The heat was on but Grace felt a little chilled. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe they would come in with all the heat in the area, but they came. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brisk dashing about didn’t work well in the muggy tropical heat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were lit up, but it was mostly light, not much heat. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d retired by then—he was seventy- two—but he did odd jobs and worked on heating systems with his brother Walter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could look directly down on the gray crest of Little Round Top, saw the gunners there rising and stretching and heating coffee near black cannon. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point the heat became too intense, so he ducked into an abandoned store where he found a large blanket on the floor. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I realize I’m staring and glance away, heat rising in my cheeks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They go from station to station, removing pots from stoves and turning off the heat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about that, but the heat in that boxcar was powerful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the heat of blood in his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was Tuesday, so both sad irons were heating on the stove and I’d covered the kitchen table with a clean blanket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The heat was back on by four o’clock. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reckless with desperation, I touched my bloody side, concentrated, and felt a terrible cold tear through me as I pulled more heat from my blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were tracking her too easily, probably using her body heat to pick her out among the trees, like the minders back home. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When solid sulfur is heated a little past the normal boiling point of water, to about 115°C, it melts and changes color. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother always wakes up early to heat up soup and eat with me while the rest of the family sleeps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat in the room was great, it being the height of summer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moment felt like Saturday, like summer heat, like adventure. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After two days of travel, thirst became intolerable, as did the heat. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the slow heat of summer, long before dawn, Volkheimer paces in the harsh dazzle of the billboard lights and feels his loneliness on him like a disease. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Reyna got the uncomfortable impression he was seeing much more than her form - her heat signature, her heart rate, her level of fear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Wounds festered and got infected at lightning speed in the damp heat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Abby and I found a food truck, got in line, and she launched into a heated retelling of all her catches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The combination of heat and thwarted desire made him nasty. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He would go out when the heat of siesta time had eased and would not return until well into the night. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We were hydrated yesterday, but we’ve also been sweating a great deal in this heat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Busying herself until the heat in her cheeks subsided, she collected the lantern and rummaged around until she found oil to light it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Glass was expensive, and large sheets of it were prodigal of heat in these fierce latitudes; so to see them here was evidence of wealth and influence far greater than Iofur Raknison’s vulgar palace. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the animal was affected by heat stress. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fits of weariness began to pass over Longstreet, as clouds pass over and dull the heat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do more! There must be invisible ink on this page. The heat makes it visible.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As I walked up and down both streets, I could feel the heat in my nose with each breath. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a hot, overcast morning, trees shimmering in the heat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On weekday nights, she would take a bag out of the freezer and heat it in the microwave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rushing sound in his ears and his face burned with heat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He wrapped his thick arms, like the thick heat, around Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There is no effective way for this heat, accumulated over billions of years, to reach the surface and be lost to space, and the radioactivity inside Ganymede and Callisto must therefore melt their icy interiors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers erected a heated movable shelter that allowed them to apply staff to the exterior of the Mines Building no matter what the temperature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kisevalter was told bluntly that the CIA "does not communicate with an enemy intelligence service." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The heat don’t really bother me, though, never has. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s bare-chested, straight off the beach, and the heat of him is seeping through my T-shirt. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of the second orbit, an indicator in the capsule suggested that the all-important heat shield was loose. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Washington wanted an ink that was more complicated, an ink that could not be read merely by heating the paper or by coating it with an ordinary chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would drive some of the C02 out of the surface rocks, generating a stronger greenhouse effect, which would in turn incrementally heat the surface further. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artists have infested it; in fact the first wave of artists has almost come and gone, and brass lettering and heating pipes painted fire-engine red and firms of lawyers are taking .over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jason tried to focus, but the heat from the horses was making him light-headed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was so hot you could smell the heat baking the stones and dirt along the bank. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone is huffing and puffing, and in this heat I have to walk everywhere. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Not after a blue rinse. We have residual heat signatures all over the place. Mostly solinium flares. It won’t calm down for a couple of days.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was for cooking, heating the house, heating water for baths. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t work. We call the super, ask him when he going to fix, when he going to mend the heating, he does not care, goes to Arizona for the winter for his chest.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

How we longed for the light and heat of a blazing fire when we got back! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the fire spread, his coat sleeves burned away, and his arms began to scale from the heat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here I was alone and exposed to the heat and clamor of the day. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A surge of heat pulsed through Thomas’s veins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a reflector at the far end, which is another stone slab propped to throw heat on the grill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third, a desert of heat waves away, sat at a panel arrayed with coils and dials. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Placing my hand on his foot, I could feel the feverish heat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They loosened their stays and sighed the hours away and cursed the heat and their husbands, too, for dragging them to Caldwell County to plant cotton and acres of pecan trees. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She lay in the dark, propped up on the pillows, and stared at the lighter square of her window, at the heat lightning throbbing. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my legs in heating pads, smiling through the pain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

He wet one finger and lifted an iron from the rack on the stove, where it had been heating. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t gulp enough air to cool the burning heat in my lungs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs said it had taken a thou-sand blades to make it, heated white-hot in the furnace breath of Balerion the Black Dread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rest had been cremated in the heat and their ashes sucked up by the swirling wind and blown away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A violent shudder racked her body then, despite the muggy heat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The heat from the hot spot is what powers all of Yellowstone’s vents, geysers, hot springs, and popping mud pots. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ll keep some in the fridge and you can heat it up later.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I can feel the heat of my cheeks and wonder if the shadows help cover it up at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was one last feeling of being lifted into the air and a sensation of rapid motion and burning heat, and he passed out. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Now I’ve got to change my shoes and walk all the way up to the lumberyard in this heat,” she said, as if she hadn’t brought it all on herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Say we get out of this heat and talk more over cold drinks? You must be burning up under all those layers.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She turns back to lower the heat and cover the pot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Before long, in the heat and excitement, I forgot them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered the heat and sat down guiltily on the couch just as a freshly laundered nurse leading a little girl came into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They felt a little ridiculous in the oppressive summer heat, with a bouquet of wilting flowers in their hands and not a single tear for the solitary body they were laying to rest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hood’s eyes, normally so soft and sad, were wide and black as round coals, shining with a black heat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bristles whenever she runs into any hint of class bias, or the presumption that poor people in homes heated by kerosene or without enough bedrooms cannot be good parents. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to get stalled in this baking heat." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The heat and drought of dog days had parched the earth, and the crops had been laid by. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long pond that was heated in some way so the water wouldn’t freeze and kill the fish, and she looked strange surrounded by the mist that rose from its surface. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I run out to the pump and fill a pitcher with cold water, then bring it inside to heat on the stove. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As it contracts, the atoms of the gas collide with each other more and more frequently and at greater and greater speeds—the gas heats up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the stifling heat of the room, he wears a long-sleeved shirt that buttons at the wrists—he must have been distracted when he dressed this morning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Droplets of water on his skin slowly dissolve into the heat. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

To their left, the Olympic valley shimmered in the afternoon heat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They weren’t quite as fast as Hazel’s horse, Arion, but they had a lot more heat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just last week, she had tried setting me up with Raizel Ackermann on the first floor, in a dinner that had exploded into a heated argument over anarchism. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The argument was going back and forth and the men had put down their picks and shovels in the heat of the argument. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black stove, pouring out heat, squatted against the far wall. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phenomenon fades when the stones are immaculately cleaned, vanishes when they are heated to furnace temperature, and reappears when they are simply touched by the hand again before being struck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light-emission of the Chabe stove is cut off, and it exists only as a sphere of heat, a heart of warmth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It grew palpable in the air, heating it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He hands me my cup, and I hold it with both hands, savoring the heat and the clean scent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I just closed my eyes, and I slid to her until I could feel the warmth of my own face play back against hers, the reflection like an instant map of heat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her team put in full days at their tables and desks, breaking codes in the stifling heat. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The air inside our house is stale and flat, air that’s been locked up in the heat all summer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Strangely, Grandfather felt no distress from the heat, even with his full white beard tumbling down his chest. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was chilly in here, like their heat was broke. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Volt wondered if the heat might be putting stress on the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water carried the blood down the drain, where the waste water would be cooked in heated tanks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river is cold, despite the heat of summer, the current strong. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin the man started a fire in the cookstove and heated water. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the bird to his chest, trying to warm it from the heat of his body. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

These disagreements provoked many heated debates between the board and Operation Breakthrough’s staff. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there is too much to control between the heat and the rain and Marco in her arms. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The chamber was infernal in its heat and rank in its scent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The two officers spoke in hushed but heated tones in French, and then the female officer indicated that we were to follow her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The stone construction of the prison helped blunt the extreme heat that had settled on the city and much of the country, but nothing could keep out the humidity for which Philadelphia was notorious. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Despite the midday heat and the raging storm of death energy, a group of tourists was climbing over the ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stars will remain stable like this for a long time, with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were all closed, but sun streamed in, heating up the room to a slow simmer and bringing forth the ripe stink of underwashed gentlemen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child always slept under a quilt, even in the terrible summer heat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the burning barn, shed, and fence was so hot that the O’Learys’ house, forty feet away, began to smolder. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meme realized that he was burning in the heat of his pride, and she desperately looked for a way to humiliate him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Beyond the open window, the garden lay in the heat of the early afternoon sun, full of bees and vivid flowers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The metal walls were heating up as Phraner felt his way to the ladder leading up to the deck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan seemed to be suddenly aware of the heat, the smell of the flames, and the fire in Gerald’s eyes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames as bright as daylight, where you have to stand back from the heat. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let the sun and the heat get to them, make them do something stupid. We can rest and wait.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

At least the heat had less bite and the humidity had dropped to tolerable levels, so I was able to hang out on the sidewalk and think about all my predicaments. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We wash down the food with cold tea because we have no fire to heat it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As in the case of Cygnus X-l, the gas will spiral inward and will heat up, though not as much as in that case. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rum’s soft heat was spreading fanwise out from his stomach, engulfing his whole body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the heat, that running felt good—hand in hand, all out, a group of shirtless monsters just behind us. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

To get to the door, we had to make our way through the dance floor: sweat and heat, blinking Christmas lights, a dreadful crush of bodies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The heat rising from the oil burner chimneys across the highway distorted and magnified it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The owner of a heating and air-conditioning business, he had a big walrus-y mustache and sleepy eyes that made him look older than his sixty-eight years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He held it higher but the heat was worse and finally he moved it to the side a bit and there it seemed to cook properly. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we would have to draw from was our own body heat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the sun heats it, I sprinkle in some of Abue’s precious herb crumbs. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed, produced moment by moment this close, tormenting heat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I enter the kitchen to find them both sweating from the heat of the blazing hearth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Horsemen draped him in two horse blankets and made him run around the track in 110-degree heat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindsey was in the heat ahead of mine, but we still had maybe five heats before that. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

While the girl prepared a nest of grass and leaves, Taran asked Gurgi to build a fire and heat some stones, which could be dropped into a cup of water. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They were not near the Gulf now, and the air was dry and hot so that the brush cricked with heat and a good resinous smell came from it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was never established whether it had really caused the death of the birds, but the newly married women did not bear the predicted monsters, nor did the intensity of the heat decrease. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Outside, a pot half filled with white sand sat on the fire; he would give it a little more time to heat up before he placed the dough inside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He says he’s turning off the heat at night to save money. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s awfully cold in here. Is the heat on?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our bare arms touched as we ate, our thighs, and it felt like heat lighting, it felt like a quick brush against the electric fence at Klauson’s Ranch, like the promise of something more. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

We all sat in. the incubator room so our heat would keep the room warm. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The heat starts to break, so we eat dinner on the patio. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The heat was stuffy; one had trouble breathing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unlock the car doors and slide in behind the wheel, both our lips whistling involuntarily as we’re saturated with stale heat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But mostly they just talked about heat and cold, and wind and clouds, and what’s gonna be done, and time passing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old prisoners scrambled for the upper tier, the more desirable, since heat rises. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Curiously, it had not taken heat from his body, but lay so cold against his skin it might just have emerged from icy water. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She blinked hard, tried to temper the growing heat in her stomach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Hello, you! Isn’t it awful? I tell you I do not suffer heat gladly!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The extreme heat in my poorly ventilated room woke me in the middle of the night. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the month of Oekre there were ten days and nights when the temperature never went below sixty degrees, and one day the heat rose to 88°. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Newly planted trees stood in soldierly ranks, but in the heat and haze they looked like desert troops gone too long without water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Put on an apron, and start heating these up,” Amá says, pointing to the tortillas scattered throughout the kitchen. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ophie started a fire in the fireplace, and she took a moment to warm her hands and enjoy the heat after the chill of the day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Pinmei let herself be led to a large pillow next to the stove, its heat bathing her in warmth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

That's right, almost all of the power was going to heat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The library’s air conditioner whined against the summer heat streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I feel the heat of dislike and guilt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She set the instructions back on the desk and turned her face to the radiators, which by now were putting out so much heat that they were probably giving her a tan. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Summer was the busiest time for the business, with so many people leaving, fleeing the swamp heat, wanting these rooms or that porch painted while they were away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Water deprivation in hundred-degree heat doubles, maybe triples the dehydration clock. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ripples of heat rose from the junked cars, which were lined up in rows as far as Roy could see. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley looked out through the haze of heat and dirt at the other boys, lowering and raising their shovels. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He did not look at his mother, who stood up and went to the stove to heat his breakfast. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, everyone else looked so excited to be outside again in the scorching Los Angeles heat. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Then he suggested they pass the night at his apartment with its electric heat and hot water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The heat in the kiln was extremely difficult to control. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She could not endure the heat, and after a while she had to go out on the sidewalk and sit on her apple crate. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first game got so heated that Jay walked away from the table and disowned both of us. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Do more! There must be invisible ink on this page. The heat makes it visible.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We were brothers. And the deal is, I take the heat and he goes home.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The wood was damp but he shaved the dead bark off with his knife and he stacked brush and sticks all about to dry in the heat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was the month of Hathor in the Season of Growing, and the air was cool despite the heat from the hooded furnaces that lined the courtyard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And in this July heat there was not a chill to be found. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I feel the heat rising in my cheeks. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just before you stride away, you lean down to me, so close I can feel your heat. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Pepper got run over on the highway, chasing some she-dog in heat.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His blue overalls seemed to be steaming in the heat. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s being watched. The High Command guys—they’re all getting heat from the War Department and the president.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He breathed out and rubbed his jaw, feeling his cheeks heat up when he realized he was staring at her thighs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the day, Nhamo sat under the lemon tree at the highest point of the island and made twine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man guided us to a lean-to in the yard and bade us all wait while he requested his daughter heat us some mash. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s match against Bent Larsen began in Denver on July 6 at four p.m., in the midst of an uncomfortable one-hundred-degree heat wave. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yet all these gases have very basic properties in common: heat them up and they expand; cool them down and they contract. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At home, I could bear hunger and being out in the heat and the rain because I’d be taking care of our livestock. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivera, calling my mom to tell her that the heat was out and to ask what they were supposed to do. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He is accustomed to people asking about the poverty, about the beggars and the heat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight crept up behind Nhamo’s head and finally bathed her in uncomfortable heat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the heat of the day rose, Nhamo’s stomach began to churn. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve saved us all from that awful trudge through the heat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Three thousand Americans would die of the heat that week, forty of them in New York City. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The air shimmered with flowers, birds, and insects, but the dense heat suffocated. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sun’s energy could be used to generate electricity, and to heat the town, and to grow crops. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the Sun heats it, the ice is vaporized, and a lovely cometary tail develops. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat is already on in our room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I almost said, “We work in this heat because we have to work. We don’t have no choices about it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the door and felt the full heat of the day on her skin. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

A few girls on my detail wear hijab, even in this blazing heat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The three quarters of a mile in the blazing heat, from Nuthanger to the foot of the hill, had cost Hazel more pain and effort than anything in his life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up and see him, sitting back on his knees but still panting a bit from the climb and the heat and the effort of bringing Peeta back from the dead. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes me to the wall, heat flaring from his hands and tingling across my skin, sending my heart into a feverish beat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Stuart doesn’t come over during the day, when the heat is at its worst. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

However, if that happened the intervening matter would eventually heat up until it glowed as brightly as the stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up in the dull, sunless heat the next morning, I dressed and splashed my face with cold water and put on some lipstick and opened the door slowly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Not with the heat, not with the wet soil, and definitely not with the mosquitoes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I know they’ve got a good regulator. Come on, Pa. Half the county heats with the raw gas. Who’s going to complain?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d retired by then—he was seventy- two—but he did odd jobs and worked on heating systems with his brother Walter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenya told me he’s heated that I dry snitched. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It fed off itself, from one body to another, like heat shimmering off asphalt in the summer, undefined and blurry. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In the end, after much talk and many heated arguments, the people shrugged, laughing uneasily and a little ashamedly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lone figure came on the landscape as a speck and slowly grew into a ripply form through the heat waves. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Using the heat of your blood could be called reckless, E’lir Kvothe. What of binder’s chills? What if you had gone into hypothermic shock?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The heat was working its nasty magic, and the inside of the body was beginning to swell even as the skin was drying out and shrinking. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth filled with frothy saliva; no perceptible pulsations in the radial artery; but little external heat and very imperfect respiration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had swung over the vertical and the afternoon heat was closing in on the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Although she often took a lot of heat, especially in gym class, she tried to make the best of it, as did Jeff. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late-summer Georgia heat beat down on the metal shell of the airplane that we’d been packed into for over an hour. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Combined with our exertion, the cloying heat was almost unbearable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The summer population must be large and the roads and highways gorged with refugees from the sticky heat of Boston and New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of machinery went up a notch, and a wave of heat poured from the space within, along with the stench of burning fuel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Although it was not on the agenda, a heated debate erupted on women’s right to vote and whether a resolution demanding that right should be drafted and sent to the US Congress. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think she could sleep, but a full day of fighting monsters in the summer heat had taken its toll. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My dad adjusted the heat on the stove. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some feeling was slowly returning to them, mostly a stinging, prickly heat that was like a painful mockery of the soothing warmth I had felt a minute ago when I was drifting off to sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The heat and radiation and rising waters were too much. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In Reverend Hughes’s large office, the sun filtering through the stained glass heated up the room to a sweat-inducing temperature. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some whispered that soon the very stones would explode with the heat, that we would all go hungry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

So I give her our phone number, thank her again, and set out to find Fiona, because her heat of the 800-meter has just been called. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Jesper felt the heat emanating from the incinerator as soon as they entered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gogol occasionally opens up one of his textbooks, bloated from the heat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had started at Springer on the 28th of March—a date that seemed impossibly snow-flecked and distant now in the full heat of an August evening—and had hiked continuously for 141 days. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The heat came rushing back to my face. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just heating some water in the kettle, and I have fresh mint from the garden. Can I make you some tea?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She took his oats upstairs and heated them for a few minutes in the oven before she fed him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a step back, then another, though the flames’ heat beat against my back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A man didn’t have to wait for a stove to heat up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth asks because Lou Anne’s wearing a gray wool dress in the heat of summer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were also times I witnessed heated arguments between my friends and their moms that left me in a catatonic state. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of its bearers had collapsed to the bricks, overcome by heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They worked at night, in rain, in stifling heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The payments, even if high and festooned with interest, are no worse than renting an apartment and fighting the owner for heat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was coming up at me from the floor, rising in slow waves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a heated whispered discussion the driver finally pocketed the money and opened the trunk so that Habib could pull out their meager belongings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had hours of work left to do, but he needed a break from the heat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The big heating vent on the wall was starting to shoot out warm air. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Manet ran a hand idly over his wild, grey beard as he eyed the heat waves rolling off the brick kiln. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He bears down upon me with the heat of the sun. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the heating vent across the room went quiet. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The heat of my mistake lingers in my stomach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond those sounds, I heard the hum of the building: the heating system, maybe. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I limped hurriedly back to the gate, to find Mr. Armin and Falconer engaged in heated combat. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed healthy and well-fed, and were keeping cool from the heat under the shade of the cars. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Somebody was complaining about the heat: “ . . . feel my arm, steamed soft clear to the bone.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I disable the tracker and find a place to hide my heat signature, they might assume I just fell victim to some unknown new planet danger. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was not used to the heat, the sun, and the hard ground then because Pa provided us with a sheltered, middle-class life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame reminded her of the gold-bug story, where a message is revealed when parchment is heated up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Out the back door, into the shock of damp heat, straining for a look at the river: resisting the urge to run. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heat wave hits like the sun dropped in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Despite the fire’s approach, the heat and shower of burning debris, Chamberlin remained calm, watching the dramatic scene in front of him and mentally taking notes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of the sun showed no mercy, and she couldn’t even wipe away the sweat that burned her eyes as it ran down her face. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming through the heating vent, Fard Muhammad’s deep voice had made her solar plexus vibrate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The heat and humidity have sapped me of everything. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The sweltering heat alarmed her, as did Aunty Uju’s old Toyota hatchback, with a patch of rust on its side and peeling fabric on the seats. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cold marble floor drew the heat from my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple wrenched her elbow away from him, heat flooding her cheeks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every day in third-period AP lit, I feel it as sure as I feel him shaking the whole room with his leg, making the heating unit jangle. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That week, which included the hottest three-day period in the nation’s history, the heat would kill three thousand Americans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the wave of heat hit me, and I realized what Grigori was doing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden it seemed such a waste of time to heat up a comb and straighten your hair before you went to school. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I followed it all, heated it on the stove, and before I knew it, I had made a pot of pale gray mush. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It was a furnace in here. You couldn’t have moved that many thaums of heat. Where would you have put it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The heat in the cab made him weak and sluggish. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Houses like this heat up in the sun, there’s not enough insulation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hurtful silence would fill the room, and Laila could almost see the wordless hostility radiating from Mariam like waves of heat rising from asphalt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It starts with the bonfire but...bigger and there’s nothing containing it. Like the whole courtyard is on fire, there’s a loud noise and this heat and...” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what it looked like, least of all how to turn the heat down or off. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The thought is a little pinprick of heat inside me—she must love me, to worry about me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but we’ll be doing drills inside first—especially tomorrow, with that heat wave forecast.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Hell, naw! When they strap me in that chair and turn on the heat, I’m through, for always.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ash blew and washed away, leaving the shards to cure in the heat and sun for the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years down to the present. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The second piece of the blade was heating, too, and Lyra’s leafy branch sent the hot gas along to bathe both pieces in its flow and keep out the iron-eating air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

An answering roar from below made her flush with sudden heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The gambling fever he’d had for twenty-six mondis broke, sending a last wave of heat over his skin, and suddenly his entire body was dripping wet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rains washed away the heat, and by late Tuesday afternoon the sky sparkled. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed him, another person, the heat of him listening. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They had bees-wax. And tree sap. They could heat that up. How do you think they waterproofed their canoes?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The heat makes my feet swell,” the woman said, “and then there’s no end to the suffering. Am I right?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The flash blinded him for many long seconds, during which he could make out only subtle changes in color and feel the heat of the blast on his face. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He looked deep into the heart of winter, and then he cried out, afraid, and the heat of his tears burned on his cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she opened a terrace door to let the thick heat pour in over her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had looked in and seen them round the pool, screaming and laughing through the late morning heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father says the summer heat in Florida is like the devil’s oven, and that’s about right. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The heat and stench of exhaust from the cars is almost unbearable and I want to turn back. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, rubbing my hands together and jumping around to generate some heat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I took a shower, and then lay in bed waiting for sleep to save me from the heat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Midsummer heat lay heavily upon the Connecticut Valley. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the heated words, a fragile consensus emerged. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hot water was wrenched on high and Moss left his hands underneath it, the heat stinging his skin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My cheeks prickled as a sudden wave of heat washed over me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was hard to breathe in the rocky heat rising from the ground. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

At first, when I feel the heat behind my eyes, I think he’s found a way to set me on fire, to punish me for what I’ve done, but no—I’m about to cry. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mary and Levi Sr. and four- year-old Carolyn held their breath as Levi Jr. got into position for the final heat. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When Hanako and her father arrived at the restaurant each morning, Hanako would heat up the grill and turn on the steam table in the kitchen while Papa made coffee. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As his vision returned, he saw black sky and the white disc of the sun, which gave off little light and no heat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At night, Shin again followed the homeless to semisheltered sleeping places they had found near buildings with central heating systems. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We must compromise as to the heating of the tent. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The word conjures up drive-ins, tract homes, waves of heat rising from the blacktop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even standing probably two feet away from Pond, Nathan was able to feel that unnatural heat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He felt heat rush into his face, but he was pleased it didn’t bother him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The heat of his breath torches my nose, and I don’t inhale one bit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sitting, Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The heat is insufferable, it builds and builds. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mistress’s face was red with heat or rage. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was holding on to the nasty smile, but I could feel the cool giving in to the heat creeping up my neck. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I figured the heat was terrible, and she probably had cancer, and—I don’t know. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A weird funnel device was attached to the forges chimney, trapping the smoke and heat and channeling it through a pipe into the floor, next to a big bronze manhole cover. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Tyrell had to know the mare was in heat," Little- finger was saying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The two of them were eating fried chicken, the sort you buy from under heat lamps in convenience stores, and watching “Sally Jessy Raphael” on a portable black-and-white TV. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A lovely lump of plutonium so radioactive it gives off 1500 watts of heat, which it uses to harvest 100 watts of electricity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the ten tiny fires burned his face. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough being an aviation cadet without having to act like a soldier in the blistering heat every Sunday afternoon. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the fierce heat of the south, he wore loose trousers of mottled sandsilk and open-toed riding sandals that laced up to his knee. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down, and I could feel my skin heating and cracking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The trader responded with a tale of how his wife heated a can of peas on hot coals without opening it first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat's coming at me from both sides. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could still remember how the heat rose from the ground and pressed into our skin during the warmer months and how we shivered under our chadors and sweaters when the temperature dropped. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The ground is cold, but I am warmed by Chou’s body heat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The official temperature is often much less relevant than the absence of central heating. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Now the dome of heat extended from coast to coast and far north into Canada. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What kind of person could leave something so small, so precious, to die of heat and starvation? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We could go back to the farm, but we couldn’t heat that big house, and I don’t know how we would eat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are great caverns for the gardens of fungi on which the termites depend for their nourishment, perhaps also as a source of heat. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cornered me behind a massive steel ship propeller, leaning close enough that the heat of his breath fanned across my cheeks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heat was oppressive and her fair-skinned face red from the sun. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Matt pulled himself to his feet and dragged the little boy toward a building shimmering in the heat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She added and subtracted endlessly, determining what she would need and not need, cooking rice and beans each week, and heating up small portions in the microwave for lunch and dinner. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Less a sense of heat and more of intense pain as the chemicals find our flesh, cling to it, and burrow down through the layers of skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It responds badly when its heat is pulled away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Katie rushed out to the kitchen and heated the coffee which was always standing on the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went into the courtyard, into a sun so burning that the heat of hay-making seemed to have been nothing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the return trip, the vehicle skidded through the friction of the increasingly dense atmosphere, building up heat that could reach 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s not enough heat upstairs. You’d better clean those ashes out and make a better fire.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took off another one that had been heating there and wet his thumb to test it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was lunchtime and the shaded benches on the town green were filled with people sprawling in the heat. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

There is the mean little hut on the moors, the hard work on the heath from morning till night in the heat, the miserable pay, the dirty labourer’s clothes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowd, heat, bad quarters, bad fare, bad smells, mosquitoes, and a plague of flies transcending everything within my experience. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another is pottery, which may have arisen from observations of the behavior of clay, a very widespread natural material, when dried or heated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, the Empire raids in the heat of the day. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beneath all the numbness, anger sparked inside me, heating inside my chest, because Mr. Neely had no idea. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He quietly made a fire and heated the grasses and then placed them underneath each of our hanging feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had never felt a heat quite so hot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s been eating more than his share of the stores and lying idle while we sweat and faint in the heat,” Nathaniel complains. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could already feel the heat of embarrassment. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were crouched over the dreaded dining table, and their words were getting heated. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The crowd was heated as always, but the warmth didn’t reach inside me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I put on my damp clothes and get into the bed hoping that if I stay there the clothes will dry from my own heat before I go to work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The air around it seemed to shimmer, as if from heat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The room was warm with the nine of them around the table and heat still rising from the turkey, the sweet potatoes, the small mountains of stuffing and green beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pair had a heated encounter, and then Mark Antony left to try to save his position in the Triumvirate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was warm, but the pines and the rhododendrons kept the worst of the heat off their shoulders, and the air was fresh and clear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I drop my head in my hands, feel the heat of my cheeks on my palms, reliving what happened in the woods with Fry and Zephyr last winter. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The movie theater's heating, just like the lights, didn't work and the heaters that Scipio had brought them did little to drive the cold from the large auditorium. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Link had warned, the segregationists were heating up their campaign to prevent Ernie, who was a senior, from graduating. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heat up chicken and potato soup and rice, crying. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face heats up like I have the worst case of sunburn. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was December, and the brutal heat that was the only real constant for months had finally broken the week before. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The heat rises from the green hood, reminding her of the ocean the day before it wiped the beach clean of homes, God’s bits of wood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though this hasn’t helped at all with the heat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I did this by loosening all the planks, by cutting the sinews and heating the pitch that bound them together. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold her tighter, pressing against her until I feel just the slightest bit cold, which means she’s taking some of my body heat. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At the same time deep in the heat of my anger there was forged an overwhelming insight into the thing that had disturbed me when Strauss spoke and again when Nemur amplified his data. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got some more water, heated it over the fireplace and took a bath, something I haven’t been able to do for a while. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At times hurt and anger radiated from them like heat rising from Idaho blacktop in the sun. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start banging on the heating pipe, three quick, three slow, three quick. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The heat lasted until nightfall, and all that time he had to carry his jacket. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were glowing red, and even from three feet away I could feel the heat they gave off. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The water is cool at first despite the heat of the room, but slowly warms up as we move our feet back and forth. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The September heat was broiling but dry, under a desert sun. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was held away from the fire itself, the heat was so intense that Encanis’ clothes charred black and began to crumble without bursting into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was fully up now and the heat of the August day was beginning to assert itself with a blood-thickening power. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though summers were mostly made of sun and heat, summers for me were about the storms that came and went. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders is giving us twenty pages of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves to read by tomorrow and telling us she’s been easy on us so far, but things are about to heat up. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was only heat, the sun already baking the air, even though it was long before noon. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold weather causes the body to burn calories quickly in an attempt to create heat. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In peacetime, heat like that would have shut down the office, but in the middle of a war, they had to carry on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Trees, forced by the damp heat, found too little soil for full growth, fell early and decayed: creepers cradled them, and new saplings searched a way up. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Foolish,” Master Dal murmured a binding for heat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even though it was late December, the sun, pouring in through the windows of the bus as it waited in the car park, had heated it up like a greenhouse. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I flinched as the heat from it came over me like a rush. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Seabiscuit finished in a dead heat for first with a horse named Heelfly, who carried fifteen fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart started to pump more quickly, and she felt the heat filling up her body. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Feels scalding hot, heat seeping through my nose, torching up my insides something bad. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ugwu could feel the heat of the bright afternoon sun even under the thatch awning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This additional heat also increases the pressure of the gas until it is sufficient to balance the gravitational attraction, and the gas stops contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s the heat,” Mario says, fanning himself with his Panama hat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, things reached a balance point where the heat bled through the hull as fast as the RTG could add it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole building. More body heat will warm everyone up.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Several thousand people had gathered along the shores of the lake for the qualifying heats, most of them climbing into the newly constructed grandstands at the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was during an obliterating drought, and amid the dust and heat Dudley and his partner searched a clapboard house where the two wanted men were believed to be hiding out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes home, the microwave heats his supper. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I never saw such heat in all my life,” said Winnie’s grandmother, dabbing uselessly at her neck with a handkerchief. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The increased surface area will get the heat into the air better. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

With searing heat, crushing pressures, noxious gases and everything suffused in an eerie, reddish glow, Venus seems less the goddess of love than the incarnation of hell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted it to the level of the door and the draft sucked it from his fingers; he watched it fly into the red trembling heat, smoke, turn black, blaze, then vanish. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He climbs out into the heat and drives off, waving to Daddy walking up the dusty lane. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“De Lawd will provide. He know Ah done bore de burden in de heat uh de day. Somebody done spoke to me ’bout you long time ago. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I turned off the heat and unplugged the appliances. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She blew on the sediment and began turning it over with the handle of the spoon, prodding it to let the heat out Later, she was able to sort it with her fingers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner let his head droop as they were crossing the bridge so he saw nothing of the duty sergeant’s ferocious gaze, though he felt its heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Whole squad got more heat than a furnace,” the crowd finishes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She put the iron on to heat while she sprinkled the shirt and set up the ironing board on two chairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the men talked in heated whispers in the kitchen, Stella and Dr. Hawkins’s son, Anthony, sat outside on the front steps. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I heated the big kettle of water and poured it into the galvanized tub and sat in it like a scalded potato, alone in this world, just crying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aroma of buttery biscuits and a heat wave hit me head-on. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“All the heat’s going right through the roof.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Against the impatient expostulations of the Serjeant, we brought the man down from the attic and dowsed him with water, that he might not suffer so greatly from the heat. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There was the taste of salt and the heat of her breathing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Coldest December I can remember. This weather’s got to break soon. School’s heating bill was three hundred dollars last month.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s any excuse, I’ve noticed just lately that I’m rather lightheaded in your presence. I mean, I've never gone barefoot into someone’s house before. It must be the heat!” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though they could breathe, they soon found themselves panting from the heat of the afternoon sun beating down on the canvas above them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If they decide to fly directly overhead, the rocks won’t hide our heat signature, but maybe we have a shot if we hide. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the evening it grows sultry and the heat rises from the earth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo’s fingers heated up like they were about to catch fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They say Brookes’s fat melted inside his body in the extreme heat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My stomach churned with the worry, the heat, the uncertainty. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine it: gliding my hands up his long oblique muscles, lingering over the grooves of his abdomen, feeling the heat of his skin in my hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was just being what it was, a mindless, merciless star that would shine on whatever got in its way, beauty or horror, without prejudice, with equal heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too warm for the Mexican heat, but practical. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The heat grew and grew the closer he got, until it felt like he was standing next to an open oven. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Every creature bigger than a bluebottle was sheltering from the heat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the heat rising in the room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Half the sky was obscured by smoke and heat shimmer, but high above there floated the squat shape of the one remaining zeppelin—too far away, Lee thought hopefully, to see them even through binoculars. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we stepped out, I could feel that the day’s heat had let go. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do not feel the heat of the stars because they are too far away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t be used to this heat if I were from Hades,” I’d joke. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once in the flat, Katie decided to heat the coffee and have a cupful. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun rose higher as the morning went on, drawing heat from every crevice of the city’s roads and buildings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Good to see you. Wasn’t sure if you’d found your way back last night. Wouldn’t have looked very good if I’d had to bail you out of jail, you know. Might have caught some heat.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At that moment I felt a great heat as if my shirt had caught fire.... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dry April sun, our black clothes absorb the rays and the heat weighs heavy on our skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked around through the arcade to avoid the heat of the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Whole squad got more heat than a furnace. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I sit with the dorks in the center back, by the long, rattling heating and air-conditioning unit. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their tattered clothes steamed from the heat of the river, but they kept going until they crumpled to their knees at the banks of the Phlegethon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was getting all heated up even though it was cold as hell in that car. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Outside, the downs were still in the intense, bright heat of noon. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The greenhouse floor was warm from the heat lamps, and we sat and stayed sitting. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You almost couldn’t believe people lived like this, burning trees to clear land, burning oil for heat and power, setting the atmosphere on fire with their weapons. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought that once the heated polemics had cooled, the essential commonality of the struggle would bring us together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps asking if I’m comfortable, if the heat is too low or too high. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the other side, across four lanes of asphalt shimmering with afternoon heat, was an old-fashioned fruit stand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If the apartment had any kind of heat, he would have stood by the front door of his building for five, but since it was just marginally warmer indoors, he opted for fifteen. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A bolt of white heat hit her and she grayed, then dissipated into the air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At Pencey, you either froze to death or died of the heat. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Few questions provoke such heated debate and provide so few satisfactory answers. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect night and there was still some coolness in the desert breeze, the heat of the summer was still a step away. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We had heated discussions about whether we ought to have relied on coercive measures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, the trees are brown, their green leaves, wilted in the heat of the white sky, hang quietly on the branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said the deer gave itself to them because it loved them, and he could feel the love as the fading heat of the deer’s body warmed his hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bo's kittens climbed down from the wardrobe into the heat and rubbed against them with quiet purrs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked so close to her I felt heat vapor trailing off her skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the heat made her faint, she awoke with her head smeared into a rafter, her neck feeling like a chicken’s after Alice the cook tried to wring it for supper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The milk takes a while to heat up, and I have to melt the chocolate bar first.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike the president, Jefferson had a great deal to say about his journey—about the heat, rain, dust, and expense. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The empty desert stretched into the distance, shimmering in the heat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire licked along the walls, and Dany felt the heat upon her face, like the blast from an oven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I look at her and smile as a wave of heat rises in my cheeks. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Under the frozen heat of his glance they tripped over doorsills and dropped the salt cellar into the yolks of their poached eggs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of her face, her throat, drew me closer to her and the tiny hairs on my cheeks and brow tingled from the nearness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sweltering heat of the bedchamber, his brow was slick with sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The heat had been gathering as we walked, and it now dripped down Rosaleen’s face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s too warm here, there’s too much heat on my face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t complain about the heat or the distance or her tired legs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She can’t go forward, because forward is more miles of self-imposed punishment—flat back-country roads plus the heat of summer, red T-shirts, and the inconceivable and undeserving support of strangers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A gray heat haze hung over the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Good thing about that New Orleans heat was that work stopped early, about middle of the afternoon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In either case, it would not be of much use as a source of heat and light for life on earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked of a relentless, blistering heat that had driven men mad. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He knew that a few hours from now, with the sun at its zenith, the heat would be so great that he would not be able to lead his flock across the fields. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held herself as still as a queen on a quell board, her eyes cut as narrow as the heat pits on a viper, and watched them come. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The attic smells of heat and dust and confinement and her own urine in the shaving bowl in the corner. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was surprisingly annoying to find a way to make the heat stay on when the rover's unoccupied. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat revived the sick puppy and left us believing that our mother was capable of resurrecting the dead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was July and the heat in her apartment was unbearable; the doorway felt much cooler. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cutters worked brutal, seemingly endless shifts during the harvest—for the hungry mills crushed cane from four in the afternoon to ten the next morning, stopping only in the midday heat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The heat wave had broken Saturday night, and citizens of Greenwood were in their yards and on the streets savoring the first day of fall-like weather. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The top two boats in each heat would advance to a final contest of four boats the next day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Brokk began to pump the bellows, sending a stream of oxygen-rich air into the heart of the forge, heating everything up. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The armies move north through the heat and the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the heat I wore a coat and a tie, regarding the event as I would any other interview; I had never lived in the home of a person who was not Indian. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Emily felt her face heat up, but James waved her off. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The fields shimmered with heat, and a sweet odor with something rotten at its core filled the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We huddled Stef, one of us on each side, to share body heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat spread out from the ndoro a hundred, a thousand times stronger than before. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said this would generate a little heat but he didn’t have to tell us this, it seemed like the cold automatically made us want to get together and huddle-up. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember you cutting a hole in the floor-boards of your truck in order to let the heat from the engine come into the cab. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the discussions in the drawing room appeared to reach a new level of intensity and by lunchtime, the exchanges were becoming rather heated. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“At least all those bodies provided a little body heat, because the nights could get very cold and our wooden barracks were unheated,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soft heat waves shimmied up out of the earth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is it that there is not water yet to heat my lungs?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After leaving Virginia, Chris drove south and then west across the flat Texas plains, through the heat of New Mexico and Arizona, and arrived at the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was a standard topic of conversation. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The lid's on, the heat is up, and I can't see a way out. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They had trouble sleeping in the damp heat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When they open, the heat washes over me and it hits me that I’m somewhere completely different. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It sparkles my face, washes my lungs, cools the building heat of my body. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then as autumn flares with the false heat of summer before it dies into the winter, so with the quick love Wang Lung had for Pear Blossom. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Polly thought the trees looked like old men, bent over and exhausted from the heat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, I wouldn’t feel I’m suffocating in the dark heat, hear Mama Ya-Ya’s breathing ragged and slow, or smell the Mississippi living in our house. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if it was the emptiness, the stifling heat, or the fact it was only nine o’clock, but I couldn’t settle into sleep despite how tired I was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The campgrounds were mostly deserted, shimmering in the August heat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the milk was heated enough, Ma squeezed every drop of water from the rennet in the cloth, and then she poured the water into the milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought it part of the mystery of his race that he could iron with an iron never heated on a stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, the heat aggravated her crippling sick headaches, and she had to resort to a big spoonful of Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, known to be the Best Blood Purifier for Women. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Something about the furnace. It comes up with the heat or something.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There was a heat unlike anything I’d ever felt, a heat from the great buildings, compounded by the millions of people jamming themselves into subway cars, into bars, into those same tiny eateries and cafes. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The gum bends, wilting from the heat of my palm. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She napped in the noontime heat, opening her beak to pant and perspire. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The storm heated up, the thunder booming louder, the lightning lashing harder, the air filling with the moist feeling that comes just before it rains. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There will be lots of disputing among the experts over what is certain and what not; perhaps the heat and duration of dispute could be adapted for the measurement of uncertainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you heat liquid, it can turn into a gas. Some of the poisonous liquid in the caldron has become the poisonous vapors that are holding the liquid.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There is only water and heat and the rush of sound. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The older guy, Larry, started shifting positions in his seat like his butt was heating up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

At that point, I realized that I was experiencing heat hallucinations for the first time in my life. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The outhouse is...well...outside. And there’s some cold cuts in the icebox. Would you like me to heat up some water so you can take a proper bath?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was an evening, back in 1906, before Joe and Violet went to the City, when Violet left the plow and walked into their little shotgun house, the heat of the day still stunning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just need a focused flash of heat to get them going. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe just a place to get out of the heat for a few minutes, find a sandwich and a glass of lemonade, make a new plan for getting west. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The heat and the stench of burnt hair and scorching hide drove us back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky is dark and clear, and we shiver for a minute while we wait for the heat to kick in. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I filled two glasses with milk while his lasagna was heating, and gulped mine to put out the fire. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We make a fire. We got a saucepan. That’s how we heat her washing water too.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the battle for desegregation in Alabama schools was only heating up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, Europeans in North America are generally shown as being fully clothed, even in the sweltering heat of summer. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Macondo would no longer be a burning place, where the hinges and door knockers twisted with the heat, but would be changed into a wintry city. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But I doubt I could heat you up that much.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four of them raced past, their heat singeing the hair off Jason’s arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By heating small stones and dropping them into a mixture of water and seeds in the basket I could make gruel. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Master lit the spirit lamp under the little silver chafing dish and heated some butter before cutting half a dozen poppy heads open and tossing them in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finn kept walking, feet heavy in the heat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My stepfather worked as a furnace fireman for the New York City Housing Authority, fixing and maintaining the huge boilers that heated the Red Hook Housing Projects where we lived then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing that got me was not the flash but the blinding heat of a bright day on your face in the cold desert morning,” remembered Philip Morrison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the still air brought a heat haze that covered the water and made it difficult to see very far. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one was very hungry for the dinner he heated for us, but he said we should try to eat since it was dinnertime. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When it finally burst in a loud, sizzling explosion, Gerald jumped back behind the sofa, coughing and wheezing from the heat and smoke. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus would be heated, she reminded herself, and in California the sun always shines. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But I have a better way to heat it up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at him, at the collarbone peeking out from the neck of his T-shirt, at the faint curl of his lip, and I feel something heating up inside me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sun was there to provide light and heat by day, the moon and stars light by night. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Moments before she had felt the chill of death on the Queen’s skin, but now there was a rising heat. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey felt cold, despite the heat of sunlight reflected off water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the meat had not even been warmed by the heat of the fire. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fighting drowsiness caused by the smothering heat, my thoughts race from one subject to another. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were chemical hand-and footwarmers: thin pads—you broke the seal and they heated up to a little above body temperature and stayed that way for hours. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“The heat’s on. Mario’s house is surrounded. My ride to the capital is stopping at the anacahuita tree at dawn. I have to hide out till then.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They experimented with resin, heating it by the fire, letting it boil and thicken, until it became an indestructible glue. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The resulting hole evoked a giant grave and exuded the same musty chill, but this was not unwelcome for it provided workers with relief from the intensifying summer heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He gazed into the fire, and a flush from the ale and heat deepened the color of his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A wave of desert heat knocked the wind out of his lungs when Nathan finally stepped out of his father’s SUV. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bellows forced quick flaring heat from the coke. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The brittle stems of flowers crunched under her shoes, and the heat coming off the scorched earth stung her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The woman was mixing some herbs and powders into the heating water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The brief heat of it passed and passion died out of him; he was fond of her, but passionless. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I have never been so damp and miserable for such a long time—it is like living in a tent with no light, no heat. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the heat of midday the men would head for the shade, lazing away the long afternoons, and after sundown there were movies and card games and sometimes all-night drinking sessions. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not take Rontu-Aru with me, for while he liked the cold he did not like heat. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly feeling the heat, she let the cigarette drop to the surface of the lake. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Soup was heating in a saucepan on a metal grate over the fire. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Contestants for the first heat of the day wheeled their vehicles to the starting line at the summit of the Twenty-Fifth Street Bridge. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Here, in northwestern New Mexico, the heat was dry, and all you had to do was step out of the sun and the temperature dropped dramatically. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the radiator, despite the heat—or because of it—and began to put on his socks. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

From the time he was burned as a child, he had always feared fire, heat, and small spaces. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The slaves erected Khal Drogo's tent beneath a jagged outcrop of black rock whose shadow gave some relief from the heat of the afternoon sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One man had just put his heated pellet into his pipe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the heat of the flames as he flinched back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The heat is horrible, but worse than the heat is the smoke, which threatens to suffocate me at any moment. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The air seemed thick with heat and dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Prisoners in some facilities would be placed in a "sweatbox," a casket-sized hole or a box situated where the inmate would be forced to endure extreme heat for days or weeks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The closest I could come to her was to sit on these synagogue steps, baking in the August heat, and wonder. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My hair grows tangled and dull in the heat and smoke, and dirt has started to coat my face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We hold our hands to the fire for the heat that’s in it but we can’t stay there long because we have to drink our tea and eat our bread and go to school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She heated Drummer’s wash water on a gas plate in the boss’s office. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, I was surprised to feel a wave of heat hit my face and see the overhead lights on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I feel heat and anger swelling up in my throat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

An attendant hauled open the doors leading off the platform, and instantly the noise redoubled and the heat swept over them like a breaking wave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Or melted, with sufficient heat,” added the other, with a confidence that shaded into arrogance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I back away from the bakery and bump into something, lose my balance, and find myself sitting on a hunk of sun- heated metal. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I ran inside to get some oil heating on the stove, realizing that dinner would be late. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lou Anne’s wearing her usual long sleeves in the summer heat and her constant smile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He waited through days and nights of heat that seemed to come from an oven. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which will be our fate: big crunch or heat death? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Sik's my name, and I play a mean game/What makes you think you can bring your stink/To threaten my fam and our fine deli meat?/Get out now before I call the heat." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about this,” says Carlyle, holding the red-hot brand, the heat of which I can feel two feet away. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Despite the heat, there is no escaping the fact that the bright sun and rich soil make the area ideal for growing things once you add water to the equation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Enveloped by the heat they’d left a few minutes earlier, they walked swiftly away from the house and out onto the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the day, down in Alex’s basement, Ben had once cut his head on the metal heating vent. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The walls rang with the sound of hammers, and burly men in leather aprons stood sweating in the sullen heat as they bent over bel-lows and anvils. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She got her bucket of paraffin heated and dunked her hands into the hot wax while I numbed my nose with the anesthetic. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a little rush of heat in my cheeks when I saw Carmen smiling, but it was probably because I was still hot from being in the kitchen for five hours. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He went to his hot plate, heated up some water, and made some chicken noodle Cup-a-Soup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have asked, I should, have asked....But then, like a building wave, I felt the heat pouring off of him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the summer’s stifling heat, the room seemed airless and threatening. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Madam hurried to the library and told me to fetch her ivory fan from her bedchamber for she was feeling faint from heat and excitement. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happiness heated me up until my fingertips tingled. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Tom, who believed that a lawman could usually “avoid killing if you didn’t lose your head,” later told a writer that he had heated discussions with this Ranger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A single officer—even a single officer in the heat of the chase—would have had to pause and wait for backup. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt the heat bloom in her cheeks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Whitworth begins to vomit on the grass, which stinks in the heat and has been torn to bits by cleats and the crash of helmets and the endless screams of the fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One and a half,” Dal corrected, and wrote a few equations on the board to demonstrate how much heat this would provide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The doors and windows of the house were all open to vent the oven’s heat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was not up to exerting himself in such heat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there's no such thing as perfect insulation, and eventually the heat left to the great outdoors, while I got colder and colder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash felt the water from her damp hair sliding down the back of her neck, but she was still suffused with heat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stronger winds, the ones people remembered the best, were probably caused by rising convective heat. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The heated silver chafing dishes are labeled for the American guests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His body was letting off enough heat to warm the entire building. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“The way this room has been designed, the heat from the fire above has turned some of the poison liquid into a gas,” reasoned Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The place was lit by kerosene lanterns and heated by a cast-iron wood stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I actually lost sleep this week imagining the heat of Ben’s breath on my ear. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The heat and humidity have sapped all the Renegades of everything. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny and I were soon involved in a heated discussion concerning two contradictory commentaries on the same passage, and Reb Saunders sat back quietly and listened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Seeing that they were not so brown as those on the shelves, I returned them to the heat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She heated a stick of peacock blue wax and affixed her seal to the document before her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I heard a dry snap, and I wasn’t sure if it had come from the branch or the explosion of heat in my arm or from further up the path. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I could feel the soggy heat rising from his body like he was a wet tea bag that had just been lifted from boiling water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Frank was so pleased to be holding her hand, the crowds and the heat and the monsters suddenly didn’t seem so bad. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a bright afternoon, and the sun bore down on the asphalt so that the ribbon of road before us quivered with heat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In addition, agents use a growing arsenal of technology: helicopters, night-vision goggles, thermal imaging that picks up body heat, and seismic sensors that detect footsteps along immigrant trails. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Glass Castle would have solar cells on the top that would catch the sun’s rays and convert them into electricity for heating and cooling and running all the appliances. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother was right: the heat and her pregnancy were affecting her mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karl’s T-shirt was damp with a melange of different kinds of sweat: heat, effort, fear. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Thirteens’ full roster had turned out for the game, so Luma was able to substitute freely, to keep her players fresh in the heat. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Sheets have been tacked up to keep out the light and the heat, but they’re not doing a very good job. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When we passed the food prep area, I saw Clarence holding it over the homemade element they simmered with, a hole in the dirt ground filled with heated rocks from the fire outside. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The blast heated the ground beneath the explosion to over 5,000 degrees. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His head burns, and this heat is no good for a man his age,” she adds. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be any heat inside, so the kids were still wearing their coats. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun and Todd sat in their boat, the heat of the fire pulsing at them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This ensured that any animals sensitive to heat would be unaware of its presence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A heated, visceral shock flares through me at the clarity of her dark gold eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In other instances, the words were spoken over images of African American residents wilting in the heat outside the Morial Convention Center or standing on rooftops waving for help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She wore a dark-coloured travelling dress of some thin material eminently suitable for the heated atmosphere of the train. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only the delicious, extravagant, warm, tasty scent of buttery baking crust, and of vanilla cream, and of powdered sugar, still drifting in the heated air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The heat in the shop grows overwhelming, so we walk out to find breeze and shade. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be looking at everything around him through some sort of shimmering, transparent barrier, like a heat haze, which made the enclosure and the hundreds of faces around him swim strangely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A blast of heat seared his skin and his lungs as he inhaled the scorching air. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We all huddled around the potbellied stove, wrapped in blankets, holding out our hands toward the weak, smoky heat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in a great simmering whisper, with more heat and passion and light than he would have supposed them to contain. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mirabelle spiked a fever, it was she who spread a cold washcloth on her forehead, who pressed her lips to that little brow to test the heat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ketchup-wigged french fries would march across our plates, engaging in brief affairs or heated disputes over carrot coins while burly chicken legs guarded the perimeter, ready to jump in should things get out of hand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical—a heated liquid turning into something that looked like dark grains of sand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The cold, wet weather and the lack of heating in the police barracks were making it hard for Don Hume to throw off the cold—or whatever it was that was lingering in his chest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I wiped the sweat from my eyes and pretended the heat was making me dizzy. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kiln had to heat up slowly—too rapid a rise in temperature at the start, and the vessels would crack. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Weary, ill, and frazzled with the heat, Maria scrambled to gather and paint as many as she could, with Dorothea’s help. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The light filtering in from above shifts again, and the figure quavers as though she were watching through a heat haze, though Mr. A. H— remains comparatively crisp and clear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There they separated out 93 by repeating a tedious sequence of heating, evaporating, dissolving, precipitating, and centrifuging over three long days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And, of course, in many practical ways, the Romans were much more advanced than the Elizabethans—better roads, central heating, proper baths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some nights, the heat lay thick like a towel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sky is alive with lightning, feeding on the earth’s heat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the heat radiating up from the receiver, hoping to take heart from this release of stored energy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this heat had been building for days. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, she served Ritz crackers piled with sardines for appetizers and put dinner on TV trays so that everyone could watch the news or play a heated game of Scrabble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The blacktop underneath had buckled in the heat and then set back again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I added some crushed berries for good measure, and then I heated the mixture over a candle flame, reducing it to a thick, heavy syrup. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I throw another piece of coal on the fire, give Max some of the warm water to clean up with, heat more, and wash his clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His mouth still tasted of blood where he’d bitten his tongue, but a fire was burning to his right, the heat washing over his face, and he had never felt anything so good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All through the spring, while the heat swelled and the river shrank, Ranofer and Heqet met as often as they were able, at midday or in the evening after their day's work was done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Unable to find the Ellsbergs, the FBI turned up the heat on known associates. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I lay next to Peeta in the bag, trying to absorb every bit of his fever heat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d felt chilled the last few days, no matter how hot it was out there, but now I just felt the heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse than the heat at the quarry was the light. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled off the Thruway and onto a four-lane road lined with low buildings, hung over with stoplights, bleached white by the heat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifi—who used to wear her hair in her trademark, two Indian braids that she pinned up in the heat like an Austrian milkmaid. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The stone ceiling was low and angled, the paint cracked and blackened from the heat of a raging fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The burn was mostly healed, but echoes of the pain came back if she got too close to heat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a slender vein of heat, running from the ankle to the knee. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we started off, I told my brother I was worried about the heat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On some vacant land nearby, he could while away long summer days by digging elaborate underground tunnels—cool, dark, subterranean retreats from Spokane’s sometimes searing dry heat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, they've both been roasted already so they mostly need to be heated up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Laila fell asleep at some point, her body baking in the heat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Suffrised with the gagging, sickening smell of rotting bodies, people who died from the initial burst of heat and radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her little brother’s body no longer warmed her with its heat, they were the same temperature and then he was colder. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The oven cricked and snapped with growing heat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hot water is never more than lukewarm, and our mother heats water in the tea kettle and pours it into the tub for our baths. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His cheeks flush from the heat and from something else. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the fall, just as Adam was getting used to college life, things suddenly started heating up with Shooting Star. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon his men stood facing their captain—a tired crew, haggard with the long months of heat and the grinding toil of the passage to the Isle of France. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to Collins, twisting his face away from the heat of the fire and smothering smoke. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The box did not generate as much heat as Holmes had hoped. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the glow of the JumboTrons, Tess and I can see the soldiers at the end of the street as they inspect each home, their black capes shiny and worn loose in the heat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And then she felt her cheeks heat because she’d thought of just what they were doing in that tangled heap. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her face is red with heat and the blond wisps around her forehead have curled into ringlets. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Do they always have to crank the heat up this high when it’s snowing outside? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Higher, he flew—higher—until the heat of the sun melted the wax holding those wings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly people get pushed in front of trains, or under trucks, or off rooftops in the heat of frustrated moments—but that which is broken is always repaired. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Erma allowed us only one bath a week in four inches of water that had been heated on the kitchen stove and that all of us kids had to share. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin, he heated water while they dried off. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Bright blankets, and feathers in black hair, and the glint of turquoise, and dark skins shining with heat. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my house, rice boils in a plastic bag or gets heated in the microwave. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The sand was thick over his black shoes and the heat hit him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But it had been sitting in the sink all day in the heat and smelled funny. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

These unprovable suspicions, Jackson’s detainment in the laundry, Pierrot’s wretched delivery and the morning’s colossal heat were oppressive to Briony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in my father’s cloak and warmed from within by the babe’s heat, I do not feel the cold. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The elders say that eating dog meat increases body heat, thus increasing energy, but you shouldn’t eat too much of it or your body will burn up and combust. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day the heat pressed down on us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat of the lights on her face as she continued down. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer, when the heat got fierce, it would spoil faster. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This heat wave is very bad. Sorry the air conditioner broke yesterday,” Mariama said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I weeded through the heat of the day, and every time I got down by the cobhouse, I had a vision of all four Cowgill brothers stepping out of it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would then contract slightly, and as they heated up further, would start to convert helium into heavier elements like carbon or oxygen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the creaking of the tin roof heating under the sun. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The August heat and his diabetes had been wearing on him, and I was haunted by my worries about what R.C. might have done to Emmett the previous night. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can feel the heat of his eyes on me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next problem was heat, or the lack thereof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flush of heat rose in her cheeks, and she sat back, busying herself with stowing the canteen and dirty rag. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So the heat added to the pressure, and the transformation of hydrogen and oxygen into water brought it back down again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave his green skull an affectionate tap and let him curl into the heat of her hip. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They have to lift the blubber sheets on hooks and feed it into the ‘try-works,’ where the blubber, it’s all reduced with, you know, fire and heat. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wiener was hot, so Juju licked at it tentatively, but when I stood up and started stirring the hot dogs again, I felt a blaze of heat on my right side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This morning Mrs. K stood between the pillars, listening to the desert sands heat, melt into yellow wax, and seemingly run on the horizon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

These mansions had been built by wealthy white families in the late nineteenth century and included two to four bathrooms, electric lighting, gas furnaces, and steam heat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You could still hear the sound of the water and the flute deep within the silence and the heat. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bon and Bleoberis were crouching over a bright fire, to which the bitter wind seemed to have given the property of throwing out light without heat Even the fire seemed frozen, like a painted one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel my face heating up once more; it started the moment the word “sex” slipped from my lips. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Try walking five blocks in heels in this heat,” Carmen said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s when the heat is so bad the dogs go mad.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the saucepan was heating almost the last of their clean water, and he went to search among the heap of fence posts for something to mend the paddle with. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He listened and heard only the cricking heat and the hiss of distance. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet even as he embraced that bleak understanding, on this, the worst day of the winter, he recalled something he’d seen on the worst day of the worst heat wave of the summer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a low stool before one of them sat Rekh the goldsmith, using a pointed blowpipe to direct the heat onto a golden ornament he held carefully in copper tongs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I ducked my head and felt a wash of heat roll over us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ignore the heat on the back of my neck, try not to think about the way those words feel layered. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then the dragon opened its mouth, and light and heat washed over them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The main source of relief from the heat for the kids in Welch was the public swimming pool, down by the railroad tracks near the Esso station. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I flushed at the heat in his low purr, annoyed by him and his knowing smirk and by the betrayal of my body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heat of the sun-baked stones by the stream gives me an idea though. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Unless he’s having heated arguments with Siunek, Ernst or no Ernst, about the proper way to slice carrots for soup. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I ran from the room, through the door, out into the baking heat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

To many residents Stith seemed less interested in solving their problems than in taking the heat off Greenberg. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat staring down the empty Main Street, the heat pressed on me until sweat trickled down my back. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As voices were raised and emotions became heated, the argument began to spiral out of control. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His brain was in a heated whirl; his breath scorched when he breathed, and the ground all about him was a shimmering haze. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Waves of heat caught him, and his legs and lungs were vapor without sensation; only his memory of running and breathing kept him moving and alive. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun broke through at last and poured heat on the roadway; the mist was gone. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sleeping bag, radiating back and preserving my body heat, will be invaluable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mom twists the knobs on the dash, shutting the heat off while the engine warms up. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The heat swells and gathers like a hot-air balloon up here, not exactly welcoming others. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In all previous Olympic rowing competitions, he pointed out, preliminary heats as well as finals had been limited to four boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She followed his gaze and saw a distant tremor of movement, quite different from the shimmer of the heat haze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tangy odor of heated dust as the house warmed up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ephialtes lay charred and groaning on the arena floor, the sand around him seared into a halo of glass by the heat of the Greek fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It will keep you cool in all this heat.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with humid summer heat which seemed to rise off the grass like steam. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take long for me to feel drenched in the armpit region thanks to the heat, even at this hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But the door was not locked; it swung inward; the blast of heat struck them. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the heat rose, the rain stopped falling. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yes, the heat was a misery, but it also brought me my freedom. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Save your energy. My hair doesn't move,” I say, just to break up that heated moment. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Philadelphia was in the midst of a heat wave, which made the children who were supposed to watch the show restless and inattentive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, I’ll get up and heat some water in case you need it.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had two lids and doubled for cooking and heating. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also heat water on the stove and pour water into two hot water bottles. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn to race, I prayed that I’d survive the heat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sitting under what seemed an unusual heat, even for this island, Ralph planned his toilet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The windows are steamy from so much body heat, and everyone is clogging the doors and hallways, making it almost impossible to get through. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The storage room door burst open in an explosion of smoke and heat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every Monday, without fail, they walked in rain, heat, or humidity to La Cocina to have lunch and get their week started. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I lifted my mask because I couldn’t bear the heat anymore. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I asked Calista as she turned the heat on under the pot on the stove. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a wave of heat from his fiery breath coming at me, blowing my hair back. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The warm spring night has given way to a slight chill, but the heat radiates from Phil’s body into mine. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Followed by dozens of masons and carpenters, as if she had contracted her husband’s hallucinating fever, Úrsula fixed the position of light and heat and distributed space without the least sense of its limitations. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The heat goes off, comes on again, goes off, at random. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandmother!” he cried, but the heat was so intense, he couldn’t reach her room. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My physical labor just meant the suit didn't have to heat itself as much. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pleasantly warm with the heat of so many bodies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a vague theory that the heat came from something he used in place of starch in the shirts and collars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an oxidizer, which, when combined with other chemicals, produced heat and gas, necessary to make a rocket fly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had about all I could do to feed corncobs into the stove to keep the oven heat even. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The intervening year helped her make the transition to everything but the Virginia heat; many was the night she pined for White Sulphur Springs’ brisk summer nights. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The additional heat made the dark fog boil faster, and it swelled until the flames were licking toward the top of the waist-high lip of the firewell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cool shell rested in his palms and grew warm from his body’s heat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cover the potatoes with plastic wrap and heat them in the microwave. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, far off, he heard the yowl of a cat in heat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On our right, the mountainside is heating up, bubbling with small pockets of fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fire, heat, flames...Lee woke up again, his body as hot as if he’d been lying in the desert sun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those hands could fix anything that cranked, moved, pumped heat, moved water, or had valves, vacuums, or wires. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lou and I visited them there, but I'm not crazy about the heat. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gravel crunches under my boots as I head into the abandoned heating plant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stepfather worked as a furnace fireman for the New York City Housing Authority, fixing and maintaining the huge boilers that heated the Red Hook Housing Projects where we lived then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of being becalmed he had burned and begun to tan, and now with the wind and the spray of a night and half a day his body had become weathered and brown-gold. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun approached its zenith, and the park bustled with midday traffic, the heat transformed the hidey-hole into a wretched furnace. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It must have been a burst of heat lightning, he thought, reflecting off the low clouds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the heat from the ground through his boots, and shimmering waves of heat dance around him from the pavement, making him shaky, as though he were walking in a strong wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then a hummingbird careened around the corner of the house and plunged into the trumpet of the nearest lily drooping in the heat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I could almost feel the heat that replaced the family warmth around the table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His anger was like heat shimmering out of his skin, making the hot air blowing in through the open window seem refreshing by comparison. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rasheed buried his face into her pillow, and Mariam stared, wide-eyed, at the ceiling above his shoulder, shivering, lips pursed, feeling the heat of his quick breaths on her shoulder. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he moves away from the bed, I can see that Eden is lying there with a blanket pulled up to his chin, despite the heat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Beyond the shade everything shimmered in waves of heat and the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would probably be with his father at the forge, repairing pikes and lances and heating oil for pouring onto the enemy in case they should pierce the outer castle wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

By this time the heat in the cave was intense. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were few places in England with central heating in those days. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no heat, no air-conditioning, no fan, and no restroom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The lobby of the apartment is warm when he enters, the building’s heat restored. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Be sure you heat everything up before serving it to your father,” she yelled after her son. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the heat and the walking had taken a terrible toll on Eunjoo and the boys. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The heat pressed heavily on the roof, stifling sound. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby's car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I threw off the sheets and lay there as the heat poured in through my open window. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was no denying the heat; Ned could feel the silk tunic clinging to his chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She dries off, pink with heat, exercise, and embarrassment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Morning spread a haze of golden heat over the trees and boulders. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So while I heat some water to soak your hand and make your cot for the night, you tell me all about yourself.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rocket lay on the launching field, blowing out pink clouds of fire and oven heat. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck didn’t have air conditioning and barely had heat, but the radio was top-of-the-line. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even though we weren’t touching, I could feel his body heat radiating from him. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Martian heat ray sets fires near the pit. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was cold, except for the heat of mud underneath. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I take a gulp, breathe the heat out of my throat, and chase it with a big mouthful of chocolate shake. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel the deathly river water drying in the fire’s heat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Standing my dogs close to the warm heat, the gentle hands of the hunters went to work. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top five in each heat would make the final. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

For some stupid reason, I felt my cheeks heat and I waved him on. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the back timbers of the house caved, letting loose a wall of heat that seemed like it would smother them all. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Almost always, between loves, they would eat naked in the bed, in the hallucinating heat and under the daytime stars that the rust had caused to shine on the zinc ceiling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The heat from the river baked Percy’s skin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed up in red wool pants despite the sweltering heat and has Daddy’s old Kappa Alpha blanket draped on the chair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Our heat shield was forward and our heads were pointed down toward the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently they all began to inch forward sweating in the silence and heat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The heat from the explosion melted through the shield as if it were a plastic spoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Feeling the heat of Luno’s glare, the three of us trudged down the dirt road. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was near freezing in the van without the heat on, but my body felt heavy with hot, sticky panic. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Inside its percolating depths, the manure fermented, generating scalding heat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for the ship’s master to appear, sweltering in the heat as the stench wafted up from the deck beneath them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just when I was heated up enough to go upside Willie’s head we heard this squealing on the corner and we looked up and saw two police cars come tearing around the corner. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be record heat, cause I been tending to white folks for forty-one years and this the first time in history I ever went to work without no stockings on. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The helicopter had been sent from the New York State Police headquarters in Albany; it had, we were told, a special infrared heat sensor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of this century, for example, it was thought that everything could be explained in terms of the properties of continuous matter, such as elasticity and heat conduction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the heat leaves my face and my side stops hurting, I lie down. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was April it was freezing cold at night and she said You wouldn’t believe what it costs to heat this drafty old house. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decoction cooled rapidly in the thin air, and as soon as it was at blood heat, she poured it carefully into a metal beaker and carried it to the rear of the cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the scorching April heat, many older people become ill from heatstroke and dehydration, but they dare not rest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air visibly shook, like the heat coming off a road on a hot day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was bright heat in Lee’s eyes, like fever. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anger were like heat, I’d be able to see the waves radiating from her body. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a result of all your body heat trapped inside the cast. And you’re growing up—as fast as I feared! Good thing I put you in that body cast.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It is smooth and warm, like rock polished by water and then left to heat in the sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Westley dodged a sudden burst of flame, shielded Buttercup from the heat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lee took it in pained hands, drank, felt the heat soak down through him like hot liquid sunshine. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once it lands here, they'll ditch the heat shield, all the life support stuff, and a bunch of empty fuel tanks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the flames rises around me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After the tolling of the names and the ritual washing, the entire morning was dedicated to a heated debate about whether or not fire should be banned as a method of gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Not the heat that glued her skin to the plastic chair, not an outing to the beach, not even a movie followed by a beef pot pie at the Automat. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The tension radiated from the surface of the photograph like heat off a summer sidewalk. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

With nightfall the day’s heat had given way to heavy rain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“So if they need more heat I give it to them,” Bodega continued. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The heat of the incinerator wrapped around Inej like a living thing, a desert dragon in his den, hiding from the ice, waiting for her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pray the heat in my cheeks is not visible. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The buildings that ringed the construction site might have had few windows, thus containing the baking heat of their fires to some extent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Think we’ve stopped bombing Italy since the Allied invasion last month, but now that Italy’s declared war on Germany, things are really heating up. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Under the cold stones of the mountain, her body heat would disappear. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He shivered slighdy.The day would soon heat up, but for now the desert air was chill with night. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

English visitors did not find this arrangement peculiar; chimneys were just coming into use in Britain, and most homes there, including those of the wealthy, were still heated by fires beneath central roof holes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s the theory that all matter in the universe is gradually moving toward the same temperature. Also known as ‘heat death.’” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Levi’s car was well made; the only adjustment it required between heats was “a drop of oil on each wheel bearing.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I can feel the cast start to lose its heat, and after a few more minutes Hank checks it, then unclamps the straps and says, “Ready?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were only visible for a short while and would soon disappear behind the haze of heat and dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Because the skin had not been nicked and the heat had been slow to settle in, Smith had missed it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat that escaped my body just warmed up the interior. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a heated election, sure, but Barack was being attacked for all the wrong things. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a blanket, even if the marble continues to leach my body heat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The heat is blowing from the vent in the ceiling and I feel that. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it remained too hot in the courtroom despite this; the trapped heat wouldn’t dissipate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They walked through, bending their heads under low canes, and emerged onto a terrace of dazzling white stone from which the heat rose in a blast. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was weary from practice, the constant punishment his body took, the frustration of never getting a play off, never completing a pass, the coach’s sarcasm, the lingering September heat. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the days passed, my grandmother found herself obediently spreading out silk before the heating vent to cushion her knees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The liquid there heated and changed state, rising as vapor through the fractionating column to catch in the condenser and trickle in droplets into the collection flask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soon, the place was an inferno, and Septimus was forced to take several steps backwards, from the intensity of the heat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Throws some things together in a pot he heats on our hot plate and we eat quiet while our spoons bang the tin plates. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Thought I’d come down and heat up some warm milk and pie. That’s what your gram always did for me when I was a kid.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I just dumped a ton of heat and 50 liters of water into the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sends fear right over my skin and leaves me shivering, even in this heat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We toil away for a couple hours in the heat, sweating and even finding moments to laugh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A few colored men sit under a distant shed, staring into the heat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to tell her about Principal Trask because I bet Momma would get heated about that. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I have never been more aware of the heat beating down on my own head and the dryness of my own throat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A week ago, right at the beginning of the heat wave, the air conditioner in his mother’s attic office had broken. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It needed a great deal of heat to ignite, which is why I wasn’t worried about carrying it around in my pocket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What I didn’t know was that the hippie’s own quarters were properly heated, and that the students who had lived there in the past had come there well armed with space heaters and electric blankets. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing but sparks and spurting heat, molten rocks and burning embers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Whatever the thing in the arena was, it was stealing all the heat away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A wave of heat, of useless rage, rushed over him, for himself, for his brother. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think of what it must be like to recover from a whipping in midsummer, with the searing heat and the tepid water from the tap. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sweating a little, and I can’t tell if it’s from being so near to Violet or the actual heat. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His skin, his whole being, radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at her and as he stared a heat like wine poured through his veins. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tally accepted a saucer and felt the scalding heat through the thin, white material of the cup. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The corpse’s connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Cal urged on the water heating in the coffeepot, and yet he was pleased to be waiting. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't just the heat that was making me perspire but my nerves about what lay ahead. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The heat was a misery for all of us in Fentress, but it was the women who suffered the most in their corsets and petticoats. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And she knew it was not ripped off; it was burned off, exploded off by heat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The heat trapped inside the auditorium during the whole stupid summer turned up a degree or two with each new ditto. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No one would hire a man who hesitated in the heat of battle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, so suddenly that it seemed to come between one watch and the next, the steamy heat of the tropics descended. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five women were sweaty from nerves and heat. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He played host to a large family reunion, replaced the heat exchanger in his boat, and transformed the ramshackle greenhouse into an elaborate workshop. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The analogy is more poetic than precise, for the cell accomplishes its “burning” with only the moderate heat of the body’s normal temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Such a drop in carbon dioxide may have impaired the “greenhouse” property of the atmosphere, which holds in the solar heat otherwise lost by radiation from the earth’s surface. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was getting to me, and my mouth was so dry I couldn't swallow. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The heat wound itself around her, stickily intimate. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its foremost symptom was a sensation of heat that on occasion flamed in the nerve endings of his forehead until the arteries in his temples pulsed visibly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel the heat of bodies approaching me from behind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All was chaos, noise and heat and blood, until finally over the tumult Alyce could hear the cries of a baby, the moans of a tired mother, and the laughter of the triumphant midwife. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella was stirring a saucepan of milk on the range and testing the heat with her little finger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Under the thick canopy of trees, it was difficult for true sunlight to find its way through, but that didn’t stop the heat from rising as the hours passed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Koffi had worked in the Night Zoo for eleven years—looking after its beasts in every condition, from torrid rainfall to scorching sunshine—but she’d never felt a heat quite like this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The red sun blinds me, churns up my belly to nausea, and the heat thrown out of the bone-fire burns my skin. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the evening wore on and the matches got really heated, Grandma India and I would behave as we behaved nowhere else. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the kettle heated for the tea, I found myself wondering if this would be the day Miss Sadie would tell what she had brewing inside her. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like an eternity, but at the end, Mary and Levi Sr. shouted in delight: their son had finished first, saving his best time for the heat that mattered most. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As I drove down the interstate to reach the prison, I noticed the long rays of sunlight retreating even as the heat of the Alabama summer persisted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was warm in the waiting room, and close, and the blanket was heavy, and my thermal underwear had thawed and was starting to heat up again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He imagined sitting in the car, the heat hitting his skin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was cold, but his body heat would warm it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The news hasn't passed, it has only heated up. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the end of August, all volatile heat and the occasional breeze. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’d have liked a bath, but that would mean going to the rain room and filling the tub, then calling for Ruby to heat it, and that was more trouble than she could face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was just grateful for a crispy taste of something that connected this creepy, buzzing heat with real summertime. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why wasn’t there any heat in the White House? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He grins, and his face is so close I can feel the heat of his breath. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Only later did the furnace man recognize that the kiln’s peculiar shape and extreme heat made it ideal for another, very different application. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even from the top of the canyon, the heat was intense. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The girl, in the gunfire, in the heat, in the concussion, folded like a soft scarf, melted like a crystal figurine. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat dug deep in my chest; it overpowered everything else, the confusion, the pain, the questions. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tactfully–for the aging Kelvin was present, if not always fully awake–Rutherford noted that Kelvin himself had suggested that the discovery of some other source of heat would throw his calculations out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cooling a heat that’s been burning me up all my life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The water must always be boiling, so that the heated steel would dry instantly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she thought the heat might make the gun go off by itself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, in the living room was a cast-iron potbellied coal stove for heating and cooking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The weather had been fine, the days still holding the heat of summer, the nights a cool relief. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They go on to talk about the heat, and someone suggests the cooling effect that evaporating alcohol has on the skin—although I suspect any alcohol is being otherwise employed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To the great delight of the crowd surrounding the boys in the grandstands, Germany came in first in all six heats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The heat rose in the clear spring sky, and all was silent. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had also told her that it would probably become her job to heat the bathwater, the same water night after night until it got too musty to use anymore. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We left the stone giant behind and set off through the woods toward the foot of the bluff, our clothes drip-drying quickly in the heat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the heat of early afternoon, they would remove their helmets and flak jackets, walking bare, which was dangerous but which helped ease the strain. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only heat source was a brick stove that didn’t warm up anything more than three steps away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A heat flared through her, and it wasn’t shame or even embarrassment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Petra got bitten by a hamster, and in the science room Calder accidentally allowed a box of hissing cockroaches to escape down a heating grate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The great mound of ashes in the barnlot was soon beaten into a hard-packed mass by driving rain and the heat of spring and early summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bri could be alive and well, better off there than at home, since the church still had some heat, or at least it had the last time Alex had been there, before the snowstorm. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

So Roger, wincing and gasping at the heat, got in and washed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

For her it’s blue, watercolor, not this red of mine that sucks in heat and blazes with it at the same time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment is barely heated, minuscule, at the top of six steep flights of stairs, with a bathroom the size of a phone booth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This would make more fog, more fire, and more heat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The heat of the summer sun beating down. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter had thrown her furs over the back of the chair, and her cheeks were flushed in the heat of the ship’s interior. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of other players wearing them as well, and together they blended into the dry heat of the practice held like lingering cattle waiting to be herded in this or that direction. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, the fireflies had simply floated through the darkness, heating the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She spoke with her hands, entertaining her two youngest children with fluid movements of such consummate grace that it seemed as though light music should be filtering from somewhere in the dizzying late afternoon heat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Popcorn and Inelda’s case, it had been a heated argument about who had better hair. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Well, it was comfortable, compact, easy to keep clean, easy to heat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On each table rested a nut-oil lamp, which was used to heat up the pellet of opium before it was put into the longstemmed pipe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wish I could let my hair grow, but Mother says the shorter the better to beat Saigon’s heat and lice. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Then you could stand to stay out in the heat a while longer,” Lindsey said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a heavy sheepskin coat, uncomfortably hot in the heated cabin, but with her hands manacled she couldn’t take it off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like the earth, the sandy bricks radiated the day’s trapped heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In our prelim heats, on Saturday, I beat Lindsey’s time in every event, even the freestyle. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They spend hours discussing the quality of the light, the heat of the bonfire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the meeting progressed—and grew heated—the attorney who previously had wanted to accept Holmes’s mortgage stepped out of Chamberlin’s office and entered the room where Holmes waited, ostensibly for a drink of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Despite the heat Holmes looked fresh and crisp. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I learned how to run a steam- heated knife along the super, slicing the wax cap off the combs, how to load them just so into the spinner. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rising heat puffed at her face, soft and sudden as a lover's breath, but in seconds it had grown too hot to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a hand drum, and he held it by the sinew ties crisscrossing the back, tilting it towards the heat to tighten the skin over the front. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Out there, with clear running water on each side, it was deliciously fresh after the smell and heat and noise of Tashbaan. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Especially when you know the root cause of the heat is radiation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she could even feel the heat in the air, as red R’hllor’s worshipers lifted their voices in prayer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So Will watched as the flames roared along the resinous twigs, and with streaming eyes and scorched hands he adjusted each fresh branch till the heat was focused as Iorek wanted it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bo keeps to himself in the kitchen, but we play a game of Catch Me If You Can with our eyes over the heat lamp counters. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The steam started the job, and then the heat from the stove tops did the rest. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The cold weather had stuck around, but the heat from the bonfire and the press of bodies made me wish I’d worn shorts rather than jeans and a button-down shirt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As the sun heat overhead and the rain never came, drought and famine spread over the land. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stumbled out, wrapping myself securely in a towel, trying to hold the heat from the water in so the aching shivers wouldn’t return. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He suggested to Garfield that his wife would have a speedier recovery in the cool sea breezes of New Jersey away from the stifling heat and humidity of Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boys had been assigned to row in the first heat, at 5:15 p.m., and in lane one, the most protected lane on the course, though with such calm water it hardly mattered. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After the heat of the fishbowl, the cooler air made Ralph’s muscles feel rigid. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

When winter came, we fed the animals—we had an ox, and now and then a chicken—gathered wood and brush for heat, slept, and tried to stay alive. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’d met at the pool and maybe it was the sun, the heat, but she had invited Toby to her house. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even in summer, when heat waves rose from the land, there was a fresh smell from the woods close by. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely someone that big in this heat can’t go much longer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Here’s something I didn’t expect about New York: the heat’s worse than Georgia. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” I said, hoping he could not feel the heat radiating from my body. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Looking on, Hale smiled ever so slightly, while Ramsey leaned back in his chair, fanning himself in the heat, a toothpick between his teeth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You’d think we were debating the death penalty or some heated war topic. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Too many tourists to dodge and so many blaring horns and too much heat beating down from the blazing sun with absolutely no shade. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like most houses in Welch, these were heated by coal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say I was cross. I was fatigued. The heat overcame me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The kitchen hearth was crowded with irons heating to press the tablecloths and serviettes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat has been building all day, closing in on me, I feel as though I’m breathing through a mask. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth, gulping at the heat and speed and smells of the jungle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

By July 9, New York City was baking in the greatest heat wave in American history. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The leaves shimmer in the heat, and the chitter of cicadas rises across the field. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had added a second story, installed a private cinema, built heated greenhouses, and laid out formal gardens. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most were swatting their programs to push away the heat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He trimmed his beard with the scissors while a pan of water heated and then he shaved himself with a plastic safety razor. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We were so tightly packed into that narrow courtyard that some children fainted from excessive heat and stuffiness. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body radiates a faint but palpable heat in the chair beside her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mama had put on the oven and opened the door to let the heat fill our small kitchen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s such an odd detail to notice in the heat of the fight, but that’s just how it is sometimes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For a heavy, heated moment, we are immobile, content to watch each other. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The heat of the bag's too much for my leg. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The glass has been removed on account of the heat, and although it is still powerful hot out, the beginnings of a breeze makes it’s lazy way through the compartment, providing a bit of relief. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It began life as a single, long, exhaustingly forceful movement, but Shostakovich, in a white heat of besieged inspiration, fleshed it out to a further three movements. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The verb vulcanize means “to strengthen a material such as rubber by combining it with sulfur and then applying heat and pressure.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They are common injuries in the Seam where we cook and heat our homes with coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I feel my face flush with an overwhelming amount of heat. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His heart was kicking under his vest like a mule in heat. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woody also got the stove, for heating formulas. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of her fingertips injects me with confidence. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I peek at the tag, heat rising in my cheeks. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When night approached, Uncle made us a fire, and I lay near it and felt the heat on my body. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His head ached in the heat and he wanted only to be alone and quiet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I have any strength left from the heat,” he wrote to Pete, “Fll beat Bright and give Lash the scare of his life.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sorceress’s power radiated from her like heat from a furnace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the old boiling house, heat escaped; now it is captured and used. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Link between us magnifies our emotions tenfold, and I fight for air, overwhelmed at the heat of his desire coursing through us—and my own responding passion rushing back to him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bronze, they were, brighter than polished shields, glowing with their own heat, burning behind a veil of smoke rising from the dragon’s nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, while you were waiting for the pan to heat up, you spread butter on the outside sides of the sourdough bread. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling confident, Milton adjusted the heat, which was a little too high. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The summer heat is more than they anticipated. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Where did you come from? Ay, María purísima, but you look dreadful. You must be absolutely parched, melting away in this heat.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Good,” she says, and there’s a heat on my knee and a hand moving up my leg. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pad into my bath area, lift my skirts, and do my business in the copper basin left there for this purpose, shame heating my face even though I am alone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was dry and there was no heavy heat. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung it through the air a few times and it whistled past my head, smelling of heated steel and polished wood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was afterward that things began to heat up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the glowing coals brought a flush to Tyrion’s face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I sat down beside her on the swing, she laid her hand on mine, and the heat flowed out from her palm into my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I had fried tomatoes for breakfast and a tin of green beans which Mother heated up in a saucepan. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid and her husband and children worked hardest in the afternoon when the heat was the worst, all the machines hissing and thumping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all of the athletes, in spite of the heat, they had to train. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Getting rid of excess heat isn't something we expected to deal with. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how you can stand this heat. I’m going to have to go back inside for the day. Thank God for air-conditioning.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Stella to heat the butter, toss a half cup of the popping corn in, cover it, and wait for the pop. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When word got out about Mr. Sloan, excitement would spread like heat lightning across the islands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then we bought, and then we all went out into the sunlight and the heat, and climbed back on top of the bus. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And how much could it cost to heat his attic room? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

My whole body flared with heat, and I wondered if my face was as red as his. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The news hasn't passed, it has only heated up. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You can practically see the heat radiating off his back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had heated up a slice of bacon on a paper towel, put it on the table, and turned to open the fridge. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I could heat our lodge with fire,” she said. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hot anger flared from his mind and rippled through his body with a surge of heat. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was burning with conviction; I could almost feel the heat rolling off him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was stormy, with heat lightning flashing out in the desert. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they pulled open the heavy doors on Fifty-seventh Street, there was a comforting blast of heat and student messiness. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This heat is not healthy. You must tell me straight away if you feel peckish.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear sensed this, too, and paused before he began heating the last piece. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hanging there, a long way off, about thirty feet above the road, warped by the rising heat, was what looked like a plank of wood, suspended horizontally, with a bulge in its center. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If it wasn’t the heat, it was the flies; if not the mice, then the people. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As we walk past people, they stop to watch, and I feel their eyes on me like little beams of heat, making me warm from throat to cheeks. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They washed and packed their tools and walked out into the blazing heat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

While Daddy heats up supper, I sit on my bed looking over schoolwork. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His careless generosity left my face prickling with heat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Things were getting heated when the front door banged open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On Christmas Day 1967, Tom Kelley’s plane touched down in Vietnam, and he stepped into a wave of heat, chaos, and noise. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He thought: there’ll be some of them die of die heat today. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no stomach for it anyway, no heat in my blood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She disappeared again, and I heard the crackle of the oil as it heated and the sighing sizzle as she dropped the flattened discs of dough in one by one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And then he kissed me desperately, without warning, and feeling shot through my veins with a searing, explosive heat. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Flames crackled, and a wave of heat reached me where I sat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The back of my neck was heating up. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A flash of heat lightning lit up the sky over the mountains and there was a low rumble of thunder. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Moss shouted, and the blood rushed to his face again, the heat rising in his cheeks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The worst thing I experienced was heat rash, tiny bumps on my skin that itched at night, along with a handful of mosquito bites. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the heat and confusion that had followed their return home, nice Mr. Reilly had tried one of his indirect approaches, and Ignatius was conceived. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially the water was indeed too hot, but as she became used to the heat she relaxed, and was, for the first time since she had tumbled from the sky, utterly happy. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ghostly flames danced on the beautiful palaces beneath Old Familiar’s wings, somehow throwing off real heat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I crack the window open to let out the heat trapped in my room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The rat had never come back, but the bugs had multiplied hideously in the heat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the hazy heat Tata Ndu paused to take off his hat, turn it carefully in his hands, then replace it above the high dome of his forehead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature remained at 15°C for some time afterward, so any heat expansion should still have been present. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat surged out in waves, washing across Mark’s face only to be sucked away by the wind gusting from behind him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She set up the ironing board on two chairs and put the iron to heat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go run some heat over them clothes and knock them wrinkles out before people think I ain’t trained you. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Here, Abby showed him his own fleecy dog bed, and it was heated! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A rush of surprise heats my face, and my heart fills with happiness. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some time before ni-Frith, in the heat of the day, Silver paused in a little patch of thorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beats down, the heat comes wavering up off the sand. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the summer, the boys jumped into the large pond. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The plutonium had expanded in the heat of the ranch house. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

NASA’s first orbital mission, and the debut of the all-important tracking and communications network, shimmered in the near distance like a heat mirage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The sweltering heat and the end of the exams meant that everyone was taking full advantage of another Hogsmeade visit. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The cook opened the oven door and put Bill part way in it, where he could feel the heat on his face. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this age of electricity and modem heating systems, there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were all bending over the vegetable patch, their clothes drenched with perspiration from the heat of the sun burning down on their backs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After the blazing heat of the other side of the sun, this cold was bone-deep. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure has long since lost count of her strides when they reach a crowd dense enough that she can feel heat spilling off of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the day grew brighter and warmer, the hidden children tried to sleep, but ants and mosquitoes feasted on their bodies while the growing heat of the day made them damp with sweat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten the heat, the heavy humidity that made me sweat all the time. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Therefore, the spacecraft had to be rotated, like a chicken on a barbecue spit, to distribute the heat from the sun evenly on all sides of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By evening, my clothes were still damp, so I put them on so that the heat of my body would dry them faster before night fell. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were pointed backward with our heat shield forward. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat radiated outward from where the bullet went in just below my left shoulder blade. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow that would get us past whatever waited inside the fearful dark cloud, get us past the heat, and the rattlers, and a great deal more. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the moment, Ernest offered a shocking judgment of Oppenheimer that would come to haunt them both. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Despite the heat, his breastplate was glazed with ice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They huddle around the Sun, the source of light and heat, like campers around a fire. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to concentrate on the rings of heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wraps me in its curving sides and smells of canvas and outdoors and heat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would sleep outside, in the cold, and in the heat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The heat in my cheeks threatens to melt my makeup. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the cakes were laid out upon the table in strips, ready for heating, Wing Lung felt his heart fit to burst with pride. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I heard the whirr of the central heating. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that month there is heat and wild rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to think that making Byron spend all of his summer in this heat was more punishment than even a juvenile delinquent like him deserved. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Papa had said, in a little while the warm heat from the hard work limbered me up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess the heat doesn’t bother you people. You’re fortunate that you can just keep working. It’s too hard for us, especially when we get older.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though a pleasant breeze rolled off the lake, the heat and humidity were relentless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t hear it because of the heat storm roaring through my body. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A burst of heat and light threw her and Mini onto their backs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s cool and damp down here—the heat of summer held at bay. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The deadly heat raw mows down military resistance. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He could remember the very feel of the smooth-worn wood under his elbows, the heat of the lamp on his cheek as he learned with his eyes, with his memory, asking countless questions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In early March 2005, just after Heidi’s third birthday, he quit his job at the Queens diner after yet another heated argument with the owner. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was so sharp she felt it only as a line of heat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Though there were some good-natured grumbles about the heat, soon enough a field was laid out and players divvied themselves up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The space behind his rib cage flared with that old familiar heat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They made their way to a grove of bushes off to the right, the breeze just cool enough to provide some respite from the thick, soupy heat of bodies inside. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I can feel the heat of his intense blue eyes watching me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sweating from tramping through fields and trees in the heat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Momentarily brilliant as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, they are heated and destroyed by friction at a height of about 100 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks heat, thinking of the way it had felt to wake up with his body stretched out beside mine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in successive turns you grow an opacity, a pearl-like glow whose surface can repel all manner of heat and light. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old plastic suitcases curled shapeless in the heat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Already the heat blazed down on us with a vengeance, and we were so dehydrated our tongues felt like thick, dry parchments in our mouths. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most of the regulator's power goes to heating the return air so that doesn't happen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The downtown buildings radiated heat like giant toasters in the midday July sun, making my dress stick to my legs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ruth May usually fell asleep, open-mouthed in the heat, with her hair plastered down across her sweaty face like the poster child for fever. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong broke out in a sweat under his scratchy uniform from all the heat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My head hurts from the heat, from the musty smell. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Even with the gaslights dimmed and the hallway windows cranked open, a swampish heat encased us like mud. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In a heated discussion with King, Carmichael defended the phrase. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The morning is bitterly cold; the furnace heat is grateful, though we have heavy fur coats. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I came out of the subway, weak, moving through the heat as though I carried a heavy stone, the weight of a mountain on my shoulders. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the heat waves as they made the earth look like it was moving in little ripples. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chimera’s mouth glowed red, heating up for another blast. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But not even the ocean breeze is a match for the heat today. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When we finally stepped in from the heat, the air- conditioning hit my face like a splash of ice water. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The body heat made steam in the cold air. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a result of the heating vent’s bad acoustics, her own imperfect English, and the fact that she kept lifting her head to hear if anyone was coming. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Raising the lantern, the man held it close enough that Jemmy could feel the heat of the flame. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a crisp, fresh day for summer, the first respite after a week of unendurable heat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence, feeling the heat suck away every bit of their energy. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looks at the weeds, which are burning fast, thirsty for flame in that quivering heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I forgot about the heat for a minute. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

If he saw this, he’d have some heated words for the lady on the TV. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Dogs on heat. Anywhere, anytime, in cars, down alleys, in skips, anywhere. And they call us 'antisocial.'” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Celaena had already spent one blistering summer in the heat of the Red Desert, but to tell Nehemia that would only invite difficult questions. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But instead of words, all I feel are the heat of tears rising up my throat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

My fellow sweepers back up to get out of the way, but I stay where I am, heat rushing through me as Zeke and Tori approach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sad news met her at at Vevay, for the heat had driven them from Nice in May, and they had travelled slowly to Switzerland, by way of Genoa and the Italian lakes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Onions and oregano and garlic—Mom’s spaghetti sauce heating up on the stove. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As the universe gets smaller and smaller, it heats up more and more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, as the heat rose from the logs, the sap in the pans began rising faster. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of so many bodies around me makes it difficult to breathe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fireplace not only provided heat in winter, it was the source of light, and it was used for cooking. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just heated the grill up. Gonna throw some burgers and chicken on for lunch.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Out here the sun heated and the wind cooled, and the waves sang their constant song. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swam along, Merlyn occasionally advising him to put his back into it when he forgot and the strange underwater world began to dawn about them, deliciously cool after the heat of the upper air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mirage caused by the shimmering waves of heat rising off the dry ground. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The flare in my chest reignited and spread like a rocket launch through my body, heating me from my scalp down to the tips of my toes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I walked into the house to get some relief from the heat, examine my face in the mirror, and call my dad to tell him I was mere moments from death. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Nothing had changed outwardly—we were kidding around, as we always did, gossiping about who’d said what at the barbecue—but there was a certain kind of heat climbing my spine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One of the factionless started a fire so we could heat up our food. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned against the warm door frame, allowing the golden heat to envelop me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chubs’s face lost some of its heat as he turned to where I stood clutching the minivan’s sun-warmed frame. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The men installed a more powerful burner that, once ignited, heated the kiln to three thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Thick white smoke from the bleaching palm oil filled the kitchen, and in the stuffy mix of the fumes and heat and flies, I felt faint. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Windows and empty rooms, away from the river, away from the worst heat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lowered herself into the chair across from him and tried not to think about the heat that seemed to be inside the flesh of her arm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel its heat across the room. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The birds were twittering and the breeze was blowing and you could smell the hay in the field next to us waving in the heat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I felt the heat of her body along my entire length. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The heat—it swallowed me up when I arrived in New York. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On Faye’s tray she put her favorite cup and set the soup forward on the stove to heat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You heated it too long, girl. ’Bout to burn my mouth!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Our gas got cut off last week, and with no gas, we don’t have heat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now, he still heated part of his house with pinon, but they had a butane heater too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wash standing up. I get a bucketful of water and I heat it on this little stove and I strip and wash myself all over." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But if it was winter, then doing without the heat and lights was pretty awful. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt empty, too, and strangely heavy, like the planet was spinning too fast, heating up gravity, pulling me toward the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She would sooner sit bathed in the ruddy glow of her red lord’s blessed flames, her cheeks flushed by the wash of heat as if by a lover’s kisses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then we would see silver heat rise from her body; it solidified before our eyes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the heat brought with it summer clothing, it became apparent to all of us that Wab was expecting a baby. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There was a moment's heated discussion, then one of the antagonists stalked from the room, wearing a grim look. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The women heated peanuts on the coals. They held me down and put them on my chest.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean breeze swept away the muggy heat of the summer afternoon, and it was pleasantly cool under the shade of the palmetto trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ruby was heat and volatility, she was passion, but not violence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ask yourself: would we be having such a heated discussion if this baby were blond?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I did not heat the water, either, because I was afraid that the heating coil would make the rainwater lose the scent of the sky. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind, I’ll take this outside to drink. I need to get the front mowed before the day heats up.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The heat and the light stretch endlessly as he clings to Celia through the pain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By June more than half the United States was in the grip of severe heat and extreme drought conditions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And he told about the heat and thirst of their desert journey and how they were almost at their goal when another lion chased them and wounded Aravis. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The hair on the back of his neck stood on end as something shimmery and scaled barreled past him with a snarl, sending waves of heat in its wake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Would we be living forever in the summer heat and winter wind of Owens Valley? Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maine, that most moderate of states, was having a killer heat wave. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At one awful point, every kind of canine voice imaginable cut loose, rejoicing, wailing in pain, some barks offering challenges, others announcing, with fear or ecstasy, the hectic gang-banging of females in heat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 20, in the midst of an enervating heat wave in Austria, he traveled from Brno to Vienna to take the oral part of the exam. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can only remember a place with no dimension, no depth, no heat, no cold, but immeasurable amounts of darkness and solitude. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

One morning in August 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child’s fever, a man calling himself H. H. Holmes walked into one of Chicago’s train stations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My first impulse is to cover my nose to block out the stench of soiled linen, putrefying flesh, and vomit, all ripening in the heat of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how long a person could survive without water in this heat, but I knew from experience that you couldn’t go for more than half an hour without experiencing considerable discomfort. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered swal-lowing, and Pycelle was telling someone to heat the wine to boiling and fetch him clean silk, and that was the last he knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It's so threadbare the pan's heat seeps through, but I manage to drop the loaf on the stovetop before it hurts too much. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I always liked to get out early because of the heat, particularly with cotton picking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished eating, they rose and went outside to sit in the dooryard where a soft breeze gave them comfort after the heat of the kitchen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the heat,” complained another old auntie. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three, four, five bolts, and there it was: a heating grate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I burn the third one completely, Amá sighs and tells me to roll them out instead, while she heats them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even in Sagan’s warm air, and the heat of the suit, my blood runs cold. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would turn on the space heater, visit the band shell lavatory, then heat up some water, get breakfast ready, and finally wake the boy with a gentle shake of the shoulder. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dearest Celie, Just when I think I’ve learned to live with the heat, the constant dampness, even steaminess of my clothes, the swampiness under my arms and between my legs, my friend comes. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he got in—the heat glorious against his wet skin—she reached over and took the container from his hands. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was warm there, the sandrock still held the sun’s heat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like others there he’d passed a difficult night with no electricity or heat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She and Beto ran to the heater and held out their hands to warm them before leaning in to heat their faces. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those in front had to shield their faces against the heat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The deeps of heat there in the Indies — he shall not go there—the ranks of chained men led out to the sugar-fields — the sun, buzzing in the heavens. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing like a long, cool drink in the heat of the day, when you’re traveling.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the distance, in the flickering heat, in the immense distance, a herd of zebras graze. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is ridiculous,” I say, heat rushing into my cheeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The heat of the tropics, the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had given them the complexions of newly washed plums. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The trucks and cars that went speeding past him made ripples in the heavy blanket of heat, but the air that circulated was only slightly cooler. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago. And they didn't have a Primus. They had to heat the water over the fire in the hearth." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A valve was closed, the water was heated, and the steam generated drove the water upwards out of the cylinder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I turned the heat on and held my hand in front of the vent until, after a minute, warm air pulsed through. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The sheerest smile brushed his lips, and heat rushed up my body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my son, too,” his mother said, with heat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was very warm, and for a while they did nothing but exchange remarks about the heat the sun, the glare. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Egypt, there are only two pyramid replicas, and since the room has a dry heat, the employees are offering Nile River-brand water bottles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She begins to heat up some pea soup. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She even smelled different: a hot smell, like heated metal, came off her body. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

The trucks barreled down the long, winding road, their passengers silenced by the dust deviling up and by the heat. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He wants to make the rover do long trips. It uses a lot of energy keeping warm. The RTG can heat up the interior without soaking battery power. It's a good idea, really." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly weak, I lean against a tree to rest, feeling the heat draw the moisture from my body like a sponge. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The AC was on, but you never would have known by the heat he was giving off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Darling, there’s a heat wave and I’m not going to be talked out of a salad.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They had this old dog that couldn’t get around much before he died. These floors stink something terrible when the heat comes up.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One last look around before I walk out into the heat and sun and dust. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They invited all their friends from college and church and convinced the management to crank the heat up to eighty degrees? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not the heat, not the boredom, not the endless space of summer laid out before him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took no notice, but worked steadily and skillfully to build up the fire and set the pan to heat some water for tea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Apparently lost in memories, he gazed at the opposite wall, turning idly on the spot to ensure an even heat on his backside. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Like an enraged beast, the furnace throbbed with heat, suffusing a red glare over everything. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame reminded her of the gold-bug story, where a message is revealed when parchment is heated up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rack gives off heat and smells of fresh cooked salty food and is being wheeled along by an attendant in a skullcap. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were no windows, no heat, and no running water. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence stretches between us, like the rolling weight of the summer heat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he arrives in the heat of noon. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As the figure on the road drew near, it took shape and grew indistinct again in the wavering heat. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That other time the air had seemed to vibrate with heat; but now it threatened. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dusk shimmered as the air itself seemed to liquefy from the heat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jon could feel her heat, even through his wool and boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Without a glance at the sleeper, the woman stooped to bring the fire to life, and set a pan of water to heat while her dæmon crouched nearby watching over the path. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The curtain of heat divided the will to survive from survival itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

God had put the heat on high, as Ma always said. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The room was too small for all the nervous sweat, for all the odors, for all the heat that the bodies generated. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Takumi had brought a camp stove in his backpack, and the Colonel was huddled over it, heating instant coffee. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My cheeks heat up, and I let my sleeve fall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We eat cans of Habitant pea soup, heated up on the two-burner stove in a dented pot, and slices of bread spread with molasses, and hunks of cheese. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He takes Olly’s favorite mug, pours in a layer of chocolate and adds six ounces of hot milk heated to almost boiling on the stove—never in the microwave. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cactus plant pinpricks of heat run over my face in vertical strips. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lived in the woods, suffered heat and cold. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was becoming a long walk, up and down in the heat, but Chamberlain was not tired. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What if you were to symbolize man's inhumanity to man by heating up a skillet of plastic soldiers?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The high sun and the steaming heat reminded Roy of another bright afternoon not so long ago, in a place not so far off. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feel of Day’s lips, our heated kiss, and his hands running across my skin—it should all mean nothing to me now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I walked into the bright sunlight and heat, looking for a place to hide before ducking under a dwarf tree beside the church entrance. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the bright October sun rose in the sky, the heat became unbearable for Lupita. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I can take the heat if you can,” he said. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Still it would be better to give Fulcher a scare by running well in the heat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I can disable it, they can only find us on the surface with our heat signature. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The heat of the racing headlights burnt his cheeks, it seemed, and jittered his eye-lids and flushed the sour sweat out all over his body. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man, as soon as I said that, they got even more serious, chests all poked out, hands reaching under their shirts, thinking I came to bring the heat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As they peeked over the bank, heat from a bonfire struck them like a train. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sky and the mountain were at an immense distance, shimmering in the heat; and the reef was lifted by mirage, floating in a land of silver pool halfway up the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was so hot, the tracks behind him looked like a squiggly line, warped by heat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In a moment, the heating system rumbled with the latest revelations. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mother didn’t say a word but only heated some milk, and they sat with their feet on the oven door and sipped at their steaming cups. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was smooth and hot and the heat went all through me and I felt warmed and cheerful. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He swung to the right, running desperately fast, with the heat beating on his left side and the fire racing forward like a tide. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to get the heat going in my truck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Flies were buzzing everywhere, and the heat of the day didn’t make the smell any better. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It took two hours to heat the water to 37°C. Once it did, I shut off the pump and got in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get out a pan and put it on high heat. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He gripped my sleeve, and I could feel the heat of his skin like a fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even this warm tropic water was starting to suck the heat from him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I gripped the old wooden handle and pressed until the heat waned. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even later in the day, my enthusiasm for primitive sensation would survive the heat and the dust and the insects pricking my back. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parts of our legs that stayed in there too long puckered and bled heat into the ocean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The god shimmered, slowly fading into waves of heat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, more to clear the tingling heat creeping down my spine than anything. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I set the yearbook down on my desk, the sun heating my back as I flip through to the page she signed. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to be on a list now. Someone’s going to be watching you. I don’t need that kind of heat on me.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the long-limbed, long­ bodied animals of the south that are cooled by dis­pensing heat on extended surfaces, all live things in the Arctic tend toward compactness, to conserve heat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately there was not yet much heat or quickness in my heart, and I said to myself that he was an ignorant man, a foreigner, ill-used and frightened. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It measures the heat of the clouds and the surface temperature of the sea. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bar downstairs was hot and crowded and there was a heated argument in progress over Clifton's shooting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the little door and was met with a wave of musty heat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Through his thin nightshirt, he was all heat and hard muscle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Women were wearing minks despite the July heat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the mixture of ice and rocks within these outer moons must contain, as do rocks on Earth, traces of radioactive minerals, which heat their surroundings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or he would have melted like new wax under the heat of that pale eye. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of summer had begun in earnest. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the heat died down, the anesthesia also wore away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Along an unused railway spur, four workmen labored in the shadowy red heat, setting up a platform and steel launchers for the evening fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carved a massive cake of beeswax into bits and rolled them in my hands until they softened— no long task, for a burning heat came down from Helios, lord of high noon. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, July 9, a day of heat and stillness, the Ferris Wheel became one of the most sought-after places to be, as did the basket of the Midway’s captive balloon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I felt the heat radiating off his skin, like a warp core about to breach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even the rash-free are affected by the juxtaposition of terrible heat and cool, inaccessible water. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So last week I was cooking, heating up a pot with grease in it, and all of a sudden I had a seizure and fell on the floor. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was October, and the pier boards no longer could hit her in the face with reflected heat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

For if a person could crack under heat or cold, a combination of the two seemed guaranteed to do in even the gutsy Galadriel. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I make us scrambled eggs with cheese, making sure the cheese is nice and melted before I turn off the heat. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So we strolled out into the unbearable heat of August twenty-first, Nineteen-thousand-and-sixty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small space between them is suddenly filled with heat; his cheeks are flushed and there’s the wet-wool smell of boy sweat and that tang of something again, maybe weed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Get up,” he says, his horse still jumpy and edgy from the heat coming off me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are not exactly people here but what amounts to canned labor, being preserved between shifts from the heat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pile of bricks Claire hid behind shielded her from the severest heat and most of the flying debris. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hot Pie was told to crumble in the spices as the wine heated. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they trudged through the heat, Salva finally had a chance to talk to Uncle about a worry that had been growing like a long shadow across his thoughts. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are cows in the barn, too, helping with the heat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The thin atmosphere doesn't conduct heat very well, but it cools everything, eventually. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Any old leftovers will do. Just put them on a plate. You don’t even have to bother to heat them.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first it frightened her, but she found quickly that she liked the heat and risk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The toaster is on a silver heat pad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am sweating like a tamal, with fear of the crossing and of the heat. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of the afternoon, when all the heat had gone out of the sun, the woman stacked up the grass she had cut and loaded it onto her back. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had smoked so many through the bone that he could just light a match before the empty bone, draw the heat through, and get what he called a “contact” high. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was getting to me, or the billiard room’s confines, or maybe it was the copious amounts of cigar smoke wafting from the gentlemen on either side of us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lockton and Madam were exchanging heated words across his desk by the time I bought in an armload of wood and a few coals from the kitchen in the copper coal carrier. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the room was crowded with soldiers, and the smell of infection was made worse by the continuing heat wave. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Ye need help?” he said, his strangely accented Russian reaching her ears on a heat wave that smelled of fire and metal. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But it caught at once, and soon one of their last bottles of water was heating in the little saucepan. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With a match, Tanin heated a stick of wax until molten pearls began to drop one by one onto the paper, creating an inky black pool. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had no heat, no toilet, no running water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and felt the heat and water make her stronger, change her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Naomi and the twins huddled with their hands under the dash to get closer to the heat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every small effort at hygiene was magnified by hours of labor spent procuring the simplest elements: water, heat, anything that might pass for disinfectant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their absorption in one another, the heat of their bodies, their mingling smells and the movements of their limbs—these things shielded them from certain truths. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent from the garden rises like heat from a body, there must be night-blooming flowers, it’s so strong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take long, between the steep incline and the heat, to become short of breath. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That day, a thick, suffocating heat fell on them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rishi forced himself to concentrate on his sketch, to ignore the tingling heat that was running up and down his arm. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This was not an act performed in the heat of passion. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of his hand traveled up her arm, and the ice inside her began to melt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mother snapped open the shutters and heat poured into our bedchamber. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very idea warmed her through just as much as the heat from the oven. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

One morning in April, when the heat had returned for drying lentil wafers on the roof, we noticed that someone had vomited by the cistern tap. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bubbles glowed in the heat and wobbled under the weight of wind and fire and dust. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at her uncle’s home, he told them that the heat ray and black smoke were just part of an Orson Welles story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As the Olympic preliminary heats approached and the gravity of what was coming settled on them, Ulbrickson’s boys began to get tense and fidgety again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It must have been the growing heat, but I could feel the tracks vibrate beneath my feet. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It took place on a Saturday, in the heat of the afternoon. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goose bumps stippled his bare arms despite the heat, but he did his best to ignore them too, and continued his counting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Between them, she and Brigid coached several of the new spare hands, all of them wearing far too much clothing in the suffocating heat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could move them, but doing so was painful, and heat radiated from the joints between his hand and fingers. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Elberon the night before, under nearly a full moon, hundreds of railroad workers had toiled in the oppressive heat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even with the World’s Fair just across the street, I doubted they were apt to discriminate between tourists and troublemakers in the heat of the moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Flat on my back, too high to move, I closed my eyes and let the glutinous premonsoon heat cover me like a balm; I felt as though I were melting into the mattress. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had a faint hope that the Captain, not being an islander, would take the heat as an excuse to slow down a bit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds the heat from the liquid makes me feel like I am full of something again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the elimination heats approached, the weather grew oppressively warm—the first intimations of what was about to become a lethal heat wave all across the East. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The water began to circle around them and froth as if heated. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wistfully the woman asked Katie not to let it get damp or cold, to leave the bedroom doors open in winter so a little heat would get through from the kitchen and prevent warping. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of June, a heat wave of a hundred degrees moves in and doesn’t budge. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It would soon be dusk, but the heat persisted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The heat, the flies, the shouts from the crowd... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He kept that posture for two days, eyes open, not saying a word, still as a bush in that dry, windless heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We got ice cream at the Dairy Freeze and sat at a picnic table trying to eat it quick before the summer heat made it run down our cones and drip onto our laps. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The engine sizzled and creaked with heat and the jet of steam that blew down the overflow pipe sounded like the hiss of an alligator. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the water heated up, I saw Jones take Gramps's bottle, pour a little more into his glass. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The driver refused, an argument heated up, and the driver called police. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I missed you, he kept saying, God, I missed you, and he kissed me again, so deeply, and my head was spinning, and he tasted, somehow, like pure heat. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

"No," he says, and his face is so close, I can feel the heat rising off him. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

His experiments showed that these germs could be killed by heat or particular chemicals. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon sun, tall trees growing along the bank cast long shadows over the starting stalls and the boats, but the heat had not abated appreciably. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m heated and I punch him mad hard in the arm. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fire was settling into a proper glow, and the heat on his hands and his face made Malcolm all the more aware of how cold and soaking wet the rest of him was. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Kennedy visited one poor family with many children and no heat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I heat up water in the kettle and coat the bottom of a coffee cup in sugar. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The heat and the manual work had even given him a pretext for reverting to shorts and an open shirt in the evenings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Waves of heat shimmered above the stone walls, and the granite sparkled. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sauce had come to a boil four times, and I had to keep shutting off the heat because the goo was spilling over the edge of the pan. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I retreated back the way I had come, the floor’s heat radiated through my shoes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sand pulls the heat from her fingertips, from the soles of her feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, when the morning sun’s heat caused the dew to evaporate, he would float up with it—to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road stretched empty as far as I could see, with heat shimmer making the air seem wavy in places. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grasped for hope in Emerson’s vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t so heavy, but even by midmorning, the heat was just something powerful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had gone to walk the woman to her car while I went to the WCC kitchen to heat up a slice of pizza for lunch. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She kept him warm and fed him and he radiated heat in her hood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if Rishi felt the heat of their gazes, he didn’t show it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if it’s the heat or if you got water on the brain or what, but you must have forgotten who you’re talking to.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

About fifty feet away, some overweight middle-aged dudes with American accents were conversing loudly, complaining to each other about the heat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You could feel the heat outside through the window. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I felt nothing but the heat in my head. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The fire cracked and popped, rolling waves of heat in front of my face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A good fireplace that actually gave off heat was a luxury! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Even so, there’s no way. It must have been ...” I tried to calculate how much heat he would have had to move, but stalled out, not knowing where to begin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I would heat my coffee and sit comfortably on my back step and contemplate wood and water and the quick-rising mountains with crowns of conifers and the fir trees high up, dusted with snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany marveled at the smoothness of their scales, and the heat that poured off them, so palpable that on cold nights their whole bodies seemed to steam. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cade pulled the truck off the highway, and we all got out to stand there in the blazing heat of the desert while Julia Bishop snapped photographs of us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

After Hiatt began the meeting with a keynote speech, Farmer listened to the experts argue, sometimes in heated voices, about MDR and other TB issues. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Vanilla car freshener mixed with french fries, jasmine-orange-ginger lotion, and heated makeup. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But how do people live out there, Shay? Like the Rusties? Burning trees for heat and burying their junk everywhere? It’s wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Beauty rolled off her in waves, like heat; the very image of her in the photograph seemed to glow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wind circles my head like a vulture, and I flinch from hands burning with unnatural heat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sun climbs higher and higher above the trees, heating everything around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it would look over the dark ridges of the Ephel Dúath, and he would faint and cower in the light and heat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was soon apparent that the lack of exercise, combined with the heat, might prove too much for them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Intense heat pulsed across his body as he ran; sweltering wind from the left, cooler air from the right. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of black haze traveled back up the lines of fire, snuffing out the light and heat and covering Leo in darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She heated a flagon of wine to boiling on the brazier, and poured it over his wounds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Down on the sands, thefighters will feel the heat through the soles of their sandals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The heat from the flames melts the surrounding snow and a black trickle runs across my shoes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat soaks my skin, half from fever, half from the unabating heat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The goddess shifted uncomfortably, as if her chariot were heating up under her feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On account of the heat, there are still a few actual bathers on the beach, but I am content to sit in shorts and T-shirt and watch the ocean pummel the sand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the summers Grandma took down the stove that heated her front room, so there was space to leave a card table up. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad for the heat; maybe it can cover some of my blush, which is already threatening to burn up my face as I study his damp hair and bared muscles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Usually I find her there, stirring milk on the stove and heating up a slice of apple pie. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The only time I feel like me is on those secret, febrile afternoons like yesterday, when I come alive in all that heat and hall-light. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strong wing beats carried her into a thermal, a column of warm air that rises from the sun- heated ground in a spiraling bubble. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The heat is subsiding a little, but I'm more woozy planting today than on even the hottest days. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the heat faded from her eyes as she turned to fasten her staff to the back of the raft. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even when no one is home, the water heater is on, so that when they come home after work, they don’t have to wait for the water to heat up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They rode the subway out to Coney Island and found that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had beaten them there, fleeing the stifling heat of Manhattan even in the middle of the workweek. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could feel the heat of it in my cheeks. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the day or going up a hill, the bus was likely to overheat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These would convert the hydrogen into more helium, and the heat given off would raise the pressure, and so stop the clouds from contracting any further. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank stared up at the northern lights, still cooking across the stars on low heat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The inside of the house is cool after the heat of the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My own eyes get heavy as the heat of the sun warms my back. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is twenty-four days of heat, exhaustion, and monotony. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rooms were heated—in the Korean way—by a coal fire in the kitchen with flues running under the bedroom floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little cool, but in this heat it’s refreshing.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flashed bright like when you first light a smoke bomb, all sulfur and heat. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Many Osage looked on from the benches, fanning themselves in the heat; a few stole glances at cell phones, but most watched reverently. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

See, in the heat of the moment, when people were escaping these freeways—something truly interesting happened. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to say hi while your grandfather was out. Maybe I can heat up some soup or leftover tamales?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heat of the kitchen staggered her, but then people from Death Valley would have keeled over in Grandma’s kitchen. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dead calm, the sky a flat-copper blue and the heat so thick inside the boat that it was hard to get breath down—any change would be welcome. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How long would it take the doctor to caravan to India, and what did he do in the heat of the day, as the camels lay on the ground resting? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I am so glad that heat wave is over I could jump for joy,” she say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This is not my heat, but this is my race. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The woman prevailed, but another heated debate soon developed over who should do the actual handing over. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl can heat some wine to calm your nerves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our shack—like most shacks throughout Alexandra—had no heat, electricity or plumbing, and we had no stove, so my mother had to keep the brazier indoors, as she had done all previous winters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land was aflame with the roaring heat of a blacksmith’s fire; there was no solid earth, no sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon heat they snooze in the dusty dirt beneath that tangle of manzanita trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He did not mind the heat so much as he did the damp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Exposed to too much heat or pressure, the stuff would explode with devastating impact, and of course it was deadly to demigods as well as monsters. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the burrow, Fiver slept and woke uneasily through the heat of the day, fidgeting and scratching as the last traces of moisture dried out of the earth above him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carpet burst into flames; the heat was so intense, it nearly seared off my eyebrows. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was two miles along a road totally without shade and so hot I could feel the heat through the soles of my boots. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I waited for the water to heat, I looked out the window. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to jump on those men and punch their faces in, to quiet the promises and the seductive looks, to chill the heat they gave off, palpable as the clothes I wore. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hand over the note, embarrass JB; or hide the note, take the heat. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She takes a pan out of the cupboard and pours in the oil, several cupfuls, to be heated in the minutes before her guests are expected. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought he just had heat exhaustion or something. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The heat at home was set to a normal sixty-seven degrees and there were no inflatable flamingos on the porch. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She built up the fire, heated kettles of water for the washing, so that Mercy might have fresh linen under her restless body. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the heat, Matthias had ordered all the mice to put on their hoods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Old comets, heated by repeated passages near the Sun, break up, evaporate and disintegrate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set them in the shadow of a rover to keep them from heating up too much. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swung the kettle over the flames and looked into the fire while the water heated. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he pulls off of Pacific Coast Highway, the plant wavers before him like an ugly industrial mirage, asphalt heat making it shimmer before him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rosalie said the heat “boiled” my stomach and that something cool would settle it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Saturday nights was the only time we had hot water, in a tin tub filled to the brim with the water Mama heated for my bath. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And still, on this Sunday, the heat turned apartments and houses throughout the city into gigantic ovens. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I said I was cold and Shawn moved to turn up the heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Imagine if Michelle Obama got tired of all the heat and decided to go natural and appeared on TV with lots of woolly hair, or tight spirally curls. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I need you alive and so does Julie. Now don’t be a dramatica like Aunt Lorraine. Think about how wonderful it’s going to be living someplace with heat and electricity and three meals a day.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’d been hungry, tried to heat up some food on the stove, and passed out on the couch while it was cooking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mark and the old soldier were about a mile away from the village when the stench of death hit them like a fresh wave of unbearable heat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You could have Cadillacs with leather interiors! Air conditioning! Automatic windows! You wouldn’t have to move your arms in the heat!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my tongue slowly begin to throb as the heat of the peppers crawled over it like an army of tiny fire ants. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t waste firewood to heat up yesterday’s coffee or maybe it was day-before-yesterday’s coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This arm goes pins and needles from time to time. The heat doesn’t help any, nor this commotion.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone took siestas to avoid the worst heat of the day. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat and what I had heard made me sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat by the window and watched the heat lightning. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The Thunderhead monitors heat on every inch of the planet, and the fighting of fires often begins before one can even smell smoke. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I dreamed that all we had to do to fill our house with that warm, clean furnace heat was to move a lever. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a distant kitchen, because of the heat of the day, someone was preparing a cold lunch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two green-clad figures in the center of a vibrant ballroom, so undeniably in love that the entire room flushes with heat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then, taking a deep breath, she exhaled slowly through her palms and an incredible, soothing heat bloomed along my forearm, just on the edge of painful. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We step out onto the blacktop, feel the heat cover us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even in this heat, I was pretty sure I could beat out a bunt and make it home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I check their teeth and comb their manes and feel their legs for heat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, enough, Robert!” she broke into his heated outburst. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The small bodies gave off heat like an iron stove no matter what we used to bring down the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her throat was closing up from the heat and the acidic air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, she stole a look at Rishi—and felt her cheeks heat when she saw he was looking at her, too. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Many of them say we should not risk any more of our men. They say the heat and lack of water and food will defeat the Long Knives here.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was waiting not only for the irons to heat but also for a brutal woman black as soot known to carry a knife. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Will found the ingredients for a casserole of chicken and onions and peppers, but they hadn’t been cooked, and in the heat they were smelling bad. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heat storm, way more intense than the one before, is whipping through me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I put the pot of warm water back on the heat and find two clean cups. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The heat is turned off as soon as the workers leave at five. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If El were here, she’d tell me to grab a tire iron or to heat up the car lighter, but she’s not. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Something about the food, the heat, the light was wrong, and the man didn’t know what it was.Very quickly over half of them died. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when the morning’s milk had cooled, she mixed it with the skimmed milk and set it all on the stove to heat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the fires washed over her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“This container is designed to keep the agent cold and under pressure. Be mindful while it remains in the workshop. Avoid excessive heat in its immediate vicinity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If we get back,” Nicole said, and it made her arms goose pimply despite the heat. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The washers and driers in the basement laundry room rumbled well past midnight, and in the wintertime, the oil burner that kept the entire building heated drowned out all the other sounds. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Summer waned, seeming to evaporate in its own heat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Think of all the alligators and snakes, not to mention heat worse than we had here, and people had been known to fry not just eggs but bacon and sausage on South Carolina sidewalks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was why they heated the train so terribly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she thinks it is a hardship for me to stay here, in the heat. But I am glad that I stayed.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that prickly heat was common during the rainy season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can feel the heat of his fingertips on my belly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He mixed white rice into tomato sauce, tasted it, and then covered it and reduced the heat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the full heat of Mercury’s sun, Powell knew it was fizzing like soda water. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The leg bones, the tripe, and the white maíz are cooked in a giant pot all night on low heat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By now, the heat in my cheeks is like fire, and my hands have begun to shake. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We sat naked on wooden benches while an electric heater, buried under a pile of stones, heated the dry room to very high temperatures. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in 1933, a disembodied voice had spoken to my grandmother through the heating grate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We were eating spaghetti and meatballs, only Dad had cooked, so it wasn’t very good, and the air was thick and heavy with July heat. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My palms need to feel the heat of a hallowed flame whose blessing I bring to my eyes and forehead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the cold, there was a familiar heat in her armpits and between her thighs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The beaver and the robot thought about heat for a while. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was warm and comforting, even in the heat of the kitchen, and when Mama placed leftover biscuits on the table, we didn’t complain about not having fresh ones as we usually did. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had watched with growing dread, as the water heated up and the pot began to clatter with this crab trying to tap his way out of his own hot soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one place she could get a respite from the heat was the air-conditioned officers’ club. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I washed my face in a bowl of water she had heated for me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it’s meant to be tropical, my mom keeps a heated fan running and a slightly too-warm breeze fills the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dispute raged for years and grew extremely heated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sun heated the pavements until they felt like the top of an oven. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face heats as she stares at it, her light eyes taking in every flaw and faux pas. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Doll sprang from sink to range, skidded and almost slipped, and picked up two rags to drag the cauldron off the heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“At this time,” she reads, “everyone is advised to stay indoors to avoid heat stroke, and stay tuned for more information.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Odysseus and his men drew out the great stake from its hiding-place and heated the point in the fire until it almost burst into flame. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the center of the bedroom, for the even distribution of heat, stood a coal stove. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z