From the garden I got peas, lettuce, and spinach, took half and set the rest on the porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He would hang his gun on the wall over the door, throw off his fur cap and coat and mittens, and call: “Where’s my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed, however, that his health regimen didn’t keep him from eating more than half of my food. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They made a perfect half circle in front of the synagogue doors, like a steel trap with gaping jaws ready to be sprung. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at this woman here beside me, half stranger, half mother. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman came to the door of the cabin and stood, half lost in the shadows, as she looked out at the passing wagon. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking in rather a superior tone with his eyes half shut; that was why he didn't see the changed expression in the faces of Hwin and Aravis. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I have an adjustable bed with the top half elevated so I'm sitting more than lying down. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We walk around for half an hour, looking for a store that’s affordable, and I just want to give up and bury my face in a Cinnabon, even though they always make me sick. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the north sailed in half the great Armada. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I even had maid service—didn't have to make a bed or pick a wet towel off the floor for half a year. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When he returns to our table, he has a half dozen more fortune cookies for her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had gone into Afghanistan to bring back my half brother’s son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trees and shrubbery of the woods were already half dead—a tinder- box ready to light up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, for example, of the fifty thousand African Americans who have taken the Race IAT so far, about half of them, like me, have stronger associations with whites than with blacks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“And on what evidence, Pip,” asked Mr. Jaggers, very coolly, as he paused with his handkerchief half way to his nose, “does Provis make this claim?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boy continued staring, speechless, as the Governor took a half step back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He looks over at me, seems to think a minute, opens another and pours a full glass for himself and half a glass for me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes never left Mr. Canton, but he took the backpack and he followed me out of the office — a half step behind. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I stub it out and, before I can change my mind, break all the others in half. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Colin was half paying attention to the game while scribbling graphs, trying to make the Theorem account for the fact that Lindsey Lee Wells was, quite clearly, still his girlfriend. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Naturally I didn’t say that most likely she was going to get half of it instead of a third. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once, long ago, he had sawed golf balls in half, trying to find out what was inside; but at some point in his life my brother had become fascinated with the interior of the mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the courtyard, half a dozen riders of the Fairy Hunt awaited them, along with riding horses and packhorses loaded with canvas-covered gear. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t sit up again until Dad called me for dinner an album and a half later. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I skipped going to the cafeteria and ate half a bar of chocolate as I made my way to our lunch spot. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mama had stayed up until Master came home and Ugwu was in the kitchen, half asleep, waiting to lock up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looks up at him as if surprised to see that he is still there, as if they have not been sitting five feet apart for two and a half hours. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But I’m restless and moody, and after about half an hour I leave. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She might be treating them like allies rather than enemies, but Percy could tell Reyna still had a not-so-soft spot for Leo, probably because he’d blown up half the Forum in New Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

From the lookout, they could also see the colored clay cliffs of Moshup Beach, but you couldn’t get down to the water without a hot walk of about half a mile. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then one day I saw lightning split a tree nearly in half. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The first creature looked like the top half of a miniature giraffe sutured onto the bottom half of a donkey. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had to half feel sorry for the girl then. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lena’s hut was gone, replaced by an unfamiliar road with trees on all sides; half the trees had decided to put on their fall colors, but the other half stubbornly clung to summer green. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he couldn't find any nine and a halfs for Noodles. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

About half an hour after we had received Mrs. Harker’s telegram, there came a quiet, resolute knock at the hall door. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had the half step but I knew what he was going for. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

That is nice, Uhmma says and chops the scallions in half. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It rose slowly as they approached, and Catelyn saw that the lower half of it was red with rust. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Heaven knew what would happen with a rabbit and two coyotes jammed in beneath her, and I had just about half a second to get ready for it when I realized I was mistaken.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were promoting it for fall, only Hilda, as usual, was half a year ahead of time. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After about a half hour of touring the lower and upper quads, some of the dorms, and the Cramton Auditorium, it’s time to sit in on a lecture by one of Howard’s professors. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He says he means to use the fat that slowly accumulates in the tin-lid for polishing his boots, and roars with laughter for half an hour at his own joke. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the road they passed a half dozen brightly painted houses, some tidy and some not, and then they were in front of the only thing that looked like a store. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I never saw anything like it. Nat, if you knew half as much Latin as you know arithmetic, you could enter Harvard tomorrow!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lake Malawi is one of the biggest in the world and nearly covers the entire eastern half of our country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

On one side of the room sat half a dozen women, all in white; they were much occupied with a beautiful baby, who seemed to belong to the youngest of the women. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The spray — one- half pound of DDT to the acre in a solution of oil — filtered down through the balsam forests and some of it finally reached the ground and the flowing streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The pain was so bad he almost lost the girl, and for half a heartbeat he feared this was as far as he would go. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the second half of summer, and the amateur falconers in Camelot were bringing their peregrines to the last stages of their training. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two years, the British post would become the penny post, which meant that a letter would cost a penny per half ounce no matter where it was going in England. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Wang Lung in the old days when the great family were there would have felt himself one of these common people and against the great and half hating, half fearful of them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“One useless six-pack of water,” Alex said, “a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, two cans of tuna, and a box of Wheaties. What else do you have in real food?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Since they were going to be the last blue emitters made for some time, the price was high, and my share was slightly over a talent and a half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After three and a half weeks, Magyar Television somehow learned that Bobby was staying at Nagymaros and sent a camera crew to film him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cultural anthropologists attempting to describe the diversity of human societies often divide them into as many as half a dozen categories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to unbutton his shirt because I want it off, but the bottom half is trapped beneath my thighs, so we pull apart and he puts me down so I can finish. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I would give him half and store the other half in the cave, where it would not freeze. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Depending on where that fellow grew up, a league could be anywhere between two to three and a half miles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dots and ties give you much freedom to write notes of varying lengths, but so far you must build your notes from halves of other notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

During the next half hour they tapped, they studied, they pressed, they poked, they leaned, they tugged, they opened, they closed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how many more Congs were hiding in the huts, half buried under furniture or mats, but he wasn’t going to risk any of us to find out. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

At practice, Luma would ride her bicycle around the track for half an hour, setting the pace for her players, who ran behind her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ma also joins me to watch The Brady Bunch for half an hour before bending over the cloth, shears in hand. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frank offered me five dollars, which I think was half the money he had made for delivering the package, but I didn’t take it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Pynto was in a jolly mood and gave her a cup of watered wine, a chunk of stinky cheese, and half of an eel pie. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t notice that both her mom and her dad got teary or that half the people in the room were now choked up as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mama took an old green army blanket, tore it in half, and lined the box with it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Through prayer. I pray to the Lord for my half sister’s wicked soul.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Got his head laid back, mouth half open, but I know it’s just another way he’s got to trick me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still have an hour and half before Phil’s supposed to pick me up. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Tisquantum, the interpreter, had shown up alone at Massasoit's home a year and a half before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They carry, half concealed within their medical terminology, stories of such human tragedies as that of two young cousins in Czechoslovakia, boys who lived in the same town and had always worked and played together. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, “want to read it? That’s a first-rate story.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as if to show that all things were equal to him, of his own free will he issued in addition half a pound of synthetic honey to each man. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you say what he’s done? He could have told half the people at the party.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Losher’s redeemed the stale bread from the dealers and sold it at half price to the poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time this book went to print, thirteen million American children were living in poverty, some half million of whom labor in the fields that grow America’s food. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

There were, he remembered, something like half a million different species of animal, of which mankind was only one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Composers spent half their lives walking across Germany to work for different archbishops and archdukes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize I’ve been trying to get your mother for an hour and a half and the line’s been busy?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’d fetched them up himself, after spending half the night searching through dusty vaults by lantern light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were half a dozen, with dirty fur and cracked teeth and beady red eyes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She made a desperate sort of half leap, and it cost her as she slipped farther down the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The fish tank took up half the desk space, and there was still room for writing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a huge purple bruise covering half his face-—the other half is red and angry to match his eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No food that I could dream of seemed half so utterly delicious as vanilla wafers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At your house, along with half the neighborhood, and your parents. Your mom is, like, threatening to call the police.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was a half acre of green corn that Mom had planted. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And there it is: half a hubcap of city plaza, with the spokes of Bagley, Washington, Woodward, Broadway, and Madison radiating from it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Stateroom 3 is glorious as well as a misnomer—it constitutes half the car, and contains at least one additional room, which is cordoned off with a thick velvet curtain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’ve only got to take half a gramme of soma first. And now I’m going to have my bath.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about half a mile away, according to the map. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The farm was located up in the hills, away from the river, about a half hour’s walk from Shin’s former school and the house where he had lived with his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the time the guards came for him, Koslowe said, “that man was half dead.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, this wasn’t half as difficult as having to sit still all day and not say a word. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to do as well in a half hour as you did with Paul in an hour.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors decided the best time to operate would be when I was about four and a half years old. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’m only half Filipina, so we don’t look exactly alike, but our family says we have the same smile. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When I shine my flashlight around, I’m more than half expecting to see a ghost standing in the corner of the room. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Two and a half years later, Mariam awoke on the morning of September 27 to the sounds of shouting and whistling, fire-crackers and music. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went to the place where the front door had been and raked until he found that lock, crooked and half melted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was about half as long again as an ordinary man but was much thicker. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want any more “culture” in his life, and he could go on forever pretending the Korean half of him didn’t exist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We poured half into another bowl and grabbed some cups. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got Willie a good paying job there with time and a half for overtime. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors about the Yule Ball were flying everywhere, though Harry didn’t believe half of them — for instance, that Dumbledore had bought eight hundred barrels of mulled mead from Madam Rosmerta. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It ran half the length of the city and had become its most coveted real estate, never mind that much of it fell in humbler neighborhoods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The guests laughed, but it was a joyless laughter, the sort of laughter that can turn into sobbing in half a heartbeat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gawaine said roughly: “The half of yon was done by sore ill fortune.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The microwave had stopped heating, but the little green oval halves looked exactly the same. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In exchange, the au pair was to help out with child care for up to forty five hours per week, five and one half days per week. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fraction of an inch of mistake, half a second of hesitation, and my life is over. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Blah, blah, blah, as Genie stared at the broken piece of wheel, wondering what happened to the other half. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The shiny weapons were half the appeal anyway! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Therefore the fourth degree of the Lydian mode is raised one half step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then Tom and Goldberry set the table; and the hobbits sat half in wonder and half in laughter: so fair was the grace of Goldberry and so merry and odd the caperings of Tom. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The second half of the book showed the secrets of how to make things disappear and how to throw your voice and pull rabbits from hats. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Maria—relieved to be away from the conventions of society and to reunite with her half brother Caspar—tried to embrace this structured, spiritual way of life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After three and a half months we can spare an hour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps bigger than this, with two, three, or half a dozen people still alive. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Four pilots and four navigators of the 46th Guards perished in flames in the space of half an hour. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Before the long hour and a half of prayers and Bible-reading was over, I felt ready to perish with cold. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So I slip him half of my sandwich. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I finally shoved the hash down all the way I bent the spoon in half and left it in the hole. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was hissing, its front half writhing in all different directions. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took another swallow, thinking to himself that every line he had spoken was lifted without due credit from a half dozen different movies he had seen in his lifetime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first half is full of facts about evolution. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

For a moment he stood silently, half hidden in the shadow, looking out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I made it up the stairs half walking, half on my hands and knees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Down on the floor the trail of crumbs and marshmallows looked half alive. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We agree to play half an hour because the Ballinacurra boys say they have to go to lunch. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

One of Gebu’s fists rose more swiftly than Ranofer could dodge, and struck him a glancing blow across the mouth which nevertheless felt as if it had loosened half his teeth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was filling out so quickly that Patrice now thought he was closer to three and a half or four years old. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning she may not have known, but when I sold her, week after week, one small pumpkin or half a dozen brinjals she must have guessed the truth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I untangled Liam’s arms from the gray seat belt and half pushed, half rolled him off the driver’s seat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Look, you need to get out of there. We’re on half day today, so get ready, ’cause I’m coming over after school. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When she looked down, her Evan-Picone white-with-a-band-of-color skirt was lying in a neat half fold on the shoulder of the road, and she was far far from home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze, half vacant, was directed at the long car too. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At least half his working life was given over to alchemy and wayward religious pursuits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I get each tidbit so small I can’t rip it in half again, I add it to the pile in my lap. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me for staring,” said Milo, after he had been staring for some time, “but I’ve never seen half a child before.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it were half an hour earlier, we could have tracked backward and gone down another street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Bogert asked the question now, while she sat aside, eyes and mind half closed. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In other words, the calf got half, and we got half. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about half a dozen men and Shasta had never seen anyone like them before. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’m half expecting it to be empty, but instead, right up on the dirt next to us is a big ol’ wriggling fish. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Achilles is faster, so in half a second, he makes up the half foot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The bird half of Miss Peregrine had so thoroughly dominated her nature that it was refusing to be driven away without a fight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

About half an hour has passed before I decide I have to eat again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It smells green, the way a leaf does when you tear it in half. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After two meals of this, the cook frowned and sent up half a loaf of salt bread, as instructed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So if you have only four eggs, reduce all the other ingredients in the recipe by half. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planet looked like a giant swirling blue marble, half a marble, really, surrounded by blackness. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Given the UN encampment was on the road to the airport, I knew I was beginning the journey north of Kinshasa, with half a mile of marsh separating me from the river. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how he would look at them, smiling, and half whistling a tune under his breath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

No different than Fort Devens, except that half of them carried their rifles around with them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sort of half smiles when I sit down, and says, “Willowdean.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Harry unwrapped a salami sandwich and silently offered half of it to Joe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sure. So, how about you, uh—you know—just, uh—” he says as he awkwardly half stands so he can lean across the table to kiss me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What?” the corporal half screamed, breath and spit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years later, there would be 75 billion texts sent a month, with around half of them sent by people under the age of thirty-five. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The night became less dark, light enough for them to see, or half see, shapeless drifts of fog, curling and twisting as it rolled over them and passed them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He had, in fact, no wish to end his days at the library—half blind or otherwise—and every hope of earning his squint lines by looking at the horizon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Looks down, like he’s realizing just now that he’s half naked. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer, there were always divers hanging around half dressed by the side of the road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, your sweatshirt must weigh two pounds. And...cargo shorts? All those pockets. Pound and a half. Boots! Hiking boots. Might as well wear two toddlers on your feet.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was sitting up snoring before I finished rolling half of her head. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Werner is half the corporal’s height and has to take two strides for every one of the man’s. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her first blow brought down the roof of the doghouse, and a squeal from the dog, who had just had his tail half severed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lily opened the door, her hair wild and her eyes half closed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After a good half hour, he comes out of the bathroom. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But, for the record: Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts—that’s over one and a half billion people worldwide. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They were still worn out from a day and a half of bumping along on the Greyhound. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Twenty-six of them, if you count a caboose missing half of one side, all Union Pacific. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Bonneville’s body lay half in and half out of the dazzling moonlight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, it was in a low rasp, in the jíbaro dialect, his lips in an apologetic half smile. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Almost all the members of the force were earning less than half of what many workers had been paid for their labor in the war factories. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He half expected to see Gandalf come striding up through the dusk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She said it in this frozen voice that would have quieted any seventh-grade class in half a second. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The other half are solemn, no matter what, which is equally horrendous. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brushed off the lice, tore the bread in half, and gave half to the other boy. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the year and a half since the trail was hacked out, the brush had begun to grow back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Half of the soldiers were black, mostly from Chicago, the other half white, mostly from California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At which Bernabe rolled his eyes, half in frustration, also half-lovingly, as he sarcastically crowed: “Welcome, ball fans, to the World Series of Darkness!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whale was enormous, rising so that its front half was totally clear of the water, towering over him, looking down on him, studying him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Qydlittn Square She folded the note in half and wrote “Mayor Cole” on the front. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The van Daans, who always make breakfast for everyone, give themselves one and a half times more than they do us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They half walked, half ran up the wide dark street thronged with late-night revelers and lined with closed shops, stars twinkling above them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But when I spotted a bottle, half filled with sour milk, I had to reach for it with my bare hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You only wrote a page and a half!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My head feels like it’s going to crack in half like an egg. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were real glass bottles of Coke looking cold as ice in the refrigerator and a great big half of a watermelon taking up space. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the butcher knife Ma cut the big, orange-colored pumpkins into halves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In half an hour they were back at the crossroads, the ships planted, all of them out of the ships. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sequestering herself in her bedroom with her violin, she would walk the mile and a half to the house on Winslow right after school, where Mia would be hard at work. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because the chromosome number for a given species is constant, the egg and the sperm, which are to unite to form a new individual, must carry to their union only half the species number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were airborne less than a half minute after the chopper had touched down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neglect! I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of that noble place. Charles, when you build your house, I wish it may be half as delightful as Pemberley.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Translating's half poem and half crossword and no doddle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I half expected to find an army of security guards waiting for me outside, their guns leveled at my face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would just sit off in a corner with a half smile on his face, imagining. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the dance ended, the Daughters stood panting in a half circle before Our Lady of Chains, and what they did next took my breath away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been a high school teacher before the communists fired him—this was shortly after the coup of 1978, about a year and a half before the Soviets had invaded. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That familiar exercise of hers, half rumination, half anxiety. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That means half of us are dog meat,” Joey muttered. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Came a morning when—half in a doze, exhausted from lack of sleep—Herbie heard a curious thock-crunch sound, then a faint plop, followed by a nauseating scuffling noise. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the eagle flew over and split the air in half with his terrible screech. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I bounced onto my half of the back seat and quickly felt restless. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Drogo was a bolder man than the other horselords in half a hundred ways, she had found . . . but not in this. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then he gave Wishbone half a vanilla wafer and said, “I knew you were staying here.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe this is an omen,” said the Englishman, half aloud. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faculty mailboxes are still half- empty, the mail piled in a bin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the left there are a few fruit trees and then, farther left, another small field of about an acre and a half. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A week and a half later, they drew lots again, and the black spot came to Waxley. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I got a half a chicken sandwich in my room. Ya want it? I didn’t touch it or anything.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I get half the profit, and Megan gets half the profit. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Endrin, always one of the most deadly of the pesticides, killed half the shrimp at a concentration of only half of one part per billion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She went in feetfirst and was standing on Becca’s computer desk, half in the house and half out of it, when I asked her, “Can’t I just be lookout?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He studied them and then handed one to Jamie, who was saying something to Linds, something she did a half smile back at. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He leaned heavily on the man beside him, and I saw that the bottom half of his right leg was missing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

No doubt Phaëthon had often watched the Sun riding through the heavens and had told himself with a feeling, half awe, half excitement, “It is my father up there.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Balthamos couldn’t tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She and her father were even there for about half an hour. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I half expect him to turn me away, to tell me that only gente de close can enter, not people like me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket contained victuals: bread, half a chicken, water, and a bottle of beer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Minotaur was a monster, half bull, half human, the offspring of Minos’ wife Pasiphaë and a wonderfully beautiful bull. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal door was half hidden behind a laundry bin full of dirty hotel towels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So I make the toast and slice up an apple and listen with half an ear as the morning-show people chat about something to do with floral arrangements. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The resulting epidemic proceeded to kill nearly half of the Aztecs, including Emperor Cuitlahuac. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Partners in Health had changed offices as it began to grow to about a dozen staff—about half volunteers, the rest underpaid employees. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Still only half awake, I go into the bathroom and, by force of habit, turn on the shower, then realize I forgot to get a towel. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wore dark-framed glasses, a cream- colored jacket with the zipper half open, and a pair of sharply creased light-brown pants. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 22, Federal Judge Lemley granted the school board’s request for a stay in the integration order for Central High School, delaying it for three and a half years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, ma’am, Big Charlie tolt me the only way he could go was if I paid him half his wages ’fore going and half once we got back. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Way more than half of the runners had gone by before we saw Danny limping past the first bend. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now Johnny no longer kept half of the money he and Goblin earned carrying letters. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I peer overboard, I half expect the Abyssal Serpent to launch itself out of the water, clamp onto my head, and take me down. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Just a half bathroom—a toilet and a sink. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It opened about a foot and a half, giving me just enough room to squeeze inside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Your body got so used to not having food it got sick if you ate even half a bowl of soup. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mom and Layla had hugged, and Mom had wiped her eyes, all while Ivy watched from the doorway, half a granola bar stuffed in her mouth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s a spot in the roof, see it, almost over them. The last blast didn’t quite get it. If you can get it at the base, half the roof will cave in.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I figured out which button opened the sunroof, and I stood up with the top half of my body sticking out of the car. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The short sides measured a mile and a half. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had long laces, too long, and he found that one lace cut in half would take care of both shoes and that left the other lace for a bowstring. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piles of bear scat on the trail and, at one point, a set of fresh grizzly tracks—each print half again as long as a size- nine boot print—put me on edge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In half an hour, he had a whole song pulled together: words, melody, and chords. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had done half the retreat on foot and swum part of the Tagliamento with his knee. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I met the Franks, the stubborn, charismatic father-and-son team who then more or less ran the tribe, in a cluttered office that in my recollection occupied half of a double- wide trailer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the end of the month, half the steel industry, including almost all the mills in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, West Virginia; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio, had shut down. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The other half had been sued at least twice, and Levinson found that just on the basis of those conversations, she could find clear differences between the two groups. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The guards make their rounds every minute and a half, stand for twenty seconds, and then move on. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then, as he tried to lap the water, his legs seemed to crumple under him and he collapsed, half in and half out of the rut. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking that I’m starving and I have a candy bar in my bag. You want half?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds because I know that at some point in the next half hour, I will see Tobias. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The obvious difference between them was the century and a half of large-scale warfare in the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Over half of them at night. Mostly on Blenheims—that’s what I was flying all the time I was operational.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I can see only half of a basement which, I judge from the distance I’ve come, is under the church. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending the first year and a half of my legal career sleeping on Steve Bright's living room couch in Atlanta, it was time to find an apartment of my own. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Arul joined him, and the boys discovered even more: golden laddu balls, some half eaten, some barely touched. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And, under the bony glow of a half­moon, I sensed Afghanistan humming under my feet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His jeans are half tucked into his boots and his baseball cap is fraying and trimmed in sweat stains. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were seen wandering in circles, dazed and half blind, before dying in convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a story in those cups—a story that went back more than a half century. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tied quarters here would sound exactly like a half note crossing the bar line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had seen her composed face many times over the past year and a half; surprising her felt like a weird sort of victory, a Pyrrhic one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tjaden has become so fastidious that he only half smokes his cigars. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much about Askar, except that he looked like my dad, but he was half a hand shorter, half a size smaller, half as educated, and half as friendly. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ghost kept pace with them for almost half a mile, red tongue lolling from his mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Carolyn Malone was half running up the road, clutching a large book to her chest. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Where is Mother?” asked Meg, as she and Jo ran down to thank her for their gifts, half an hour later. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master Lockton had been half following the turn of events while supervising the unloading. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The half that explodes is enough to kill us,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d seen a couple of births on that cable-TV show, and people usually yelled for a while; sometimes they swore and it had to be bleeped, but it never took longer than half an hour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stretching five stories high, it swallows nearly half the street, and has three empty storefronts on the first floor with cobwebbed windows and faded signs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve tucked my hair inside the collar of my shirt and wrapped an old scarf—now soggy— across the lower half of my face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Dizzy from it, I half closed my eyes and let Emma pull me along while with my free hand I reached into my pocket to touch the cold glass of my phone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As always, he shuffles back to the door, turns half a circle, and lies down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

You had to be like that to be a fly half, and I’m sure that Joey had been hit square against his unpadded body at least a thousand times more than Casey ever had. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

About half of them were old people with walking-sticks, but there were also plenty of families with a husband, a wife and several children. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Marcus and I waved hello to each other, and we sometimes talked a little, except when he didn’t notice I was there, which was about half the time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Aunt Mary got me some new things, for I came off in such a hurry I wasn’t half ready. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael, one long afternoon, helped Dale Papineau—self-appointed caretaker for half a dozen summer families—prune back the alder branches overarching their long drive. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This had been the thing they’d been waiting for half their lives without even realizing it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘All right,’ said Frodo in a remote voice, as of one speaking half asleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Nope, unless you can figure out how old ‘ ’bout half grown’ is,” Bill said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the piano, a young girl leafed through a few sheets of music, but when she saw me looking at her, she ducked her head crossly and tore the sheets in half. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Others were quite large, maybe half a mile in length. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boys don’t be home very much,” said Mae as they came up into the half light of the loft. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They searched for half an hour and found none. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, however, after some searching, I found a signpost to 'Mortimer's Pond', and so it was that I arrived here at this spot a little over half an hour ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was still shuddering, and his muscles seemed only half there, like the rest of him was still on the ice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ben looked up at his sister, looked into her eyes, felt the fear in his stomach, half sea, half fire and said, “Yes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others chewed gum to trigger salivation; Tommy Luther could spit off as much as half a pound in a few hours. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not even like walking alone half a block from the house to the mailbox. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I got two half days a week at the adoption center at Zimmerman’s, which was my way of getting away from him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sword laid the in-truder open to the bone, taking off half his nose and open-ing a gash cheek to cheek under those eyes, eyes, eyes like blue stars burning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Deoch and I had talked for a long while, and between us drank half a bottle of the stuff. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I may begin with a brief round of applause: I didn’t do half bad at the work itself, and I claim this as a considerable achievement. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the end, when all of those separate and idiosyncratic chains were completed, half of those letters ended up in the hands of Jacobs, Jones, and Brown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time for that. These are fine girls, they’ll go quickly. Give me half an hour’s time on your front steps, and we both walk away with heavier pockets.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, they were two and two-fifths seconds below the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She folded the letter in half and promised herself that she'd do the right thing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The basement wasn’t quite finished, bathroom project abandoned years ago, toilet bowl off its sewage site, half inch of dust coating it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Forty feet, down two and a half, kicking up some dust.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held out the half shell full of gelatinous glop. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Honestly, she doesn’t stop chattering for half an hour. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean it in the our souls were split and you’re my other half forever and ever sort of way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Do you miss me half as much as I miss you? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At half an hour after midnight, as you all know, the train ran into a snowdrift. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it takes half as long to get back as it took to get here, we’re going to be much later than I’m comfortable with. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She nodded and flashed me a half smile. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My brother looked at me then real sad, but with a weird half smile. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

On that first morning of her new life April had spent half an hour arranging her limp blond hair in a high upsweep, such as Dorothea sometimes wore. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neel didn’t bother to rub out their footprints as they climbed the lower half of the trail that sloped up the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Men like Swart, Gregory, and Warrant Officer Brand reinforced my belief in the essential humanity even of those who had kept me behind bars for the previous twenty-seven and a half years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were near the western end of the Long Bridge, which linked the two halves of the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem so much like a nosy up-down boy, nagging me half to death about being my Backpack Buddy. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It's only half full because I've been writing in small letters. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Long cream-colored banners whip through the air, flying Eldred’s symbol—a tree that is half white flowers and half thorns, roots dangling beneath it and a crown atop. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Within half an hour, the three of them had arrived at a road that dead-ended along the river Thames. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When we came out for the second half, there were two less cheerleaders. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The congregation sang along with the choir for an eye-rolling half hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I get about half my music from unprotected sites, and half from private sites with very restricted access. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skeleton I’d cut in half was already fully re-formed, coming after me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And I’m British on one half, and American on the other!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Use the chromatic circle to find the direction and number of half steps to get from your key to the other key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He told them to drink one bottle before going to bed that night, then a half bottle in the morning, and then a half bottle around lunchtime. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He leaves the door half open and walks out of sight to wherever he keeps his recycling. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Struggling out onto the ice, the crew witnessed the last of Endurance, a mile and a half away, as her bows went under. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Love, Lily P. S. I do not for one half second believe my mother left me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were senators and famous actors, generals and world-renowned doctors, a few ex-presidents, and half a dozen dictators from places Matt had heard about on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have half such a hard time as I do,” said Jo. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was meant for, I was the one who folded it in half and stuck it in my pocket, so I could feel Faith and the frogs’ true story riding close to my skin. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then he tore a chicken strip in half with a grunt like the Hulk. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fur on end, it looked half again as big as it was in real life. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you a lift home then. Any idea what this says? Been puzzling over it for half an hour.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Already? They don’t take more than half an hour to prepare.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I spot a smoking wooden beam half in the water, half out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat on the couch for about half an hour before we heard By scream as loud as he could. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was warm and Edmond was outdoors, sitting carefully upright on a lawn chair in the white garden, his eyes half closed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

An inch and a half above sea level. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every year there were half a dozen or more reports in similar vein, all by credible witnesses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The motorbike helped me, because I could get to the river in half a day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had been saying it every Sunday for the past month and a half, and not only to Gaia Vasilakis. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey walked at half her normal speed, because of Sammy’s short legs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still lay there, rusty now, half submerged in water. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

If only she wouldn’t eat half of them first, I said to Luke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two dueled for the first half of the game, but Bobby clearly had the advantage after that and he won on the thirty-ninth move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I observed, and I still didn’t understand half of it, but unlike at the shows I didn’t feel left out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1974, Anthony Saidy wrote in The World of Chess that “perhaps half of all of the greatest players of the past hundred years have been Jews.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had half expected he would simply know what to do when the time came. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yarn and needles and buttons and the toady-frog and the half knit sweater flewed all over the stoop like your guts do after you been hoop snake bit! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever come back to this jail, Dacus. Don’t you ever come near me,” Palmer spat in the half light of the anteroom, a wantonness twisting his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As our teacher spoke to us, Jupiter loomed behind her, filling half the sky, its Great Red Spot churning slowly just over her left shoulder. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the pan are big orange things cut in half. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria seemed to be half the size of a football field, filled with long tables. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were half closed, and he looked almost bloated with all the gifts he’d received. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We get half, but we don’t end up bloody, and he can move the scavenge out on the train.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was inevitably how they spent half the visit. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This from the latest serial killer—destined for the chair, they say—who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Watching Gramma’s coffin get lowered into that grave just about broke me in half. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The door opens, and Tobias steps halfway in, the door dividing his body in half. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He thrust half a dozen torches into the brazier’s glowing coals and watched the oiled rags flare up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are some gourds that grow perfectly round, and we would cut these in half and use them as plates. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was half boutique, half workshop—and a paradise to Horace, who practically cartwheeled inside, crying, “I’m in Heaven!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Pressing a key on the desk intercom, Phil Resch said, “Inspector Garland has asked that no calls be put through to him for the next half hour. He’s involved in work that can’t be interrupted.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature’s jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was her—green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs—would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It rang a half dozen times on the other end before the Eberhardts’ answering machine picked up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these friends were half in love with Sofía anyway, and it was she they sought out in the crowded room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Maya, Kareem and his parents will be here in half an hour. Get up.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In Ka’apor-managed forests, according to Balee’s plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by humans for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mother had lived in Chicago as a girl, and she had died there, half a lifetime ago. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After a half hour of mandatory singing, they marched off to their assigned farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

That half of the city was mostly built on solid white limestone, with only a little bit of topsoil above it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We drove for the next hour and a half and the snow kept falling, even though it wasn’t sticking to the pavement, only the grass. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It's two and half weeks after the accident. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She half ran back to the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It got around the whole stupid school in probably a minute and a half. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She beat her defender to the outside and then crossed the ball in to Tino, who scored the first goal of the half. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes into the second half, Josiah tapped the ball past his defender on the left wing and then ran after it, leaving the Blue Springs player frozen behind him. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then, she held on to me a little tighter, and for the next half hour, Mary Elizabeth didn’t talk at all. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man behind her, crouching down, half in the grass, half out of it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A cloud that shaped itself into a funnel and a funnel that shaped itself into a tornado, and then a giant mushroom, and then a cloud that covered half the earth. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to knock a half dozen times. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He always won and half the time I could never get any sorta fire at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.39: Note lengths work just like fractions in arithmetic: two half notes or four quarter notes last the same amount of time as one whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We don’t do anything for a good half hour. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And then she said, “Half an hour, Christopher. I need you to be quiet for half an hour.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That's what he asked himself when he tipped into the street, his hand up timidly as traffic slowed for him, and picked up the cracked halves of the skateboard. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He turned to the gods, half of the rock in each hand, and now he was twenty, thirty, fifty feet tall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All he needed to do was shift his weight and sink the half nelson. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The soil destined to support the northern half of the building showed total settlement of less than one inch, consistent with the rest of the park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Across half one cheek and well down her neck, her flesh was stiff and dead, the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stony to the touch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My brother Ramo was only a little boy half my age, which was twelve. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take less than a half hour to get to the Bronx gym and minutes to get into his gear. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably should’ve asked you to be more specific about where we were going before driving an hour and a half to get here,” he says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Made me feel dumber than a pig with half a brain. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We have an hour and a half before our plane leaves, honey,” my mom says, but Charlie ignores her and tells us to hurry. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

For half an hour, Pax tried—he chased scurrying voles and hopping wrens, and once a sunning frog. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Afterward they sat together, and Charles watched “the clock as the hand travels sadly too fast to half past eleven—Then to my study & work till 2 o’clock luncheon time.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head unfortunately cracks open in two halves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I flip through the pages in my notebook, and half of them are blank. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Guenever stitched away with the half-blank mind of a needlewoman, the other half of her brain moving idly among her troubles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been charged with ensuring Nicole Castro’s eventual return to the Hollows and her transition back to normalcy—whatever that could be with half your face burned away—went smoothly. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he gave an agitated flutter of his wings and half flew, half hopped closer to her, bending forward until his great sharp beak was only a few inches from her face. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She swipes down my arm and coats half my face with my blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the jollof rice, fried plantains, and half of a drumstick on my plate and tried to concentrate, tried to get the food down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly she calculated a way to eat only half of the food tonight and the rest for their next dinner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chamber into which she had stepped was spacious—at that level, almost half of the huge trunk was hollow—and clean, but the floor was extremely rough. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

What if I went mad down there, and half my life is gone? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Feathers’ mouth is ajar—Suma’s holding her blanket over one eye, even though I’m sure they can’t know what half the story means. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hattie has five and a half trunks, Mother. And I have only—” Olive stopped speaking to count on her fingers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl’s sly. Every time she tells us something, it turns out it’s only half true.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We half burrowed in the soggy leaves, the smell of decay and rebirth clouding around us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The man lay on his side, half catatonic, whispering and drooling. writhed under her sheets, moaning softly, in the grip of some nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When they came back, they were half a dollar poorer, twenty minutes older, and decidedly more swaggering at the walk. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still think it’s odd. I have half a mind to make you take it off.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the Great Square, half a dozen children screamed back at the night, trying to blot out the sound. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bells were still ringing the half hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like getting to the end of a book only to discover that the last page has been torn in half. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her mother had hung woolen army blankets to divide the Imadas’ cramped room in half and had given them, on their wedding night, two cots adjacent to the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Used to be it was just Mrs. Ellison and her banana bread, but found me a ham sandwich today in Nora Klingle’s box and half a baked pie in the Saunders’. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry clapped once, nearly scaring me half to death. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Without lights our ship glides out to sea, emptied of half its passengers. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Just peppermint dust and a few that are broken in half. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I have been curled up with my back against the wall for at least a half hour, listening to the roaring wind and watching the city smear past us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It slammed into the wet asphalt and skidded in a shower of sparks for about half a mile before coming to a stop. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because the ivy in the front hall needs a half cup of water every other day or it droops. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cautiously Milo worked himself around in a half circle so that he could face Yossarian. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A mile and a half of iron fencing dating from the 1750s had been taken away to be melted down to make Spitfires. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Assembly after assembly had broken up in laughter when someone had leaned too far back and the log had whipped and thrown half a dozen boys backwards into the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

About half an hour later, Mama came down and asked Papa, “Can we take Isatu?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, by the time half the class has gotten through their turns, it’s time for break, and I haven’t been called on yet. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It was no accident!” someone shouted, and almost half the room voiced their bitter agreement. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I stood trembling at the curb, watching and half expecting to see the man leap from the door to follow me, whistling the old forgotten jingle about a bare-rumped robin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat was on him, crouched half across his body. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom turns her head to the side and looks at me with a half grin. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We must hurry,” Inigo said, picking up the pace; “much as we might like to dawdle,” and he half ran toward a sign that said, “To Level Three.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Half the squad at Jackson, half at me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was half open, her breathing loud and low. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he met leopards, snakes, and some creatures that were half animal, half person, and very dangerous. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The birth interval for many farm peoples is around two years, half that of hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half darkness. "--so I took one look at him--" said Mr. Wolfshiem, shaking my hand earnestly, "--and what do you think I did?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She leaned in for a kiss, but before I could meet her in the middle, the funeral home door flew open again, banging against the wall, scaring us both half to death. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the first stage King Pellinore and Sir Grummore stood opposite each other for about half an hour, and walloped each other on the helm. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was teaching Theresa and half the time I didn’t understand what they were saying. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the creatures pulled themselves onto the sand, I saw that they were only horses in the front; their back halves were silvery fish bodies, with glistening scales and rainbow tail fins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

At last check, she was wearing a size one and a half, and she just has to get down to a size one. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped closer to the cattle, bending down to inspect their bellies and legs, walking a half circle in the muddy snow, looking at all of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw almost immediately it wasn’t really a wall, but a pair of sliding doors which you could use to section off the front half of what was otherwise one long room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy stared down at her half drawing and tried to breathe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Three doctors, a half dozen soldiers, and a small number of theater patrons have battled their way into the box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was half past six, and the hands were going quietly on. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, I turned to Mamá, half expecting her to cry. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He only has one friend, who’s half Asian like him, and the other boys pick on them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

All up at once, the men took helm and shield— four fighting men, counting Odysseus, with Dolios’ half dozen sons. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived two and a half hours in that condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let her flay half my face, it will be a small price to pay for her consent to the Dornish marriage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I sit half in, half out, scrolling through my texts from Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She half turns, half smiles, her eyes brimming with tears. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two and a half different dreams about sandy hair wrapped around his fingers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As the high tide came in, salty water covered the lower half of the path and the shore and coursed deep into the ravine. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was still hot and the down was so quiet that they could hear the horses tearing the grass in the paddock of Cannon Heath Farm, more than half a mile away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strode right up to the marble woman, and she seemed to look back at him with a quizzical half smile on her face, beautiful yet slightly intimidating. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She gave him that evil grin, and crossed the bridge with that walk he'd liked so well, half saunter and half sway. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Do a back flip with a half twist in it!” cried Charlotte. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, not half, but a good bit of it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the chickenyard she caught a little pullet, took it to the block and chopped its head off, and held the writhing neck over the jelly jar until it was half full of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For half an hour he saw nothing, heard nothing but the faint ruffle of Margalo’s wings when she stirred in dream. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

You could always tell him it’s a half day at your high school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby insisted that his passport was perfectly legal and had two and a half years to go before it expired. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to know half the people of Park Slope. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But not half as sorry as that poor bull’s gonna be.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She looked around as though she’d just realized that we were half in the woods, half leaning against the back of Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those stopped and searched were racial minorities, and more than half were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They watched him, half skeptical, half wondering whether this little Jewish boy was as strange and potent as his companion. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The giant was half the length of my spear from the reef, but while I watched, one of his long arms ran out like a snake and felt its way into the crevice. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are half a dozen spots where scientists, in hard hats, gloves, and safety glasses are down in the rock and dirt, working. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They didn’t care he was half black and his kind of Indian was the kind from the warm oceans. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say hollowly, “let’s provoke the woman who can force half of this compound to kill themselves. That sounds like a great idea.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now a half a loaf of bread was life itself, and my mother was gone. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but coal bricks at the half mark. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A local jury awarded them half a million dollars, and the case was appealed to the U.S. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because of this, horses must be brought down from exercise gradually, slowly decelerating over about a half mile after a race and then undergoing a long walk. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought there’d be more of you, though. Father said there’d be at least a half dozen men in the escort. He said just fall flat when the shooting started.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was three and a half feet deep, eight feet wide and twenty-six feet long, exactly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet it wasn’t half as scary as you imagined.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Half of the tiny yard was a cement patio and the other half was another patch of grass that our imaginary cow would devour in two bites. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had left behind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Green eyes and porcelain skin, long straight silvery hair, very lovely, but too solemn by half. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was a huge sum, half a year’s work for this man. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was evident from Feral’s glower that he was losing, while Minya looked half bored, and stifled a yawn before moving her piece. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She’d spent half a day watching Pelor—and while she only pretended to be mediocre, he truly could use the training. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Probably be at least half an hour before she wraps this up.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Ten thousand pounds! Heaven forbid! How is half such a sum to be repaid?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I’m too focused on the agony of being torn in half, like something inside of me is being savagely ripped out. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When at least half a dozen people asked him what he was doing October 27 he was puzzled, for he had forgotten he had given this date as his birthday. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now more than half the line had gone by. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve been making YouTube videos for about half that time to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He half dragged, half walked her back to the kitchen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was half through my spiel, the last person was walking away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She watched him, her face half in shadow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Robert looks so real, you half expect him to crunch his beer can against his forehead and ask for another cold one. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

For half a moment I found myself looking through the windshield at a pair of glowing eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He talked out of the side of his mouth, which made it seem like he was half smiling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He pulls my hat down so it covers my entire face and half my neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Millie stepped out but will be back in about half an hour.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Ivy struggled to get Aaron to finish even half of his bottle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of a half dozen stripped new deads in front of the apartment building, with no guarantee they’d ever be removed, which meant dodging rats just to get through the door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The vibe was half library, half storage facility. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

No. Instead, after three and a half weeks of this, her first month, she’s suddenly despondent. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Kino could see them in his mind, slipping along the track, whining a little with eagerness, and behind them, dark and half disinterested, the horseman with the rifle. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood about muttering, half with blades to hand, each looking to the others for resolve. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Fugees hadn’t given up a goal in the second half. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Following his gaze, he turned around to find half a dozen fellows from the shell house standing in a semicircle, holding their dirty plates out to him, grins smeared across their faces. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the left side of the road. You two take the right. Tell them we gotta meet. Our house. A half hour. Shake a leg, now.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since it always died down when the night was half over, I knew how long I had been traveling and how far away the dawn was. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cowered on the ground in front of the Warlord, half starved and dull-eyed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he flashes me a half smile and walks away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then her mother collapsed; she simply began to slide down as if her bones had liquefied until she half lay, half sat on the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her pointe shoes probably snap in half when she points and flexes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“As in meet me at the East Gate Tennis Club in half an hour. And Jay? Tell me you don’t have Wii” “PS3, thank you very much.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The others are almost half a length behind her now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In half a minute it could be turned out and the mold oiled for the next pouring. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“One side of your face is caved in where your cheekbone shattered, and half your teeth are missing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

More than half of the nation thought black people wanted to take over white jobs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“With riders reversed, Seabiscuit would have won by half a length. Jack Pollard did not go to the whip near the wire until too late. The defeat may be chalked up to Mr. Pollard.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosie is munching happily on another watermelon—it’s at least her second, but there are still half a dozen in the corner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He takes half of it upstairs, where the exclusive Mommy and Me-type slumber party is going on without us. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Where are you going?” she mumbled, half asleep. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Who spends half her life in bed immobilized with terrible pain, shutting out the world. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time for this, convict. Nearly half my time-stop has elapsed. Another few hours and one of my best officers will be blue-rinsed!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her oarsmen were safe below, protected from'missiles by the half deck that sheltered them, but the men-at-arms crowded topside were not so fortunate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands and Momma would get yakking to each other and we could only understand half of the things that they said. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was driving for half an hour before I came upon any turn that could conceivably be called a road. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time there’s a party, half the things in the ground spoil. We’ve got to stop feeding the hogs. It’s all human teeth anyhow.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within half a minute, I have nicks all over my face and a gash in my left arm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then they simply overpowered the older boys in the last mile to pull away and win by a convincing length and a half. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He lay on his side with his face half in mud. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went out and bought a fancy egg timer that can accurately measure a half minute. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But after another half loop of the lake, he'd be back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the half, whenever he got the ball, Mandela turned and made a lonely dash for the Santos’ goal, refusing to pass to his open teammates. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Brandon’s mother, sister, and half of the church stood up and started clapping. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was navy blue with white leather binding, like half a dozen other suitcases that had just been carried off the train. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead of in Homo erectus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a thin beam of moonlight coming into the room, and a shape upon his bed, about half way down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The seijeant staggered sideways half a step before his knees folded under him and he sank down to the floor, his whole body shaking grotesquely. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Duncan half turns but doesn't break stride. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I'd spend the half hour parroting whatever Agent Samson had to say. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the back half of the store there was a loft and a spiral staircase that led up to it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Two and a half miles of complete darkness. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Betamax, of course! VHS’s going extinct. Problem is, when we got the video out of its box yesterday, half its insides was missing.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And maybe once in a while she sees in her head my daddy running toward her on a half frozen lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

After spending half the day at National, we went to visit a small private college and a big university so we could experience how different they were. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just thinking my half sister’s name made me grit my teeth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And lurking behind them, half ashamed, half proud, was Andrew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It took a day and a half of watching the tiny digits pile up: eye-numbing, disorienting work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He ate the bread and half an •* egg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Princess, you don’t know the half of it.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack and Moniek grabbed a loaf and tore it in half, cramming it into their mouths. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, four and a half months after baby Joseph was born, Henrietta went to the bathroom and found blood spotting her underwear when it wasn’t her time of the month. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the rover's blazing 25 kph top speed, it'll take me three and a half hours before I run the battery down. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leans forward on his stool, and though half the inn lies between him and the children, he seems to be whispering to them alone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear glanced surreptitiously at his colleagues; many were setting up half a dozen planks or more. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock strike the half hour, then people began to pass, in Sunday and easter clothes. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their family was half and half like a carton of rich milk. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still, more than half thought it unlikely that they would become wealthy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Bring half the tip money home to me, too,” said Lita. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The second half is stuff my brother and I told each other. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I only smoked one, to try it,” I say, though they can clearly see that the pack is half empty. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looks like a whitewashed world, like it’s a virtual world only half finished, its surfaces unpainted and without texture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Four and a half in favor of suspending punishment,” the Chancellor said after a pause. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry sped toward the hostages, half expecting the merpeople to lower their spears and charge at him, but they did nothing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I tucked the second half of the cookie back into its foil wrapper to give to Otto once he woke up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'm limited by my oxygen production, but I'm all excited now, so I'm willing to use half my reserves. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second half of the 1590s, his personal commitments had increased when he established a stable relationship with Marina Gamba, a local Paduan woman from a lower social class. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

You said no, told him you had to clean up, which was half true. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I am not the trusting fool you take me for... nor am I half wildling, no matter what you believe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Somebody ran to fetch the doctor, and half an hour later this gentleman made a majestic and drunken arrival in his horse-drawn buggy. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know what was going on and they were impatient for me to take my shot so the second half of the game could begin. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier half turned in his seat, surprised that a woman should interest herself in such things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Losing my best friend felt like losing half of my heart. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Not half what we owe, but the best we can do without selling the seed for the next sowing.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a poor thing indeed, and the meager throng that had gathered to watch filled but half the seats. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her youngest child is two and a half years old. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was too early in the half to get into a slowdown but that was what they were doing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my...You know what? Let’s forget it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Those things must weigh half a ton, dude. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Another half second, and we would have clipped it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The walls were papered with hundreds of broadsides and ballad-sheets, plus playbills for half a dozen theatres. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the sky was sunlit; half of it was moonlit. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would take nearly a half century after US independence was won to accomplish what Jefferson had hoped for: the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation to “beyond the Mississippi.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour of listening and repeating the cry for help he tore the headset off in frustration and threw it to the floor. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, about half of the baseball team were taking drunken turns at playing an NFL video game on Blake’s parents’ wide-screen television. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The merchant had been asking ten pennies for half a pound of salt, fifteen for a loaf of sugar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And after a frantic and relentless second half, the Fugees were tired. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The views were sensational, across lazy hills to the Adirondacks half a dozen miles to the west, but it was really hot. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I barely understood half the lines in Paradise Lost, but I'd learned astronomy. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lights of the city smudged the sky with yellow, swallowing half the stars he had been able to see from the open country. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

For this I got another half bucket of water in the face. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The top of Gareth’s head was off,” he said with indifference, “and he had a surprised expression. Gaheris had no expression, because his head was split in half.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turned the corner, ran another half block, and I turned again without thinking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Match time: Thirty-six seconds, which is four and a half times longer than the first match. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could easily drink half a bottle a day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, then. So are the rumors true?” he asked, a half smile on his face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The fight lasted less than a minute and a half. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a mile and a half out of town, a deputy blocked the entrance to a bridge after the runners had passed over, and refused to let reporters and cameramen go any farther. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But getting around the fire means adding at least another half mile to the journey. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the second half, Felix scored eight points, all on fast breaks, and had a couple of assists. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We apply another round of medicine because the skin seems too delicate for the sunlight, but it doesn’t look half as bad on smooth skin and will be good camouflage in the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though a wife and mother, Gilly still seemed half a child to him, a slender little thing wrapped up in one of Sam’s old cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad’s coffee mug, half empty, sat on the floor. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

His head fell to the side, his eyes half open. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Some few minutes before total immersion. Dr. 09-01 — mark that Venus is half way to its first internal contact... half way ... now.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On one strip ran the bottom half of her signature—no, her forged signature: Pearl’s name in her own handwriting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ran over and hugged her, feeling like at least this battle was half won, even if the rest of my life was a mess. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She took the blow this time, angling her staff so he hit the bottom half. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half later, the expedition was once again heading down the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was probably three and a half or four. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her body half in the water, and her front feet curved over a piece of driftwood, she turned her head and looked toward the shore. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the war, Groves calculated, its construction, engineering, and electricity would cost more than a half billion dollars, making it the single most expensive component of the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, a week and a half after the rally, a day dawned that was so clear and dry, Luke knew Dad would be in the fields all day. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is it,” said Henry deliberately, “that you never drink more than half your second cup of coffee after supper?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a tray full of little chickens and started hacking them in half with a butcher knife that was so big, it looked like it belonged to Conan the Barbarian. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I also run downstairs and make a bowl of popcorn, and grab and chug half a twenty-ounce bottle of tepid ginger ale. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Before the children had gone half the distance to the bridge, the wind began to carry a strong, spicy scent to their noses. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bagman wiped his round, boyish face with his handkerchief and looked at Mr. Crouch, who was standing outside the circle of the firelight, his face half hidden in shadow. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She hastily ate half a slice of bread, drank some of the horribly bitter cocoa Elinor had made, and went out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

No breakfast, no lunch, and a half a can of spinach for supper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Will grumblingly accepted the southern half of the valley as his exclusive area, and within fifteen years the valley was two-deep in Fords and Will was a rich man driving a Marmon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A count taken by Sir Bedivere showed that half the knights were missing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other five games I went in as a sub for either Victor or Maya in the second half. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the usual changes to the way we got here—day’s half over,” Minho replied as he looked at his watch emotionlessly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Better?" he asked, half sincere, half hoping there was one more booger left and that it was somehow making a mean face at Jasmine. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Before Shasta had time even to guess what it was there was a great splash and he found his mouth half full of salt water. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“No, man, I just—” Their house god Vitellius shimmered into existence, standing half embedded in Frank’s couch. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Within half an hour we had come to a wall of rock, the first of many, perhaps 400 feet high. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now, Fifi, who could not be long without her other half, headed towards the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Well, if you can feign love or compassion half so well as you can feign an agonizing death, you'll be as famous as Burbage." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He folded her toward him carefully, half expecting her to object. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bawl at the splintered sunlight where half a second ago she stood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby’s shorts were spattered with paint stains, and the pocket of her T-shirt was half torn off. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They walked home, then, she half a dozen paces behind him as befitted a woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This was true, and in the void-in-the-void experiment the mercury never fell below half an inch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Russell lurched backward into the kitchen table with his half; Piper lurched backward in the opposite direction, and with nothing to stop him, sailed right through the cellar doorway and down the cellar steps. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The daughters will never know and the old man won’t mind because he’s only half conscious most of the time worn out from all his years in the English army in India. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We drove back and forth across the field, a half a mile in each direction. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was even worse than Ria; every time I saw him, I knew he was half a second from lunging out at me with a razor blade. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In half a minute, it was the size of a melon! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She sounded much more like her old self than she had done of late; Harry half expected her to announce that she was off to the library. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And besides, he seemed half in love with Louis. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden there was a half groan, half roar that moved through the crowd until it reached Hanako. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though it was now a dull gray, so detailed were its features that he found himself half listening for the sound of a quack. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I drive for over half an hour, hit the dirt road, then go for another half hour. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“More like half and half,” Jinx piped up before Shady could shush him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I want to see what she looks like with it half off. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

By leveling the entire summit, they created a fifty-five-acre terrace half the size of the Vatican. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Also known as the rallying cry of half of Aru’s classmates. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When I saw this thing in the grocery store, it scared me half to death,” Deborah told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You might not notice the water rising as one wave follows another, but if you wait half an hour, the dry patch you were sitting on is in danger of being overtaken by water. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

She and her mother had moved into their half of the duplex when Armpit was still at Camp Green Lake. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He knew himself, very well. We’d threatened half a dozen times to leave him at home if he didn’t behave.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In his stained white smock, he was half rebellious and wholly uncertain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting back in his chair, eyes half closed, smiling a little. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Returning from the funeral, my brother, sisters, and I half expected to find some vaguely familiar Sharon Two standing at the kitchen counter and working the puzzle in TV Guide. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the results came out a few months later I found myself along with half a dozen other students the toast of the school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its beak shone like burnished gold, and its eyes glinted like jet set in yellow stones; its huge white wings were half lifted. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They each took an elbow, and together half dragged and half carried Lollys across the bridge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every time he’d stayed with her, her fridge had held barely anything more than an egg and half an avocado. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Two buckets stand in a corner, half full of what might be water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She snapped it in half and flung both pieces back to the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He just frowned and said, “Uh-oh.”Then he stepped in the fountain and broke the concrete bowl in half. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I only half smile, hoping that he knows that I'm not falling for his game. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were standing outside a bombed house whose cellar was half open to the sky and had the appearance of a gigantic cave. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The oaks might be half dead, but something else was distinctly alive out there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just 8 percent of undergraduates in 2004 came from families in the bottom half of the income distribution, down from 11 percent a decade earlier. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It hung there, half asleep, sagging in its own loose hide like it was dead. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a few feet to the side of the fireplace and half as tall, propped up on a small wooden table. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan estimated that it would take about three and a half more hours to finish. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kenny and Allen had gotten back to my house about a half hour earlier, after a long night of band blasting. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy looked down the street, saw a new Buick Riviera parked about half a block away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours, nine to five-thirty, half an hour for lunch, salary, seven dollars a week to start. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed open the closet door half expecting to find his childhood things. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But at Truman, somewhere close to half the students take at least one theater class before graduating, and those most keenly interested in theater take the whole progression. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bulb on the comer lamppost had died, spilling gloom over half the street, throwing everything visible off balance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He went to the window and stood looking through it into the night, though his eyes were half closed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked for nearly half an hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, until the path became almost impossible to follow because the trees were so thick. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

From the closet, which was half full of clothes, he pulled out a cigar box and several dark blue folders. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The trolley trundled toward them, only half full since most of the factory men caught an earlier car. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Meryl Lee said that she was up to half a box of Kleenex per class, which has got to be some kind of world record. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"I am past my childbearing years, what beauty I had long fled," she replied with a tired half smile, "yet men come sniffing after me as they never did when I was a maid." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He went into the kitchen, where the moonlight called his attention to a half bottle of champagne on the kitchen table, all that was left from the reception in the tent. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not judge me too harshly, half- blood. Wise counsel is not always popular, but I spoke the truth. You are dangerous.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They had already selected a termite hill about half a mile away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By some miracle there was a half inch of gasoline in the tank. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked out the long spit of tidal mud where a small boat lay half buried and stood there looking at it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the top left corner is half of Auntie Seema's name and her address. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He needs half a roll to soak up the milk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I had more such dreams—and sometimes, I’m sure, I was still half awake when they began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still feeling bad when we came out for the second half, which made me mad. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward ashes rained down on haunted forest and Shivering Sea alike for almost half a year. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was half hoping it was Apollo, come to give us a ride again, but the engine was way too silent for the sun chariot, and besides, it was nighttime. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The hall-door, which was half of glass, stood open; I stepped over the threshold. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because most of it just wasn’t the kind of stuff I'd want everyone in the whole world finding out about on some new perverted website designed by our demented scrum half. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After half an hour she went inside the house once more and then returned with an enamel cup. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But during the rainy season, he could walk to the school, which was only half an hour from his home. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sister Naima spent half of our class making everyone take turns reading the same line of the Quran over and over again.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It must be after 5:30 by now; half an hour left to stop the wedding.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred paces away, the rest of the family huddles in the dirt in a tight little knot, half hidden by rising dust. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.62: The dot acts as if it is adding another note half the length of the original note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We went back out to warm up for the second half and Ice came over to the side of the court and called me over. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I found her with a skuzzy guy, both half passed out, looking like something a cat had spit up. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

"It's half of one or two dozen of another." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If only you knew the half of it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How her mother bled for days and Connelly didn’t bother to call the doctor until she looked half a ghost. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was as though the house was built half onto a plot of land, half in a forest, like it was emerging from the trees. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t like the ticket being half yellow but I had to keep it because it was my train ticket. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We drove for about a half hour into Burundi, and then stopped at an empty field near a town called Gatumba. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Midway through the half, the Fugees had taken seven shots and Blue Springs none, and yet the score was still tied. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m half rooting for him to be too embarrassed to stick around to face my father after that. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Didn’t like sitting here, half exposed, trying to figure out why Tool was missing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered her own baby, three-year-old Rickon, half the age of this boy and five times as fierce. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The place had been hip, like, a year and a half ago. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry, lady, but if we did that we’d have half the wives in Brooklyn storming the place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had been at the window somewhat less than half an hour, when I saw something coming out of the Count’s window. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And above me, on the back landing of the tenement house next door, I saw a half dozen boys begin to shout. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empty spirit jugs were half buried in the mud around her. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

By then I was pretty hungry, but after half a sandwich, I didn’t feel like eating anymore. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Plates, cups, spoons, pot lids, the heavy aluminum rice pot, the frying pan, all half submerged in gray water with a greasy scum floating on the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"She forbade him to fight, in front of his brother, his knights, and half the court. Tell me truly, do you know any surer way to force King Robert into die melee? I ask you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were two of them, about a half a mile away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Without effort the front half of his body rose in the air and his forepaws came to rest on the rolled-up edge of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the broken windows have now been replaced, and half the aluminum tables already hold plants. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The mist shimmered, and the image of my half brother appeared. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It takes a half hour for everyone to find their seats and another half hour for the waiters to start arriving with plates of food. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As she came back, she glanced at the large clock in Knipe’s Drug Store, and noted that it was nearly half past ten. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to hang out on the swing for a while, half because the heat had finally dissipated into a pleasant, if muggy, eighty-something, and half because I thought Alaska might show up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was Maya’s half sister, who lived with her parents twenty minutes away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They’d traversed about half of what they could see of its length when Mark heard voices, then saw their source. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The body of the victim was lying halfway . . . his legs were half sticking out from behind the counter. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked for another half an hour and then returned her books and the alethiometer to the desk. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He hit it six or seven times really fast but the spurt didn’t increase, didn’t decrease, always half a cup. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We opened the second half with fire in our eyes, even though we had me in instead of Victor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He bit off half his tongue in his first battle,” Hungerford explained to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was half an hour late, having got lost on the way here, and I felt as deserving of a scolding as a schoolboy. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I says if I’ve got to spend half my time being a dam detective, at least I’ll go where I can get paid for it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold took out his half of the Jell-O box and handed it to Greenglass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour’s plodding climb Strider reached the crown of the hill; Frodo and Merry followed, tired and breathless. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Effectively used, these pictures could cause half a dozen suicides. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seems like half the congregation fills the foyer. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For breakfast he was given only half a bowl of beans and three tortillas instead of six. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, will it make it awkward when we have to spend an hour and a half after school today filming? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve taught myself to play the thing these last two years and I’m not half bad. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger looked puzzled for half a sec-ond, and then she said, “Oh! That letter.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, near the edge of the pond, half out of the water, she found the bag, now soggy and still. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to know or care what was happening, because without argument, he let me slide an arm beneath his shoulders and drag him along, half asleep. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In just the first two seasons, 100,000 pounds of ancient bones were excavated from the site, and tens of thousands of pounds more came in each of the half dozen years that followed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So you and Denna ...” “Stanchion still gives me a hard time about chasing after a girl half my age.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I was leaving the room, he came after me, and half whispered:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We can do this for ourselves, we tell each other, like we don’t half believe it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Outside the harbour on this side there rises for about half a mile a great reef, the sharp edge of which runs straight out from behind the south lighthouse. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The first was about half a mile out, the farthest several miles into the Sierras. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mini was a couple feet away from her and standing half in, half out of a cut of light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked bummed at getting caught, but he couldn’t have been half as bummed as I was. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The monstrosity outside the door tried to claw a bigger opening, while inside, the bossling alternated between harassing half a dozen Ridge guards and clearing rubble from the doorway. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The hideous vision had seemed so real to him, half bemused as he was still with wound and fear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Soon there were half a dozen surrounding them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His son discovered me exhausted and half dead with cold, and gave me a hand to bear me up till he reached home where he could clothe me in a shirt and cloak. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know that house! You’re about half a mile from me. I’m on Harken.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Below them a hook of land shrouded in the dark scud blowing down the shore and beyond that lying half over and awash the shape of a sailboat’s hull. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, the reader will be presented with one last scene, which took place almost a year and a half after Stanley and Hector left Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Even if only half the population went to a shelter, that means that nearly 12 million people would be there, waiting for water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his head? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A group of ClockWatchers—half of them women, and half of them men—all in matching blue suits, raised brown leather briefcases in an affirmative salute. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Carefully she split her attention, beaming half of it to the ocean, into the water to keep him afloat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked for half an hour about changing outcomes, about whether directions in life can be altered or reversed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had been brought into the station on September 6, seven and a half days after the hurricane passed through the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ser Waymar had been a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch for less than half a year, but no one could say he had not prepared for his vocation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Celia half expects him to pull pink tea roses from behind his back as he used to when he returned from his trips to distant provinces. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

About half a mile away, a mountain of coral disintegrated under the weight of two giant creatures. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tree ran to my tent where I sat half in, half out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The summer she arrived with half the contents of the trunk of magic books that had belonged to Uncle Marcos, she was nearly ten years old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The distance from the hold to the main floor is half the height of the ship.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he moved to place it on the table next to her, Citra thought of half a dozen places she could jam it into him that would either render him deadish, or at least incapacitated. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Colonel, half the men are down. If they come again . . .” He shrugged, annoyed, baffled as if by a problem he could not quite solve, yet ought to, certainly, easily. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was shuffling over half a hundred questions. What you said brings the brightest one up. You don’t mind?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had already started gathering, and half a grain sack of mistletoe was still hanging against the side of the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was traveling an hour and a half one way to junior high school by myself, taking two buses each direction every day. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For their entrance into Qarth, he had put away his Dothraki garb and donned again the plate and mail and wool of the Seven Kingdoms half a world away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The room was maybe half the size of my bedroom back home: a twin bed with olive-green covers, and matching green curtains covering the small round window above it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The synchrotron principle has ever since been attributed to McMillan and Veksler, who discovered it nearly simultaneously but certainly independently, working half a world apart. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

‘Human bean babies and little chiddlers is spending half their time sleeping, so you is only four.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pale red pennons trailed from the ends of a few lances, but many more carried battle-axes and great- swords and shields hacked half to splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For the third round, excitement in Belgrade was so great that fans filled the large hall to capacity in less than half an hour. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My brother can’t make you go. I own half of this farm. I have my own money.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Only eight. And the cabinet doors are easy to open. There’s just a simple hook, half way up.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They were joined, as you very well know, by half of the Order before long!” snarled Bellatrix. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Fold the paper in half, then into quarters, and one more into eighths. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I let out a sigh, disappointed that I couldn't oblige their curiosity, for even Chucha had given half a roll over to hear what the surprise had been. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was just in half, and then in half again. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Horses don’t talk. Besides, I told you I’d give you half my candy.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A princess fills her spoon half full so she can take dainty princess sips.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even with my lion-skin coat, I was freezing by the time we got to Main Street, which was about half a mile from the train tracks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was a single slice of bread for each person now, and lunch was maybe half a boiled potato. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He found the leftover half cake covered and sitting atop the refrigerator. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were always half a month or so behind, and talked endlessly to him about paying ahead—after they had a preliminary discussion about what he was doing back so soon anyway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just like detective stuff. The previous times, I’d sat there for over half an hour each go, and nothing, absolutely nothing. But something told me I’d be lucky this time.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rope burns left dark scabby welts in half circles. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ma’s always saying, “Believe some to none of what you hear and only half of what you see.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Lettie, half asleep, sang, “Once I hit the tracks, my burdens at my back, I hopped that train in the pale moonlight.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As each child turned off toward home, Johnny handed him or her a half stick of spearmint gum. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Morris says that guards who have worked at the museum for a year have seen everything; those who have worked there for six months have seen half of everything. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the press, a boy tried to reach into his purse, but a hard elbow put an end to that and spread the thief’s bloody nose across half his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With the other half, Tally still wished she had activated the pendant the moment she’d arrived in the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We? I was coming out here, you were half a mile behind.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“You would grudge your own sister a mouthful,” I cried, “who eats half what I give her so that you boys can have the more!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they even bite off the distal halves of each other’s antennae, to eliminate the temptation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the car was knee-deep in straw, half was left unbedded so he could stretch his legs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we hovered half in the sky and half in the midway—level with the bright canvas tops of the game booths. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He's called three times in the past half hour, and I just let it ring and ring. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Indian Being, undefined and indefinable, finding itself alone, fearing death, yearning for company, began to swell in size, rearranged itself inside, and then split into two identical halves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra stood shivering in the fo’c’sle and laughed with delight as her beloved Pantalaimon, sleek and powerful, leaped from the water with half a dozen other swift gray shapes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” said Bernard, half rising, “we ought to think of going.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half an hour the smoke continued; toward the end it grew thinner and finally faded away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There are so few children in Faerie that I’ve never seen one of us twinned. Is it like being doubled or more like being divided in half?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blade itself was a good half foot longer than those Jon was used to, tapered to thrust as well as slash, with three fullers deeply incised in the metal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“If I drop you off here, it’s half. No free money.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The smell of dinner bacon and cabbage wafting from a farmhouse makes me so weak with the hunger I climb into a field and stuff myself with blackberries for half an hour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was his first day on the job, his telephone piece poking uncomfortably in his ear while he half hoped that the people he was calling would not be home to pick up. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the operation was half over, he had come out into the ante-room, grinning and waving one tonsil in a pair of forceps. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than an hour and a half past dawn and the running lights had been left on. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After all, the guy had bagged half the cheerleaders and had even dated Miss Perfect Rich Girl, Diana Sanford. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, every time the floorwalker half turned his back John made believe he was throwing popcorn into the monkey cage, and I thought that man was going to go insane. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She joined him, and soon they had lifted half a dozen out of the way, and then she snapped off the battens on which they’d been hung, making a gap big enough to get through. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"There is a road half a mile that way," he told her, pointing, "and a clearing over there, beyond that thicket," he said, turning to motion in another direction. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

So we had half an hour in which to put the house and ourselves to rights. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Asha had known other lovers; some shared her bed for half a year, some for half a night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All prisoners were to receive the same amount of sugar in the morning: a spoonful and a half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, for one- half a second, Miss Skeeter glance at me, see the pleading in my eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By morning, half the people in the room will have forgotten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There will be the click of knives against china, a clink as she sets down her fork, with a barely audible sigh, leaving half the contents of her plate untouched. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what Grace says, Ms. Washington really wanted to be in Bye Bye Birdie, but she has an out-of-town wedding the opening weekend and would’ve missed half the performances. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

At one point he stopped and stood motionless and intent for nearly half an hour, staring at a fern swaying slowly in the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Now we shall make a half joint, so, and fit it tightly, cutting each piece only halfway through the wood, so the crosspiece will just fit into the upright one.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Aside from any man with a nose and me with half of one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Retrieval was on her in half a second. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He half got to his knees, trying to move away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Almost half the people who got the disease died. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The other half of me was focused, in every moment, on the warm, strong body pressed against me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For he was the father, and could do whatever he liked — to remind himself of which, he ripped his soft, gray desk blotter in half and wrote, in large red letters, ACTUALIZE. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would give him half her last carrot, and later in bed she would cry about it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She opens the box and shows us the inside where half the chocolates are gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He met the queen’s party by the stables, accompanied by Satin, Bowen Marsh, and half a dozen guards in long black cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

High among the high rafters of the workshop a half hundred glass spheres hung from chains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had just picked up half a dozen clean glasses that were ready to be taken back to the bar, and he put them down again and said, “In the priory?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“How did you know that crack was ten and a half inches deep?” he said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She eases her hand out gingerly and takes it, her expression startled and half broken. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Blackbirds and squirrels cursed and wood-pigeons flew out of their leafy perches half a mile away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he loved the girl dearly, and he felt half-proud and half in awe of the beautiful adult she would be, so soon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Lancel loved me. He was half a boy, but I never doubted his devotion to me or my son.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Get down from there!” he half yelled, half growled in his Crazy Johnny kind of way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I learned that the horizon, as seen from a height of five feet on a calm day, was two and a half miles away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A bear with half a brain would have turned tail and run. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was a long two and a half hours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she sucked on it, she saw that half the thumbnail was gone, ripped off in her fall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’d tended to Shiloh first, taking a fistful of scrambled eggs left over from breakfast, a bit of bacon, and a half slice of whole wheat toast that I stuck in my jeans pocket. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo spent half of the next day recapturing the distance she had lost. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cautiously, Link half rises from his chair and holds up one finger. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Soon he had invested almost all his money in boots, half boots, and shoes, and had ordered them to be packed for the journey to Bourbon. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Gary spent an hour and a half discussing the Bloodfall series while Dill and Lydia sat outside and talked. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I would have had to pay for these rooms anyway. Taking your money would make me feel like I was trying to get you to pay for half of my trip,” he says. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The slice was only half an inch, but its sting was fierce. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The other two sections of train are also stopped, stretched out before us on the track, a half mile between each. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Despite missing more than half a year of school, I passed Form Four in the top one percent of the class. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis said half derisively and half with admiration, “He’s always thinking about how to change things. He’s never satisfied with the way they are.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I was digging through the doll bin for a Black Barbie, he had his eyes on this raggedy chest with half the leather cover missing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had a rag blanket and a half a loaf of bread there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A white one like Grandma and Grandpop’s, the roof caved in and half the house charred black. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Liam was half hanging out of the window, half sitting on it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The other half were clad in monk’s robes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for her, she was a passionless maid and she clung to him as to a father, and to him she was indeed more than half child and scarcely woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Me and Jiffy and a half cup of water.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sharp jut of a wall accounted for the detachment of the wheel which was now getting considerable attention from half a dozen curious chauffeurs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her husband left her for a woman half her age a long time ago, and she’s been salty ever since. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I write YES and fold the paper in half and in half again and put it in the box. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Ignore that wretched beggar bird, Jon, it's just had half my bacon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lucas asked, looking down at my mostly naked body lying half in the mud and half in the river. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The string vibrating in halves produces the second harmonic; vibrating in thirds produces the third harmonic, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day he jogged through the hallways and up and down stairs, scaring the nervous tenants half out of their wits. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys shouted, “Redemption!” when I knew half of them didn’t know what redemption meant. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’d had a long, grueling day, riding sixty miles and walking a half dozen more. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This is where I grew up. Even if I hate it half the time, it’s mine.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then I took a half step backward and made a genteel three-quarter bow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And almost half said they woke up before 5:30. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Swords were soon ringing in half a dozen places along the battlements. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d plowed through half a dozen donuts from his box and was getting powdered sugar all over his face. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had it half on, one of my shoulders still exposed out of my stretched neck hole, when I realized that in my nervousness I was putting both arms through one opening. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Your father was a man torn between two halves, Rahim Khan had said in his letter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other half of my head felt detached, muted. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At first, it scared me, but now I realize that half the time, when the alarms go off, it’s the machines that are malfunctioning, not the people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Ida, back up in the bedroom, and I refasten the lid, saving the other half of the jar for her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was still one half of a head peeking at us ’bout three feet off the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And though Finn was tall, his arms and legs ropey with farm muscle, the Rudes were wider and stronger, and there were about four and a half too many of them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every day at lunchtime he followed me out to the playground and ate half of my second sandwich, then sneaked the other half to Cody. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s half Puerto Rican, which is a bit of a rarity around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of it is half true, half planned. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the Fugees took the field for the second half, they had changed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“And that one killed half the men and all the women, including my ma, and it made the thoughts of the men who survived no longer secret to the rest of the world.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

By the time that the mouth of the cave was half open, the girl realized that it was not her brother who was standing outside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The story was not half bad: Once upon a time a sultan was killing all the girls in his kingdom, decapitating them, running swords through them, hanging them. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t get through more than a half hour without clutching June’s arm. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He lives across the street and around the corner and he’d been at camp for the past month and a half. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He met Arthur at Dover and fought a battle to prevent the landing. It was a bad engagement, half on sea and half on land, but the king woo. He won to land.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at my hot chocolate and asked me, “Do you see that cup as half full or half empty?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after he left, my father would discover a half pack of cigarettes, a valuable gift Schindler had "accidentally" left by his machine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He forgot about bringing a lunch so I gave him one of Momma’s throat-choking peanut butter sandwiches and let him eat the last half of my apple. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me a large log book half filled with student’s names and their requests. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My ticket would get me to Cairns, Australia, a day and a half after I departed. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We’re on Carnation where most of the houses are abandoned and half the streetlights are busted. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They made me wait around outside the door for half an hour before they let me in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And look at the trouble those half million have caused," says Hugo matter-of-factly. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The door was opened by a man who was half leaning over to hold the dog back. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately they fell asleep and slept for about half an hour. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Kit stared from one to the other, half frantic with helplessness. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Arsinoe, for one, might gladly unseat her older sister given half the chance. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For the rest they could meet only in the streets, in a different place every evening and never for more than half an hour at a time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"They say I'm half a man," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ash paused in the doorway, her back to her stepsister, and she wanted to tell her that she was not true; half her life was spent in secret. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have been down in the ditch close to half an hour, still as a mouse. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour, night had really fallen and they couldn’t carry on. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

So when Luma blew the whistle to start the second half, the Fifteens came out attacking. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Frost bit a large chip in half, chewed it, and looked at the rest of the chip, disappointed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“How can you possibly say that? You haven’t set foot there for half your life!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is sharp enough to split a virus cleanly in half, like a razor blade going through a peanut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other half remained: How was the RNA “message” decoded into a protein? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For the next week and a half, the boys continued to dig in and around the area where X-Ray had supposedly found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

For half a minute afterward, the sky was filled with sparks, fireballs, and globs of fuel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now half across the street, but the roar from the beetle's engines whined higher as it put on speed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff,” says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I get through half before I think I might choke on it, or on the tears I can feel starting up. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For three and a half hours I stared at the wall, curled in a ball, rocking. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’re gone to bed half hungry because you have to fill your belly with whiskey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Of the three thousand square feet of livable space, fully half of it was the living room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A half dozen men sat around the fireplace at one end of the store or leaned against the counters and cracker barrels. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I get muddled up with half the questions I want to ask you myself. For instance, who was my...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d taken over half a table at the library, my nine-page paper laid out in a square of columns and rows and all my note cards fanned out in a messy pile beside it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, Washington was seventh in a field of seven—almost five lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Still, if Mary saved half her cookie, while Laura ate the whole of hers, or if Laura saved half, and Mary ate her whole cookie, that wouldn’t be fair, either. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes’ walk, the group arrived at the small river and, beside it, a hill—brown, fly infested, half solid and half liquid—reeking with the fetid smell of feces. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, lady. I’ve had older students that would have loved to do half as well.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair, half up and twisted with a fuchsia ribbon, fell in loose waves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Ned should not have been so quick to send off half his guard, and all his best swords among them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The new schedule idled “half of our potential capability,” York grumbled to Norris Bradbury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They went undercover into schools all over the world, looking for potential half- bloods and escorting them back to camp. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trina seemed disoriented, but Mark didn’t relent, half dragging her to the other side of the dead coals of their fire from earlier that night. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She handed him the half lemon, then raised her skirt above her knees. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Amir, the socially legitimate half, the half that represented the riches he had inherited and the sin-with-impunity privileges that came with them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-eight years old but announced, “I intend to live for more than half a century, and at the end of that half-century London will be trembling lest Chicago shall surpass it....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Max closes her eyes; her lashes make dark half circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That was always good for three and a half minutes before they caught on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mark half expected them to be wearing crazy robes or be flat-out naked, but they wore simple clothes—T-shirts, tank tops, jeans, shorts, tennis shoes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

So had half of my class, the half that never came back after Christmas. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I hoped Dad would say, “Hey, Albie, I just remembered I already bought you an A-10 Thunderbolt a year and a half ago. Where is it? I’m ready to help you finish it now.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The detectives interviewed him for half an hour, and then they let him go. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Steven’s mother has had to take a leave of absence from her job to take care of Jeffrey, so just when their need is greatest, half of their cash flow is gone. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now half the Dining-Room was watching our little group. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“What would happen,” the Keeper asked all the boys, “if you were rowing a boat and half of you wanted to go one way and the other half another?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a half mile to go, Pollard positioned Seabiscuit in the clear and readied for his move. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls are afraid of me but they know where it’s safest: beside me, half a step behind. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense, the public setting is half the fun! It brings in so many restrictions, so many challenging parameters to work around.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She would have won if she’d taken the easy route—she would have gotten there in half the time it took Cain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A mile and a half takes no time at all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

With him had come a long tail of retainers: knights, squires, lesser lords and ladies, heralds, musicians, even a juggler, all aglitter with banners and surcoats in what seemed half a hundred colors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With only half her hair rolled, Lily stood up and started doing the Temptation Walk. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He fixed the girl with a nonthreatening half smile, but his eyes looked deadly serious. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, Professor, it’s all right!” said Harry loudly, his hands shaking so badly he could hardly scoop up the sixth gobletful of potion; the basin was now half empty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I can only half watch the scene, because I keep wanting to see Jane's smile as she watches. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was not sure if he still used his old address and she sent the e-mail half expecting that he would not reply, but he did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A massive orchestra—the Berlin Philharmonic merged with the national orchestra and supplemented by half a dozen military bands-—launched into Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch, the March of Homage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before a plan is half formed in my mind, Charley knows about it, and he also knows whether he is to be included in it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed almost to own half of it and there wasn’t a crime of any dimension he wasn’t behind. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a half step behind me now, so I turn to face him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards half dragged him through a doorway and into the room with the aquarium. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Throwing the cat down, I half tripped over it in my hurry to be gone. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had less than half the distance left to go. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I lifted up the tarp and found it was half full of scrap metal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Aided by a twenty-five-yard scramble on third down by Winchell and an interference penalty against Carter, it moved down to the Carter 14 with four seconds left before the half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All half- bloods had attention deficit problems because of our inborn battlefield reflexes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it’s like to be half of the loved Homecoming couple. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jubilant, he tucked one of them into his sash, along with half the loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A monstrous building blocked her way, its top half scorched black. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She also kept her laptop balanced on her knees when, as a special treat before bedtime, she let them watch the first half of The Lego Batman Movie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax dropped by a half hour ago and was granted a few minutes of Lincoln’s time. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, besides the collar, there was a ragged blanket too, and half a chicken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And, as if on cue, the next big battle of the Cold War caught America off guard, half a world away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chuck tried talking to him several times, but all Thomas could do was nod and shake his head, only half hearing, he was so tired. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They lay beside each other in the cedar tree talking until half an hour had gone by. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘I am not a man to do things by halves.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Both of these stoves were stoked with seal blubber and could boil two and a half gallons of water from ice in half an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you’ve come because you want me to repay the favor that I’ve owed you for half a century, right?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely a half hour later, my door opens, and I look up to see Hideo walk into my room, flanked by his bodyguards. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I reached out the whisky bottle without getting up, poured half a tumbler, smelled it, and poured it back in the bottle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A table stood by the door, where a heavy-set man scratched away on a piece of paper, his work lit by a half- dozen candle stubs that would soon burn out. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katz was still wearing half a grin, but it didn’t belong to his emotions any longer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then we continued on through the skinny pines, more open fields, a little less than half a mile before we crossed the old wooden planks. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He knew it was half full, but he didn't take a drink just yet. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I weaned him off me by spending half an hour at a time out of his presence, then an afternoon, and finally days away once he was comfortable with his new friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour he’d cleared enough space in front of the door that he could stand outside and survey what remained to be done. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His expression was distracted again, and I didn’t doubt that his vast machine of a brain was busy thinking about a half dozen things all at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Goldy told Ducky he was starting the second half and Ducky looked over at me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “You know, Herman, half the time I don’t know if I should laugh at you or just feel sorry for you.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After an hour and a half of this, Selhan was sweating and breathing hard, but he was doing better than I was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You would bring us the whisperings of a traitor half a world away, my lord. Perhaps Mormont is wrong. Perhaps he is lying." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first half of 1943 brought crying spells, loneliness and the gradual realization of my faults and shortcomings, which were numerous and seemed even more so. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“If God gets even half the promises we’ve been laying down, the U.S.A. is going to be holier than the Vatican,” Monaco said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are up to our last half of a state.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Over half a million people attended in Washington, DC, alone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After walking half a block, they were ordered to stop. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thrust the book back into his hands, and half running, lead the cow away in the rain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six and a half weeks since Nicole was burned, and the police hadn’t made a single arrest? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She half turned, acting surprised to find me still there. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, Grandpa led Zack and me through the woods until we came across a huge piece of green foam that was half buried in the thick brush. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I decided not to point out that I was only half Puerto Rican. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She filled two cups half full with thick cold coffee and poured the boiling milk in up to the rim. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s posted—I check—six videos in the past hour and a half! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Our street is about half filled with houses now. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane had been half empty coming from Mas-sachusetts to Anchorage. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chose a large, unoccupied mansion called Bush Hill, located on a rolling hill about two and a half miles northwest of the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He leaped sideways away from me, all four legs drawn together in midair for half a second, and then he ran on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At half past eleven that evening, Harry, who had pretended to go up to bed early, pulled the Invisibility Cloak back over himself and crept back downstairs through the common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if “Kill the umpire” was maybe something that was meant half serious when they shouted it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hamlet’s half dozen lodges were completely full. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We see that without Torah there is only half a life. We see that without Torah we are dust. We see that without Torah we are abominations.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I worried that if I spoke or screamed my anger would grip both sides of my open mouth and rip me in half. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Burials were falling in number, from a high of 120 on October 11 to half that number on October 21. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, but too solemn: I half rose, and stretched my arm to draw the curtain. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Momma’s making me go to Sam’s store around the corner, even though he ain’t never got half the stuff Momma needs or wants. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her father was absent; her older half brother sometimes had to hunt squirrels for the family to eat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

FINN: In eight or nine hours, we will be more than half a million miles away from exactly this spot, no matter which way we go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Should I be thankful for the lawyers who are working for half their pay to make sure there is justice for the boy whose heart is no longer beating? Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If it weren’t for dreams,” he said, “I wouldn’t know half the things I know about the future. They’re better than Olympus tabloids.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As Zau half turned, both boys bent their heads, each with one hand on the opposite shoulder in the gesture of respect. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Half at Erudite headquarters, half at Candor headquarters. What’s left of Abnegation is with us. Nothing much has happened yet. Except for whatever happened to you, I guess.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first American race, run around Evanston, Illinois, had been held only eight years before, with the winning car ripping along at the dizzying average speed of seven and a half miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ripped the letter in half, ripped the halves in quarters, and let the pieces flutter to the floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We both read for about a half hour and then I heard Rondell giggling a little so I looked up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ten years later, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club rerouted 263 miles of trail—half its total length across the state—removing the trail from logging roads and putting it back in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I shook each sleepy limb, each screaming muscle back into service and half slid, half climbed back down the tree to the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His tongue was stuck to the top of his mouth, the tip half out, his eyes were wide and his hands were reaching for a berry. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pops the tab on her soda and drinks half of it down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Half the mall cops followed him, half followed me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lord Janos allowed that he had never eaten half so well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, the big Death Eater had just fired off a hex that caused half the ceiling to fall in, and also broke the curse blocking the stairs,” said Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She dropped her beautiful face so that the waves of her hair covered half of it. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The adults never mentioned it, and neither did most of the kids—about half of them, only lived with one parent, anyway. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like, you can figure out from half an hour of watching the news that there’s more opportunity for white people. And for people who speak English.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Guess no running water? Maybe I can go shopping. I’m not as muddy as you guys. I could find us some clothes ” Haze! only half heard him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

For example, you can say "B natural is a half step below C natural," or "E flat is a step and a half above C natural." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mom and I spend the next half hour watching Carla pack. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, finally able to voice the question that has plagued me for a week and a half. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’s standing in front of the class, a dummy laid out on the floor, plastic, faceless, torso cut in half. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

In half an hour the fronts of the two lines met, and we hungry wishbone people of Kilanga completed our circle around the hill. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deceiving me,” said Fujiko in Japanese, “is only half of it, daughter. You have deceived yourself, too.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What can happen is that Babe Ruth could hit .300 the first half of the season and Lou Gehrig only .290, but Ruth could bat two hundred times to Gehrig’s one hundred times. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team had been inside for about half an hour. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We were so happy for each other and for ourselves, but our job was only half over. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Part of that wisdom is understanding what you were given—a city where gay bars are unremarkable, a soccer team on which half the players speak some other language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Greeks would figure out the ratio by dividing the line into tiny pieces, using, for example, a standard or yardstick half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

With the thumb and forefinger of his left hand he made a small “o” about the size of the bit, which was an inch and a half in diameter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him half an hour to escape, and then only at the price of carrying with him a juicy piece of raw beef which he was supposed to hold over his eye. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to know I was almost twelve so that he would stop treating me as though I were half that age. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the same half knowing, half bewildered look came back into his faded eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The nearest water was the pond, of course, half a morning's walk away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each partner was supposed to use half of the poster board and then we’d see what we had in common. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Manet tore a piece of bread in half and daubed butter onto it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sad, lonely truth was that after a year and half on the fencing team at Duke, I could only call one teammate—Josh—my friend. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was almost seven feet tall, so even bent in half, it still looked terrifying. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And the blanks have been filled in with different colors of chalk, smudged and half melted from the rain and snow, in all different handwriting. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She split things in half, then quarters, speedily producing florets, cubes, slices, and shreds. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the morning of September 2, more than half a million people crowded into an open square in the city of Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Afterwards they rested in the deep pine needles under the trees, the terrier panting heavily with his eyes half closed, and the cat busy with his eternal washing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still seemed impossible half the time but it was there, a glowing speck like the last drop of the sun on the horizon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For perhaps half of an hour, we fled thus. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The confusion in his eyes was gone in half a heartbeat, but not before Tyrion grasped what it meant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

O High was his third high school in Oakland, plus he’d spent sophomore year living in a group home in Redding, California, three and a half hours away. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

According to my tally, Mrs. Hagen was my eighth so-called mother in three and a half years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They held each other in the dark, saying nothing, their breathing regular until finally they drifted into a state of half sleep and half wakefulness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes are half closed, like he's about to fall asleep. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had used half the tube on one side of the tank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On the floor was placed a machine which looked like a floor polisher with a circular base about a foot and a half in diameter. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was open, half filled with my mother’s hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The dragon was half out of the river, peering around a tree at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Harry barely understood half of what Professor McGonagall said to them these days; even Hermione had had to ask her to repeat instructions once or twice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the past half hour, I've collected a mental list of approximately 412 ways I might kill Tiny Cooper, and I'm not going to leave until I've settled on just the right one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That meant at least four and a half hours of gut-ripping work in the heat for nothing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cord was as good as half through already. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped the sandwich and ate the larger half in a matter of seconds. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have a game to win! —... and we now have only four minutes, thirty-three seconds remaining in the second half and Hazelwood trails by eight. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always said things halfway and then expected you to get the other half. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I went up to his room, half expecting some change—I don’t know what. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No covert military tribunal, Secret Service snoopers, or police group could have devised half as comprehensive or effective a Distant Early Warning System. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, almost trotting in anticipation, they walked down the hill, past the first few houses clustered near the road, and directly to the gate of the fort, about a half mile ahead. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first half of last year I prayed for a full-length mirror, and the second half I praised the Lord we didn’t have one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s completed about half the paperwork when Chloe appears in the waiting room. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of fading, though, a half mile from the shell house the freshmen suddenly began to pull ahead, grabbing a quarter-length lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

About an hour and a half later they’d been through the dance once, watched the video once, and then done the dance again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That day we each had a bowl of pea soup and half a kilo of fish. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For an hour and a half today, I couldn’t move my leg. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes were half open, filled with tears that came constantly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

James Randall had bought him and three other slaves from a traveling agent after the fever deaths a year and a half ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At a wonderful store in Stonington, half hardware store and half ship’s chandler, I bought a kerosene lamp with a tin reflector for Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire pictured the vertical rock cliff that hung over the village and hid the sun for half the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each room had been cut in half to make two. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could see — at some half mile’s Distance — other Patriot bands similarly headed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I dusted the powdery corpses of half a dozen dead butterflies off a cement bench and lay down on the quad under the moonlight for a while, contemplating my sisters and our rebelliousness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mister Johnny’s going to be home in half an hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I think of the last jumbled lyrics that I scribbled into my notebook, words and phrases like “where is your heart,” “missing you,” “are you home now,” and “the other half of me.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The crunch came during my second term when I was exactly nine and a half, and it happened during evening Prep. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He folds his pillow in half, lies back, and grabs a book from the crate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then a bed covered in white sheets that shone in the sun, her children rolling on it with her, the husband’s body half visible at the edges. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The soup was stone-cold, but he drank half of it in one gulp. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When Joe finally started to talk, questions about his half siblings tumbled out: How was Harry Junior doing? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tessie went back over the events of the last year and a half, looking for signs she might have missed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the left half of her face was covered with a reddish-purple birthmark. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There had to be half the nursery here, and a handful of the adults. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

After purifying half a pot of water, I place it in direct sunlight and add several egg-size hot stones to the water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I cracked an egg into a mixing bowl and then measured two and a half cups of flour. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He gave her as pleasant a smile as a man with half a nose could manage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve never asked her to suddenly appear and scare half of my life away. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were departing quietly, secretly, under a heavy police escort, in the middle of the night, and in less than half an hour we found ourselves at a small military airport outside the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, of course not!” he said, but his face wasn’t half as carefree as his voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When they got back to her house, she pulled a half dozen shirts from the closet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our house is half gray shingles and half brown painted panels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hilly. You know me better than anybody else in this world. If I was up to something, you’d have me figured out in half a second.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Like near-deaf people, she screamed, half not hearing what she was saying and partly hoping her listeners would reply in kind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pastes the stupid half smile back on his stupid face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My classmates seem happy about the field trip, mostly because it’s something different and gets us out of school for half a day, but Boy21 doesn’t even crack a smile, which is weird. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The energy blade cut into its metal skin as if it were tofu, slicing the mech into two halves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If another got a half bushel of tomatoes or a dozen ears of corn, they ate them until they were gone too. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beats going to college just to please your parents, which is probably what half the kids in school are about to do anyway. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gives a half shake of his head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I hid it for four and a half months. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I eat half the rabbit as I go, then wrap up the leftovers in my plastic for later. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was twisted into a half smile, like she was hiding something. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But if they can’t find anyone to come in for the second half of the split, Mom has to work the whole three-to-eleven shift, which means she works from seven a.m. to eleven p.m. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

People are limping about, arms outstretched, their clothes on fire and their faces half melted like wax. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Slopper managed a half smile that looked like he had gas and leaned away and into RiRi, who had fallen asleep near the warmth of the blaze, her belly full of stew. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Owen would never again do important research, but the latter half of his career was devoted to one unexceptionable pursuit for which we can all be grateful. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was half an Airedale and half a Retriever and the worst half of both. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was starved and felt half dead as he built up the fire and dug out spaghetti noodles and a can of sauce. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The first time he read Tom Jones, he got so excited he absent-mindedly rocked baby for half an hour, but even this did not upset that regular Silsbee of Lexington. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now just about half a mile of open fields stood between him and his fort on Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the second half of the century there was a fifth option— train. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We set an example for our fellow faction members, and soon the three of us are engulfed in the mass of gray fabric ascending cement stairs in the half light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Last evening, after supper, I’d gone over my ledger half a dozen times. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walked around for an hour and a half. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I half expected her to scold me the way Tía would have done. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With her mouth half open, it occurred to me that she must already be drunk as I noticed the far-off look in her eyes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And what is a self-respecting restaurant cook doing in this flavor-free environment anyway, where a third to a half of the meals get pureed as soon as they’re prepared? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I honestly can’t believe the disc hasn’t cracked in half yet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That man looked as if he could squash half a dozen fairies in one massive fist. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She saw the size, eight and a half, and the initials U.S.A. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Were you so resentful of my leaving that you had to exact your revenge in flesh?” he asked, only half joking. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The backstage area was filled with people, half of whom she didn’t recognize. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They waded through thick drying grass to get to it and Olanna looked around, half fearing she would see Mama’s skeleton lying somewhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a last kick they became rigid, and the blue lids rose half over the eye. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the bag half full when I saw him: a German foot soldier six feet away, eyeballing me through the sights of his gun. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the strangest thing: Lyra knew exactly what she meant, and half an hour earlier she would have had no idea at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brandon waits about two and a half seconds before he gets up and follows her to another room in the house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I give her a half smile because Ayesha always gets to the heart of it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That was the rule; half of any money they got from anywhere went into the tin-can bank that was nailed to the floor in the darkest corner of the closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I half smiled and followed his lead, throwing in a cigarette of my own. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Felix only half listened as a camera panned around the arena and stopped on contestants. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus he was a thorn in the household and he hung about everywhere, talking and idling and yawning, and half dressed even at noon. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Denna kicked idly at a charred timber half buried in ashes near the remains of the barn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Bells was breached, taking on water so fast they barely got out with half of what was in the holds...and that wasn’t much, not after sailing out there so long. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He lay down on the bed, his eyes half closed, and rubbed his buzzed hair. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We have averaged about ten and a half miles a day; eleven and a half omitting the two days spent waiting out the blizzard. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We followed the river about half a mile before coming to an easier slope that led down to the water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The way Toby told it, he was in Patty Simpson’s bed—itself inconceivable to Luke—with his pants half off when her father came home and Toby went for the window. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His eyes bulged and his mouth half opened in surprise. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He glanced upward again, half expecting it to have changed back to normal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like half of Dad and half of Mom got put in a blender, and the churned-up result was me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I speared the last big bite of Cinnabon and started cutting it in half with the edge of the fork. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

So a trumpet or tuba can get one harmonic series using no valves, another one a half step lower using one valve, another one a whole step lower using another valve, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I had a monster for a half- brother. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it managed only half the altitude. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He found that about half of all the cases came, essentially, from four neighborhoods representing about 6 percent of the geographic area of the city. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, the second harmonic is still half the length of the fundamental, the third harmonic is one third the length, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Right before her was a piece of notebook paper, half filled with her square, laborious script. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ophie, of course, was only half listening, mostly doing what she did every day on the trolley: watching ghosts and the people they haunted. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her husband sits on one end of the frilly sofa, half asleep from the long night, half mourning. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to wear nylon stockings and little heels with whatever I wear. I am sixteen now, sixteen and a half, actually.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goat walked around the shed once, then jumped through the glass panes in the upper half of the door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care to be a queen of society now half so much as she did to be a lovable woman. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth did you—You scared me half to—Oh, Sally.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Stheno’s platter, scattering poisoned Cheese ’n’ Wieners, and slashed Riptide across Euryale’s waist, cutting her in half. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way our schoolbooks would look half that nice,” James replied to Hollister. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike half the children from his neighborhood, he completes elementary school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dad still had the bottle but it was only half full. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, but the light still intruded, so I added a pillow over the top half of my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bran's bedchamber was empty, as was Rickon's half a turn below. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had been a Summer Islander, before; his jaw and half his cheek had turned to stone, but his skin was black as midnight where it was not grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If he was busy with a project, he set us up with some time-consuming assignment such as sawing a thick log in half. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she snuck into the teachers’ lounge during lunch and drank half a pot of cold coffee, just because she’s not allowed to drink it and she was curious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Placed in foster care for a year and a half, until aunt and her partner adopted him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He tried a half smile, and I knew he was kidding. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had a pretty good half nelson on him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He meditated an hour and a half following breakfast and again later in the day. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Here I am born into the world in half the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For example, herds of wild horses consist of one stallion, up to half a dozen mares, and their foals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Permian had scored on all four of its possessions the first half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid tugged at the first shirt for half an hour, and she folded it crooked, the buttonholes not lined up with the buttons at all. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still feel bad about it, but I promised to strap his arm for him—in Room 14 half an hour before the night bell—and watched him go off grateful and reassured. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The urinal was an almost unimaginable luxury after five and a half years of crusted buckets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After the tenth night, the journey that usually only took three and a half days was less than a quarter done. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’ve been putting on an act for the last year and a half, day in, day out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I returned to the motel, presented Katz with half—he couldn’t have been more thrilled—then went to my room and put on my new attire. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He half laughed at his joke, even though it wasn’t funny. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Backbiter’s double edge glowed wickedly—half steel, half celestial bronze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Did I have a day and a half today. Boy pulled a knife on me in the school yard." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those Syrians and Lebanese already own half of Lagos, and they are all bloody opportunists in this country.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to let that sit for a half hour.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hilary Putnam, perhaps the most influential analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, published a famous article called “The Meaning of Meaning” in a learned academic volume. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They heard the deep growls of shadowcats behind them before they had gone half a mile, and later the wild snarling of the beasts fighting over the corpses they had left behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It happened two and a half years ago, but standing in front of this school makes me feel like it happened two weeks ago. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Firewood said, “Family, we shall not bite humans whilst they attend to their business! Nathan, we shall have your sash ready in half of a moon cycle.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two representatives complained that they “were called up every half hour day and night so that they had no sleep.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

New tasks arise, such as bunching up the carts left behind by customers and steering them to their place in the front of the store every half hour or so. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d say we were in and out in half an hour. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Our regiment is down to about half strength. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He carefully ascended the steps to the stage and walked the seeming half mile to the middle, where two microphones stood. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was twisted and her eyes were half closed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A gang of white policemen dragged him out of his clinic one day, beat him half to death, and carted him off to prison. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pasture half a dozen horses nibbled contentedly at the sweet grass. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over, and Ansel shoots me a polite half smile. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Before I left, he handed me half a dozen purple mimeographed handouts, which we both knew were useless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“That must have hurt. There was half of a sparrow’s beak lodged in your shoulder.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Suzume was there for about two years. I was there for a year and a half, and Lee was there for a year or so.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the shop, the counter holds some stale hunks of bread, a wedge of moldy cheese, and half a bottle of mustard. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In some years nearly half the income of America’s corn farmers comes from government checks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

All I needed was about a dollar and a half in change to talk to Hirohito. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Half the girls in school want to be like her, and the other half hate her because they know they’ll never come close. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He still looked pale as he folded the paper on his lap, creased it carefully in half, and set it on the table next to his chair. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On this October morning, three days after Miss Hilly called, I walk into work half an hour early. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then she filled a bucket full of clean water, pumping that handle up and down so hard it was a wonder it didn’t snap in half. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months later his sister was born, and five and a half years after the birth of his sister, his brother was born by Caesarean section, both in that same hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was times like this when I let my guard down for something like half a nanosecond, that Mom had a habit of strolling into my brain. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom asked her question again and I just kind of shrugged and half grinned to hide my embarrassment. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Malloy took a long long long drag on the cigarette, turning half of it instantly to ash. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There was half a loaf and a couple of onions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Bloom went back to work three and a half weeks later, “after the stitches came out.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in there, another nurse came in with a wrapped package about a foot and a half long, addressed from Samantha to me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wince, half expecting the entire building to fall down if he pulls too hard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But my neighborhood is not flooding or splitting in half. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My plan was to follow this catwalk to a prominent rock prow in the center of the wall and thereby execute an end run around the ugly, avalanche-swept lower half of the face. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to understand what had brought her here; he himself had forgotten about the place, which was a good half mile from his home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I'm usually the one who looks like the world is about to split in half. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And half of everything inside you is from me, your mother’s side, from the Sun clan in Taiyuan.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Joe lingered, mesmerized by his peek at how the other half still lived. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Who do these people think they are? Gods? They can just choose to wipe out the entire eastern half of the United States? Like the PFC has more right to live than anyone else?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He half bows to Rose, shakes Matts hand and pats Charlie on the back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Through it all Ben continued to teach me mental exercises that I was half convinced he constructed out of sheer meanness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Coach Spinks stared at a clipboard while he sucked on a half empty bottle of R.C. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam hesitated half a second before flipping his turn signal on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Raymie could see her standing on the corner from half a block away. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I eased into the bath, half expecting the bottom to give way beneath my feet, plummeting into an endless void. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Unexpectedly, he was on his feet, bounding away, instantly out of sight, only to appear beneath the same tree as before, having circled the meadow in half a second. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d only have to shovel for a mile and a half. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He didn't mean half the things he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was half aggravated with myself because I hadn’t thought of it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled his cup and heard him belch and removed his plate with the meat half gnawed from the bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was three and a half years old but still wanted to be the one rocking in my mother’s arms. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Given the photo of the board members on the synagogue’s anniversary pamphlet I’d obtained, I doubted if half the old geezers on the board were still drawing air. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read Dreams from My Father in a day and a half, sitting up on the couch, Nina Simone playing on Blaine’s iPod speaker. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I slow further when I hit the park, half because I'm out of breath and half because so long as I can't see into the dugout, he's there and he isn't. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Make a mark, say, five and a half inches from one end, dividing the foot into two unequal parts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about how we’d danced together for half a song, and my heart felt even heavier. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Of course, man. Thanks. But that isn’t the half of it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the second stage, or upper half, of the Titan separated from the first stage, I thought we had blown up. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those Chinese expressions that means the better half of mixed intentions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly half of the hour allotted by Voldemort for his surrender had elapsed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Is that how one meets girls?” asked Lazlo, only half in jest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He texted just now and said did I want to meet him at the sculpture garden in half an hour.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a limo or half a limo. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Harry, twisting Kreacher’s wizened arm into a half nelson. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He picks up another and cracks it in half in his hands. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Given half the necessary equipment, he could dig a well, and he understood everything there was to understand about pumps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strolled next to her half proud, half afraid. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After the family had eaten, he gave the girl her daily ration of half a loaf of bread and a jug of water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am half afraid of disappointing her with some fumble of poorly accented words. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What remained of them was strewn about the road: shattered armor, ripped clothing, swords and spears broken in half. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had already spent half the night curled up next to her sons. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Arrows pointed toward one palace, larger than all the others, so large it took up half the map, and I gulped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The tail looked much larger when he got next to it, with a major part of the vertical stabilizer showing and perhaps half of the elevators. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native Australians constructed elaborate systems of canals up to a mile and a half long, in order to enable eels to extend their range from one marsh to another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My legs were half frozen when we were finally brave enough to move. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Rhiannon breaks hers neatly in half, checks out the slip of paper, and frowns. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

After running almost two and a half miles, the youngsters rebelled and fled into a private yard beside the road. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always forget how horrible the second half of the year leading up to the pageant is. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf longed desperately to win parades and sat up half the night working on it while his wife waited amorously for him in bed thumbing through Krafit-Ebing to her favorite passages. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As Mamou stood, I leaned in and tried to hug her, but it ended up as an awkward half hug. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Stone tools indicate human arrival as early as half a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Davos had only tasted it once before, when King Robert had sent a half a fish to him at a feast on Dragonstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Schwartzie let five of their men come up to the plate that half inning and let one of those five score. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Still, Anita had managed to sell a half dozen of the series, which meant instead of cleaning houses Mia had been able to spend the next six months working on a new project. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It warned them they had only half an hour before they ran out of fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He gets up from the table and leaves the other half of his Pop-Tart and his salad stuff too. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing not far from the house, looking out toward the river, his face half turned from her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I half hoped it was because if the people inside this cabin were black, they were almost certainly in for trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took a half step toward me and rested her hand on my arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dylan wishes me good luck with my future husband as I race half a block down to the main entrance of the Times Square train station. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If I press my forehead against the glass and look down, I can see the back half of the Whirlwind. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theon hacked a loaf of bread in half, hollowed out a trencher, and summoned a cook to fill it with fish stew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel watched as it snapped off half a dozen oars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They reached King’s Cross at half past ten. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Templeton seized the string, passed it around the end of the pig’s tail, and tied two half hitches. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Turner hit at him the best she could with her hurt hand and then spoke her mind for half an hour. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I remember one day, when I was about a year and a half, I escaped from my carriage through the broken drop latch and tumbled past the front lawn toward a dirt tractor road. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Cole had danced half the night, but still a defiant flicker of anger remained inside him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We always grunted a reply only half in jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in less than half an hour the whole stock of the Times had been sold. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

More surprising still, he had been admitted, and there he had stayed, behind that closed door, for the past half hour. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo half expected to see the small distant figure of a horseman on the ridge dark against the sky; but there was no sign of one. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We ended up spending half our money on repellent and cough syrup. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A year and a half since he laid his head on the pillow next to him and Vincent whispered, “Just like Zundert.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Still, you have your half, don’t you? But where will you cook it?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of the worst troublemakers was his own half brother, Gonzalo Pizarro. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Fugees took the field in the second half with a new energy and confidence. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Reggie veered smoothly back to the right, missing by a few feet the sedan, which was now just half a car length ahead of us. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They have taken retraining classes for jobs that pay half their old wages. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I've been very mysterious, though," she says, her eyes squint half shut. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, the rear half of the train car was disgusting, but it was all our fault. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then the anthill split in half to reveal an elderly gentleman sitting cross-legged on the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly standing next to me, Augustus half whispered, “They’re big believers in PDA.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the second half Erin blocks three shots, intercepts two passes, drives the lane several times for layups, comes off endless screens, sinks shot after shot, and secures the win easily. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dome is split into halves—the walls on the right side show cute furry animals in green meadows filled with flowers of every color. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And by the time we return, I suspect I’ll have a new half brother or half sister.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They had floated not quite half a mile in just over fifteen minutes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a simple meter, each beat is basically divided into halves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

No, I felt like a magician slicing myself in half, with Junior living on the north side of the Spokane River and Arnold living on the south. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see them, but I see that half the kids have tans from spring break. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then I get benched for the entire first half. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

But at the sight of the white porcelain bowl her body—which had been waiting for nearly two and a half hours—could resist no longer. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The simplest scheme is Aristotle’s—who said that a speech is a thing of two halves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He counted half a dozen identical impressions, all made by the same set of bare feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average dose received was only about 175 rads, a little less than half the dose needed to kill an average person. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clustered around this lady were six men, wearing tunics with padded chests, their puffed sleeves lengthened to cover half their hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the principal received the permit Florah and I paid to go, along with half the school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom couldn’t afford to buy much food at the market, usually just a half pound of beans, a few ingredients to make gravy, and some cornstarch to make kaunga, a traditional doughlike dish. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed every blacked-up piece of plastic, wearing down that Ivory bar from a nearly full cake to nearly half flat I scrubbed and scrubbed until my knuckles ached. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year, they’d both be moving up to the varsity team since about half the starters from last year had graduated. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I know about my half sister, all right,” Ma Charles snapped real fast. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"They sent that four and a half minutes ago," Martinez continued, "while looking at satellite data from nine minutes ago." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d met on the forums and decided to room together for the month and a half. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had lost a whole night and half a day. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The yearbook cover is half velvet and half textured. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The robot’s voice was in their ears again, “Here I am. Can you hold out half an hour?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

For a frantic half hour it was touch and go. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered the room where they lived, a dark, close-smelling room that seemed half filled by a bed with a white counterpane. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her voice is gentle, a half whisper at most. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was heading straight for Marisol’s house, which was about half a block down the street. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“And I won’t get my last week’s pay either. But I got another job...start tomorrow...twelve and a half a week. I’ll get a raise in time, I expect.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits in front of a mirror with half of her face peeling off, like the villain in a horror comic I once read; this one is called Leprosy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I passed half the time of his visit standing at my door, trying to force myself to emerge from the room and from the curse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For half a second he turned, stared up at me, and quirked that eyebrow, before facing the Spandex Squad again. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Beautiful or not, a look at the sunlight through straight glass would have blinded them inside of half a minute. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It had Kat’s face and mine close together and behind us was half of the Eye and some bridge and river and sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way she said that—they’ll live—was so dismissive, I half expected to see a hand come up into the air to wave me off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The other half of the hut was divided into two piles of dry grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was longer and his face sagged a bit more at his hard jaw, and then there was the missing lower half of his leg. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning—Monday, May 13—I left the tents at first light and walked two and a half miles through the deep cleft of the Western Cwm to the lip of the Icefall. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The two men stood in different halves of the century. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been trumpeting it for more than a year and a half now, all over America: My husband was calm and prepared. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He wore no clothes except underwear—I mean, bright white Fruit of the Looms—which would’ve looked funny, except that the top half of his body was so scary. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If he half closed his eyes, he could almost imagine himself there, in the quiet shadows of the Ajo Mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He argued that it would be far more efficient if workers were a few steps from the factory instead of wasting precious time marching the two and a half miles between Emalia and the camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That would leave the mouse with a half dollar, a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and three cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we’ve only won the half of it yet,” he shouted to us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come right down to it, Floyd wasn’t half as dangerous as Perry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m just going for a look. I’ll be back in half an hour.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I clean off my hands and head out to the box, sweat half a gallon on the way. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He broke the bread, giving half to the boy and thrusting the rest into his own mouth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps once he could evoke gales of laughter with a quip, but the sea had taken that power from him, along with half his wits and all his memory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And even though Bit was half the size of his friends, he was the biggest when it came to confidence. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Chester looked down at his two front legs, half expecting to find the willow leaf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know the half of it, Rosmerta,” said Fudge gruffly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Weisberg has a low, raspy voice, baked hard by half a century of nicotine, and she pauses between sentences to give herself the opportunity for a quick puff. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A highway patrolman found Emma Lee walking down the beach road with half of her clothes on, hysterical, her face beaten past all recognition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With eight minutes left in the half and the score still tied at zero, Jeremiah Ziaty carved his way through the Fire defense at the top of the box. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then the leader, who was now half across the Ford, stood up menacing in his stirrups, and raised up his hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though we lived just on the borders of actual starvation, I could not bribe Granny with a promise of half or two-thirds of my salary; her answer was no and never. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she wrote down a name hurriedly, held it up for us to read, then tore all the used pages in half, over and over again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a very few seconds the canoe was half full of water. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Children in the E pod spend most of their time inside windowless cells that measure seven and a half by ten feet. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“He might come while I’m still making it, and then we’d have to make conversation for an hour and a half till it was ready. Anyway, we’ve got some biscuits.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

To his left stood an oak tree about half the height of the pine tree. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“About half. We still have quite a nest egg. About fifteen million dollars at today's market prices.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"Yes, she's a sweet sight," he told her, "though not half so sweet as you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The girl had lived half her life in summer, and that was all she knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The vine snapped, and Thorn tumbled over with half of it still uselessly gripped in her hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The room they were in was half family room, half kitchen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I saved the other half to eat in a different century. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Steward’s bell began to toll, announcing half an hour before dinner. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Gee, thanks,” I said dryly, half flattered he thought I was capable of that level of scheming. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

About half of her hair is protected by a silk bonnet. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday and Thursday evenings they commandeered half the parlor of Number Five and hired their own teacher. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the count guard came by I was sitting on my bunk, half shaved and trying to will my shaking foot into a shoe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

With the blackout curtains closed and the mask half covering my eyes it was dark inside the hallway as I shuffled forward with my scythe waving in front of me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Victoria Pappas stood half in and half out of the light, the shading across her body exactly that of the photograph on page 8 of Lingerie Parisienne. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He figured out how much money would be saved if they reported half of their intake. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a book lying half under his bed and picked it up and he sat down on the bed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought, If you only knew the half of it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They took prototypes of the Aeron to local companies in western Michigan and had people sit in them for at least half a day. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Even at home Gebu seemed to have all but forgotten his young half brothers existence. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He sits down and immediately shoves half a piece of bread into his mouth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His blue house on the hill lay half in ruins, its floor burnt and its windows broken. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was his dream, daring and magnificent: to go there, half across the world, and solve the mysteries for himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He could always hear them half a mile off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like a mermaid, the city is half fantasy, teasing us across a sea of myth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

When it’s time for his bath, he goes around to each of us in turn and announces that we shouldn’t walk past the kitchen for the next half hour. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Papa half groaned, half moaned before saying, “I. Have. Made. So. Many. Big. Decisions. Over and over the last few years.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Osha found some loaves of burned bread that were still edible, and even a cold roast fowl that she ripped in half. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Although not illegal, indulging in the so-called grandmaster draw—in which neither player strives to win but, rather, halves the point after a few inconsequential moves have been made—bordered on unprincipled behavior. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself up on the wagon so half of her body was out of the molasses. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Unnerved, I stand up, rip the jerky in half and toss a piece to both dogs—but they just sniff at it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I half expected to see waves and fish and icebergs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sighs and grabs me by the elbow, half leading and half dragging me out of the room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After the half marathon she’s just run, the thought of food makes her nauseous. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The rope gave a jerk as it lowered another half inch. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her half brother Caspar Merian, whom she loved and admired, had made his home there. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were snipers and small groups of rebels everywhere, disorganized bands of covert fighters and half the time you couldn’t tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys and neither could they. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a wad of cotton attached to the back, I can see it as she half turns; it looks like a sanitary pad that’s been popped like a piece of popcorn. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her concert tour would take her to a total of fifty-four cities, so she wasn’t even half done yet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

How strange, to encounter them again half a world away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tractor intersected Gloria’s path half a second after Robbie had, rolled on ten feet further and came to a grinding, long drawn-out stop. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He would begin to unfold, come out, like the moon in half phase. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1911, he produced a strange novel, entitled Kantsaywhere, about a future utopia in which roughly half the population was marked as “unfit” and severely restricted in its ability to reproduce. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon enough half the men were lying dead on the grass. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

One half still stood, slightly tilted, while the other lay on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Identify the intervals below in terms of half steps and whole steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If he’s even half as good as Coach thinks he is, I’ll lose my starting position. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She does just about everything, and she’s keeping half the tutors in town in business. She pushes herself pretty hard.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of him was wrapped in layers of wool and boiled leather and ringmail, his features shadowed by his hooded cloak and a black woolen scarf about the lower half of his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But they found a good and proper group in the American wing where they spent a lovely and informative hour and a half learning about the arts and crafts of colonial days. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hours earlier when I’d attached my regulator to my third and last oxygen canister, I’d noticed that the gauge indicated that the bottle was only half full. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He learned his letters in a day and a half. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made breakfast for everyone, but Elouise only ate half a slice of toast. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My mother went on eating her half grapefruit with her special serrated spoon, and I looked back at Mrs. Baylor and caught her with her head bowed and smiling to herself. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At night, he was certain they were dead; in the daylight, merely maimed and half dead. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Two and a half hours of sitting in the car, staring out the window of the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the bit of dry bread and the slightly wilted half of the onion from his sash, avoiding Heqet’s eyes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But I ain’t nearly half as distracted by the lights as I am the sight that meets my eyes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When they had been creeping along for about half, an hour, Ripred suddenly stopped at a bend in the tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a gigantic tin can that had been cut in half, lengthwise, and then pressed down into the ground. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores had a countrified look; there were harnesses and sacks of feed in half of the display windows. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s the biggest number I’ve ever been, but it’s an easy number—easy to say, easy to count, easy to split in half. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not so long when you’re listening to a story, but half a year is a great long while to live through, especially if you are young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, in the evening, when the lights are on, I see that only half the ones that are still there actually work. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And the other half are Meereenese of doubtful loyalty, he left unsaid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She gives a half smile, which I’ve seen her do several times already today. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three and a half months of pure devotion to football where nothing else mattered, nothing else made a difference. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you aimed for was a state of half oblivion, a private party mood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At length, Mrs. Glass heaved one of her premium sighs and returned her attention to Zooey, who, pushing at his cuticles, had pivoted a half turn toward the morning daylight. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had eaten only half a box of old Red Hots that had lost their zing, and a pack of stale and crumbly peanut butter crackers nearly forgotten in his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The prince grinned, running a hand over the prickly ends of his black hair, now barely half an inch long. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I ate half the sandwich after my mother pretty much forced me to eat something, and I have to say, it was pretty good. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had been assigned just 109 pounds, and his jockey, Wayne Wright, had reduced himself half to death to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an argument or a song were going on at La Ida, or late at night when good fellowship had reached its logical conclusion, Eddie poured glasses half or two-thirds full into the funnel. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jews had won over half of Germany’s Nobel Prizes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A week? You've got to be joking. For a Rule 32 hearing? The trial in this case only lasted a day and a half.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the kitchen counter straining herbs, along with half a dozen other women. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sky behind her is the sky after sunset; at the top of it is the lower half of the moon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Terry bustles in, half muttering to herself and half to the room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” Dimple mumbled, and it sounded only half true. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It was easy to see how he got commissions. His very bearing and looks were half the battle. He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was a hulking fourteen, six and a half feet tall, burly and resolute. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We would stay up half the night goofing. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I reenrolled as a senior at Sunrise High, no one asked about the second half of my junior year, and I didn't volunteer any information. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That was true, but only half true, since the power of the overseers was a result of the curious lives led by the sugar masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In search of food, I made myself enter one of the better structures, an empty cottage with half a roof. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth I went: a half mile safe, a curve, a half mile edging the side of the cliff. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Still, this hour and a half is the best hour and half I’ve had for a while. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I pulled back the edge of the drape slightly, I could hear well enough; I could also see the front half of the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mama’s been hollering for you for the last half hour.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me three stitches in my forehead and it hurt like crazy, but I was ready to play the second half. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fringed by mountains, the basin was about a hundred miles long from north to south and perhaps half that size from east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a glass vial, only half full. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For more than half a century, the kind face of Jesus had looked down on its worshipers at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and had offered them that same security. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The glass is half empty, but there are a few good swigs ahead of me, and besides I can always order a second and a third if I wish to. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple managed a half smile then, thinking, It’s a nice sentiment., but happiness is way too tall an order. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ben came over after dinner and we played Resurrection, pausing every half hour or so to call Radar, who was on a date with Angela. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Ten and a half. What can I say? I was advanced for my age.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He reached a small clearing—and half jumped out of his skin. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I fished just long enough to catch three bass, about half an hour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Felicia half fell into the chair, and they stared at each other for a moment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Zeus’s girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn’t you? Glad you’re back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—” “Brother,” Artemis said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had half the Held plowed by lunchtime. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pattern for the minor scale starts a half step plus a whole step lower than the major scale pattern, so a relative minor is always three half steps lower than its relative major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were lying in his bed, half dressed, having skipped lacrosse and field hockey practice for a different kind of exercise. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even she knew that half the time she didn’t know what she was doing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe half a mile below them, Annabeth could see the bottom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On 13 September 1768 a large meteorite, weighing seven and a half pounds, fell at Lucé, Pays de la Loire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The men had traveled only a mile and a half before the river's ferocity forced them to stop. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They were half man, half horse, and for the most part they were savage creatures, more like beasts than men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One- armed, face cut near in half, it seemed to feel nothing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Redemption took the other half and settled into one of the chairs. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even with the mementos and pictures scattered throughout the room, this can’t even be half of what the passengers brought with us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stood, her mouth half open in shock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a half an hour, we were approached by a whaleboat, also marked with a lantern upon her, and the two drifted without words until they were joined in comfortable parallel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You spend only half? What do you do with the other half?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny knew when his own case would soon be called because he heard the Justice tell a beadle to run down to Long Wharf and tell Merchant Lyte to present himself in half an hour. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I half expected Babou to wheel a Ping-Pong table out, like the Rezaeis had in their yard, but instead he had me drag three fabric-topped card tables out from the shed in the corner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’d been almost a half hour since we were dropped off in Davis. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Woodwell is about a million years old now, and mostly retired, but once upon a time about half the working boats in Spinney Cove come out of his shed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment they stood so, half fearful, blindfold, not knowing where they were; and no one spoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were some kind of crops being grown in between the trees, half of it now burned out or uprooted by the shelling. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both spend half a minute looking up into the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In this way, our grandparents sold their land and then, forever after, paid the mestizos half their harvest to rent what was once theirs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After trudging half a mile through hot fields, getting bitten by mosquitoes and whacked in the face with scratchy sunflowers, they finally reached the road. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, at half past nine, Mother smoothes her skirt, folds a blanket slowly and perfectly, like a cherished letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I took a quick half step to the left, set my legs, and rammed into him with my shoulder. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He would be married no later than half past five or know the reason why. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what, Mr. Curtain? Jackson heard a mouse, too, not half an hour ago. We’re having a real problem with them lately.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's torn in half, but I remember what Rani said. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Otto and Sheed had crossed paths, and butted heads, with the Ellisons enough times to know that was only half of the story. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I took out my knife and cut the sausage in half. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like my heart is cracked in half and will never be whole again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder they hardly seemed to love me half the time—I couldn’t step in front of my husband to shelter them from his scorching light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The May sunset was red in clouds, and there was still half an hour to twilight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar said, only half jocularly, “In a respectful way, I hope.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The other half is itching to go stare at myself in the bathroom mirror, examine every inch of my body for more spots. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In 2006 an NIH researcher gave thousands of tissue samples to the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in exchange for about half a million dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After half an hour of walking, Idunn said, “Loki, I am starting to believe that there are no other apples and there is no apple tree.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And on July 23 of that same year, Henry Ford sold Dr. Ernst Pfenning a shiny red Model A, the first of 1,750 that he would sell in the next year and a half. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Come on. You’d better get dressed. Your grandfather wants to hit the road in half an hour.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I stand frozen—half inside the store, half out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The reading comer was jammed with pillows and was sheltered by half of an old cardboard geodesic dome. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, a small half smile playing at his lips. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Actually, my mom converted. It kind of makes me feel like I’m only half Jewish.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We have no half brothers or half sisters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of Germany’s 1,000 breweries combined produce only half as much. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"College for Negroes! Boy, what do you know other than how to ruin an institution in half an hour that it took over half a hundred years to build? Did he talk northern or southern?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fearful of other inmates, not of officers, and spent half his time looking over his shoulder for would-be attackers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can leave the sledge up here. We’ll leave half the firewood for the return journey, and the dogs will have no problem.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Biddy look up with her mouth open and half full of soup. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These days the units are only half full. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Mainly, ’cause they ignorant,” he added while unlocking the first half of the casket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He smiled half a smile, but his eyes were serious. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was through about half the sites when he headed home to say goodbye to Kathy and the kids. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z