained by a few of her wards, children who’d grown up but never left. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Jonas’s own parents, when he and Lily were grown, would go to live with the Childless Adults. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The honeysuckle here had not grown as fast as that on the front of the house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad they had done this before, because my heart felt like it had grown feet and was trying to run away from my body. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d grown a beard, most people didn’t recognize him, and he recaptured the peace and incognito of his earlier trips. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know that someday, when I’ve grown large enough in the Holy Spirit, I will have his wholehearted approval. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had other children, but they were grown and gone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So he decided to focus on how food was grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Delphine had a grown sound like it was waiting for me to slide into it, like a grown woman slides into a mink coat and clips on ruby earrings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her children had grown and had children of their own. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

When grown men are infantilized, most don’t take to it nicely. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it was grown stuff, which made me want to know what they were keeping from us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Or they would cut the top off a big gourd they had grown and use that, sticking an ear of corn in the opening to seal it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt wanted to reply, but the habit of silence had grown too strong. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, he thought plants should be grown aboard spacecraft, to purify the air. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every morning I would stand against it to check if I had grown. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had already decided that when he was a grown knight he would give himself a melancholy tide. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as military school had slowly grown on me, so had academic life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her ribs sat there untouched, grown cold now, a thin film of grease congealing beneath them on the plate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is no secret that the gap between the rich and the poor has grown, but the extent to which the richest are leaving everyone else behind is not widely known. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Michaels had grown up in Brooklyn and, more than most officers from the city, considered the inmates to be basically decent guys, his “homies.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only course open to a manufacturer determined to exclude BHC residues is to reject all produce treated with the chemical or grown on soils contaminated with it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham had grown fond of being in Hobie’s restaurant in those early morning hours before the sun had time to penetrate the deep winter shadows that hung between the buildings of River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 11, 1969, Doc, who was staying on the ranch where he and Tom had grown up, died at the age of eighty-four. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like shoes taking away the tough leather her bare feet had grown, the City took away the back and arm power she used to boast of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have seemed clever at the time, but after about the billionth time, it had grown old. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the kitchen door and held on to both doorjambs as if he was holding up the house, showing us the mustache he’d grown. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Just the white skin, the circled eyes I’d grown so used to. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because he’d grown up out here, away from the customs of the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘Hoping they will vote for him—when they are grown up and have enough property.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended I knew what she was talking about, most times if you listen to how grown folks ask a question they let you know what it is they want to hear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Having grown up in a place I was dying to escape, then landing in one where I sometimes feel like an imposter, hardly makes me unique. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I hope you realize how proud I am of you? Please say you won’t love me less when you’ve grown up and become an artist and a writer.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Since I had grown up speaking mostly Swahili, one of the languages of Congo, I was impatient with this slow-sounding language of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The fellow must have grown up in a truly remote location, probably tucked far back into the mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I spotted where Mama Brunelle had died, the mussed dirt and clawed tracks grown over with weeds, but didn’t point it out to my mother. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And in Mercerism, as it evolved into a full theology, the concept of The Killers had grown insidiously. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Because of my condition, when I was her age my parents tried to hide me away. I didn’t get the medical help I needed until I was grown and the damage was difficult to reverse.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She imagined that she had been drugged and that was why her limbs were so weak and sluggish and why her ideas had grown so jumbled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having grown up in a country ruled by others, she found it all familiar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, that cute little girl in the ruffled dress had already grown up, gotten married, lived her life, and was underground somewhere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A thousand years later the village had grown to become the center of a large polity, also known as Tiwanaku. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Through the hours there had grown between them a long, exhausting dialogue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her handmaids were of an age with her—women grown to look at them, with their black hair, copper skin, and almond-shaped eyes, but girls all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had grown up knowing that she was. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And it told her two things: first, that she must have grown up enough now to become vulnerable to the Specters, and secondly, that Pan must be somewhere close by. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their relationship, always distant, had grown colder still. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They had all been grown men, tall and strong ... though all men were tall to a dwarf of thirteen years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A nameless fear had grown within Francie while she listened to her mother talking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something that might be considered valuable in a third-world country by a kid who had grown up in a dump—like a nickel, a piece of gum still wrapped, a book of matches. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

His upper canines had never grown in, and the string of holistic dentists my parents had taken him to as a child had failed to notice until it was too late. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We had all grown up with pink nights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Mercy, I remember you, Declaration. I haven’t seen you in ice ages! Just look at you! You’ve grown into a beautiful young lady!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if that heart-pine leg of hers had grown even heavier. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She saw the grown folks freeze into stillness, not moving, scarcely breathing, while they listened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pinched with tiredness, and he seemed to have grown older over the past two weeks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Come home, come home and see how our children have grown. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Although I had, by that time, grown easy in public, I felt that my family life was strictly private, not to be revealed to unfamiliar ears or eyes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown in many ways, but especially in love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It regulated the junk food that got sold to children via vending machines on school property while also giving funding to schools to establish gardens and use locally grown produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had grown up, had become warm and sympathetic and affectionate. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

From his series of computer perches, Jesse had grown up at odds with the conventional educational system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A member of the Non-European Unity Movement, Don had grown up in the diamond-mining area of Kimberley and was a rugged, fearless fellow who was also highly strung. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we were all dizzy and silent by that time, having grown accustomed to taking up no more space in a seat than was our honest due. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father tells people I’ve grown so much, he’s going to put my supper into pickle jars and sell it under the name Incredible Growth Formula. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flapped his arms and—oh — it was feathers that he had grown. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Shrubs that had been tidy topiaries had grown into great shaggy trees, and bowers of blooming vines had overspilled their neat beds to riot up the walls and columns and drape over the railing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I think with each generation the house had grown smaller inside, more crowded. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X had been killed the year before and had grown larger in death than in life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sons of prominent Yaba families, he and Shomari had grown up together, but that didn’t mean they liked each other. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Almost everything the farm uses is grown on the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had seen a grown man cry like a child, and I felt a sting in my heart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But outside the electric fence, an encampment has grown. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I’d taken a new job, surprising myself somewhat by deciding to leave Public Allies, the organization I’d put together and grown with such care. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time in history, a taste native to the tropics was exactly matched by a plant grown in a colder area. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I noticed that my three other Bengali classmates had grown quieter and even less social than before I left. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is friendly with the other women who work at the library, most of them also with grown children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd grown up with the tales of Gilgamesh—there had to be hundreds. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He ate some bread, and said, “My girls, they do like to dance. Little one, Shirley, she going to dance like a courtier when she’s grown. The big one, she wants the graces.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

What kind of grown woman sits on the floor, sleeps on the floor? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is understandable, of course; he had grown up in an orphanage and naturally wished to know how he came to be there. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed as if Dauntless had gained a little ground, but when Nailer looked again, always the pale ship on the horizon had grown. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their children were grown up and gone, they were both entering middle age, and yet their sex wasn’t all that bad either. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a warm afternoon I had grown bored and decided, against my better judgment, to go to the east ridge of the valley to gather berries. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We were going too fast, and we were too far into twilight, for me to make out the patchwork of leaves that had grown in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I had grown up in a war zone, but life in America, I realized, was a different kind of war zone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It hurt the way he said that—as if he’d already grown up too much. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His attendant, the boy who came here with him—a grown man now—sits by the old man’s bed and plays pale runs on the old man’s harp. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night in the park Monkeyman had seemed so small, but now, in my mind and in my heart, he has grown. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the kids here had grown up together — their grandparents had been toddlers together. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At first we had all gotten along with the Anyuak, but tensions had grown and there had been a few fights with them. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he had grown so queer, the other members did not wish him about, even in his lucid periods. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were easily grown, merely by being sown or planted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room was impersonal—nothing to indicate that a girl had grown up in it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the time came to enter the dining room and pay their last respects to Rosa, everyone trembled, for if anything her beauty had grown more remarkable in death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tullahoma was where Momma and Wynn had grown up, where my daddy had gone to high school, and where I was born. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

See, now I had my grown son to nail me to the hard facts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His velvet blouse had grown bald with use. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to the fact that to the Nazis, I was just another Jew; my name didn't matter. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Over the last few centuries such companies have become the main players in the economic arena, and we have grown so used to them that we forget they exist only in our imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have grown so close to each other. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown increasingly more difficult and depressing to check up on the people on his list. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Shame at having stolen a skeleton, like a kid on a Halloween trick-or-treat prank rather than a grown man making a hit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This black woman, Leona, who had a garden and talked to us, came over and gave me some flowers she'd grown. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work was hard, yes, but now that she was grown, she could do the most backbreaking jobs without effort. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been really active in church only a year or less, and that was because the children were grown now and took up less time and less space in her mind. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks, some of the nodules had grown to two centimeters —about the size of Henrietta’s tumor when she went in for her radium treatments. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Such talk for a grown boy,” said Anna. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When this woman had grown old, Grazdan had purchased half a dozen young girls and commanded the crone to instruct them in the secrets of her craft. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Both my parents have tried to describe something of what it was like for them to have grown up Catholic in small Mexican towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I had in mind was a dinner made entirely from foods I had hunted, gathered, and grown myself. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When she had visited Chicago a couple of years ago, she had told Petra that all of her namesakes had grown up to be very beautiful and very lucky. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up with exactly one person in his life—Rain. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A bougainvillea has grown itself right over the roof, like a purple shawl. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked immediately familiar to me, like everyone I'd grown up with, friends from school, people I played sports or music with, someone I'd talk to on the street about the weather. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She would squeeze his hand between her fingers, which had grown more callused and hard at Manzanar, and he would squeeze back, and they would return to their weeding. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the look on Lady Constance’s face had grown quite serious, and Penelope guessed that the pleasantries must now be over. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Never mind that Thyon Nero had grown up on delicacies and Lazlo Strange on crusts, neither had ever enjoyed a meal more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It is a pure white, horned horse when fully grown, though the foals are initially golden and turn silver before achieving maturity. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Sam and I are exploring down by Tía Mimí’s orchid shed, where the orchids have grown straggly since Porfirio left. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I think he has grown quite fond of you.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But in Guitar’s mouth it sounded clever, grown up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tips of her flight feathers had grown in, and she could stand and walk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a dizzying experience, as though time had sped forward in a science fiction novel, to suddenly hug one’s fully grown child. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four grown folks had held Bugs down whilst they tried to pull it out with a pair of tweezers but the only thing that that did was pull the roach’s back legs off. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A time will come when they have grown so wicked that they will worship power, might will be right to them, and reverence for the good will cease to be. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jean-Pierre hadn’t hunted in years, though he had grown up hunting boar with his relatives in northern France. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To myself I pretended there were other reasons I couldn’t belong at Cambridge, reasons having to do with class and status: that it was because I was poor, had grown up poor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For he was more confident, now, in his manner with her, he had grown used to having a woman about him again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The windows of fallen walls stared up at her, sprouting weeds as if the earth had grown eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And I knew I looked different They’d brought a barber in to cut my hair, which had grown quite long. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would also make him seem slightly magical, since there weren’t any other grown Billys around. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear sat slumped and silent, as if the burden of speech had grown too heavy for him to bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The spots above my eyebrows, which were the size of pinpricks last time I checked, have now grown into real spots. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My heart has been longing so passionately for what you shall steal for me that it has grown quite weary.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My brother was now full grown, a graceful giant with uncanny spring in his legs, and considered one of the best basketball players in the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mona and Callie had grown tall enough to help a little, and old enough to understand that certain things should be kept in the family. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you’ve got a Category Five period. I’ve had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A child could easily have hidden behind them, but did they provide enough shelter for two grown men? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Shucks, man. I’m going north when I get grown.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer had grown accustomed to horses at Winterfell, but this was an elk and elk were prey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You have grown so much. Look at you, look at you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Renly had been a boy of eight when Robert won the throne, but he had grown into a man so like his brother that Ned found it disconcerting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was heavy, but Tally had grown stronger since she’d come to the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her chair seemed to have grown fond of her and kept trying to twine around her legs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was gone, though, and the crowd around him had grown. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

She hadn’t grown up with that smell...the smell of impending snow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There is a woman in the camp, a lady whose hair has grown in like patchy grass, who never stops laughing or grinning. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was envious that Rocco had grown up in America, a place where people could date across cultures and it was not an issue. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We rarely even ate rice, but when we did, I'd grown accustomed to using a fork, the same way he did, even though the utensil never made sense to me in that context. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had been afraid that she’d leave him, too, and take with her the baby whom he had grown to love dearly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study my grown daughters now, for signs they are resting in some kind of peace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown close with Eldin, the Bosnian goalie, who lived in the same apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t visited the Pickett estate in many years, and it had grown even more majestic. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was almost a man grown, though, so he said nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His hair had grown out longer and shaggier, and his face was leaner, so he looked less like an imp and more like one of those willowy elves in the fairy tales. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re twenty-two years old, Amir! A grown man! You...” he opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again, reconsidered. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he was “all grown,” as Gran put it, he said he needed his weekends to relax. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I remember redwood trees so monumental it took five of us, fully grown with arms outstretched, to encircle just one of them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Had he grown so arrogant under Scythe Goddard that he actually thought this wouldn’t be a fair fight? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Salim is thirteen now and very grown up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them had grown so big they had busted open. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had grown fond of Lemore, but that did not mean he required her approval. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, on the way out to the other world, one dies of thirst and exhaustion, but the other crawls on, discarding most of the treasure he has grown too weak to carry. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to have grown larger, and not only as we neared it: its size appeared to have doubled. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve grown into my nose and learned to embrace my big hair. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He had grown so used to the howling of the direwolves that he scarcely heard it anymore . . . but some part of him, some hunter's instinct, heard its absence. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The nights had grown more difficult lately, for the warmth of the sun during the day barely lasted past dark, leaving the nights cold and clammy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as an adolescent, he went through the initiation rights with the other Kikuyu boys with whom he had grown up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown very quiet in the cupboard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said before anyone blinked, kids were grown up, packing their bags and moving on. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She also wants me to tell you that the beets just haven't grown right since you left. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His hair is grown out a little, so he doesn’t look messy, but rugged. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe because the alternative is so bleak, I’ve grown to like the sewing room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They’ve grown extremely cautious, using code phrases all the time, but they let one little thing slip by them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When they asked us how we made it across the river if grown men were known to drown in it, we said we were great swimmers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scott looked up to make sure the grown folks weren’t around and said, “You really run away from home?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Aru’s mother had grown up speaking Gujarati, a language from the state of Gujarat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We felt so grown up when we sat at a table; said, “Coca-Cola, please”; and waited for our drinks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tufts of blond that had grown raggedly from his scalp had been trimmed down. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Me and Stick already shared our socks because Mama couldn’t tell them apart anymore, now that my feet had grown. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’d grown used to Ketterdam, to the adventures that came with her involvement with the Dregs, to her easy life at the White Rose. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You have grown fast since the day we were married, and that not so long ago.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horror of it struck Mark like an anvil to his chest, and the rage he’d grown all too familiar with came boiling back up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Everything we ate had been grown on the farm, with the exception of the cream of mushroom soup that was the sauce in the chicken and broccoli casserole. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With us grown and out of the house, my sisters and I reasonably expected our parents' lives to stand still. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone had grown so quiet that you could hear the soft: thump where it fell into the mud. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply froni side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s a grown man now,” my dad told her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I wondered why, and then realized that I had grown so accustomed to being a Negro, to being shown contempt, that I could not rid myself of the cautions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a small place under a grove of blue gums, with tall grass grown up around a few concrete headstones. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Knowing that a grown man entered a child’s bedroom stealing his innocence, makes me sad. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, I knew his eyes would have grown more knowing as I sputtered along filling the spaces with empty pronouncements. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When she finished unpacking their clothes, Ma told the boys to put the suitcase back in the car, which really meant leave grown folks to grown folks’ business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They could see their eyes reflected in it, refracted, grown ten times, goggling back at them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At one point he said, “Now let me show you a bottle in which we have grown massive quantities of cancer cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had grown a little toothbrush mustache in the military style. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, those trees must be grown by the difficult technique of grafting, developed in China long after the beginnings of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His light brown face had grown tough with age, cracked but soft, like a pair of well-worn work boots. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"No one could have grown a flower from the seeds I gave," the emperor said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The gods had by now grown sorry for Odysseus, with the single exception of Poseidon, and Athena was sorriest of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he were grown so that he could decide when to eat, or whether to bother eating at all. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She stepped out of the Wood into the shadow of the haw thorn tree, and looked up the hill at the house where she had grown up. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see images of Sarah, grown, writing books, protesting for change. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

But to a kid who’d grown up with nothing, it seemed like a fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had grown to be a big man, and was, in those days, strong from rowing for Balliol. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he sent for the lad and he came, and he was a man grown now, but still he was rude and still his teeth were as they were. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But she knew better than to expect a grown man to want her, so she went for a schoolboy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had never come back from a past war, and her children were all grown and gone. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not only had Ma Charles’s house grown, but the henhouse and the chicken run had also expanded. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The youngest boy, the one Finn was already thinking of as Other-Finn, was perfectly snaggletoothed, with one adult front tooth partly grown in and one front tooth missing entirely. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All twenty-four students sat upright and still at the desks they had grown too big for. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli had grown his program and his footprint in the fencing world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That is to say, this is a private residence; this room, made so kindly available to me tonight by the Taylors, was once occupied by their eldest son, now long grown and living in Exeter. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years earlier, my brother, Craig, had moved temporarily back into the upstairs apartment we’d grown up in, living above our mother after his own marriage had slowly and painfully fallen apart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She thought, My children are grown up, they are no great responsibility. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grown up in the southern part of Seattle, on the western edge of Lake Washington, south of Seward Park. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At seven, she began playing the trombone, and when she was grown, she played jazz in bands that had never allowed a woman trombonist to perform with them before. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The plants have grown in these last few weeks and they have bloomed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It has grown many feet in the days we have carried it back,” said Tyr. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The piles of paper on his desk and the top of his file cabinet had grown. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Momma talked like this every once in a while, like we were sisters who’d grown up together. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Half the mushrooms in the country are grown there. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her letters had grown much cooler; she was pulling away from him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they are grown up, they break away from the seafloor and are free to pulse through the ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was even grown in deserts and other areas that were very dry. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The river that had seemed so narrow from a distance now stretched wide as a sea, but the city had grown gigantic as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Alyce knocked at the midwife’s door, surprised at how the French roses had grown since last she was there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This latter missive was especially upsetting because I received it soon after learning that the list of victims had grown to include Lopsang Jangbu. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had grown and was tucked underneath a faded black baseball cap. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Don't fret about the dark! There are rats in here. Even grown men are scared of 'em! Hang on to me." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the procession of migrants has grown, so has the determination to help. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It is easy to forget he was grown even before the war, that he had another life, outside Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But between the small man and the grown man, the point had been made. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Leonard Hayflick had an especially personal connection with his cell line, WISH, which Gartler had listed as contaminated: he’d grown it using cells from the amniotic sac in which his unborn daughter had once floated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the troops came and times were so hard, Cilia had always given a large share of her food to Isannah and had grown to look more peaked and worried every week. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing was that when the scientists brought some up to study in a lab, the fish had sensed the light and had grown eyes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped twice and started back toward Emma Lee, but knew that there was nothing he could do against a grown man and a knife. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the children were grown up, they fought over having her come to live with them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her great eyes, with their elaborate lashes, could only be those of a grown woman; there the resemblance to adolescence ended. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The beast has grown too large,” the mayor said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hole had grown on the sole of one shoe where the rubber had worn away. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I am almost a man grown, he had to remind himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He said he admired her for moving to Boston, where she knew no one, instead of remaining in Michigan, where she’d grown up and gone to college. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But this was a grown man's game, and the winner would not be the one whose weapon survived but the one who lived. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, it was empty and lonely and I had grown to like that too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then perhaps she had simply grown accustomed to Luna’s not-knowing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the hospital midmorning for what should have been a simple procedure, but when the doctors tried to remove the splints they discovered tissue had grown around them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

All I know is, I’m more grown than my parents and teachers think I am. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere, like I say, was much more grown up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twenty years old before I ever saw this lake with my own eyes, despite having grown up only two hours from its shores. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Galton’s remarks were brief—but the crowd had already grown restless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A film of ice had formed upon the pool beneath the heart tree, and the face carved into its pale trunk had grown a mustache of little icicles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was still a farmhouse in 1890, when her daddy died and her stepmother went to live with a grown son, Mr. French Gordy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They must have grown on top of a hill before the river was dammed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d wrapped it up in a piece of cloth and written on a card made from Adah’s notebook paper: For my beautiful firstborn child, all grown up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown up hearing the word terrorism, but I never really understood what it meant. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His beard was black and heavy as though it had grown for three days. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had grown up surrounded by the Governor’s magic, but few people ever got to see him actually use his powers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now that my front teeth have grown in. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is an odd stance for a grown man. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Baba’s breathing had grown a little ragged, and he kept wiping sweat off his forehead and scalp with his handkerchief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the town below and couldn’t believe how much it had grown since 1942. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Despite Camp had grown up in a tenant shack, she thought he knew what was meant by coming up in the world. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ophie had even gotten a pair of shoes left behind by one of Cook’s grown daughters. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The big kid, Frank, sat forward, staring at her in fascination, as if she’d grown a third eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She and I had grown up keeping each other’s secrets. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wondered with alarm if there would still be wars when Akira was grown up, and whether he would have to fight in one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Things had grown so tight in Harlem that some hustlers had been forced to go to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lockton stared at her as if she had grown a second head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one—I have grown accustomed to his assistance,” she said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Bright queen,” he said, “you have grown more beautiful in my absence. How is this thing possible?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes had not quite grown used to the dim interior. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Those were the worries she’d grown up with, and they were dulled by familiarity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comprehends it, being a man full grown, able to oversee the kind of house Zeus would endow with honor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her short reign as Queen, the people had grown to love her dearly, for she was the embodiment of true love, steadfast and sweet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like New York has grown my joints up, if not my feelings. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The other set was grown conventionally with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His parents had grown up in neighborhoods less than five miles from their current home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her belly was empty, her feet sore and blistered, and it seemed to her that the cramping had grown worse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He'd looked like a grown man since the seventh grade, and that was before he grew a full beard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dimple, a grown daughter is a reflection of her mother. What do you think others in our community will think of me if they see you...like this?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of her, although the number of bubble nests had grown to eleven. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to remember that your grown father is someone else’s child. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Around them, its noises settled into something quieter, as though it had grown used to their presence, but that didn’t help Ekon’s nerves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We all get shoes, and Ronan stares down at his feet like he’s grown an extra toe. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And here I was, a grown woman sitting on my father’s lap. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now some of the boys have grown up and returned here again. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It had of course sprung up from the half-sovereigns which had fallen out of Uncle Andrew’s pocket when he was turned upside down; just as the silver had grown up from the half-crowns. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It had grown so silent in the hall that she could hear the bells in Khal Drogo's hair, chiming softly with each step he took. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rows of green cornstalks had grown to over five feet high, and in the morning breeze they seemed to form ripples, like waves in the ocean. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There had been no fresh meat in the little house since spring, but now the fawns were grown up, and Pa would go hunting again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, several generations of tenant farmers had grown corn and other grains there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At 250 of the most selective colleges in the country, the proportion of students from upper-income families has grown, not shrunk. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I have two nearly grown daughters who need me less than they once did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m grown up, I don’t have to try so hard, because friends come naturally. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those might be mixed with kernels grown with another herbicide, metolachlor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Both she and the prince had grown up under strict, unforgiving fathers—well, father figure in her case. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then, because the air had grown cooler, he thought about hot chocolate instead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers have grown slightly taller and thicker with age. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own head filled with memories of footpaths, burrows, bushes, and faint rises I’d grown to know on the prairie, faint reminders of our old home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown up together on a farm in Kansas and had both gone to college at Kansas State. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, corn grown in fields within this area contained almost twice as many of the destructive larvae of this insect as did the corn grown outside. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His wife had grown increasingly remote, strange, and inaccessible. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, though, the clouds had scudded off to the horizon and the day had grown hot and muggy but clear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We had grown apart: he had opted for a traditional leadership role and was cooperating with the system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, by the time Mrs. Richardson’s grandfather—by then a successful lawyer—was preparing to bring his bride home, downtown had grown noisy and congested. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If your belly has grown three sizes, like the Grinch’s heart does in the movie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to learn, but I wanted to remain part of the tradition I’d grown up in. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran past him and followed the narrow path on which grass had grown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As a result, both of us had grown fiercely dependent on the small gym on the top floor of the residence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Being grown just meant you were around for a while. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might even have been friends from school who’d grown up and were now middle-aged, which would account for the fact that they looked familiar but strange. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, child, I am so sorry to hear that. Your mama said the two of you had grown close.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the southern states peanuts are usually grown in rotation with cotton, on which BHC is extensively used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was quiet here, the sun had grown sultry, and although magpies were gathered in the cottonwoods by Indian Creek, they made no noise now. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown fatter since they released him, and had regained his old color—indeed, more than regained it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But she had to pay attention now; here beyond the village, the ground had grown uneven, and it was harder to walk. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A former Hitler Youth, Hans was now a student at the University of Munich, and he had grown deeply disillusioned with Hitler, National Socialism, and the war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Remember, grandchildren, like so many other Navajos, I had grown up hearing only criticism and hard words from the bilagaanaas about our people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He indicated our grown son and daughter, playing dominoes, listening in on our secrets. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jane thought: “I shall be grown up in another fourteen years!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give me that mess. Don’t even. Y’all grown folks quick to say something like that. ‘ Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Male chimps, although they are only four feet tall when upright, are at least three times stronger than a grown man. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, what you going to do? Don’t you know I’m a woman grown, and I ain’t fixing to change?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But there Isa was, standing before her, looking so elegant and grown up in the peach gown, not looking a bit appalled by the idea of going to a fancy-pants dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Pop stands, shouting, “A grown man. Two grown men. You. Your partner, Officer Whitter. Armed. Threatened by a boy?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He smiled as I hugged him close and smelled his familiar smell and saw how he had grown taller than me, and quiet and slender and strong. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh shoot! Where the grown people? Is it us?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Starr, you know, you sure have grown since the last time I saw you. You and Khalil both grew up so—” Her voice cracks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m already grown, even though my body’s small. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had grown longer over the winter and was the color of dirty dishwater. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

No tree has ever grown long enough to birth such a pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Now grown men—one a doctor and the other an attorney—both live in California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower offered to reappoint him for a new term, but Strauss had grown weary of dodging brickbats in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Most of the earliest settlers, those with their histories recorded in the museum, had grown old and were gone now. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have grown in stature while Éomer had shrunk; and in his living face they caught a brief vision of the power and majesty of the kings of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The owners, boys and grown men, raced around the cement shores hoping to arrive at the other side in time to keep the boats from bumping. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He probably understood better than any of them what all this was about, having grown up in it and never let on to Sierra... Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Having grown up in a world of widespread antisemitism, he feared that “any demand for his rights” would lead to ugly comments about money and Jews. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You know, Baby has grown wiser but she hasn’t grown taller since the war started.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hunger had grown so big it could never be satisfied. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and if I had been puttin’ in work like you are when I was your age, I’d be grown up and a millionaire right now!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mentions of Mack had grown fewer and fewer until the morning Kitty showed up at nine o’clock at Duke’s Barbershop. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown so small sometimes I’d forget it was there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if it was willing to risk its life to take the Uncle, it might mean that the Nightbeast is getting hungrier for grown witches.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her bulbous abdomen had grown from the size of a golf ball to a racquetball. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The secondhand supplies she had grown to depend upon—the shoes for Lydia, the slightly worn dresser for Marilyn, and the food for them all—were gone, a true catastrophe. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was two years older she had grown faster than him, and in the summer-time they used to wrestle and fight out on the plot of grass by the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, I just hoped that Andrea hadn’t grown up so much that she’d forgotten that I was to have a bathroom of my own when we visited. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if I had grown up with a father like him I would be a more physical person today. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you better go on and read that book before I lose my temper. Think you can come in here and mix yourself up in grown folks’ business? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No one expects her to behave like a grown woman yet, but she has to move into her husband’s house,” said Uncle Kufa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carla has grown up a lot since last year when we were best friends back home. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In the intervening years, music has grown from joyful servant of humankind and the Almighty to a bigger experience than both of them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

People who had grown numb with despair began to feel warm hope kindling inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This grown man, carrying a rifle and obviously in charge of the others, was squirming like a Class Two student. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their kids were grown, and it was rarely used anymore. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I almost laughed at how quickly the roomful of grown men snapped to attention when they heard Ma. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The metal beneath him had grown harder by the hour, and the fanged steel behind made it impossible to lean back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wore the same kind of simple brown dress as she had before, but she was a grown woman now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But I am big now, nearly as tall as her, nearly grown up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I had grown taller, up to my mother’s shoulders now and too big for any of my grandmother’s petticoats. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We compared streets, and discovered we had grown up not too far from each other. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When had that good man grown so old and grey? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

True, most of my fellow workers are better cushioned than I am; they live with spouses or grown children or they have other jobs in addition to this one. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up in West Texas, and it was obvious to her that high school football could galvanize a community and help keep it together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His two children had grown tall and confident, vibrant advertisements for what the next generation could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I left my bow and arrows behind as I went on, for the brush had grown heavy and I could not use them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two of our animals did—the hedgehog, whom I freed when it was fully grown, and Mrs. Kip. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody wanted to be sent to the front, and young women who had grown up firing guns and flying planes in clubs and schools were just as ready to fight as the young men were. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But when their two sons had grown to manhood Thebes was visited by a terrible plague. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so odd not to smell the fresh, earthy, nutty smell that I’ve grown to associate with my grandparents. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mirian hopes to save enough money to return in the next year or two—before her children are grown. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Rats, now grown huge and healthy, chewed on the emaciated bodies of some of the men chained there. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was only that I, inside the same body, had felt myself all at once grown bigger. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly Kate worked to untie the ladder from her belt—but after the long drag uphill, the knot had grown too tight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the tension among the onlookers had grown almost unbearable. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s grown quite a bit, too; we’re practically the same height now, but that isn’t what makes her seem so much older. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chacko marveled at how someone so small and undefined, so vague in her resemblances, could so completely command the attention, the love, the sanity, of a grown man. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dragons have grown, my shoulders have not. They range far afield, hunting.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Hanako had been confused, her teacher had said, “Someday you will understand, and then you will be almost grown up.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My hair has grown back since Starry shaved it, but I keep it short now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth had grown taller than me since last summer, which I found kind of disturbing. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had grown numb to what might happen to me, to whatever my fate might be. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The eighth of ten kids, Oshiro had grown up in a small town in Hawaii. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Great Place went on as before, no different from when I had grown up there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By spring, Sairy had grown increasingly agitated by the loud noises of the city, with the screeching trucks and blaring horns and pounding jackhammers. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian, while he still enjoyed swordplay, had grown to prefer books. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand why a grown man would want to attack a kid. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My fingernails had grown a good three inches by the time he struck his final note and called me close to point out a few simple chords. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In other news, I’ve grown over three inches since the summer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

Although rice was the most important Yayoi crop, 27 other crops new to Japan plus unquestionably domesticated pigs were grown as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She too was a man, but a man grown soft and womanly, a man with breasts, from doing female parts for years. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up and grown middle-aged with Shorty, but he had never really liked or absolutely trusted the man. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nope, unless you can figure out how old ‘ ’bout half grown’ is,” Bill said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Arthur had grown a grizzly beard and was wearing a plaid flannel work shirt with paint-splattered jeans. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This was a late second marriage, and there wouldn't be any concern about what religion they should choose for their children since all. their children were already grown up and chosen. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rickon was to his right, his mop of shaggy auburn hair grown so long that it brushed his ermine mantle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His seventeen-year-old face had grown lines; they zigzagged across his forehead, and inside each line a dark tension had crawled in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And your hair is too grown for your face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was older than Jon, a man grown by law, but it was hard to think of him as anything but a boy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And who’s supposed to believe a grown man was that scared of two children?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When I had to say good-bye again, he stood up tall, as if he were already grown, and said, “I will look after the family while you are gone.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad jumps from the moving truck, hits the ground hard and rolls, then runs back toward the brushfire, which has spread wider and grown taller. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Much as the children longed for more answers, it had grown late, their eyes were heavy, and Mr. Benedict deemed they should rest tonight and leave further explanations for morning. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown out of childhood in the last few days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time Ifemelu saw him, he seemed to her to have grown taller and to have become more reserved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It gladdens my heart to see you like this, Odilia. All grown up,” Papá whispered as I leaned in and allowed him to give me a small, reserved hug. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The nearby city of Ceuta had grown faster than Tangier, and business had fallen off. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I showed Rocco around the city where I had grown up, and we went to the beach at Lake Ontario. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And the cleft lip, just left of midline, where the Chinese doll maker’s instrument may have slipped, or perhaps he had simply grown tired and careless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For Lexie, the precedent was not quite so clear: her mother had grown up in Shaker and had never gone far—just down to Denison for her undergrad before boomeranging back. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The factory owners in Germany have grown wealthy;—dysentery dissolves our bowels. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still a real special feeling and those guys are twenty-one, twenty-two years old, twenty-three, they’re grown men now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check out the buildings I’ve grown up with but never paid any special attention to. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth had grown up in a world where women earned less than men. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After the big, deep, claw-foot tub was filled—too full for a little girl, almost too full for a grown woman—Momma sent the girls away. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The young men, afterward, hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, but he had grown old in his master’s absence. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s pallid, and his face seems to sag, like his skin has grown tired of clinging to the bone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The valley had darkened, grown gray and momentarily still; almost icy cold. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did recognize, albeit faintly, that he was too long, and too big, for this bathtub—he looked like a mostly grown person playing at being a kid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We were so pleased with each other, the childhood friend found at last, the childhood friend mysteriously grown up. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the city, food rations have grown more meager. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

How else could the Cursed One have grown rich so suddenly, unless he—unless he was stealing again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I scratched at the collar of my shirt, wishing it had tassels on it, because the silence between us had grown suddenly heavy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We looked at Whit like she had grown a second head. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

We were disappointed when we came across several plants that had not grown at all. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because I had been raised by men; I hadn’t grown up around women and had never been exposed firsthand to the double standard with which Afghan society sometimes treated them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t very interesting, and while the grown- ups’ attention was diverted, I decided it was a good time to take action. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years a variety of fruits and vegetables, grown in various states, have had to be rejected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I only used that name because I was in doubt. I must not call you ‘Mr.,’ and I have grown to love you—yes, my dear boy, to love you—as Arthur.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I felt angry that Fred and Mom would never know me as a grown woman. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s not like Ellis has grown out of her clothes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had grown up in Franklin, Indiana, and lived there with her parents until 1891, when she set out for a bigger, more glamorous life in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Ebullient and direct, she’d grown up in northern California, where her father had introduced her to camping, hiking, and skiing as a young girl. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grown about an inch taller over the last couple of months. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had all the knowledge then of a grown person, she’d enter into conversation with men and women as clever and full of tricks as someone of eighteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody would suspect he had grown up in a household even more religious than my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Today's discussion was dominated by an Italian nanny, two chatty Poles, and a pouty, plump Moroccan woman who had grown up speaking French and had enrolled in the class hoping to improve her spelling. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was young and enraptured, her joy infectious, especially to Dr. Cigrand, the dentist, who saw so little joy from day to day as he reduced grown men of proven courage to tears. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her ladies evermore praised her beauty, and she loved to be told that she was too young to be the mother of a grown prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But she could see from here that it had not grown at all. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"AD this I learned from Dolf son of Holger before my beard had grown. This is the way of war in the Mountains of the Moon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I know what you mean, how the uglies here are more grown up. You can see it in their feces.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I saw a lot of my old friends, but I found we had just grown into different people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gendry looked fierce when he scowled^ His beard had grown in thick and black as briar. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I do and the two grown men laugh like TaShon, jumping back, yet jumping forward enough to make sure their shirts and hair get wet. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And why is a grown man standing on a little boy? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"You are almost a man grown now, and my heir," Lord Randyll Tarly had told his eldest son, his long knife laying bare the carcass as he spoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His military haircut had grown out spiky and greasy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He wanted her to love him, so he traded. He’s becoming taller and straighter. The bald spot at the back of his head has grown over with hair, Matty. His birthmark has disappeared.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Putting them away again after it was all over had eventually grown too depressing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small number of blacks who had grown up in either Africa or the West Indies had had the disease as children and survived. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She had grown gready on the food given her each day, and although she had as yet said no word at all, still she was plump as a child will be on slight care enough. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He’s grown accustomed to texting with Henry almost every day; the time difference doesn’t matter, since they’re both awake at all ungodly hours of the day and night. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A former naval officer, he claimed to have grown disillusioned with America's long war with Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, many of the stacks had grown to a height of twenty units or more. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He knows this sounds funny, especially when he keeps telling Byrd not to treat him like a baby, but there’s a big difference between being a baby and being all the way grown up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We know that if Our Lord had grown up in Limerick He would never have been crucified because the people of Limerick were always good Catholics and not given to crucifixion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mattie had grown so mysterious to her, that he took the place of someone like the Holy Ghost—he was never seen but his presence was felt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Cersei... the golden child had grown into a vain, foolish, greedy woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When spring arrived with soft breezes and meadows grown green, the villagers began sowing early peas and barley, followed by the village boys who threw stones at the hungry birds trying to eat the seed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up reading and doing her homework beneath the giant stone elephant at the entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered how different I would be if I’d grown up like that, surrounded by art all the time instead of Ma’s Pez holders. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I walked through the rows of the garden and saw that everything had come up; the earth had grown somewhat too hard and caked, but that had done no damage yet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had grown dark outside, and the glass turned into a mirror. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His beard had grown wilder over the summer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sure even the Queen herself would have grown tired of hearing about it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She considered the lines that were roads, the green patches that were parks, and the flat blue of the sound, so different from the tumultuous, gray-faced ocean, where she had grown up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chief White Halfoat had grown almost fond of Captain Flume since his amazing metamorphosis. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time we emerged into the evening gloom to the uproar and bustle of the striking workers, the distance between us had grown even greater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She made sure Amari had food each day and protected her from some of the other women who had grown fierce and violent from their captivity. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jem’s football sweater had grown increasingly gorgeous—he was captain of the team, the first year Maycomb beat Abbottsville in thirteen seasons. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Wilson had grown up eating his mother’s fried chicken, pork chops, and macaroni and cheese. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They lived near the water and had grown up, like all Grosse Pointers, pretending that our shallow lake was no lake at all but actually the ocean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could not see very well by the firelight—it had grown completely dark—but I could tell he was cooking a meal of some kind. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When they got to the railroad site, David announced that they had to clear more track, using vibrasaws to cut through the vegetation that had grown up around the metal rails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

These trees had grown fast in recent years, and now the clearing was completely concealed and had become Matty’s private place. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Cole had grown impatient watching the visitors jot notes in their silly little folders. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the past eighteen months, my mets have hardly grown, leaving me with lungs that suck at being lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely with the assistance of drizzled oxygen and daily Phalanxifor. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The rain ran down his hair into his shirt; it had grown below his ears and touched his neck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seriously, I could be grown with kids of my own and Grandma would be one cough away from death, telling Jay, “Remember that time you couldn’t find my grandbaby and called me for help?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As though this tree was grown, in this very special way, just to host this family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They’ve already grown used to living without him, to watching his life from afar—like fans. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was the only logical explanation; she must have misunderstood the true meaning of the conversation, for she was not used to grown men jesting with one another in such a free and sportive way. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Dunlothian had grown with the slow conservancy of the Old Ones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a divorce of his own, and a grown son. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The enemy before them seemed to have grown rather than diminished, and still more were pressing up from the valley through the breach. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The map was ragged, so thumbed that it had grown as supple as a piece of chamois. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure it must be he, all grown up to a gentleman, for who else would come to see her? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He lived within blocks of his two sisters and two of his three grown children from his first marriage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The number has grown more than 400 percent since 1980, after adjusting for inflation, while the total number of households has grown only 27 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

His face had grown haggard, and he had dark circles under his eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chief Opechancanough did mount one more large attack on the settlers, in 1644, but by then the European population had grown and the Indian population had been decimated. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Here where the fire’s hot breath came, they had grown black and drear. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, they were grown up and they usually had a lot of special weaponry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was times like this that Grace wished she had grown up with a sibling, someone to balance the scales a bit. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And it is this new form of life that has grown up here in our midst that puzzles us, that expresses itself, like a weed growing from under a stone, in terms we call crime. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai examined its wings and saw that the leading pen feathers had grown back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the castle, the mood had grown more hopeful. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The small woman’s long lashes seemed to have grown with amazement. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because he is grown, or a man, and she a little girl. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown smug in their security, overbearing and fat. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a grown person now, whether she wanted to be or not. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sky has finally grown dark when Henry shakes each firefighter’s hand. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between that plane ride out of Cuba and the drive to Lincoln to pick up Mama, I had grown up. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some 60,000 acres of cotton were being grown under irrigation in the Gash Delta. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I may have grown, but I felt like a little kid in his arms. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ben pulled himself more upright in his seat, and addressed me in a tone I had grown to think of as Have-I-Got-a-Puzzle- for-You. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It must have grown up silently, yet swiftly as a flag rises when you pull it up on a flagstaff, while they were all busied about the coronation. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She looked singularly lovely, not like a film star, but like a woman who had grown a souL She was singing by herself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected that by now the search party would have grown tired and gone home but I was surprised to find the enterprise busier than ever. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Someday, when Sansa was grown, he would have to tell her how she had made it all come clear for/him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Having grown up around the hands of Reverend Price, I am fairly immune to such fright. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s at six that grown folks don’t think you’re a cute little kid anymore, they talk to you and expect that you understand everything they mean. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She ate sharp cheese and dark bread for breakfast, and liked chocolate with hazelnuts, and salty black licorice—nothing like the Hershey's Kisses and Starburst sweets I had grown up with. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It also said Gey had grown Helen L.’s cells from a sample taken after her death, not before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was always thinking of what else to do and she told him that it was rare for her, because she had grown up not doing, but being. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I learned he was a married man, fifty-three years old, father of a family now grown and grandfather of two children. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the weakened roots, having grown accustomed to the poison, responded one day to severe pressure, and the tooth fell free, leaving a ragged stump behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now you’re all grown up and fairly far away from home,” I said, smiling. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As excited as I was to have an American family, I had grown used to the idea that Mabinty Suma’s family was mine too. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the thud of my heart against the hollow bowl of my stomach that made me eat a cluster of dandelion weeds grown to waist height. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She was three times as tall as a grown human, but no wider. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anya had a hard time telling the eldest twins apart now that they had grown identical beards. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was due to two factors: I had grown taller and stronger, but more important, Fort Hare was so much smaller than Healdtown, I had less competition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This farmer, a widower named Karl Maynard whose son and daughter were grown, gave him chores to do, but also sent him to school. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But he had this ability to hit a grown man across his face with an open hand and they’d crumple. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The development has grown from the west side to the east side, and we’re on the last street before the east wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he dug into the earth he wished he was a grown man already with nothing of this sort to bother him. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had grown up to be even worse than I had feared. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All this is presently experimental but in the few years since work began on chemo- sterilants the project has grown enormously. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they’d grown so used to hearing the tall tales of their own adventures that they truly believed they would survive when all others had failed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One day I noticed that the plants grown from Momma’s seeds had been killed by the frost, the stalks dead on the ground, with shriveled paper leaves. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape, looking sour, pulled a small bottle from the pocket of his robe, poured a few drops on top of Trevor, and he reappeared suddenly, fully grown. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was glad he hadn’t seen something like that—a grown woman, sobbing on a dirty grocery-store floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Have you ever heard a grown man scream, Mama? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t entirely coherent, and apparently the whole block had grown hushed at the commotion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bag over her shoulder had grown heavy, so she put it down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not mean to say that she was right and he was wrong; she had, after all, grown up in the freethinking atmosphere of Maer, where all sides were openly discussed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were nearly eye-to-eye: he, an imposing grown man; she, a slight and messy child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The tumor in the sergeant majors throat, reports the doctor, has grown to four centimeters in diameter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I turned to the group behind us, which had grown to include a uniformed Secret Service officer in a white shirt and a black tie. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If you have grown up listening to a particular musical tradition, you will automatically have these expectations for a piece of music, even if you are not aware of having them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His hair had grown out longer and curlier. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was a grown man, and he was afraid of her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what compels a fully grown man to surround himself with playthings,” he said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She was grown up, but she wasn’t big enough to fight against three of them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t grown up with Nico, hadn’t even known him very long. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In these past months Phineas and I had grown apart on this; I felt a certain disapproval of him for grumbling about a lost luxury, with a war on. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The server who hadn’t acknowledged me had a round, shaved head and, like many food workers, had grown a bit pudgy from the practically unlimited opportunity he had to filch food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wrapped in a black robe that must’ve belonged to Geryon, because it was three sizes too big even for a grown man. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The city had grown around them over four centuries, cascading down the slopes and then sprawling out over the flat landscape of farms and meadowlands below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The temperature had grown hotter with every step as he’d hurried around the wreckage and down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in a small town near Kiev in the Russian Empire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I was developing—I had grown two inches since September and had just gotten my first training bra with my mom. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the path. But the bushes have somehow grown across and hidden it. Isn’t that strange? I just came through here a day and a half ago. I’m sure it wasn’t overgrown like this then.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

What right had she, a grown woman, who had lived through many storms, to carry on like that? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t hurt that Duncan had grown up in Chicago. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These, God’s ministers, had indeed grown fat, and their dress was rich and various. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He turned back weakly to Snowden, whose breath had grown softer and more rapid, and whose face had grown paler. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She had grown to have some of the nature of an individual, stamped on the simple feelings of the child-queen who had once received her present of captives. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water trickled down the walls, and the stone became slick with whatever fungus had grown over the centuries. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Along the way, they changed the way lettuces were grown, harvested, cleaned, and packed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her flesh had thickened and grown heavy all over her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His face had grown as still as the pool at the heart of the godswood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A soddie on the south end of town, the place looked like the earth had grown a wart or something. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had not at all grown accustomed to it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Candy’s face had grown redder and redder, but before she was done speaking, he had control of himself. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water, when it came, was only lukewarm, but Selmy lingered in the bath until it had grown cold and scrubbed his skin till it was raw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She shone with good nature and the same vitality that Eril-Fane radiated, but without the shadow that had grown over him as they drew nearer to Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You’ve grown, Virginia! You get pret- tier by the day. You look so lovely now that you gained some weight back, dear.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Corporal’s voice had grown hard again, the questions more urgent. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a game they often played, serving imaginary tea to one another, pretending to be grown women. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’d grown to despise the other indents almost as much as the customers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His father, who Conor had grown used to not having around as the trips grew less frequent and the phone calls got further and further apart. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But he looked at her with some strange remorse, and he saw that she had grown thin and her skin was sere and yellow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They had grown up in a ruined home, witness to the moral and economic deterioration of their father and then the slow illness of their mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had grown out, and it curled over his forehead and into his eyes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My body isn’t turning out like the exercise ladies’, but it’s growing, and the more it grows, the sooner I’ll be grown up and the sooner I’ll leave this place forever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Both of you look as though you’ve had Stretching Jinxes put on you. I swear Ron’s grown four inches since I last bought him school robes. Are you hungry, Harry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It’s when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had grown up with the signs, and I simply obeyed their instructions, as my parents and grandparents had taught me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The luckiest and smartest among them, by the time they are grown up, can work their way out of Haiti altogether. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I returned to the house and found that the giants had grown somber, although the small people were still merry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he would rather be home, but they had been gone so long, home had grown somewhat hazy in his mind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy think ’cause he eighteen now, he a grown man.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I believe that trust has to come from both sides; I also think that’s the reason why Father and I have never really grown so close. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Only one percent of a fully grown tree is actually alive at any one time. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I've grown older and become a parent myself, my admiration for my own parents and all they did to attempt to protect us has grown even greater as has my admiration for Oskar Schindler. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The walls, streaked with moss, had grown soft, and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the marks on the wall that showed how much she had grown. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He tells Olivia all of the things Annabelle hasn’t—how her knee pain has grown so that even prolonged spans of sitting hurt. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had grown up singing the old slave songs called spirituals, the hymns she had learned in church, and songs by popular American composers, such as Stephen Foster. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Pauline, the oldest of us, owns her own home, but she sleeps on the living room sofa, while her four grown children and three grandchildren fill up the bedrooms. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

No doubt this is why most grown rabbits will not remain under a hovering kestrel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A high ringing sound somewhere had grown loud enough so that she heard it, and she understood that it had started humming at the edge of her brain before the ghost appeared. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the year and a half since it all began, Richard had grown taller than Du Bois, his shoulders broader. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The organic food in stores like Whole Foods is organic because it is grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That was a cosy little moment, when it felt like we’d left behind the bad feeling that had grown between us in the car. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of his two sisters, grown women now who could deal, and the litany of their growing up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new judge on the case, Judge Thomas B. Norton Jr., had also grown weary of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we would go to San Francisco in the carriage, and pass by the square, there he was, a grown man no taller than me at twelve. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Facing down her own death, with the hissing of the sea behind her and the night spread out like a cape, she seemed to have grown taller, haughtier. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone else wanted Hazel to be more grown up, now the counselor was giving her a time out. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Clara would smile without saying a word and Nivea would go on talking because she had grown used to her daughter’s silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost grown before I could eat meat. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my mother, having grown up without a father, was trying to marry one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He sat with his hands clasped politely, his blond hair and beard in fashion with every other grown man in Kievan Rus’. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A grown woman kicked a teenager out of the way, ignoring her pleas for help. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I got grandchildren that are grown up that don’t call me nothing but Jump Daddy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a wild bush had grown up and practically covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite she was married now, and a mother, she hadn’t grown up any that I could see. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carriage trotted toward the house where he had grown up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The humming of distant machinery had grown louder, and the wall vibrated as his fingers traced an invisible line along its cool surface. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Soon the boys were back near Atlanta, a world away from where they’d grown up, and now without their mother and three sisters, who had died in the crash. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Certainly the Ring had grown greatly in power as it approached the places of its forging; but one thing it did not confer, and that was courage. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Are we grown up enough to see Specters now?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Olmsted himself had grown increasingly susceptible to illness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“If you say something he doesn't like, he will stop talking and start humming. Seriously humming, loud humming. How does a grown man behave so immaturely?” it was Monday morning. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They’d grown so much in the time he’d been gone, yet they were still little girls, clinging to their childhood and their need for his love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

This is the first time his brother has visited him; Theo is just about grown up. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I am grown my mother will still have my shoes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him, wondering how much he had really grown up. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was saddened, for I had grown to feel that Aunt Maggie was another mother to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could make out tiny little microdactyls, medium-sized minidactyls, and then the fully grown pterodactyls, all sailing back and forth, snapping at each other or whatever prey they could find, dancing across the darkness. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The harshness of his homeplace led him to thievery and deceit; had he been grown, he would have been imprisoned or worse. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then, on subsequent National Suicide Days, the grown people looked out from behind curtains as he rang his bell; a few stragglers increased their speed, and little children screamed and ran. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You have grown so fast, Fenrir. It is time to test your strength. We have here the heaviest chains and shackles. Do you think you can break them?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Frankie had grown about three inches, but he still looked more or less the same. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’d know who the Jackson Five were, and he was grown enough to take us to the Garden. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He looks nice, and like a grown man compared to the middle schoolers in the room. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ever the largest of her three, in the wild Drogon had grown larger still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘Impossible! They are all grown from good, healthy seed and guarded day and night.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself standing at the Governor's side as an assistant or an adviser, or whatever sort of jobs grown people had. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It had grown so large over the past couple of weeks. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You wound me, wandering off like this. Have you grown tired of my hospitality so soon?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He would bide his time, make them think he was content to remain here . . . and then, when they had grown lax, he would be off again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our mother was prettier and didn’t look like she’d grown up in an orphanage. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had grown taller and his pigtail was gone but he was the same boy. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should have been exhausted by noon, when the mound of belongings by the front door had grown waist high. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my chin to see how much that one whisker had grown in the time it took for him to get to Joey’s side of the car. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were three grown men and he was a boy, and they hated him and wished him dead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Finally I came upon a pair of rooms missing entire walls, into which a little forest of underbrush and stunted trees had grown. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

While Ares screamed that Athena’s children couldn’t be trusted, and Mars bellowed at him to kill all the Greeks, Frank had grown to respect Annabeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The American economy has also grown more quickly than Europe’s in recent decades, leaving an impression of boundless opportunity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The son of Irish immigrants, Michael had grown up outside of Philadelphia in a tough working-class neighborhood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I look at her closely and realize that she’s not a girl but a grown woman, perhaps a few years older than me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The flag that fluttered on the roof had grown limp and old. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of his child geniuses had grown up to publish books and scholarly articles and thrive in business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There I personally undressed Transito, undid her dreadful hairdo, and was able to observe that with the years she had grown taller, put on weight, and become more beautiful. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined passing my armlessness on to other people, their fully grown arms shrinking and shriveling and getting sucked up into their shoulders with a terrible slurping sound after I touched them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lawrence went into business for himself, opening a convenience store in the basement of an old townhouse; Sonny had graduated from high school, joined the air force, and grown into a handsome ladies’ man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had grown taller and was pale and peaked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They reach, grown people, for something beyond, way beyond and way, way down underneath tissue. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was in Eton’s ancient boathouse, just across the river from the looming eminence of Windsor Castle, that George had grown up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was a grown man, taking advantage of a teen girl. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Deborah knew her mother’s cells had grown like the Blob until there were so many of them they could wrap around the Earth several times. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had grown into another Luke—a big handsome man bearing little resemblance to the boy I remembered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“David, oh, David, it’s been so many years! How you’ve grown, boy; how big you are, boy. Oh, David boy, how are you?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Amari that he had grown taller and gained maturity while on this journey. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To wish and hope that maybe he’d grown up and become my daddy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It occurred to her that he had not grown old—she noticed this more clearly than ever. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I envision the future day when this campaign is finished, and we grown older and commenced men of means—with wives of our own, and children, and farms, perhaps, laid about with barns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, if this were one of those Hallmark movies, one of them would then say, “Izzy’s happiness comes first,” then they’d all wait till I was grown and gone before they all got hitched. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother was grown but I couldn’t let her go into the night, walking up the road like she was on the west side of Oakland. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tobacco grown in the eastern Mediterranean countries where arsenical insecticides are not used has shown no such increase in arsenic content. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was almost a' man grown now, too old to cry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lucia declined it saying she had grown used to bread and water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fifteen years since George Gey had first grown HeLa, the number of published articles involving cell culture had more than tripled each year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was my Negro experience until I was well grown, perhaps too far grown to reform the inflexible habits of childhood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said I must have grown three inches in one month, and she just couldn’t keep up. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The oldest were men grown, seventeen and eighteen years from the day of their naming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tobacco was only one of the crops grown at Adena villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had three grown children, four grandchildren, and a clean record. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He had broad shoulders and bulging arms, hands like hammers, and the leathery skin of a man who’d been sunburned so many times his naturally creamy complexion had grown tough and brown as rawhide. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Joel Salatin had gone off to the barn with his grown son, Daniel. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sure, he’s grown in this past year and looks a lot more mature—but it isn’t just that. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A stallion can bite through the neck of a grown horse,” Rooster Jim had once warned me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

This was something that she had never grown out of. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The music—a song called “Spread Your Wings” that’s really grown on me—cuts off as she abruptly slams her laptop shut and spins in her chair to face me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, though he wasn't dead, he had grown weaker as the day continued. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ha ha, what a riot you are. Don’t worry, all our produce is grown naturally.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His feet had ballooned and grown tender to the point that he finally admitted that walking on them felt like walking on needles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph dug through his old papers, sneezing as he explored one box after another; somehow they’d grown dusty in the move. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown up singing some of those songs in church, and I wondered why murderers would be singing them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I don't want to think about then, when Prim has grown up, my mother passed away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Because,’ she said, intentionally hurting his feelings, ‘you’re just a child yet—Rab’s grown up. There! You don’t mind if I make you look a little like a raccoon, do you?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the bull-dog, which is one of the most betrayed of dogs, Lancelot had grown a face which people could trust. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Howard changed them, and maybe they couldn’t go back to their old hoods because they’ve grown too big, too tall. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In every sense, the Hitler Youth had grown up to become part of the machinery of murder. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown restless from waiting to go hunting with his master and had wandered away to hunt alone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers come after me, but I’ve grown up among the squat, mud-brick houses of the Quarter, and I lose my pursuers quickly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All of this activity occurred in the shadow of Stonetown itself, a city that existed for the sake of its port, and which had grown so large and busy because of it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They headed out, through the half-burnt trees and over the freshly grown brush. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Big Harm, whose girth has grown since we left Flushing, doesn't budge, but the others shift to make room for Ma. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He found that the moat and the bridge had grown hundreds of times bigger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her kids were grown, and she spent a lot of time with my siblings and me, answering questions, helping us with homework, offering advice. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She had simply grown black wings and proceeded to flap about the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

While it was true that she had grown accustomed to the privileges that came with marrying into the Puente family, Lourdes never accepted the life designated for its women. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of the Ents had grown — or what was happening? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Though I’d long grown comfortable on the biggest stages, I still found huge comfort in preparation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve grown stronger. In a way that, perhaps, you can no longer understand. People change. You used to believe that most of all,” said Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But by the time we were ten, we’d grown more ambivalent about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many leaves had fallen and turned to loam, too many plants had grown up and died down over the old home site. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logs were surrounded by crystals, white needles of minerals that had grown out of the rock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Alice followed me casually, as if by some coincidence she had grown tired of the front room at the same time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten just how distant the 1960s have grown. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown a generous mustache in the year since I had last seen him, and there were threads of gray at his temples, but I recognized him in an instant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean, his ‘kids’ are grown now, but yeah,” she says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“If that wild female hurts Esme ...” My voice had grown higher, a note of hysteria beginning to rise in it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She said, “Did I leave because of a name? You’d have to be grown first before I explained. If I told you now, it would just be words.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grown up being called a freak, an arsonist, because whenever he got angry, things burned. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Why do you butt in when grown people are talking?” she demanded, finding her weapon at last. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a bit, and you never will. You’ve grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she has seen interest, disgust, even anger in grown male eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her bleached hair had grown out enough that it looked as if she’d dyed just the tips. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in Idaho during the Great Depression, working summers as a miner to pay for college, and was eager to jump into the ranks of the G-men. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had lost weight and at first I thought she might have grown, because she looked taller, but then I realized it was just an optical illusion, the effect of my own shrinking. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers in Haiti had grown to about 400, and to 120 in Peru, and PIH was about to inherit 15 employees in Russia, which included a presence in Siberia as well as Moscow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For example, chickpeas are widely grown by traditional farmers from the Mediterranean and Ethiopia east to India, with the latter country accounting for 80 percent of the world’s chickpea production today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time their wings had grown out, they had learned to take food from my hand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As fond as he had grown of the girl, it still made him uncomfortable when she touched him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Soon, George told a few of his closest colleagues that he thought his lab might have grown the first immortal human cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to embarrass anyone by saying that all the grown folks were sitting all over the house sobbing their eyes out, so I said, “They’re around.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had grown chubbier, and she didn’t like the outdoors, maybe because it might muss her beehive hairdo. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it had grown increasingly insane, with nasty confrontations between picketers and replacement workers, people arrested, beaten, lying in the street in front of delivery trucks. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one looked like it could have grown from a tree. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I know what he wants to say—stuff about being proud of me and how much I’ve grown up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was a grown man, an angry, violent one at that. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had grown no taller, but he looked a hundred years old. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He had sprouted up over my head and grown broad in the chest. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy, did you hear me ask you about this barbershop? I’m grown; I don’t need you askin’ about my day.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Bushes had grown up all around, the yards were littered, and the decrepit houses now all looked the same to her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The few times she mentioned her own parents, who I’ve never met, it was mostly about how she wanted to get as far away from them as she could once she’d grown up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And secret punishment had grown to be almost a creative thing with him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamt of the days when I would be grown and able to buy a whole carton for myself alone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree had grown great buttresses to support it in storms and in the watery soil. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Nor its Ma, nor its Pa. No more hunting, now, till all the little wild animals have grown up. We’ll just have to do without fresh meat till fall.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown up in a small town. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I’ve just grown up a little. Frankie and I living here, by ourselves, it’s different. Not in a bad way, though." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had not, after all, grown up above his father’s Rex Café in gritty South Philly, nor would he have wanted to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“All right, then. Mrs. Heine, forgive me. Your husband and the defendant—do I have this right?—had grown up together as boys?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He'd looked for a few of the friends he'd played with as a boy, but they were gone, dead, or grown into strangers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But before any decisive combat had taken place, a youth in Thebes not yet grown to manhood had died for his country and in his death had shown himself the noblest of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had grown up without a rabbi and synagogue, did that make her less Jewish than they were? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her grown children had left home, and her husband was inattentive, and she was depressed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The slippers the Butcher King had sent her had grown too uncomfortable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I led Dr Meredith downstairs, showed him into the billiard room, then returned quickly to the smoking room where the atmosphere, if anything, had grown even more convivial. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Way we’re raised around here, children don’t talk back to grown folks. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could see him, his broad-brimmed straight black hat surrounded by the black hats of his three grown sons. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was certain she could check it if she could find the same roots and herbs here on the island that had grown in Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was what he’d grown up with, and the sea, despite its size, was no substitute for green fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we got older he would take me and Peaches to a restaurant on Saturday afternoons and make believe we were grown ladies and that was, like, super-cool. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok, on the other hand, had just grown into an older version of the sharp-eyed girl who Pong remembered visiting Namwon from time to time. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Those natives were grown trees when a political execution took place on Golgotha. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because, as her mother reminded her, Maria had grown up. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That year, 1831, when Harriet regarded herself as sufficiently grown up to wear a bandanna, she kept hearing a strange, fascinating story, told and retold, in the quarter, in the fields. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such impotence, such timidity in a grown man irritated the boy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them seemed to assume I had grown up in a jungle. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And 1 haven’t asked for more food—it should make no difference to her which bowl… He carted clay again for Min, and by midafternoon he had grown more accustomed to the work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was stronger because he was almost full grown and he’d flunked some grade two or three times. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man can get used to anything, and I had grown used to Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he awoke a final time to Number Two’s gentle shaking of his shoulder, Mr. Benedict saw that the day had grown noticeably darker. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a few moments he muttered to Harry, “Did you see he’s grown a stupid little beard?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rooms upstairs had grown unbearably hot; the air conditioners had suddenly stopped working, as though they had decided, in unison, to pay tribute to the end. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had already grown almost quite dark and they now found themselves in a maze of corridors lit only by occasional torches fixed in brackets to the walls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He liked to stay in, read books, watch TV, and pretend that he was grown up. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Nasty. The skin’s nearly grown over the stitch. Might be too late to take them out. What’s the name of the nurse you say is on board?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You! Boy!” he said, and although his voice was small in volume, it was as deep as a grown man’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had grown up on farms in Kansas, twenty miles apart as the crow flies, but had not known each other as children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amid the chaos, a grown man—he appeared to be in his forties—marched up to the van, looking like he wanted to kill us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was nearly grown and would help look after them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a tasty green I had once grown in my Connecticut garden And there was wild mustard, another green, growing out in the sun. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The leg had not grown as the other had. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court had grown impatient with challenges to capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 2004, Reuters had grown its Bangalore content operation to three hundred staff, aiming eventually for a total of fifteen hundred. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She seems to have grown fond of my cap, for she has taken to wearing it rather than her celluloid visor on occasion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the cells consisted of a single brick, a huge mother of a brick, a brick that had grown so fat that the whole cell had plumped up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike later tree domesticates, they could be grown directly by being planted as cuttings or even seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have grown up in a house of butchery. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just the sound of the word in her head made her feel a little more grown up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A full- grown steer may succumb to a heavy infestation in 10 days, and livestock losses in the United States have been estimated at $40,000,000 a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Either her doctors had missed it during her last exams—which seemed impossible—or it had grown at a terrifying rate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So, dear one, I have grown old now and my Niels is gone. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As she raised her comforter and slipped under the sheets, she looked as if she were all alone in the world, as lonely as a woman with two grown daughters could be. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived, he would have grown up to be a Frey.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I've now grown accustomed to hearing the alarms blare at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like he’s grown another six inches since I last saw him up close like this. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It had been grown in the hoop house where the laying hens spend the winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Auntie Alice and I have grown pretty close, for two people who live on opposite sides of the country. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even with a reconstructed jaw, her father still slurred his words a little, but Siobhan had grown to understand his speech. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But all it really took was seeing Vera all grown up—nearly the same age as her mother when we sat in the very same spot, doing the very same thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when I reach the next platform, my feet have grown so huge they won’t fit through the next hole. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It cheered when the exposition orchestra played “Home Sweet Home,” a song that never failed to reduce grown men and women to tears, especially the newest arrivals to the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The cedars that had once grown tall along the coast grew no more, felled by the axes of the Old Empire or consumed by dragonfire when Ghis made war against Valyria. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I had grown restless and bored with my work, and I sensed that God had a new direction in mind for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The open source movement has grown to more than eight million users, perhaps the geekiest social movement on the Net, since its members and passionate adherents are programmers and designers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shannon had grown up in a conservative Christian family in a small town near Rochester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The hedge had grown wild in the sixteen years since Hagrid had taken Harry from the rubble that lay scattered amongst the waist-high grass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Whereupon Stephanie appeared—miraculously!—with steaming enchiladas, a bottle of homemade beer, freshly baked bread, and locally grown grapes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown so used to hearing the water smack and slurp against wood and stone. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my younger years I had learned that grown men cry only when they have no other choice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Both of them start real, real small and then ... woop, zoop, sloop ... before you can say Jack Robinson they’ve gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They seemed to rise directly out of the rock as if they had been grown, not made by human hands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the connection that had grown between them was still there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wings grown stiff from disuse and dull in the bulb light of an apartment with no view to speak of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The space was too small to admit a grown man, so it was a half-grown boy who had slipped in and taken only one of the famous cups. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That news always kills any conversation you’re having with grown folks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I lie there for a minute or two and then reach up to my head, which now feels like I’ve grown a baseball. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure the red fem has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Robert had grown louder with each course. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"You really are the roses of our kingdom. And you can be grown like them. Planted like flower bulbs to germinate in the blood of dead Belles. Then you just spring up." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had grown weary of his handheld video game—evidence that they were on a truly epic drive. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I had grown fully immune to both by the time I was eight. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ser Kevan made his way across the inner ward, the castle seemed an alien place, where every keep and tower had grown icy teeth, and all familiar paths had vanished beneath a white blanket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Wanting to play with toys and wanting to be grown up all at the same time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had grown used to being respected, to giving orders, to making decisions, and to having no more than the sky over his head. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the lemmings, however, the grasses had grown high again and the hour of the caribou was upon the land. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for Rowan, his heart had grown so cold, its fracturing could not hurt him anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But the child I had pulled from the river could so easily have grown into this child—in three or four years. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to wonder at times if the shadow he had loosed might have grown weak, or fled somehow out of the world, for it came no more into his dreams. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His body had straightened, and seemed to have grown bigger. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Of late Boros had grown notably heavier about the face and belly, and his color was not good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The nearly grown girls wore skirts as tight as the custom allowed and the young men slicked their hair down with Moroline Hairdressing and water. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown a bit over the summer, so he was almost as tall as they were. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“All grown up I see, and with a buzz cut.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You see,” continued the minister, bowing thankfully to the duke, “Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was in sixth grade and had grown four inches in the past year. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

By then, the quiet orderly line had grown angry. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She, her husband, and their grown children, whom we worshipped, lived a few blocks from us in Providence. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had, the idea inside her would have kicked and stomped and grown into a rock-hard truth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, “Jeth—Jeth, how you have grown, how much you look like Bill—I can’t believe it.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yolks had transformed into embryos, complete with tiny blood vessels, and they had grown heavier. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was clicking its front legs together, steepling them like hands grown impatient from waiting. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tracy had grown up on a farm west of Lincoln in a religious family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But since she’d become a teenager, her legs had grown long and gawky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our dinners in the residence now often included broccoli, carrots, and kale grown on the South Lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the vibrations, he learned also that the road had grown coarser. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Anne Frank who enjoyed that heavenly existence was completely different from the one who has grown wise within these walls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even I, who have grown up in the house of a redcap, fear goblins. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because terraces soak up more sunlight than steep slopes, maize can be grown at higher than usual altitudes on them; irrigation similarly increases the area available for maize farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That money was no small thing to Francis Gary Powers, who had grown up the son of a coal miner in Virginia during the Great Depression, in a home with no electricity or running water. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This morning I realized that nothing has changed; on the contrary, as I’ve grown older and more mature, my love has grown along with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Chefs around the country, like the ones who buy from Polyface in Virginia, are trying to teach consumers that food actually tastes better when it is fresh, in season, and grown without chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The home I’d grown up in had had five bedrooms; now it had been expanded in all directions and looked as though it had at least forty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now that his hair has grown back, he looks like an ordinary, middle-aged father. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The birth of a better world is not ultimately up to you, though I know, each day, there are grown men and women who tell you otherwise. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Mirabelle has grown so much over the past few months. I wouldn’t recognize her. So skinny before, and now look at her, she’s chubby and glowing. Oh, Lexie, look at those little cheeks.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun had gotten lower in the sky, sitting on top of the mountains in the distance, and the air had grown cooler. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t grown up watching American shows, and I didn't get the references. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After all, this was top-quality grass, grown out of top- quality soil. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean Thomas, who, like Harry, had grown up with Muggles, ended up closing his eyes and jabbing his wand at the list, then picking the subjects it landed on. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

No one had to know I’d grown tired of reading it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

First thing Deydey noticed was the corn, how tall it had grown, how the rain had plumped up the ears, what a good crop they had this year. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, when he had gotten quite out of breath and Paula had probably grown quite seasick in her box, the girl stopped and knocked on a door fit for a giant. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fully grown women were seen going into sweetshops and buying ten Wonka candy bars at a time, then tearing off the wrappers on the spot and peering eagerly underneath for a glint of golden paper. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He shook hands with Mrs. Bessie and, because his uniform made him feel grown up, he kissed Cilia goodbye just as he had the Sunday before seen Rab kiss his aunt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lot more straightforward—more “grown up.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

You just sound so grown up all of a sudden. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“His lady wife is long dead. Lord Wyman has two grown sons, and grandchildren by the elder. And he is too fat to sit a horse, thirty stone at least Val would never have him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moon had grown full without her noticing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was only a few years younger than Robb; if his brother was almost a man grown, so was he. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The imperative to raise the general level of technical proficiency had only grown stronger as the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union grew more inflamed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Pass was just like gone, it was another one of those words grown folks use instead of dead. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Secretary of War Stanton has personally taken charge of identifying the larger conspiracy that has grown out of Booth’s single gunshot, pushing Lafayette Baker from the limelight. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was still radiantly beautiful even though Perseus by now was full grown, and Polydectes fell in love with her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I knocked him on the head with a branch. And he was a much better man than poor old Agravaine, even if we have grown rheumaticky since those bright days.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The episode of the mummies, the photographs, and the hairless Indian in Louis XV shoes that had prompted her flight from her husband’s house had grown hazy with time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alcove at the far side had grown as well, now completely unfettered by knotted ropes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“He has red hair, like us, and like Leo in the photo. Or is that Leo grown up?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And I suppose I might have grown up better, might have become a proper house girl or even taken Aunt Aggie’s place as House Negro. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That was the tradition Ivory had grown up with, not Mojo. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man grown, who freely chose to risk his life for gold and glory. No children die today in Daznak’s, as my gentle queen in her wisdom has decreed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They will have to restart, something they’ve grown used to doing; their youth is packed with more history than most teens their age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I learn, in a couple of hours of scattered exchanges, that Melissa was a waitress before this job, that her husband works in construction and her children are grown. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair and his beard have grown out since he moved back home. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even my own mother, who’d grown up in the village, couldn’t read. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’d grown fond of quoting Vaclav Havel, the great Czech leader who had said that “hope” was the one thing that people struggling in Eastern Europe needed during the era of Soviet domination. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rations had grown smaller; that was the only change. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that first time, the knowledge had grown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s grown it to her shoulders now, and allowed it to resume what appears to be its natural shade, light brown with bits of blond here and there. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her son's beard had grown in redder than his auburn hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Honeywell, a teacher and a grown woman, was escorted to the principal’s office like a bad boy walking the “paddle mile,” while a hallway aide watched her classroom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"The only reason a baby talks baby talk,” he said, "is because that’s all he’s heard from grownups. Some children are almost full grown before they learn that the whole world doesn’t speak baby talk.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ralph had grown more sophisticated from listening to children, he came to understand that children moved. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The suit is rather tight and short, I have grown in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m much more grown up, I think, than Aunt Heidi realizes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had grown up in complete ignorance of what created jobs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my plans for him had come to fruition: he'd grown up to be a stand-up guy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers froze, looked at the group of people gathered in the hallway—which had only grown as more people came to see what the commotion was about—and laughed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Imagining me, all grown up, too, a teacher at last. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The public had also grown skeptical of the brutality of the Lynds regime. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up to be afraid, but he had not grown up to suffer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try fighting, but that punch from the sheriff has me seeing stars and I’m no match for two grown men. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Ten days of silence had grown into a question that my brain shouted inside my head: “Is Annemarie even your friend anymore?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Stella had never seen a grown man cry. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her flesh had grown as thin and ragged as Lannister hopes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Coming from a small college in Pennsylvania, I felt very fortunate to have been admitted, but by the end of my first year I’d grown disillusioned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We drove past the house where Dusty had grown up, the trailer Dusty and my mother had rented, and the apartment where Tommy died. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her twisted fingers looked like the rough old roots of a tree that had grown around a clay brick. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her second wish was that she’d have a nice speaking voice like Mama and Evy and Sissy, and her third wish, for when she was grown up, was that she’d travel all over the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even with the knowledge of the special care those ladies took with the flowers, I could tell these white roses were not grown in one of their own gardens. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In front of it was a lovingly manicured bush grown to chest height. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

By fifteen, he had grown tall and strong and felt ready to make his way in the world. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Caught in a lush, green trap, Indian villages could not possibly have grown as large as he reported—indeed, Meggers once proposed an upper limit of a thousand on their population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But though they had grown up, I am afraid I still treated them more or less as the children they had been when I went to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to avoiding them, the same way a cripple keeps weight off an injured leg. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The invention of airplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switch-over in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I was about eight years old and I went running to him ready to jump in his arms like I always did and he said, ‘Whoa, big man! You too grown for that now.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We’d still go Demon Hunting in the desert together, for old time’s sake, since by then I was seven and too grown up to believe in demons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the places I regularly visited with these junior officers was known as the “gardens,” a series of smallholdings on the edge of the prison grounds where crops were grown for the prison’s kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to moving suddenly and the prospects of another trip did not excite me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s your momma, boy. Don’t be calling her by her name like you grown.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We would eat the food within a short drive of the farm where it had been grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The last time I saw you, you were just a boy! Now look at you. You’re a grown man!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But even when the sister, exhausted from her daily work, had grown tired of caring for Gregor as she had before, even then the mother did not have to come at all on her behalf. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six years later, the tally of geoglyphs in Acre alone had grown to more than two hundred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I avoid looking at the small beer belly that’s grown on him, though I’m aware of it, of the changes in his body, as he must be of mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And these other men in the shed feel even worse than me, because they are grown men. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who desire to be purified cannot be refused and the black stain of his guilt had grown fainter and fainter through his years of lonely wandering and pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Tyrion that the lad had grown three indies since being knighted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And when I found it, I was surprised at how much it had grown. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had never in my life seen a grown man cry that way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As his youngest child I had grown up blessed with special attentions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down home there’s a vile breed of snake called a hoop snake. Not only can it outrun a racehorse, it’s been known to kill a fully grown bear with one bite!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My mouth has grown so dry that I croak when I try to speak. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to his appearance, but that noise. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The carriage holding the photographs of the brutal war and secret resistance, and everyone I have met and grown to care about in the past few days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His trousers hang loosely, his white collared shirt flutters about, so thin he has grown. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d wanted to be very grown up and logical, but she couldn't stop her voice from sounding whiny and childish. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now here they were again, nearly grown girls, sitting in a heap on the pavement. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It forced me to fill my gas tank and compelled me to stop and offer a ride to an old Negro who trudged with heavy heels in the grass- grown verge beside the concrete road. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at how my darling cannibal has grown!” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked to have grown taller during the short time he was gone and he carried himself more like a white man than an Indian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roan had all the pride and fire any grown man would want in his best horse, yet was as gentle as a pet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking he had probably grown up in New York City, the same sergeant said to him, “Must feel like you’re going home, huh?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my hands, which had grown harder over the summer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was then that he felt more deeply than ever what Max had grown to mean to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granny said he had grown a foot in every direction. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Robbing a little child. The pestilence and pox on you. Just you wait until I've grown back to a decent size...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, Maya hadn’t grown up that much since then. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The pestilence had grown so thick within his throat in colonies and clusters that he could not even sip water without the most excruciating pain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If she had remained in Lambert, Candice would have never grown as close to her as she did. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They abused their visitors with a scorn grown mechanical from use. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Playing jokes didn’t have to stop because you got grown. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

First was an old woman named Queenie and her grown daughter, Violet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Green Fork ran swift and deep here, but the Freys had spanned it many centuries past and grown rich off the coin men paid them to cross. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I never much imagined myself as a woman grown, anyway, and nowadays especially it seems a waste of imagination. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also those who had grown weary of it and the oft-repeated phrase that what made it special was the quality of its people. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown three times in length in just a week. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If I had grown to adulthood in a Dinka village like my brothers and sisters before me, I would have had many relatives and many traditions to guide me along the way. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have noticed that she needs a new pair of white socks, her current pair having grown rather gray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea, this cousin who had grown up in the village, who looked at the world with stark and insensitive eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rattling whisper they had heard inside the keep had grown louder, a tremor and moaning in the earth under their feet. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

If she ever would have imagined the Goldengrove or grown up to paint the world full of color. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her daughters had grown up: Johanna was twenty-three and Dorothea thirteen, which at the time was considered the brink of womanhood. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I have grown accustomed to sensing expectation in others, or the lack of it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had grown up watching stubborn, prideful Pashtun men. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had just sprouted a very small leaf the other night, but Seven had not noticed that it had grown to full size. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And as for future voyages, I’ve grown accustomed to the nature of this ship and these waters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries it had grown slowly in all directions, engulfing smaller buildings and courtyards as it spread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They vowed as they watched the pyre burn that when they were grown they would take vengeance upon Thebes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I hadn’t grown accustomed to. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to run away with the circus but take a deep breath and stand, crossing my arms, which have grown skinnier in the past few moments, against my newly sunken chest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He's a kind, steady man, and yes, Mr Stevens, I've grown to love him.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo joined the merchant marines at sixteen and on his first trip went to Dakar, where the markets were filled with monstrous fruits grown in soils of uncommon minerals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since they had arrived in the Kingdom of Death, the mehndi had grown lighter and lighter, as they did naturally, because they were not permanent. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because a person should never show vanity in the presence of death, Lefty stopped shaving and by the day of the funeral had grown nearly a full beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Taryn had finally grown tired of waiting around and asked Drew to the dance herself. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living—without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I argued that the confidence of the people in our campaigns had grown precisely because they realized that we were not reckless with their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child might have grown to be wicked or goodness itself but almost surely ordinary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Sergeant, dear,’ she said, ‘I’d like to make you acquainted with an old friend of the family—but, Johnny, how you have grown! I don’t know whether to introduce you as Johnny or Mr. Tremain.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when our country’s cultural evolution appears to have stagnated and we’ve grown insensitive to justice, the U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a young mother of two small children and had grown up in a poor, rural white family. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No, the worst would be losing someone I have grown to trust and care about. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sky had grown as thick and gray as lead. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The youngest of five children, he had grown up riding the Montgomery city buses in a triangle between school and home and his job with a newspaper. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He was the Stark in Winterfell, his father's son and his brother's heir, and almost a man grown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They said a victim's face turned as purple as the little crystal seed from which his death was grown, but so too did a man choking on a morsel of food. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wrote many poems, but this one has grown to be my personal favorite. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"My God, he's grown another twenty inches. Fine to see you." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I looked at Father for a translation, but he had grown angry. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the noise of the crowd fell away behind them, the world in the shell had grown quiet and calm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a rill, a rivulet, a trickle, no wider than her arm ... and her arm had grown thinner every day she spent on Dragonstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

—Plato I find, dear reader, that I have grown accustomed to the hectic pace of office life, an adjustment which I doubted I could make. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe it is the Count, but he has grown young. My God, if this be so! Oh, my God! my God! If I only knew! if I only knew!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He became serious and his face had the still and steady look of a grown man trying not to vomit ... or cry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown thinner and was almost a waxy pale. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something weird about a grown man wanting to be friends with his own child. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Europe had grown prosperous after the Thirty Years’ War, spurring a demand for luxury and worldly acquisition. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was summertime, the dry season, and the grassland had grown yellowish. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m old enough. Stop thinking of me as a little girl. You have to understand—I’ve grown up.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maize had not grown in these abandoned pastures for centuries, but the handiwork of the land's original inhabitants remained for those with eyes to see it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At twenty-four, William was only a little older than she was, but he had grown up in a very different world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She felt we had grown as much as we could hiding in our tiny flat in town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be swallowed up by the house where she and Warren had grown up and played and argued and planned, where he no longer waited for her, which he would never enter again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Having grown up black and on the South Side, I had little faith in politics. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some dazzled his eyes with the glory of full- grown poppies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is as if the guava grove has grown into the road and woven its matt of branches tightly in all directions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Each time they climbed a ridge the breeze seemed to have grown less. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Separated from the world in which she had grown up, she seemed to me to be lonely and adrift. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Now she felt that they were unseemly in a grown man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The everyday lack of my music was like a toothache I had grown used to. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cathy always had a child’s figure even after she was grown, slender, delicate arms and hands—tiny hands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have grown up to become teachers, psychologists, accountants, news reporters, and published authors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The snowmen the squires had built had grown into monstrous giants, ten feet tall and hideously misshapen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had tried Googling, but everything online was for grown women, actual moms. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had listened to his brother Tom and their cousin Eb, the two younger of the grown boys in the household, and their excitement had found its way into his blood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Though he's older than Your Grace, to be sure. A man grown." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Since he had grown out of the toddling stage, he and I had become very close. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got the explanation much faster than grown men generally did. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he saw that once again the men had grown uneasy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

In these few days my uneasiness has grown worse. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I reached my village, my father and mother had grown as old as the two whose shapes I could at last no longer see. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom spoke evenly, her words coming out at normal speed, yet everything seemed slowed down, as if time itself had grown heavy. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Others sold live chickens, so there were crates piled as tall as a grown man filled with rustling feathers and frantic clucks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But either the darkness had grown complete, or else his eyes had lost their sight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Though the work in the fields had grown easier for her, she still ached from it. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But every year since, he’s grown into himself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I had it in my mind that she’d grown up spending four hours a day in front of the mirror, narcissism to the point of solipsism. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I refilled them with fresh candles and set them all around on the grass, under the trees, mostly in the little holes of earth where the cabbage weeds had grown. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past several days it had grown from a pale streak on the horizon to...well, to the Cusp, whatever the Cusp was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She could not help smiling at the thought of herself grown up, with long skirts and a hand-bag. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Over the summer, as the last few seniors turned sixteen and pretty, the tricks had grown worse and worse. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had grown up together in the old village that both of their ancestors, with their work and their good habits, had transformed into one of the finest towns in the province. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“One more song, James. These sounds have grown on me.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He would overcome them: his band had grown large, and for the treasures Hrothgar could afford now to give them in sign of his thanks, his warriors became hornets. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them are the owners of the papaya orchard I visited, who have happily grown crops on their terra preta for two decades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By now the noise in the classroom had grown to a low buzz. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they’ll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn’t been bothered for years. They’d grown careless.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The strange figure was closer; it had grown into a giant! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Have you grown?” he asked me with a fond smile. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the river floated a deserted canoe in which spirogyra had grown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I've grown up with only a handful of photographs, and most of them are grainy and distant. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The courtesan bent over him and looked long at his face, into his eyes that had grown tired. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought it might happen in the distant future, once I’m a grown woman with an important job and my own house and a husband and children. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a little boy who had never grown up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Villages had become towns and towns had grown to cities. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boots had grown bigger, but also fatter—Aurelia loved to feed him and she gave him more than he really needed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sweet beets were grown in profusion hereabouts, and were served with almost every meal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Irish American through and through, Day had grown up just north of the Washington campus, in the area where the fraternities were located. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had been hearing this song all her life, she had grown up with it, but she had never understood it as well as she understood it now. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

With so few Americans having a favorable opinion of Muslims, Islam had grown to be one of the most stigmatized religions in the country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the years we had known them, we had grown probably as close as we could to demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile was now whole—new teeth had grown in over the winter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘Ma abets him. And Ma says it’s not suitable for grown women like Madge and Dorcas to be carrying buckets through the streets. So I’m the one.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up among piles of books, but even she couldn't imagine there were books behind all the windows of this huge house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then, "You have certainly grown while I was away, from a chit of a girl into a fine young lady." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had grown so accustomed to the chaos of his mother’s previous lives that he did not know how to function when a family worked as it should. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She left her family back in what was the old East Germany to make enough money to send for her husband and three grown children. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s definitely more complicated, given the cultural scripts we’ve all grown up with,” said Woolner, who has a master’s degree in counseling and radiates a thoughtful sincerity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The column has grown bigger and louder; it drowns out Tao’s reply. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Frank scowled at the dragon’s-tooth point, which had grown back completely overnight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had amongst my scholars several farmers’ daughters: young women grown, almost. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before long, the congregation had grown so large that he moved elsewhere and refurnished the house with rows of wooden pews and a tiled fountain in the place once occupied by the family’s television set. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If it had been ten years, they would have grown into men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Deep greenery had grown over the entrance and ant columns crisscrossed the walk. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His hair has grown out so it flips at his ears, and he wears a blue T-shirt and a pair of rectangular glasses. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They would see their grown children who lived in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout their conversation, Sticky’s expression had grown more and more dejected, his big eyes sadder and sadder, so that at last his face had taken on the exact gloomy look of that miserable man Milligan. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face had grown as still as the pool at the heart of the godswood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Flanking it on foot were the Cowgill brothers, who had all grown up to be good Christian men, except for Ernie, who was in jail. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d made the mistake of thinking that perhaps we’d grown closer, and were no longer enemies, since she was not torturing me for the past week—but perhaps she had only stopped because of Kalinda. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because he was sitting there when the half grown boy came around the corner of the house whistling and saw him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a thickly grown garden heavy with shrubs and trees, hard to see past from the road. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When you’re grown up, then you can make up your own mind about religion, which has been responsible for a lot of wars and massacres in his opinion, as well as bigotry and intolerance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I still belong there, where I can be with her. When I’m grown up I’ll be able to look after her properly, in my own house. No one can interfere then.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I haven’t gotten used to seeing him with a proper beard, although there are patches on the sides of his mouth where it hasn’t grown in fully. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z