Wintergreen struck open a water pipe while digging in one of his holes and almost drowned to death before he was fished out nearly unconscious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He kicked a dirt pile by Magnet's hole, then he moved toward Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When she got out onto the roof under the night sky, she could see flames licking at the edges of a great hole in the side of the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“With a tree-sized hole in the side and wrapped in plastic?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Gaping holes in his cheeks exposed the sinews of his jaw, and his nose was a pair of rotten holes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He lived with a hole in his throat, spoke through a computer synthesizer, typed words by batting his eyes as a sensor picked up the movement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Problem is, what do I use to cover the hole? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these bars they now hung pulleys wound with strong, thin cord, and at the ends of the cords they fastened hooks, which they slipped into the oval-shaped holes in the block and pulled taut. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Arms reached through the portrait hole to pull Harry and Ron inside, leaving Hermione to scramble in after them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“He says...we must get in the first hole,” she said, clenching her dress. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One, however, hadn’t: the hole had been made by a bronze arrowhead which was still in it, and its edges were sharp and broken, so you could tell it was different. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the rubber-sheet analogy, a singularity is a point of infinite curvature; it is a hole in the fabric of space and time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sneaky would flip out if he found a hole in one of his shoes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

‘You do that,’ I tell him, and I head back to the watering hole. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He had Farhad and Muhsin dig a deep hole a hundred yards outside the circle of willows and built an outhouse over it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

White examined the skull and could see the hole in the back where the bullet had entered. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Erik, apparently, was holed up in his room—hiding his face. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they did, all except Miss Spider, who set about weaving a long rope-ladder that would reach from the floor up to a hole in the ceiling. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

All around Annabeth, more chunks of debris slammed through the floor, riddling it with holes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

What do I do now to fill up that hole? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And, lastly, I must have a hole through this cliff, and here is a needle to dig it.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a hole that leads right into my mom and Lenny’s bedroom, and my hunch was right: I can hear what they’re saying from here. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse grinned at Fulcher’s back and stuck his hands into the pockets of his corduroys, wriggling his right forefinger through the hole. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Already bloody, mouth open in a high-pitched scream, pupils enlarged so her eyes seem like black holes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drew parallel lines to represent the casement and then showed the plug at the top and the nozzle at the bottom with a hole—about a third of the diameter—drilled through it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about thirty feet long, fifteen wide, with duct tape and plywood boards covering up scattered holes and split seams. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But when he did this he was right in front of the fifth hole and the crowd shouted, “Five!’ Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So they put their things away and headed out of the portrait hole, glad to meet nobody on their way to the front doors, as they weren’t entirely sure they were supposed to be out. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

First one hole, then another, no bigger than a finger’s width, until the water eroded the sides and the outlets grew large enough for two fists to go through. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Black Betha reversed her oars, the river rushed into the splintered hole she left, and Lady’s Shame fell to pieces before his eyes, spilling dozens of men into the river. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She wrote, “They are, however, amusing and spend hours in seizing hold of the edge of a cabbage leaf and trying in vain to pull it into their holes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest of these holes were rimmed with ridges of broken rock, and broad fissures ran out from them in all directions. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My mother says frequently that she doesn’t give a hoot about clothes, but this indifference does not extend to holes, frayed edgs, or dirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had replaced his torn, dirty clothes with some that, although worn, were clean and without gaping holes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then, like punctuation, a gunshot poked a hole in the day and all the air ran out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With her hands, she would dig a hole in the damp clay of the lakebed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she slipped into a fresh tunic and pants and darted to the wishing cabin, where she dropped the bloody clothes into the wishing hole. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She climbed somewhat awkwardly out of the portrait hole, and the Gryffindors began talking immediately. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This isn’t just a hole, he thought excitedly. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was very dark, coming in as he did from the outer sunshine, and except for the bar of light from the hole, he could see nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As the last light fled from the holes in the ceiling, I found more books above other bookshelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

How I am the stupid kid who dug a dangerous hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I remembered her, hiding the bathroom hole on the train with her girth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When they had everything as far as the hole in the fence, they ran into a problem. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd dunked their caps in the water hole before putting them on their heads. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

About the hole in us, or how it got there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad went down in the basement and brought back a can of putty and patted it over the hole in the wall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pressed her eye to the spy hole, shifting around to capture the entire view. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s face showed up in the last hole on the right in the bottom row and ’bout half the crowd shouted, “Six!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The square where we’d chased pigeons was a smoking hole in the cobblestones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When Stanley returned to the hole, Zigzag was waiting for him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

No, but the next step I couldn't make, so I've remained in the hole. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a neat little skirt and blouse with a matching blue hat, which had holes in it for her large ears. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was a giant hole in my knowledge bank about these fundamental parts of history that had been skipped over in all of my education up until now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his perfectly dug hole, spat in it, then turned and headed back to the camp compound. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was a bullet hole in the doorframe and broken glasses of Star beer, a popular brand in the country, and empty cigarette packets on the verandah floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The crucial feature was this: the crocus didn’t have a hole at the tip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Uhmma said it is my job to make sure the blanket always covers the cushions so no one will see the burn holes the old owner made. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

So after whistling my dog out of the garden, where he was digging a hole to lay in and get cool, I went by the Predmore house to find Pink. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Suppose one of the kids gets sick and can’t nobody find the mama cause she holed up somewhere with you?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The loop hadn’t yet reset, and the bog was pocked with bomb holes, the sky buzzing with planes, walls of orange flame marching against the distant tree line. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She’d been stuck in that black hole of a cell for so long. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hear him saying, “Hey, Veer—it’s not every day you get lowered into a hole by a guy with a wart on his nose, right?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were digging holes on the far bank, some directly below the hemlock where Gray was resting. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But I was drawn by the sight of the cool-looking “cats” standing around inside, bending over the big, green, felt-topped tables, making bets and shooting the bright-colored balls into the holes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The extended black family was Mommy’s hole card, and she played it as often as the times demanded because her family was not available to her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, that hole, it was five yards wide!” said Billingsley as he came off to the sideline, his eyes ablaze. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go out there and dig a hole and bury that kitten!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as possible, he and Zero climbed up out of their holes and crept toward camp. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own, passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow inside the Nest began to melt and the robot’s sensors began to thaw, and when she was ready, she climbed out through the hole in the roof and into a bright, foreign landscape. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He crawled under the fence and wandered around without ever being challenged, thereby exposing an enormous hole in the security fabric of the nation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I tore off my pants and jammed myself into the hole and didn’t stop until I was through. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Tyson said happily, pointing at the hole in the ceiling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I knew there had to be a pretty big hole there, so I'd be able to get in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as she joined in carrying out the few salvageable chairs, it was the hole she thought about: how hot carnivorous metal could draw such pretty ringlets in the soil. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At once the bricks began to whirl and spin: A hole appeared in the middle of them, which grew wider and wider, finally forming an archway onto the narrow cobbled street that was Diagon Alley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She dug a hole in the ground with her finger and buried the dead ant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t intended the map as a clue—and the ripped tack holes told me she hadn’t—I figured we’d gotten all the clues she’d intended for us and now much more. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The net stretches across the gaping hole, just as it did when I last saw it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The quarry filled with rainwater, becoming a swimming hole. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, James and Dicey started patching up the holes in the porch screens, where the screens had pulled out of the wood or just ripped. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stuck her head into the hole, hoping nothing would bite it off. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As it hardened she stepped into the bottom, tramped it into a bowl, and then cut two holes in one side. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t find me searching for food, she would be waiting for me at the two-brick hole. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I lifted it out of the water and put the oar through its hole. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Max screws the hinges back on tight, and the shattered hole is in the back, against the wall, where it doesn’t show when the doors are shut. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was so torn and dirty and full of holes that it barely resembled a dress anymore. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“You climb through that hole every single day.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “So close! Drill another hole just one inch to your right. Okay, Mason? To your right.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Its owner had clothed it in a brown burlap rice sack with holes for neck and arms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole poked in the bottom of the eggshell was not to keep the witches from going to sea, as Cordelia said. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s eyes moved over my clothes with their superscanning powers, looking for holes, stains, and other un-señorita-like offenses to point out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Spider disappeared into the hole, leaving Nathan and Grandpa Outhouse to awkwardly stare at each other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Under certain circumstances that hole can be stretched out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Rabbits above ground, unless they are in proved, familiar surroundings close to their holes, live in continual fear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not crazy! This boy jumped out of the hole and the monster disappeared.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They laid paper over her face, and cut a hole in the paper to expose only her teeth, just as the Philadelphia coroner had done for her father. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The things we do not know, independently and in unison as a family, would fill two separate baskets, each with a large hole in the bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr slid in snake shape through the hole in the mountain until the hole ended and he found himself in a huge cavern. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be ridiculous, Weasley, how could he possibly have gotten through the portrait hole?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain remembered using the boy to plug a hole in the line, stopping the hole with his own brother’s body like a warm bloody cork, and Chamberlain looked at himself. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left behind only the barbed-wire fences, the watchman’s shack, and the hole in the earth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was all I could do to come out of the shadows, to make my feet walk down the sidewalk, to wait for the right moment and lift the fence post out of its hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I down half of the cube right away like it’s a doughnut hole instead of horse food. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His brother would stop at every hole and bare his fangs in rage, but the ways stayed closed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Mister,” he said, “you don’t need no ventilating holes in that there door.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a poor sort of immortality, however, because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Mr. Bow took me down to the hole, which was a corridor of isolation cells under the hospital wing, when he was doing basic medical rounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They’re going to cut that hole and look down into the faces of thirteen Jews. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t no time to stare into that hole in the sky like Captain Cat and her cannibal crew, or all our sails would be torn to shreds and the masts snapped in two. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It could blow a hole in an enemy warship, dooming it to an underwater grave. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hole in the chain-link fence that separated us from the rails and the long lines of empty cars. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that maybe he was afraid I would see the bullet holes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Air is notoriously uncooperative when it comes to giant, gaping holes in your EVA suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried kicking a couple holes in the bathroom door, but I was too shattered to inflict any real damage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was the air hole for a muskrat den. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he caught himself, whispered, “That’s the way I saw you just as I stepped in the hole.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

However, this background could have been, and probably was, generated by processes other than primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the hall, walking very carefully for fear of holes in the floor or of anything lying about that they might trip over. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I caught an advancing blur moving in from the left, and the next thing I knew I was down on the ground, the dog ripping significant holes in the neck of my sweater. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He looked for some signs of what had been there, but all that was left was a hole in the ceiling where the stove pipe had been. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Down at the west end of the river. Near where it goes into that great hole in the Pipeworks wall.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

During the gravitational collapse of a star to form a black hole, the movements would be much more rapid, so the rate at which energy is carried away would be much higher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would like to roof it over, with sticks and old planks, but he knows this isn’t possible because the hole is too big and also he wouldn’t be allowed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For I would see once more the blue spots on the china, the spun webs on the little masts of those model ships, and the rat holes on the sofa-bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned his back on them, Harry saw a curly pig’s tail poking through a hole in his trousers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He’s eating chips like there’s a hole in his stomach. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I hate that one, too. Like when you fall into a hole and just fall and fall.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She flexed her knee, watching the hole in her jeans expand. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought of the big empty red hole on the boy’s face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He woke up crying in a shallow hole beside the clay bank where his mother had thrown the old quilt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d wager a guess that if the kayak sank anywhere near that sandbar, it got sucked into that hole.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It sounds kind of like a blue hole.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the center of the square is a huge hole in the concrete. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Too late he remembered what the mhondoro had told him earlier: it was not a hole but a mouth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the can and banged the opposite side of the top against the hook to make another hole. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Giant reached out and rolled the stone to one side as easily as if it had been a football, and now, where the stone had been, there appeared a vast black hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d repaired their plane themselves, sticking wooden plugs into the holes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The key to a black hole’s strange properties is the way it curves space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The surface stained green and finely pierced with holes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They lowered the TV into the hole by each clutching one end of the plastic sheet in which it was wrapped. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was thinking about this when she climbed out through the knot hole and slithered to the ground below—not ten feet from the cat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because I had those little shiny spots that looked like holes. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jewelry had disappeared years ago, but the closets still held Miss Lilian’s clothing—skirts, blouses, and dresses long out of style but of fine quality except for moth holes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and a child was standing there in a white sheet with holes cut out for her eyes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when they crossed a run that led upward to a hole, he could hear the rain outside, still falling in the night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no such thing as holes,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aru could feel the hole it left behind in her heart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk round all day with the announcement burning a hole in my pocket. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry clambered up onto the mantelpiece and through the hole behind Ariana’s portrait. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The little hole was slightly enlarged and its edges whitened from the sucking, but the red swelling extended farther around it in a hard lymphatic mound. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 7:15, we were taken into a tiny cell with a single drainage hole in the floor which could be flushed only from the outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the snake said, “Put your foot through the hole in the seedpod where I was playing, and you will become wise.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Billy and the Maori and others helping them with their particular hole came at last to a membrane of timbers laced over rocks which had wedged together to form an accidental dome. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes to the light and his mind to what he had just heard, and fell into a deep dark hole of sleep. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I found bats roosting in the holes among the crystals—insect-eating bats, smaller than the fruit bats that clustered near the cave’s mouth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the building was painted black, and there was a hole where the knob should have been. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The entrance of the cave sat about seventy feet down the cliff face - a circle of black in the chalky yellow rock like the hole of a giant pencil sharpener. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying anything against it, Fiver,” replied Acorn, “but we need holes. It’s a bad place not to be able to get underground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had forced his way through holes in walls, crawled through cellars, and ducked down behind the parapets of balconies that were no longer used. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a silence in which Ron fidgeted absentmindedly with a hole in his Chudley Cannons bedspread. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Around them and through the hole in the fence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Three pits lay side by side like finger holes on a recorder. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mama’s eyes are boring a hole in Papa. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each man into his hole and covered him with the wet mud. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My eyes shifted to Digger’s dad and tried to burn a hole through the back of his thick, bald head, but he sat there like a rock. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the men pushed his father into the back of the wagon his overalls caught on the end of the tail-gate bolt, and he tore a long hole in his overalls. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand orange eyes burned holes in his heart. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were one, two, three smaller holes bordering the top of the hole where Seven stood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to shoot holes in us and take Miss Peregrine away!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He couldn't even see the camp compound anymore, but he still kept passing holes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’m out of breath by the time he scurries into the tiny hole at the red mountain’s base. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I swim from one end of the hole to the other, back and forth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At some distance from the house, near a clear running stream, a series of shallow holes had been dug and lined with several layers of rough grasscloth. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The little bit of light that came through the hole in the paper made me get calm enough that I could lay my head on my pillow and take a nap. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He saw a hole and went for it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subway train starts to move out of the station, slipping into a large black hole. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Look, Marly, you shine both flashlights into the hole, see, when I find it. I’ll fix this rag, and then we’ll light it and stuff it in and run. See?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The mineralogist fits a key into a tiny, almost invisible hole on the bottom; when it turns, two more tiny keyholes open on the opposite side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The prison was not a place of shared hardship anymore; it was a hole of desperation. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept jerking his front paw, which was jammed deep in the hole I had bored. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I felled an oak over by the gorge, burned a hole in it, carried water to it, and put my deerskin in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our Relocation Rules had more holes than fishnet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Roy pushed the last box into the hole, and that one held together. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He went over to his hole, and to his surprise it was nearly finished. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There's a small hole missing where the beet stake should go. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At Mama’s insistence, I’m in a velvet party dress, and even Mustafa grudgingly agreed to put on an ironed shirt and some jeans without any holes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She screams into her mask and clutches the hole in her skin, sinking to her knees, her hands covered in blood. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

George spooned out a bit of the applesauce and started to poke it into the hole. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing built atop it, just the hole cut into the earth like a dead mouth agape, tangles of briars and waist-high grass growing up all around. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How hard could it be? You just stick your fingers in the three holes and throw the ball at the pins.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The more he broke, the easier it was to unthread the fence, and soon he’d created a hole big enough to drive through. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames erupt along the blades and he leaps through the hole in the wall, back into the battle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I tried to find the usual ladder that leads out of such holes, but there was none. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

First thing she did was aim at the ten candles sitting atop of the board with the six holes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At the entrance of the hole, Mullet Fingers placed two hamburger balls. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They make a hole in your head like the Tartars! I bet!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Someone discovered a hole, the size of a plate, in the corner where the stubborn woman sat with her daughters. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He stopped almost opposite the hole by which they had come up, and Hazel joined him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eventually got a pass off, but it was so telegraphed and desperate that Marcus was able to intercept, and he took it to the hole for two points. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

At that date there was no precise definition of which points in space-time lay inside a black hole and which lay outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like someone had taken a gun and shot holes in every part of me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole, as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home, and looked out across the valley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve seen this hole in the sky. If it is indeed fueling the violent energy that is coursing through these ‘iron monsters,’ we would do well to continue as we have been recently. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Come on, give me a chance at that hole. Don’t be a hog about it.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I say, “You mean what happened to Calvin? I am not the one that got stuck in the hole.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Joey and I dug our heels into the mud about halfway down toward the bottom of the hole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people never admit that they are wrong and continue to find new, and often mutually inconsistent, arguments to support their case—as Eddington did in opposing black hole theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I..He is so close I can see the holes his metal piercings fit into. “I don’t know.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We have previously mentioned the possibility of wormholes to get from one place in the universe to another without covering the intervening distance—through a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First you break your back trying to dig a hole in the ground. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She pictured its tiny body washed by strangers, wrapped in a tawny shroud, lowered into a hole dug in a patch of windswept land under the disappointed gaze of vultures. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The pencil was to form a hole in the powder, increasing its surface area, according to Quentin’s idea. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed into the hole and grabbed a bottle by the neck. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When she let go, she pushed my mountain of sand into the hole and packed it down. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The bathroom door was off its hinges and had three splintery holes of different sizes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“The ship’s sinking, right? Water’s getting in from somewhere. Maybe there’s a hole in the hull.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad looked at the hole in the wall and then at the little crater in the windowpane and talked quietly about what it would take to fix the damage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Zero had been helping him dig his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had about two fish right next to the hole, that he'd already caught. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Odd that the holes are still soft after all this time,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The horse screams as blood shoots six feet from the gaping hole in its neck. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Rabbit kittens need holes, of course; but do we?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole turns into a pinprick as the baby recedes from me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at Hyzenthlay, heavy with young, who was sitting in the mouth of the nearest hole and listening to the talk. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wherever you see one of those holes, there’s an owl den underneath. It’s where they build their nests and lay their eggs. It’s their home.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard twigs breaking and footsteps getting closer from the direction of the swimming hole. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At this distance it would still be very difficult to detect the steady emission of a black hole, even if it was ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How is it possible that a black hole appears to emit particles when we know that nothing can escape from within its event horizon? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam led him to it, and Cyrus looked down at the nestlike hole between the roots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And Chaim. So we hid. All day, and I looked through a hole between the sandbags, just a tiny hole, but I could see…” His eyes squeeze shut. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir followed Stanley back to his hole to see how he was doing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

An old seamstress took a peacoat of mine, tore the lining out, opened and flattened the sleeves, added a collar, put arm holes in and handed me back a beautiful cape. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A golden afternoon on the golf course, the fairways lush and green, and he was teeing it up on the first hole. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One day when Miss Violet let me go to the bathroom I made a hole in the wall! With a nail! Then I could see into the girls’ bathroom! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who slithered up and down the tree fitting pieces of wood into the holes? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bullet holes had appeared up and down it, and no one I asked could remember who had put them there. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My rep-a-tation saves me a whole lot of trouble and grief and you gone and kicked a hole in it that I ain’t got no choice but to plug up.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Bigwig waited until he was sure that Chervil had had time to get well away from the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, he lay awake on the floor of the squat he’d holed up in and thought of what he wanted, of what would finally make things right for Jordie. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dark and expressionless, and set so deep under heavy brows that from a distance they looked like dark empty holes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using both hands, he dug a hole in the soggy soil. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Granny’s only coat was full of holes and coming apart at the seams. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nuwa slipped from his grasp and thrust herself into the hole in the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I feel the other box—the cigar box from my dream—and grab it, and just as I’m pulling it out of the hole, I tip it against the edge and lose my grip. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I put my eye up against the hole I can even see them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Either that or find something thick and suitable for blocking up both my nose holes. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I forget I’m about to crash until this dark hole appears and starts sucking everything into it, and then I’m into the nothingness, a painless mini-death. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I shot a few holes in that theory.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rumor had it that he was holed up somewhere. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had no shoes at all and his feet were wrapped in rags and cardboard tied with green twine and any number of layers of vile clothing showed through the tears and holes in it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Papa pulled out a bunch of papers from the hole in the floor and waved them in the air. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They are blue and, judging by the holes in the building to my right, used to be windows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s like — well, I wouldn’t like to say. Some beastly hole of the Orcs, I’ll warrant, with a hundred years of their filth in it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The soldier crumpled to the ground, shrieking, a hand-shaped hole melted through his camo. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A brazen sphere with an open neck and small holes in the bottom, it is filled by immersing it in water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jabbed his thumb at Magister Spurge and grunted, “Why hasn’t this pale night-worm crawled back to the hole he came from?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A moment later she came squirting through the hole. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose, the lizards moved lower in the hole, keeping mainly in the shade. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

So what if he wears socks until they’ve got holes in them? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They started at dawn, pulling up the old, rotten wood and digging new, deeper holes to anchor the posts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One highly effective campaign recently asked you whether you could poke your finger through the hole, approximately the diameter of a golf ball, cut in the front cover of the leaflet. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor had a blank expression on his face, and with a pencil he was poking holes in the tide page of his case file. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Cold iron and splintery wood closed off the only holes through the piled stones that hemmed them in. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tho I must admit I find myself thinking it all a little bit louder to cover up thoughts about the hole I found in the swamp, to block it out behind louder Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She laughed and said, “Don’t worry, it wasn’t Lice I was puttin’ in a hole. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Halfway up the hill Jody could see Doubletree Mutt, the black dog, digging in a squirrel hole. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I covered my head with the blanket and through a hole in it I watched her, trying to see what gifts she was going to wrap. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hole on the cover, and the back seemed to be hanging by a thread. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The torn book bag in which he had enjoyed such comfortable naps was gone, but he found a fresh bag, gnawed a hole in the brown paper, and crawled into the soft, ready-chewed stuffing. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could see three links of a huge chain snaking out from a hole no bigger than a man's head and disappearing under the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hole was barely large enough to admit his hand and he thrust it out to feel of the air. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Across the room, I can just make out another hole cut into the wall, this time without the graffiti. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cutting a chunk out of my EVA suit leaves it with another hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, if a black hole is spinning or has an electric charge, mathematicians have calculated that the singularity is not a point—a pinpoint hole in space-time—but a ring. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They’ll dig a hole in the ground and plant her on Saturday. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

On the cover is a garden bursting with flowers, and a silver key and key- hole. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slurred back, while desperately trying to avoid having my teeth touch the gaping hole in my cheek. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost it somewhere. It fell through this here hole in my pocket. If I dont find it I cant go to the show tonight.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how Calvin got into that hole in the first place. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Queenie worked frantically over the fallen gunner, trying to plug the holes in his chest and stomach. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She works with her arms way down in the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The girls had lined up at the swimming hole. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

These singularities would be an end of time for anyone who fell into the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Every kid in the world wants to dig a great big hole," said X-Ray. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are already many dead people in the hole, their bodies sprawled on top of each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as shadows began to fill up the oasis, Tam Lin helped Matt climb through the hole in the rock and return to the horse. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain in my heart, like a dark hole, wakes me with a shock. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when Father came out of the house he looked at me for a long time and then he punched the fence and made a hole in it and went away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting out on the porch looking at the hole in the sky where the airplane went away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the ice she had to help Nokomis chop every day from the deep hole they fished through. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Anansi yelped in surprise as the burning hole appeared near where he sat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“She’s still burning and you blocked the hole to get out!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I smile, because the thought of a giant, smoking hole in Blackcliff’s wall is a happy one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the thick trees, then back down into the hole. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Darkness; a sensation of falling—as if he were tumbling down a great hole, like Alice. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"So he's going to launch with a big hole in the front of the ship? " The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was holed up here, to tell you the truth. I’m on my lunch hour. You got Vandalia Eubanks in your house, am I right?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I burrowed the toe of my sneaker into the teal-blue rug as if I could drill a hole right through the ground. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But several holes were right up against the cabin wall. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Papa wrapped the jewelry in his handkerchief and placed it into the hole. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The sun, in Anaximander’s view, was not a spherical body, but a world-girdling wheel of fire; the bright orb we see in the sky is just a hole through which we glimpse the conflagration beyond. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She crossed her arms, thinking, while I dug a hole for one of the rosebushes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I could reverse time and prevent the ginormous star from exploding, so my family wouldn’t be swallowed by a stupid black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Woundwort told Campion to post sentries and keep a patrol round about, while Vervain and Groundsel tackled the blocked holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had still been there, of course, no damage at all, no gaping hole into the yard. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

HP and Texas Instruments had their of fices on the back nine, along the tenth hole. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The forlorn-looking young man showed me the bullet hole near the patella; there was no exit scar. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur would slam the armrest of his chair in satisfaction at a fortunate turn of events; he was saddened when errors in judgment or carelessness cast the team into a hole. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It just sat atop a hole about six feet deep. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pokes his nose through one of the round holes on the top, and I pet it while we wait to be called. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Harry crept past them to the portrait hole and waited for a minute or so, keeping an eye on his watch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a black hole is a point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nel began a more strenuous digging and, rising to her knee, was careful to scoop out the dirt as she made her hole deeper. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stick my head out of the head hole. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Further up the path, Zola is dancing along, looking for just the right wall hole. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

If, instead, it were the particle member of the virtual pair that fell into the hole, one could regard it as an antiparticle traveling back in time and coming out of the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was simple enough, a penny with a hole in it so it could hang on a string. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Around the fifth hole, I got to the same level deep and when I stomped, the shovel slipped all the way in, and my foot sank a bit into mud. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For much of his life Palmer LaRue had felt he was standing at the edge of a black, bottomless hole. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the first second before her awareness could flow into her other sentinels, it was as though fire scorched away her sight in pieces, leaving ragged holes rimmed in cinders. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had finished a hole and set the drill aside to cool. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped his long body through the square hole to search out a key or some kind of mechanism that would allow the others in without having to climb. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers punched holes in four cans of beer and handed them around. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A still wet night, a night to drive men into their holes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I sat there for surely an hour, staring at a daylit hole in the window blind, without smoking or taking off my coat or loosening my necktie. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A clay building houses chickens in cool, connected holes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was just digging another hole under another fence. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Zero would punch a hole in the neat Pythagorean order of the universe, and for that reason it could not be tolerated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That scared me and I jerked my head out of the leash, which ripped one of my nose holes so that it bled. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll put some blasting powder down,” said his father, “and if that doesn’t crack it aside we’ll start a new hole.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about me and how I fell into a hole. A big hole. Humans dug it.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Just a few yards away was a huge hole, one of the grave-like pits caused by the earthquake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

On one where I could see the muddy little tracks of the ringtails, I bored a hole, dropped in a piece of tin, and drove my nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip it into the hole and the door slides open. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though nature tries to shield the singularities of black holes, scientists know that black holes exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And if he thinks I’m going to believe that story, he has a hole in his so-called brain. He only made it up to punish me. I know he did.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On its bottom he finds a tiny hole, not at all unlike the keyhole in the jewel safe in the museum he saw three years before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I myself was against taking it, but mostly because the roads were so pocked with bomb holes that I didn’t know how we’d drive the thing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And nine-year-old Richard had gone from being the center of his mother’s world to just one more traumatized member of a family with a gaping hole in it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Rotting beams supported on once-white pillars had buckled at the center, leaving a yawning, gaping hole. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Retrieval had jimmied a hologram lead into the existing electricity sockets and were projecting an unbattered wall over the hole. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And the last light went out of the embers in the fire hole. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the wet hole had a good grip on the box, and it took help from Miss Maggie, too, before we managed to drag it up out of the hole and onto level ground. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, it sealed the gaps around the hole and reduced the leak to something the suit could counteract. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of Bartsia, but as he looked back to make sure that the others were following, he caught a glimpse of the astonished face of Avens peering out of the other hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished off the beer he was drinking, snipped the can open with his wire cutters, hammered it flat, and nailed it over the hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only one water hole remained, and in that there was very little water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His hole was about three and a half feet deep in the center. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He pelted a doughnut hole at the bird. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One piece of his chest was missing—a clean black hole about the size of a bullet wound, right where his heart should’ve been. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The slow rate indicated that the black hole’s gravitational pull was growing stronger. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tatters floated along the edge of the hole it once covered. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Harry, not entirely truthfully, because he could still spot a gaping hole in the plan. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t get any bullet holes in it or anything,” Scout says as I start warming up with a kid named Stanford. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Juana, sitting by the fire hole, watched him with questioning eyes, and when he had buried his pearl she asked, “Who do you fear?” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad explained light-years and black holes and quasars and told us about the special qualities of Betelgeuse, Rigel, and Venus. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At noon, sunlight would pour in through the hole and make the Buddha statue appear to glow. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His head was wrapped in a flour sack with a black hole for a mouth and a long trunk for a nose. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I finally came across her, holed up in a dense thicket of bee myrtle close to a little seep spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He corrects himself, starting “again with passion,” erasing, and finally wearing “a hole in the paper with the rubbing of the eraser.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She frowned at the many holes torn out by Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You and Brer made a hole—a tunnel—by the Tree of Power and sent Gum Baby through, telling her to find it. Find the book.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even his belt strap had bullet holes, but no bullets had brought him down. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anya gathered some up and wove a patch for the sukkah wall, then wove its ends into the wall’s ragged hole. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a square cement building with a shower at one end and a hole on the floor so the water could drain into the open sewer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the Other Place, she told him, people threw away clothes with holes in them and got new ones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in a burrow near one of the holes that the men were using. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole was large enough if I stuffed the creature in a bit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I made a list of all the things I liked, and they were all things from Bybanks— the trees, the cows, the chickens, the pigs, the fields, the swimming hole. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My brother’s kind eyes feel like two drills boring a hole in my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Most of the Hunters scattered as tiny holes appeared in the snow at their feet, but the girl with auburn hair just looked up calmly at the helicopter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The pitchfork left three holes in the front of his shirt, and three tiny spots of blood. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His smile pulls at the piercings in his lips, making the holes they occupy wider, and I wince. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Of course, if a black hole as close as Pluto were to reach the end of its life and blow up, it would be easy to detect the final burst of emission. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the minivan up into a faster speed, causing the wind to whistle through the bullet hole. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Misty Mountains were crawling like anthills: orcs were issuing out of a thousand holes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a circular slab of stone, held upright in a vise and pierced with a ring of holes of diminishing sizes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones’s personal vision of the Marburg outbreak reminds me of a flashlight pointed down a dark hole. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a fool. I thought I could go anywhere in the Underworld, but I walked right into Gaea’s trap. I might as well have tried running from a black hole.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now let’s get out of this foul hole!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

An hour later, when the hole was mended and Frightful’s jesses removed, Molly and Jose were walking across the Delhi Bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A voice, a litde afraid, called from the open hole through which the man whom he had struck had climbed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Celia says it has a face of a man, only the eyes are black inside. Like empty holes,” said Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo kept thinking about the cattle and the gaping hole in the fence; but they didn’t act as if they had noticed anything except him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But scientists can give black holes and electrons an extra dimension. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I wriggled through the hole and thought: I’m free! Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In Tapachula, they end up down a hole in the cemetery with fetuses and stillborn babies. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bartholomew wore khaki trousers pulled up high on his belly, and spoke with an American accent filled with holes, mangling words until they were impossible to understand. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But for working, I carried a .32, a .38 or a .45.1 saw how when the eyes stared at the big black hole, the faces fell slack and the mouths sagged open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It burned holes in the fog cover and wilted the girls’ spirits. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His trousers were splattered with holes and his collar was almost ripped off but the half of a yellow sun still clung to his torn sleeve. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I come upon holes in the ground that could have been made by none other than a pig. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a place is called a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the pups in it and worked their heads through the holes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamiltons moved their rig and started another hole. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or something else, an Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dog’s, or two bodies, or a hole in its heart or no arms, or webbed hands and feet? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after gravitational collapse a black hole must settle down into a state in which it could be rotating, but not pulsating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently, since it could not think of any better plan for itself, it was ready to try a rabbit hole to save its life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d cleared his eyes, Mulch had disappeared down a vibrating hole, and there was the sound of hearty laughter shaking the cherry trees. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They had more holes than a wheel of Swiss cheese. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I think you would if you had Laurie for a pupil. I shall be very sorry to lose him next year,” said Mr. Brooke, busily punching holes in the turf. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Zero's been digging part of Caveman's hole every day," said Squid. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The robot was sent to fetch tools; Tendai hammered plywood over the hole and broken window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The door was just a hole in the side covered with a blanket flap, but the flap had been pulled aside to let light in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, while Jody watched, the black dog stiffened, and backed out of the hole and looked up the hill toward the cleft in the ridge where the road came through. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole in the bone was small, the doctor said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he followed their guides into one of the holes in the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the musty hole, Poppy discovered secret shelves and shallow corridors dug into its sides above the water level. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta's clawing at Cato's arm, but weakly, as if confused over whether it's more important to breathe or try and stem the gush of blood from the gaping hole a mutt left in his calf. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what they’re doing until another bomb, ten yards away, detonates, opening a hole in the street. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Under his nose, where the top of his mouth was supposed to be, was an enormous red hole, and inside the hole was what looked like a piece of raw meat. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I stared at him, piercing holes through the dark. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Pax followed him out and watched until he slipped into a hole a few tail lengths away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It tore out his front teeth, leaving two black holes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, you said it, Mr. B. All we have to do is think up some way to plug the hole.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He also spat into his hole before heading back to the camp compound. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

From nine to eleven he planned to dig a hole, or trench, and possibly find something good to eat buried in the dirt. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Another one on black holes? Or phases of the moon?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now leave your lips open and blow a steady stream of air across the hole like this.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She stared at me and then at the hole in the floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He crept down into his hole, pushed the goose egg out of the way, and returned with an old piece of dirty white string. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At least all the streets here are clear—no fallen street signs to dodge or holes to jump over. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I leave the steering wheel and climb through the hole in the top platform. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Now that he has both hands on his gun, I notice the ragged hole in his cheek where something—falling stone maybe—punctured the flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

One of the TV reporters said there were giant, gaping holes in the sides of the Twin Towers, like a cartoon explosion. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Even when you were a baby you had a hard time getting a square peg into a square hole,” she called out from behind me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A final garbled burst of complaints issued from the dark hole, and then the creature was gone. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I push open the metal door, get a cart, and put Mae Mobley up front, stick her legs through the holes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was scathingly critical of the small hole that had been gouged into the side of the ditch, roundly cursing any creature who dared to complain of difficult obstacles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of course it helped that Zero dug some of his hole for him each day, but that wasn't as great as everyone thought it was. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We thought we were going to get caught like Orcs in a hole; but we found a winding stair at the back of the store-room that brought us out on top of the arch. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Beetee was in charge of blowing a hole in the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

What remains of the rotted hash is hidden in the hole I dug for it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He clambered through the portrait hole into the common room and hurried straight for the corner where Ron and Hermione were sitting, to tell them what had happened. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was the train conductor, snipping holes in the tickets of each passenger as he passed through the aisle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Outhouse declared with a tiny, grand voice and then disappeared back into the hole. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Jesus above, is it a hole he has in his leg? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I brought it home, dug a hole on the side of the house, and planted it where it would get sun. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then you go on to the next hole. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She dropped her eyes and began digging a little hole in the dirt with the tip of her boot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The deeper he got, the harder it was to raise the dirt up and out of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Stanley jammed the shovel into the bottom edge of his hole, and carefully began to dig a tunnel underneath the metal object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If you pull it out with the neck uncovered, the water pours out of the holes, making a little shower. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the handoff, slanted right, kept my head up, watching for the hole—there it was. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

There was another hole in the kitchen door, and still another in the door of the hallway bathroom. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soon it came to the hole and stuck its head inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Harry had just seen Parvati and Lavender come in through the portrait hole. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I imagine they want to say something, I don’t know, parental, but they must feel like I do, like their bodies are full of holes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was leaving him to fend for himself, leaving him to chop holes in the attic with an axe? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Russell and Piper had taken the direct route via the hole. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's huge and sprawling, an endless hole of needs that would swallow me whole. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The holes in the wall are covered over and left unpainted, his bed pulled away from temptation, nothing for him to peel away. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She grabbed hold of me and pulled me through a maze of shelves until we came to one of the reading holes scattered throughout the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They went up the run to the mouth of the hole and paused together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, take them to that hole of yours. I don’t need your back talk.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I then filled in all these holes with pebbles and along this path laid down long strips of kelp, making a slippery bed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread, like a hard, dusty cushion, is fall of prune-sized holes and has a crust that hurts the roof of Gogol’s mouth when he chews. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had enough holes for the moon to shine through it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not when Kehaar comes,” said Hazel, as they began to hop easily back toward the holes at the northeast corner of the hanger. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black hole opened up in the centre of the room and swallowed me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here by the catfish hole where you taught me to fish. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As I pulled into the minimall parking lot, I noticed that blue painters’ tape had been used to seal our hole in the board. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"You know why you're digging holes? Because it's good for you. It teaches you a lesson. If Zero digs your hole for you, then you're not learning your lesson, are you?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His cheeks puffed out, the Colonel blew into the hole hard and long, his face turning red. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Above the Buddha's head, a wide hole in the cave's ceiling opened to the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he’s up there right now, wondering what he should do. Shoot me? Shoot Holst? Or maybe I got to him, too, and he’s getting ready to blow a hole in your chest, Geels.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A spider hole is a hole dug in the ground that’s big enough for one man, sometimes two; but sometimes they’re disguised and there’s a tunnel entrance in back of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leg holes are too tight—he is nine, afterall—and there’s that gross extra pouch in the front, which I don’t even want to think about. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She scrambled back up, eager to get out of this hole. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And we have the stars above us, even if they’re fading. Perhaps I ought to have a few holes knocked in my own roof at home.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then, without uncovering it again, he dropped the photograph into the memory hole, along with some other waste papers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You can tear off a length of tape from your ankle and use it to patch a hole in your suit,” she said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where do you want to run to, anyway? No holes here.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lowered myself into the hole and used my paintbrush to wipe away the dirt that was left. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s on the ground with a bullet hole in his forehead just above his left eye. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At first he could see only shifting shadows, but they soon turned into the shapes of bodies— people bending over the hole in the ceiling, looking down at him, pointing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“She was very serious. She made me take the earrings out and let the holes close up.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He cut out some turves at the foot of the bank just outside the fern-brake, and made a shallow hole and laid his fuel in it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We just stand while the casket is lowered into the ground, and after ten minutes of respectful silence, the gravediggers move up from behind us to begin filling the open hole with dirt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The undertaker’s helpers found shovels and dug a hole. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He watched the man, moving like a figure on the screen in close-up slow motion, come out of the hole and stand with his back to him, flashlight in hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To know that they were actually making use of their day’s hard work would please everybody and they were likely to prefer this to a third night in the chalk holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had on a T-shirt and a pair of jeans with a hole in the knee. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In Montana, the only animals that dug holes like that were gophers and badgers, and Roy was positive there weren’t many of those in Florida. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be teeth stuck into the meat, and pieces of jagged skin hanging over the hole. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At home, I was given a warm salt solution, and when I washed out my mouth I showed Bailey the empty holes, where the clotted blood sat like filling in a pie crust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a more massive star, left, after its supernova phase, with, say, five times the Sun’s mass, has an even more remarkable fate reserved for it—its gravity will turn it into a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaping quickly into the hole, he scratched the damp sandy grit left and right. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In some places, there were holes as big as manhole covers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond, through the jagged hole where the window had been, the closest mountainside was a raging infemo. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its gristly nose was subsiding into its skull hole. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had spent most of it out on the ice, shivering beside a pair of holes they’d cut in the smaller of the frozen lakes, with fishing lines clutched in mitten-clumsy hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One sunny morning that week, Mariam picked a spot in the yard and dug a hole. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dozer examined the large hole in the plate glass window and shrugged. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The way she laughs at my jokes really loudly is amazing—all of which only makes it more amazing that she doesn't fill the Tiny hole left by his absence. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He crumpled the scrap and stuffed it into the hole with the skull. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Telescopes in space are the means for checking these shards and fragments of data that may be the spoor, the trail, of the legendary black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max sticks the shovel in the ground and hops light as a cat from the hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He walked briskly back to his hole, and stood for a moment listening with a smile to the din in the pavilion and to the sounds of merrymaking in other parts of the field. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The infinite zero of a black hole—mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely—punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I myself counted one hundred and thirty graves, or rather holes, loosely covered over with earth, close together, many of them large enough to hold a corporal’s guard. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I roll the skirt up—I’m really in danger of putting a hole through this bed at this point—and there I find underwear. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some were tighter than others, but all of us kids were scrawny and sunburned and wore faded shorts and raggedy shirts and sneakers with holes or no shoes at all. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the hole was big, they placed the four boxes into it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s a gigantic hole in the middle of it where Central Park used to be. As the island moves across the planet, it acts like a frame, displaying what lies beneath it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three fine needles of whalebone, an awl for making holes, a good stone knife for scraping hides, two cooking pots, and a small box made from a shell with many earrings in it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Down a black hole,’ I said to myself as I ran across the playground. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of pursuing her up and down the house, begging her with his eyes and drilling holes in the bathroom wall, he decided to devote himself to politics. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him ten minutes to gouge out a hole that he judged to be right. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A blinding, electric-blue hole ripped the very air next to Mr. Flux, and a man ejected from it feet first, as if from the end of a steep waterslide. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hear this: Calvin was upside-down in the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t pretty, but I found it encouraging in the end, proof that I could work my way out of just about any hole. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And that explained the holes all over the place! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They went on to the next hole, and the next until the trunk was smooth again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole was connected by a rubber tube to a catchment pouch made of thick, transparent plastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And, as before, the ground was all holes and mounds of loose dirt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The collapse of a star to form a black hole is rather like the later stages of the collapse of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of them seized the boy and yanked him back out of the hole. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a gesture of disgust she threw the pieces into the hole they had made. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cows in their pens lay burbling blood through their nostrils, with javelin holes in their necks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved again, and Old Familiar shot into the air before tucking his wings tight and diving into the hole. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A bit more digging, and what emerges from the hole are two silver candlesticks, wrapped in a disintegrating pillowcase. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And it was wonderful to see how quickly she could drive the smile to earth the way the woodchucks holed their children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth’s yellow paisley dress—her own creation—was made from an old pillowcase with holes cut out for her arms and head. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley had staunched his bleeding now, and by the lamplight Harry saw a clean, gaping hole where George’s ear had been. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She walked over to a dark hole in the ship’s hull—a door, from the look of it—then sat down on the edge and plunged in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I stuck it in the small hole in the door where the handle belonged and turned it to roll down my window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If we can’t get up there, that hole will keep growing, and those iron monsters from the bone ships will keep boiling out of the Burning Sea!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Bridge rolled to her back and stared at a small hole in her bedroom ceiling. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like the lenses worn by the other two...It all came back in a jolt, rushing to fill the hole in her memory like a combination lock clicking into place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The smoke gathers in the high ceiling and escapes through a hole in the roof. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I reached as deeply into the hole as I could, twisting my arm around to feel with my fingers, but I felt nothing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The louvers, too, had been slipped off and the windows were gaping holes and the dry harmattan winds had blown in so much dust that the walls were now an even brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite safe, Hazel,” said Cowslip behind him in the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of black hole are you talking about?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mulling over the loss to Rosemont, he took out Seabiscuit’s blinkers and a pocketknife and cut small holes in the back of each eye cup, giving the horse two rearview windows. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But both of them know the hole that is the missing isn't filled now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

If Jess and the twins hadn’t been deep in that hole, they all would have been crushed. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel Martin’s eyes burning holes into the back of my neck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“The magic runs through me like a bucket with holes in it. It’s drawn toward you. Everything I have, everything I am, flows to you, my darling. This is as it should be.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was Ophie’s tone, or maybe it was the strange thickness in the air finally seeping into her mother, but whichever it was, Mama climbed into the hole after Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The holes in the walls were plugged up and the shelves of books dusted off. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Macon had to pull her by the arm over to the hole where the bags lay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hole was about three feet deep, but only in the center. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s rude to point,” Ron snapped at a particularly minuscule first-year boy as they joined the queue to climb out of the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They holed up for the weekend in a Washington hotel suite, where they were drilled carefully by Lewis Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The leg holes cut into my hips and the straps dig into my shoulders. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted to scream at the monster below him: Kill me or go back to your hiding hole! The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Bigwig was about to speak again when Dandelion appeared in the mouth of the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ayesha and I grab small trowels to begin digging little holes in the earth where the seeds will go. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then I removed two Band-Aids from under my mattress and slapped them over the holes in my earlobe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To take a break from this task, which required us to bend our upper bodies toward the ground for hours, we fetched cassava stalks, cut them into shorter pieces, and placed them in the holes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"When I was little I'd watch my parents dig holes, every weekend and holiday. When I got bigger, I had to dig, too. Even on Christmas." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me there must be a psychoanalyst holed up somewhere in town who’d be good for Franny—I thought about that last night.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Klaus was too tired and despondent to speak, and Violet was holed up in the inventing area of her mind, too busy planning to talk. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He made a mouthpiece at one end, cut a hole beneath it, and used the wood to slide up and down like a trombone. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her right hand she held his .44 Colt, and the black hole in the barrel pointed at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, but I need you to come get me," I said, looking up at Principal Marshall, who was staring a hole in my head. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He cut the holes in shapes of windows, and little stars, and crescent moons, and circles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggled on the verge of speech, but with a contemptuous look she turned and climbed back through the portrait hole.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two world wars ago, battlefield nurses gave cups of tea to the wounded and it leaked through their bullet holes and killed them. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath our feet, the floor was a death trap of broken boards and splinter-lined holes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cabin was high on my list of possibilities, but it doesn’t look anything like the cabin I’d holed myself up in. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The lip of the hole shuddered and shook. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

First we stuffed the plants in boxes, with just a little tiny hole in the side, and we waited to see what the plants would do after a few days in the dark. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He climbed up out of his hole and sifted his fingers through the pile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As he waited, Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position, without holes, wandering in country they did not know. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” said Bod, and before he had finished speaking the girl was coming through the hole on her hands and her knees. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As the matter spirals into the black hole, it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction, causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was by the phone, I couldn’t help but notice that there must have been about twelve bullet holes in the side of the car. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he plucked the weeds and filled in the rabbit holes and watered the garden, too, just in case there was something to salvage, something under the surface that couldn’t be seen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He thought how the rats had gnawed ragged holes in the red saddle, and how the mice had nibbled Gabilan’s tail until it was stringy and thin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all that stirring up. Sending men into space and hurling them back down. Poking holes where they need not poke holes.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Russell and Piper lie prone at the hole. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the doctors could extend a flexible probe twelve inches from the bullet hole down the pus channel. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A moment later I’m climbing back up onto the washing machine, and putting my unblinking octopus eye against the hole. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Like unscrewing your chair from your desk, or tearing a hole in the bottom of your backpack.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But even though the alchemist had put his hand in the hole, and had surely already been bitten, his expression was calm. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vilonia Kline sat down on the dirt beside them, watching the hole get wider and deeper with each jab and throw. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When we wear them week after week the holes grow so big we have to pull the stocking forward under the toes so that the hole in the back is hidden in the shoe. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Got back down on my hands and knees and dug another hole, right next to the one I’d dug for Mong’s file. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Honeycomb was still rough-dug and half finished, but it would probably be as comfortable as the holes under the thorn trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re six, you wonder why your mother would rather live on the street, in a hole in the wall, and sleep on park benches next to winos than live with you. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grew cold when the night air came in through the hole in the wall, and they huddled side by side on the hard floor to keep warm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wished he could dig a hole so deep, he’d find a lost city. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Trzebinia I worked all day moving piles of rocks back and forth, digging holes six feet deep and then filling them back in again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last fall they found Calvin Danver face down and tangled up in a Gantry watering hole on the river. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “I’m going to find out how the boy got into that hole. He’ll be able to tell us.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

This limit means that primordial black holes could make up at most one millionth of the matter in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole in the shoulder of his T shirt was not a cute hole. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The soldier in white was like an unrolled bandage with a hole in it or like a broken block of stone in a harbor with a crooked zinc pipe jutting out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body’s fluids flow into the space it leaves. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

News clip after news clip fills in holes and at the same time creates new ones. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“We’ll cut holes in the ice. The northmen know how it’s done.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the rear shelf a hole had been cut and was covered with that same stuff that’s on a screen door. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing their imminent escape, Mother Water Monster commanded a cloud to condense and form a thick sheet of ice that covered the hole, barring their exit. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A workman from Papito's factory had to come and take out the whole lock, making a hole in the door, and letting the hysterical Fifi out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The blue places are apparently deep holes in the overlying clouds through which we see clear sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A neat, perfectly circular bullet hole sat in the middle of his forehead, still leaking a little blood. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

You can’t lower a bucket into a drilled well; the hole is too small, so that left us a choice of two brooks. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He followed the same ritual at another hole in a far corner of the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sand bar not far from the rocks, and stepping carefully on the bottom, which was full of holes, I slowly made my way toward it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next he walked to an identical-looking hole on the other side of the lot and left two more meatballs there. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, dropping Petey and his twig into the biggest Mason jar we had, quart-size, with holes punched in the lid. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Years later, when Rahel returned to the river, it greeted her with a ghastly skull’s smile, with holes where teeth had been, and a limp hand raised from a hospital bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up to me with this forlorn, bewildered look, as if I really had blown a hole in his chest. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Have you just been digging Caveman's hole for nothing?" the Warden asked him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

So we walked around the hole in the living room floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were taking a lot of machine-gun fire; one fell down into a shell hole; another caught fire and halted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From the hole in the ground came a rumbling, gurgling sound, and the workers began to run, their screams smothered by what had become a roar. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was just going down the new hole when he noticed that some small creature was pattering about in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand over the hole in my shirt. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then you dug holes for the cane shoots in the cleared squares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As Jackal had said, it was not a big hole, but they both just managed to get through and found themselves standing in the animal pen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then I bury the hole and try to forget about it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Poets survive in gulags, in detention blocks, in torture chambers. Even in that misery hole there is poets working, Merdegate, no, where in the hell, on the Channel, I always am forgetting...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What the hell do you want with proof? Aren’t those holes in the boat proof enough?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Good boy, Grawpy!” he bellowed through the hole in the window. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Morning and dusk and morning again I watched them trailing up to a hole in the peak of the roof, carrying their tiny burdens out into the light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rollers turned and the heavy block slid forward easily, like a truck on wheels, in the direction of the new hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I giggled, crawling out of the hole, “I’m bleeding to death.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Spending two weeks holed up with Clancy had made keeping up with the season’s bipolar tendencies even harder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When they landed, they discovered that their plane was so full of bullet holes that they couldn’t fly another mission that night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The broad wings went through a final incensed salvo and then quit whipping Bernabe’s aching body, and somehow the hole in the neck, bubbling blood, released a last defiant scrawk. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its boundary is called the event horizon and it coincides with the paths of light rays that just fail to escape from the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Héctor!” she called to my brother, who was practicing marble shots into a hole in the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Here,” she said, and handed me a wad of tissues so I could roll them into pointy cones to plug up my nose holes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Dickon must have one, then Alfred, and the swimming hole became a boatyard. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Four nights I slept on the rock, and every morning I left the hole under the fence open so he could leave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strode into the black hole still carrying Sophie in one hand, the trumpet and the suitcase in the other. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I told the animal' rights people that I found a dog with a bullet hole in its head up near Judd’s house, don’t prove that Judd was the one who killed it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day they found out that it really was impossible for more than one person at a time to get through the hole in the fence, no matter how hard they tried. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pitted with crevices, so when the waves crashed against the wall, the water spewed out of these holes like white gulleys. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that a new style with the air holes?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He goes closer to the tree, closer to the hole that was once his favorite perch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The connectors have little holes and divots in them and look like strange plumbing couplings—like something my dad might use under a sink. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She placed the suede coat that Rasheed had bought for the baby in the hole and shoveled dirt over it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The clay got wetter as she dug, until, at last, water began to seep into the bottom of the hole. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked beneath it at my hole card; another ace—a pair, back- to-back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee got his elbow on the Cong’s side and pushed him enough to get his arms out of the hole. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was scrabbly dirt, and in the center of the rope enclosure, about twenty feet away, was a hole. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My brother goes outside; I know he’s climbing up the mountain of dirt next door, or assessing the possibilities of the large hole in the ground, but I don’t have the heart to join him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My flight spacesuit has a hole in it, and of course the crew was wearing the other five when they returned to Hermes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to see, but he thought he could feel a tiny pool of water at the bottom of his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Just like before, I crawl through Voxy’s sleep cell, poking the rolled baseball card into the hole so the door slides shut behind me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are still bullet holes in her shirt; through them I can see her wounded skin, red but no longer bleeding, like she’s frozen in time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We holed up just as Barometer was yanking his way home, and it was none too soon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We said our good-byes to Eurytion, Tyson pulled the cattle guard off the hole, and we dropped back into the maze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Well, we came sneaking up in single file, in the darkness, and the two white boys in the lead fell down into the outhouse hole neck deep. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy turned his arm over and pointed to several angry red holes in the skin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One idea involved turning the president upside down for several hours and allowing gravity to pull the bullet toward the entry hole, where it could be easily lifted out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He explained how the Jews were rounded up into groups of two to three hundred people and ordered to dig a huge hole in the ground. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But if I tried that without digging a hole first, the trailer would just slide along the ground. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There waren’t nothing there but three tiny holes where his claws had gone in and only one hole was bleeding atall. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His car has bullet holes from a drive-by shooting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Though White had gathered circumstantial evidence implicating Hale in the murder of Roan, there were still huge holes in the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bull slid the hat over Edward’s head and pulled it down and poked his arms through the smaller holes. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

As one girl raised her pounding club the other girl’s went down into the narrow hole—up and down, a perfect, even rhythm like the pumping of pistons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking over my shoulder, I saw him turn around and head back for the hole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole was used for dumping, and after a rain it stank with stagnant water. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you make a hole, there it is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drained that golden cup to the very last drop, sucking at the hole to catch any remaining moisture. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a nail and a rock two holes were punched in each end of the straps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw long ago the whole universe as not-my-mother, and I glimpsed my place in it, a hole. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hard grass crunched under our feet as we walked and the wind squealed, tearing holes through the air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He preferred being in the hole because it meant no one would bother him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Perfidy” was certainly the word that was in Despereaux's mind as the mice finally approached the narrow, steep stairs that led to the black hole of the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the mechanical man’s back was a heart-shaped hole, outlined in silver. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, I never got back into the hole again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley climbed out of his hole, and Zero climbed down into it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Since the holes were in no great demand, he could dig them and fill them up at a leisurely pace, and he was seldom overworked. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The idea behind the gun was simple: if I held one trigger down, nitrogen gas would squirt out the two holes, or jets, in the crossbar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You came from a hole in the wall! That’s not the same thing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It left a hole in the ground that kept the image of the jeep alive in our minds every time we passed it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I see her stretch her arms deep into the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There is still an angry hole in the middle where the rest of the wall used to be, and someone has placed a cross beside it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I have on my old sneakers, with the holes forming around my big toes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Still, he eats the paint and plaster until a white hole grows where pale green paint used to be. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The coffin has hit the fourth man in our hole on his outstretched arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched until dusk, then dug their holes, and that night Kiowa kept explaining how you had to be there, how fast it was, how the poor guy just dropped like so much concrete. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to stop when he came to the hole in the street. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the autos flew right into the building and crashed through the back wall, leaving a gaping hole. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It helped, too, that Zero was digging some of Stanley's hole for him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if nothing had ever been but rain, and the water pitilessly found every hole in the thatched roof to come in, dripping onto the already damp floor. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, maybe you’re right,” she said at length, and blew out her ear holes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the dirt floor there was a large, fairly deep hole covered over with loose boards. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magnet helped Stanley to his feet, then up and out of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The sure square hand sawed out a round hole in the flesh, and the breath came bursting out of the hole, throwing a fine spray of blood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Germans looking through a hole punched out of the Berlin Wall, January 5, 1990. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I raced downstairs and wriggled up to the edge of the buckled floor on my belly like you would a hole in thin ice. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was nearest to the mouth of the hole and did not wake them as he slipped up the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got me a stool so my mouth would be at the right height, and I stuck my fingers in the holes and moved the dial around. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We found a shovel and pickax at an abandoned farm and spent just about every free minute digging a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My sister’s naked, frail body, now on the bare floor, shook from the icy cold seeping through a hole under the door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked out a hole that the retreating ripples left bubbling, straddled it, and set to digging with his hands. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The doctor drilled a hole in Nikki’s skull and put in a small tube—no thicker than a strand of spaghetti—to drain excess fluid from her brain to lower the pressure. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great snowy owl beckoned towards his hole with a sweeping wing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, he climbed up out of his hole, and once again dug his shovel into his previously dug dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Make the holes there. Use some of those cedar posts in the corral, make it this high.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make a new hole in the belt for my dress. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His attention filled the hole in the middle of me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three bronze dragon statues stood in a row, aligned with the holes in the roof. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When David is home, he’s holed up in the garage tinkering with engine parts or tweaking his team’s robot. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Why, it’s a hole for priests, of course!” one said, which made the rest of them laugh even harder. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“We threw some things into the hole. Never heard them land. It goes on for a long time.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Whether he had slept by himself in some hole nearby, or had wandered restlessly prowling through the night, he did not say; but he returned with the first glimmer of light, and roused his companions. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Round-eyed, they peered silently out of round holes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The jam is good, the pots remind me of crude flower pots without the hole in the bottom. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What your Denna said. There is a hole in her story.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But be warned that some find this grating, especially at the front of a sentence: Due to the hole, Richie threw the suit away. equally as. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the rabbit hole to another place I go! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have a big shovel in my hand and am just digging myself into a deeper and deeper hole. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This is why, on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my bed is littered with all sorts of craft project supplies: felt, glitter, glue, scissors, hole punch, sequins, and stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The new hole was short, narrow and rough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana felt so tired and chilly she wished she could curl up like a mouse in a hole. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even if her arm hadn’t been injured, the hole would have been hard for her to squeeze through. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She left a few things inside the hole: a precious box of matches, some glass beads that had come off Aunt Shuvai’s bracelet, some of the copper wire Uncle Kufa used to decorate his snuffboxes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chewing gum could be stuffed into a lock hole to jam the mechanism. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She huddled by the spy hole for reading light, and in the evening curled around a candle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny china duck, a thimble, a strange little brass coin, two paper clips and a stone with a hole in it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

All my anger had fled, imploding back into my chest, slipping down the event horizon of the churning supermassive black hole inside me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But when she came he knew there was a great hole at the center of himself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid lifted the ruffles to look inside the pigeon holes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She focused her mind on the central skull and asked: What sort of person did this skull belong to, and why did they have those holes made in it? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered over to the first area—Space Is Dangerous—and watched a video of a hole being blown through a thick metal plate by a simulated meteoroid. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The maester inserted a curved copper funnel through the feeding hole over his mouth and poured a slow trickle down his throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the exact middle of the courtyard, the still-gaping hole of the Box lay open, as if inviting him to jump back in and go home. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had obsidian eyes that looked as if they could punch holes in steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She cried out "Mama" when I laid her down and wet her diaper after she drank a bottle through a little hole in her mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The force of the rushing water sent his body plummeting back down the hole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He spends entire weekends holed up in the house, reading books from Gerald and Lydia’s shelves, admiring the sunlight that filters through the enormous unadorned windows during the course of the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a needle valve, and the point must be on the needle and must sit in its hole or the carburetor does not work. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben is right beside me, and we both press our bellies against a thick ledge lining a huge black square hole. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At last, however, he said that when he had been with Captain Mallow, more than a year ago, the Captain had told them to dig a hole straight down into the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like ants on an orderly march to our hole, my family and I walk quietly across the grass field with several scientists and one other family with a blond teenager. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Max was waiting, but instead of taking the packages, he lifted the fence post out of its hole and pulled me inside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had been alone with him many times at the swimming hole where he taught her one summer how to tread water and do the breaststroke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hole in the wall was big enough for someone to crawl through. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Its thin leather strap stretched from being fastened around the waist to the last hole, and was now a hardened leather with a blinding, mean snap. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Ready, Frolic?” she called, and the puppy scampered to her from the bushes where he had been pawing at a rodent’s hole. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to peer through the holes in the copper plates but couldn’t see anything by the light of my single candle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She closed her left eye and looked at the room through the hole in the stone. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She’s ashamed of the way we look with the dirty old torn shirts, raggedy ganseys, broken shoes, holes in our stockings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was holes cut in each end of the U. It musta weighed sixty pounds. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The room fell silent as he climbed through the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever, the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole, which will then begin to lose mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best to clean it, but since the dishcloth was also purchased before we went into hiding and consists of more holes than cloth, it’s a thankless task. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A more practical possibility is that such low-mass black holes might have been formed in the high temperatures and pressures of the very early universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he’d flip out when he saw what I was pretty sure was going to be a rotting hole in his shoulder. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's the one," he whispered, pointing out the hole where he had found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It began to drizzle, as if all that flying metal had riven holes in the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s no hole in my side,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But there was no hole this time to dump it in. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It’s what a mouse must feel, she thinks, as it steps from its hole into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You can’t say, “Your mother lives on the street, in a hole in the wall, sleeping on park benches next to winos.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Alice sniffed and wiped tears, I carefully bored a hole through the sapling to which the stone and hammer were attached, then slipped the cross stick into the hole half way. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They make gaping holes on the block, like missing teeth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their remains, and gas that is thrown off other stars, will fall toward the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look for a switch or tiny hole like the other side, but find nothing but pictures and certificates. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One morning one of the boys who looked after the plants saw that a great hole had been torn through the fence of thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We made it to the wall and practically dove through the two-brick hole, but we didn’t smuggle that night. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Donovan had inspected a jagged hole in the upper reaches of one of the walls by the light of his pocket flash. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He looked up from his hole to see the water truck and its trailing dust cloud. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

With me and Blanca he had an ace in the hole. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A stone with a hole straight through it that is supposedly lucky. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity, and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept the money in a moldy hole in the tile under the bathtub. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

You do have two drills, but you’d still only get 3 holes done before needing to recharge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This apartment would be a classy place to hole up in for a while, but that’s a luxury we can’t afford. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At the very least, the mortal police would be arriving, trying to figure out who had blown a hole in the Arch. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

So I had to go get more seeds and keep filling in the holes where they ate through the trail. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Others lowered boxes into those holes, then shoveled dirt over them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes: how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron waited for the distant sounds of two dormitory doors closing before seizing the Cloak, throwing it over themselves, and climbing through the portrait hole. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He’s bringing water to the workers holed up behind the locked fence of Huntington Beach power plant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of Scout worming his way through my hole in my fence and finding my ball makes me nuts. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something about a cane pole and a fishing hole, but I can’t find it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I could not lead them to the hole in the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I love that you included the golden ratio and the shells on the beach with the holes in them,” Ms. Solomon said about the moon snail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A black streak ejected from the hole in the wall above their heads, dropping directly onto the Time Suck’s back. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Part of her scalp slipped off, revealing a perfectly round hole in the back of her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This is just a circle of stones on our dirt floor, and to let the smoke out, there is a hole at the top of the eaves. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men’s ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily he stamped out what was left of the fire, scattered the ashes, and laid the turves on the hole. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Glancing at the hole by my side gave me the solution to my problem. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a strange hole in the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He reached behind the shine stand and brought out a gallon lard can with wires looped through holes in each side to make a handle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right across from Brooklyn, something left a gaping hole in the tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was missing an ear, and there was a hole in his cheek. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the time while the Mark went out in deciding upon the best and quickest way to enter the hole and attack Blackavar’s escort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conor fell to the ground, scraping his knee on the concrete step, tearing a hole in his uniform trousers. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was hardly any room with all the boxes, but he managed to find a hole and squeezed himself into it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He didn't want the side of the hole to collapse, along with the huge pile of dirt directly above it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Four of the holes made an approximate square, and then there were five holes inside the square. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole, finding pictures and comments about my family. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I took a roll of dark tape from the hall closet and patched the hole in Stick’s jacket with a wide X. Then I slipped it on. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yoyo takes it in her hand and looks straight into the barrel hole, shuddering. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His fingers drummed against the side of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His rubber sandals had been blown off He lay at the center of the trail, his right leg bent beneath him, his one eye shut, his other eye a huge star-shaped hole. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To further proclaim their status, wealthy Olmec carved deep grooves into their teeth and pierced their nasal septums with bone awls, plugging the holes with ornamental jade beads. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had buried his pearl under a stone of the fire hole in his house, and he stared at the woven tules of his sleeping mat until the crossed design danced in his head. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have used its ballistae to blast a hole straight through the ground. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s hard work, but I lose myself in the simple rhythm of digging a hole and planting a seed on repeat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories of old country burials with singers and dancers, but I wasn’t sure what to do, so we just dug a hole and said a passel of prayers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm going to try to dig a hole underneath it," he said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And there was an overbearing silence that hung over everything, a massive hole that no one wanted to acknowledge. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And my mother, who used to throw fits because I dug holes and buried her flowers. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It all seemed like one big hole, and it would take a year and a half to dig it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Stella, now nervously circling the burl of the wood grain at double speed, thought tonight could be the one when she wore a hole clear through it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You have sat here and voted guilty with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Punch a hole in the corner of the card, run the ribbon through, and tie it onto the jar in a bow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Other vehicles Luke couldn’t identify were digging holes for huge concrete pipes. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jon had not forgotten the heads the Weeping Man had left him, with bloody holes where their eyes had been. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grim comes inside and for once he doesn't tell me what a rat hole I'm living in, or how it smells like a locker room because I forgot to put my socks in the hamper. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He crept out of the dormitory, down the stairs, across the common room, and climbed through the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Well, when the maple sap came to the hole in the tree, it ran out of the tree, down the little trough and into the bucket.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful Gerd filled the hole in Frey’s life, and the hole in his heart. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They did not realize that in their hands they held a bomb, a force that would tear a hole in the world a mile wide. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Peeling it away, I made a hole so large that I could stick my fist inside. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it probably has a hole in it somewhere, and that’s why it doesn’t have any air in the first place?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The mouth of the hole was a bit of old earthenware pipe and if a man had pulled it out, the opening would have fallen in and showed no trace of the run inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he hears the monkeys coming from their town to the watering hole. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stanley's hole would have to be as deep as his shovel, and he'd have to be able to lay the shovel flat across the bottom in any direction. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We stood by the hole in the earth, close enough to hear the pond water lapping against the edge and to see ducks shaking off their feathers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran used the bars sunk into the wall to support as he swung the dead weight of his legs into the basket and through the holes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The infinite density of the black hole is a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Queen Neferbeth felt so strongly about “cutting holes in Petey,” even if he was dead, that it was decided to dispense with that part of the procedure. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier leads another man to the edge of the hole—my heart howls with agony. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the meeting when the cuts were announced, a mother of a Truman student asked if the cuts wouldn’t just dig the community into a deeper hole. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of the three grimy windows, one has a jagged hole in the upper- right corner and one is seamed with spidery cracks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One day Dad told us to dump it in the hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Unexpectedly, a guard stepped into the hole and discovered the tunnel and everyone fled for the hills,” she said flatly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I peeked upward, I saw Mr. Milgrom sitting on the edge of the grave hole, his feet dangling toward us. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He let them cool, then with his jack-knife he trimmed off the little lumps left by the hole in the mold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involved a large wooden roller drum, a cylinder with holes for special test tubes called roller tubes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The holes and tunnels of an old warren become smooth, reassuring and comfortable with use. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down at the hole in the ground, seven stories below me, and then close my eyes as the air blows over my face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, Henry shifted into first, and with a sudden leap that made my heart glad we were clear of the hole. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could feel the place where they should have been, like a black hole inside him, but the words themselves were not there. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Diana started climbing again, this time faster as she focused on the sound of the sirens that grew louder the higher she climbed through the gaping hole in the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And that opens up a black hole in the pit of my stomach. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At the ceiling, the beings discovered a small hole through which they could escape the livid waters beneath them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They hurried through the portrait hole and into the crowd, still discussing Snape. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I learned to drown out the sound during the day, but at night it screamed through the hole in my chest. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had ripped a huge hole in the canopy when it fell, creating a clearing that let in the light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

While I dug two small holes with the trowel, Mom asked me how Mrs. DiAngelo was doing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Biddy waggle her fingers closer, and Mama Duck hiss through the hole in her beak and struck her head out like a snake trying to bite Biddy’s fingers. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr leaned over the hole made by the drill and blew into it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hyena followed Jackal to the place where the hole was. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like this. It looks like someone knocked a hole in the wall in there. There’s a broken vase on the floor. I want to take a look around.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A half-sole footprint with circles—two holes in the center like a pair of eyes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole was barely big enough for her body, she heard the soft swish as the sharp glass rim sliced through the silks she trailed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Frogs do not move around much in the daytime; they hide under ferns and they look secretly out of holes under rocks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a hole—what do we do to make it livable?” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do we stand this putrid, stinking hole?” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what about the fist holes in our doors?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Holes are cut out every couple of feet: fat holes for windows, skinny holes for doors. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for him, the box had a hole in it and when he dug it up the following month the ants had eaten it all. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The fence was probably there to keep people from getting onto the highway and doing stupid things—like sledding into the fast lane on snack trays—blit the chain-link was full of big holes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The soil was damp but no water oozed into the hole he had made, even when it was eighteen inches deep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The inside was filled with Styrofoam, except for a hoof-shaped hole. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways it’s almost reasonable, but I can see the holes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A few feet in front of us was this hole in the side of a medium-sized cliff that ran right up along the sand and rocks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A breeze pushes its way through tiny breathing holes in the glass carriage, carrying with it the scent of the sky. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Tag couldn’t catch a cold,” Roy Lee said, gripping the steering wheel and turning it back and forth to dodge the pot holes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Nhamo had done so, Grandmother told her to dig a hole in the floor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You pretend very well,” said Tyrion, examining a shirt of heavy iron mail so foil of holes that it almost looked moth- eaten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Communists dug deep holes in the trail, shoved razor-sharp bamboo spikes into the hole with the points up, and then covered everything with branches and leaves. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For he kept it hidden safe in a hole on his island, except when he was hunting or spying on the orcs of the mines. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he finally came back, he told a superior on the rim of the hole that there were dozens of bodies down there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, I crawl through the hole and stand. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Colin didn't really have a response to that—it wasn't his hole. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Who thought of these holes when building these walls? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then—only then—did he notice the small hole and circle of caked blood around it in his Levi’s. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary watched one day as a zalif examined the hole in her front wheel, touching here and there, lifting her trunk up in the air and back again, as if sampling the scent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he turned to Zero, who had been quietly digging in his hole since Stanley's return. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The artist looks through a small hole at the object he wants to draw or paint. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I try to pretend that things are so easy right now that I could never even consider my life as a hole. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

"A sad tale," said Osha, "but those empty holes are sadder." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our stores are still intact, save for the Anacin tablets taken by our mother and the thimble lost down the latrine hole by Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lizards, which had been hiding under it, scurried quickly into the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It takes us a long time to go from South’s pub to Barrack Hill because of a hole in the bag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was no place else to go, so I stepped to the edge of the hole. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Anything but throw it down the black hole of the Early family debt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And by "structural changes" I mean "cut a big hole in the hull." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to wonder if perhaps he was even unaware of the hole in the roof; one day I made so bold as to mention it to him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow they were still alive in this hole in the ground. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Can black holes serve as time machines, carrying us to the remote past or the distant future? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where their eyes had been, only empty sockets remained, black and bloody holes that stared down in silent accusation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Marshall was busy digging a little hole in the middle of the yard with a sharp stick. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there a hole in my head? Am I breathing?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We walked in through the office, hustled through the library, paused briefly to examine the holes in the bedroom wall, and entered the souvenir shop. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr said nothing, but he blew gently into the hole, and this time he saw the chips of rock blow inward. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My fists clutter on his face and I put a hole in his stomach. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Suppose I walked in and found Father lying on the floor with a hole in his stomach bleeding to death, and maybe Mother dead, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the lower the mass of the black hole, the higher its temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had punched a hole in one of the walls on the upper floor, through which you could see the street below. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Atal willingly let her run her fingers around the wheel holes again, and watched curiously as Mary coated one of the pieces with a film of the clear, sweet substance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then one night he found that Daisy had pierced holes in little Portia’s ears for earrings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, we reasoned, it was up high like a sniper hole so we could see if anyone was coming for us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The superior said that the opening in the membrane should be enlarged, and that a ladder should be put in the hole, so that the bodies could be carried out. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants me with only one hole in me. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muktua tree was beginning to look like a real boat, or at least like a log with a very large hole in it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He did fall from hole in the sky. Time’s weird today. A time traveler in the mix isn’t so far-fetched, is it?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was now kneeling right on the edge of the hole with her head down and her enormous behind sticking up in the air like a giant mushroom. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

In recent years, dictionaries have come to accept a looser usage, meaning “because of” or “on account of”: Richie threw the suit away due to the hole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he left it beside his hole as he continued to dig. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Whatever strange hole they had slipped into, it must have a bottom. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like maybe I’d hurt her, disappointed her, and something about that punched a hole in me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Agena is a slim fuel tank about thirty feet long, with a rocket engine sticking out of one end and a hole in the opposite end. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scuttle into your dim hole in the ground, Maxwell dear. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour limped toward Harry and jabbed him hard in the chest with the point of his wand: It singed a hole in Harry’s T-shirt like a lit cigarette. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I hide between the cars and squeeze through the hole in the fence. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The four of us kneel in the brambles beside the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There was a hole in her face, a gaping wound above her lip, part of her nose gone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To keep his mind occupied, he thought of other holes in other stomachs. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Where I had been standing a moment before was a ragged hole in the side of the Arch, with melted metal steaming around the edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Chase called down, and his machine guns burst to life, peppering the ground with bullet holes and startling the whole group of monsters into scattering. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I clean the trout and wrap it in May-apple leaves, then dig a hole in the earth and build a fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are ancient, full of tears and holes and ground-in dirt stains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped iron but burnt a hole on Mrs. McGarrity’s drawers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discouraged, I looked into the sky through a tiny hole in the thatched roof, trying not to think about my feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Talib in the John Lennon sunglasses was looking down at another man squatting next to the hole, tossing a rock up and down in his hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A fellow with a week-old beard and a hole in his hat brought a can of beans. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Did the shotgun blast a hole in the road? Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were holes and craters everywhere, most notably a pair of deep holes in the ground behind the south- end goalposts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big hole cut into the wall to serve from the kitchen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all through class, I can’t stop picturing Morgan holed up in her house, surrounded by pictures of bulldogs. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But childrens love these holes most of all, for there they can hide the secret notes and the tiny treasures. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It had evidently strayed too far from its hole and now could not tell what to do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me?! You’re the one who suggested we hole up in the freaking power station.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the beginning her texts were knives, slicing holes in the cocoon of motel must and diner coffee and the view of the street out my window. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the bolts did not want to slip through their holes; also I put the grate on backward the first time and had to take it off again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The second and third plants grew in boxes, one with holes poked on the left side, the other with holes on the right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So I jump up from my hole and plant myself right in front of the kid. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It connects, crushing a hole in my forehead. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He was going to take me home, she thought as they dug the old man's hole. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The barn of shackles, the hole in the earth, this broken-down boxcar—the heading of the underground railroad was laid in the direction of the bizarre. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The mouth of the trumpet was against the wall, and Lombard, pushing it aside indicated where two or three small holes had been unobtrusively bored through the wall. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A serpent slithered out of a hole in a wall, its scales fashioned of rivers and seas. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the very top of the hill a perfectly round and deep hole had been worn into the rock. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neville had somehow managed to melt Seamus’s cauldron into a twisted blob, and their potion was seeping across the stone floor, burning holes in people’s shoes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mami asked me and Delsa to find small stones to plug the holes in the dirt inside the house, so that snakes and scorpions wouldn’t get out and bite us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it was all over, when the bloodied corpses had been unceremoniously tossed into the backs of red pickup trucks—sep­arate ones—a few men with shovels hurriedly filled the holes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Mom says we don't have to dig any more holes." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His T-shirt has a hole, and when he shifts, I can see his belly button. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

One day I saw Atal in the backyard furiously digging a hole. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He tells himself that it’s the stress—she’s been studying for her orals, holed up in her carrel at the library until nine o’clock most nights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stood with the help of a bit of tape passed around the neck and ankles and through holes at the back of the box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the pot simmered and the steam hung above it like a gray spirit, she took out a needle and thread and mended a hole in her old mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to hole up in there until help arrives,” said a guy wearing a dirty tux shirt next to Frankie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was these tiny details that showed the littlest kingdom’s deep-rooted ties to its Oxscinian colonizers: it looked almost exactly like a copper kispe, except squints had square holes through their centers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Herons have one thing not in their favor: they defend a fishing hole even when it is frozen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘Pubs are black holes. People go in there and never come out again.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the faint patch of light below the ragged hole in the roof, a rabbit was standing—no Efrafan, a rabbit unknown to the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint into the darkness, searching for that hole. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He yawned and curled up next to Prosper, who was struggling with a needle and thread over the holes in his brother’s pants. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to believe that the Ganges would make Hari better, but when I looked at Hari, my hope slipped away like a frightened mouse into a dark hole. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Riflemen, to the rear! Everyone else, close up those holes.'' The drovers fall back, and the rest of us cover down to take up their slack. “Shoot until you're out of ammo, then fall back.'' Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I place the jar in the hole and fill in around the edges with dirt. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“They started there, bombed holes into the runways. No one can fly in. They want to have their government installed before the UN or whoever else cares to help can get here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He felt around the back of the column some more and discovered a square hole about the size of an electrical socket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stairs seemed delicate all of a sudden, as if they would crumble and a huge hole would appear and prevent me from leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would be caught like a mouse in its hole. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eight days ago, Jeanne lay in her bed of straw, staring through the smoke hole in her thatched roof. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were filthy and there was a small hole in the left knee, the knee that hit the ground first. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No instrument currently imaginable will give scientists the power to observe strings directly; nobody can think of an experiment that will give physicists evidence about whether black holes and particles are, indeed, strings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Doc,” he called, “here’s another entrance in the bush, and there’s a hole just inside it.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess it does. So as he’s explaining all this, Sir Patrick Moore pulls the greatest feat ever—he walks right into the heart of the black hole and disappears.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He closed the metal door and took the iron bar and pushed it through the holes that linked one metal door to the other. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They tried to peek through the few clear spots in the windows but couldn’t see much, so Ernie, instead of just climbing through the hole, tried the front door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She followed Ron through the portrait hole, hissing at them like an angry goose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I pretended not to hear but felt her eyes bore holes in the back of my head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted a hole I could fall inside of: a little black hole that would eat me up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I poured half of the oil in my lantern down into the hole and dropped in a match. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie, squatting low on her heels in the pocket of the leather waistcoat, had one eye glued to the little hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can use them still, till they get more holes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't dip their socks into the hole, afraid to contam-inate the water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a barbarous thing, a blind clayey hole with folding chairs for the family teetering on one side and raw dirt heaped on the other. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Empty of kids, Portable 16 fell right over, roof first, into the far end of the hole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the not-remembering that makes it one giant hole in the middle of a rug. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the hole filled, he would cover it with dirt and dig a new one. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There were wristlets, short tubes of wool to keep the wind from whistling up soldier’s sleeves, and there were knitted helmets with only a hole in front to look out of. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline stuck her pinkie through a tiny hole in the front of my panties. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Sidetracked isn’t even the word. We were off the face of this planet. We were holed up twenty-four hours a day. I missed so many concerts.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Taking a lead from me, which is almost always a bad idea, my mother was now spending a fair amount of time holed up in her room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She watched him put on his socks, with a mixed expression of injury and the ungovernable interest of someone who has been examining laundered socks for holes for a great many years. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hated to admit it, but I had wondered on several occasions how that hole got there. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“In that line of work there are as many dry holes as there are in the oil business.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We think at least an inch thick. We need a hole drilled through its center too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The horses picked their way around a hole in the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

High wooden desks that sit two, with slanted tops and holes for inkwells, are arranged in rows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The green Fall Fiesta flyer was burning a hole in my backpack when I walked up to our building. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Flattering me into tormenting them because he, in his sullen hole, loved viciousness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember later walking alone down a rather aimless road which leads past the gym to an old water hole. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in a clump of brambles, in the middle of which was a rabbit hole that led up from one of the warren passages below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw Lupin, Ron, and Pettigrew clambering awkwardly out of the hole in the roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I picture him laughing in there as the winch lowers him into the hole. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He crouched, pointing at a hole in the lawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then Isabel or Nate would have to jab a tube into the hole, to suction it, so that he could breathe again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Calvin fishes one stick out of a hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I just cut a rectangle with a hole in it for my head and sewed on straight wide sleeves. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had done our best to repair the holes in the roof, but there were still one or two little leaks that dribbled all the time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Starry River gushed through the holes, flooding the earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed the screw into the fabric of the sack behind him, working the sharp end in, then pulling it back, and making another hole a little way below the first. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She hung there corpse-like; her hands turned outwards, as, in paintings of Christ, he stands when with gentility he reveals to Thomas the holes torn in his side and palms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Coraline looked down at her hand, surprised: it was just a stone with a hole in it, a nondescript brown pebble. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were done, Mouse crept out of the grasses and attacked a small hole in the soil, dragging out a strand of sea lettuce so she could properly subdue it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He said, “i’ve never seen a young man play his hole card like he played. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With bullet holes in their fuel tanks, they’d found a friendly Soviet airfield to land on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On one side of it is an enormous hole in the ground, with large mud piles heaped around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I apologized for the hole in his pants, but he still sent me packing. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I felt a grip on my shoulder as I lowered her into the small hole in the ground. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Beneath the iron grating of a murder hole Snow broke the silence, as she had known he would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I heard shovels and saw dirt flying out of a hole. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The boy had never even noticed that there was a hole in his pouch. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank all the water, sitting on a sofa with uneven holes at the sides. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the water evaporated and the earth rose, so that not even a small depression marked the terrain; and nowadays nobody knows in which field the befuddled sheepherder dug his fabled hole. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if some gigantic hand had scooped a great hole in the landscape. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But in mid-June, 1906, the deep yawning hole that would swallow up Granny looked horrible, like it could suck me down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. We make you safe. Big hole. Food too.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard put his face to one of the holes and shouted, “Meeker, you’ve got a visitor here.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait swung forward to reveal a hole in the wall through which they all climbed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The outer logs that made up the eight walls had holes in them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Foolishly, the black shirts charged and fell deep into the hole. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Step right up! Toss three balls in the hole and win a prize. Or try your luck in the shell game. Win a Liberty Head silver dollar.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The creature in his chest roaring in triumph, he grinned down at Ginny and gestured wordlessly out of the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There are nails and thumbtack holes all over the walls where pictures and posters have been removed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He laughed so hard that snot flew out the hole where his nose had been. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Back in Connecticut he had sometimes watched the one-sided fights of cats and mice in the meadow, and unless the mice were near their holes, the fights always ended in the same way. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electrons and black holes are real things; physicists can’t simply will them away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The mamas worried about their children holed up with their husbands back in the capital. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped his tree-climbing by cramming rocks and chunks into the hole. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the zeros of black holes—singularities—look like unlikely candidates in the short term. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His beard and nose stuck out through the cheekplates, and his eyes, in the shadowed recess of the helmet, were like two dark holes in a tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ob needed somebody to fill the empty hole she left, and I reckon I thought if I aged about fifty years, I might could fill it for him. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although a little daylight did come in through a narrow hole in the wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With that they shoved Marshall through the hole in the fence and crawled in after him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only there’s nothing like that where this old man is pointing, just a wood box that’s old and got a big brass record in it with holes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Is there a storm coming? If so it’s going to be the worst there ever was. We shall wish we were down a deep hole, not just stuck under a hedge.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He sat in the entrance of his hole in the morning and made penetrating squeaks that are inaudible to the human ear but can be heard deep in the earth by other gophers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, outside this funnel web are scores of spinners ready to repair a hole and attack with poison fang. If we flee “upward, they will leap on us from above,” whispered Solovet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled limp leaves and filled the holes left by squirrels and rabbits. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sheep heard the crickets, and they felt so uneasy they broke a hole in the pasture fence and wandered up into the field across the road. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Thinking that maybe I had a hole in the seat of my britches, I looked over to my reflection in a plate-glass window. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see that she had slipped into a thin ragged housecoat—even though it had holes in all the wrong places—and I could look directly at her for the first time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

What had Zane ever used his Talent for, anyway, besides busting giant holes in his family’s apartment wall? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning Mr. Sir marched the boys to another section of the lake, and each boy dug his own hole, five feet deep and five feet wide. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I kneel in the pew and think of Quasimodo locked in the coal hole under the stairs and I wonder, Should I give him the shilling anyway for his career at the BBC? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I saw the discharge oozing around the hole, I called her right away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see Ivan to know how he was doing, so she concentrated on tearing a hole in the side of the bag. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then, the copious blood from my wound trickled down toward the hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matter falling into such a supermassive black hole would provide the only source of power great enough to explain the enormous amounts of energy that these objects are emitting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fury still raging, I grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped away until all the black holes were gone and I was alone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The existence of radiation from black holes seems to imply that gravitational collapse is not as final and irreversible as we once thought. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Clyde, sitting a few feet away from Barry, just out of earshot, cool as a cucumber and shoveling doughnut holes into his mouth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Emma pointed at a doorway in front of us, little more than a black hole in the murk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In a black hole, space and time are meaningless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Pushing his beak through the hole, he pulled out morsels of white and yoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The captain asks the midwife to keep Celianne steady so she will not rock any more holes into the boat. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The holes in the net were large enough for their empty hands to fit through, but not large enough for their full fists! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Big Bang theory, the universe came into being in one single moment—a cosmic cataclysm that gave birth to black holes, brown dwarfs, matter and dark matter, energy and dark energy. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not digging any more holes," said Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Small, finite, and yet as infinite as a black hole in a galaxy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I jammed my fingers in beside hers, and together we lifted a small section, revealing a hole about the width of my shoulders: the priest hole. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The Cong was desperately trying to push his way out of the hole. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turned into the driveway and that old car bounced and squeaked over the holes, the crunch of tires on gravel echoing in the still evening air. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"And the worms are crawling in and out of the dead man's skull, in and out of his ear holes, his nose holes, his mouth holes, in and out of all his holes." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they lowered the coffin into the hole, a cheer rose in the crowd and spread, ripplelike, until it was one cheer, until Olanna felt that everybody there had become one. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were no furnishings, no sign that people had lived here but for some ashes beneath the smoke hole in the roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What else but this fever could commute my father’s ghost crying, “Jezebel!” into a curl of blue smoke drifting out through a small, bright hole in the thatch? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall with the rolled-up carpet, I discovered nine thumbtack holes in the cracked and paint- peeled wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She walks back out, now holding a pair of blue jeans, knees stained with grass and dirt, blood caked around the ankles, pockets torn with holes and unraveling. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She peered like an owl from the hole in the mountain, and the baby slept under the blanket on her back, his face turned sideways against her neck and shoulder. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max moves the floorboards to one side, slides on his stomach beneath the bed and into the hole, Siunek going after, though it takes him longer. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Breland’s argument was so full of holes that even I could see he didn’t have a leg to stand on. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The hole was deep now—deeper than Woundwort had expected and still there was no sign of a fall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hole in the ground the size of a house, full of bodies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean show him the holes in the doors,” Dad explained. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Rowdy grabbed a shovel that somebody had been using to dig barbecue holes and went after that van. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street was a building that had been turned into a hospital, and I watched through a hole in the blanket as the Nazis pushed sick people out the door and down the steps. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were also six holes the size of supper plates cut into the board so’s it ’peared to be a big knothole in each one of the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She has started several holes before, but they have been unsuccessful, they struck rock. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley could see two seeds at the bottom of his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I said shut your holes!” the dark boy yelled. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She tried to stand, but the fallen tree imprisoned them in the hole. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The crack of his skull vibrating up the hammer, up your arm, into the hole in your chest where your heart is supposed to be.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and stout of build, and he had a hole so broad upon his chest that the bone of his skeleton was shown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I was wet and scorched and bedraggled. My clothes were burnt full of holes on my arms and shoulders and back. ... I fell down in the hallway and went to sleep.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Throw them away when they’ve got holes in them and buy new'. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, using the hatchet he sharpened a stick and poked a hole in the egg. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feathers are around the thigh holes, and along the top. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounds small, threaded into a wire, barely recognizable through the holes of the receiver. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley was glad to be away from the big hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where the hole led to, and it made him uneasy to think that Stuart might some day feel the desire to venture into it. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Herbie slapped his cheek, squashed an insect that was punching a hole in his ear, then brushed three more off his arm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just above my head, I discovered a hole had appeared in the windowpane, little cracks splaying out from it like the web of a spider. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everything around me had holes in it, and she was something solid. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Careful,” I warned as we picked our way around the holes in the ruined bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The mallows filtered green light down on him and the first rays of the rising sun shone into his hole and warmed it so that he lay there content and very comfortable. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And walls covered by the last tenant with old newspapers to hide the holes. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He even thought about sneaking out at night and digging in that hole by himself. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

This farmer had taken his outhouse off the hole, and set it just in front of the hole. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I attacked the wall, punching hole after hole into it, and when I’d made enough holes, I tore it down with my bare hands and bloody knuckles. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I can move the Big Three in and use Hab canvas to loosely cover the hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a tiny closet with a wooden seat that had a hole in it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Matt says, “Yeah! Who did? And nice try, siccing the cops on us. When the whole thing was your fault! Ha-ha-ha! The hole thing!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The squatting man had one end of a stethoscope to his ears and the other pressed on the chest of the man in the hole. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put a piece of tape over the hole in the window. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that boss of yours is burnin’ holes in your shirt with his eyes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the gravediggers then jumped in and covered the hole with wooden planks and a reed mat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It could cause a black hole or something. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All summer I have spent every free evening at home, holed up in my room with my laptop and my summer reading looming on my shelves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A monstrous spider the size of a small car was trying to climb through the huge hole in the wall: One of Aragog’s descendants had joined the fight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Drum, fascinated with his acute vision, walked to the edge of the aerie to watch young swallows in their nests in cliff holes across the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Zero became strong enough to help dig the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I know I stared into the deep black hole in that glinting barrel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was one latrine per prison block—really just a row of holes cut in boards that sat over the cesspit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was aware of the marbles clicking in her pocket, aware of the stone with a hole in it, aware of the cat pressing itself against her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Tears still stained my cheeks from when I’d run home from school, sobbing, because someone had pushed me down at recess and I’d scraped holes in my favorite jeans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How soon can I get out of this stink hole?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Zahotep set the bit of the drill into the hole again, still grumbling. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He doesn't talk much, this boy with the hole in his heart but when he does, it's to ask us about our mother in New York City. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She used a pot instead, and my job was to dump it all down the hole inside the little moon house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby followed him; as they got near the bright hole she could see around her a little. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not easy to get started, and when the soil began to fall, it was light and powdery and did little to block the holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to find a hole and hide in it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I was lying on a bed of cardboard, under a kitchen table, peering through a large hole in the blanket at the spooky darkness around me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You squeeze your brain one way, your imagination the other way, and see your mother peeking out the holes of crumbling abandoned buildings to stay dry when it snowed or rained. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the sudden Jimmy Blassingame’s face popped out of the hole that had the fancy three writ underneath it, the last hole on the right in the top row. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The ground gave way beneath my feet, dragging me downward, spinning fast, like sand rushing through a hole in the bottom of the universe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pop stares at nothing, like he’s staring into a void, deeper and darker than the memorial holes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hand him our goods, then pull Alan past gaping holes and lumps of concrete. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three cram into the hole at the end of a hopper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Joe spent his time in prison much as he’d spent it in the military: in the hole for insubordination and fighting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

The orange peels would smolder in there, and the men would hunker down around the cans and watch the smoke seep out the holes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It left a hole in my heart that can never be filled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed her hand, placing it under mine and over the hole in her chest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In the dirt next to the black bricks, he dug a small hole and planted his peach pit. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We don't ask about the hole in his heart. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Precisely at noon—as the sun, the greatest manifestation of the Great Mystery, reached its zenith—men took hold of the casket and began to lower it into the hole. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I spent most of the weekend holed up in my room, pleasantly wasted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The fire came gushing out of a hose like burning horsewater and down into a sewer hole in the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The vacancy was there, a hole in the air, a special kind of loneliness. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry slope was dotted with rabbits—some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes, others pushing further down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now Colin would fill his own hole and make people stand up and take notice of him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They pick me up by the underarms and the feet and lower me into the hole. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stars in the galaxy that come too near this black hole will be torn apart by the difference in the gravitational forces on their near and far sides. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma stood by the window as the stars began to poke holes in the deep, blue velvet sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the blackness, when it was his turn, Jack found the board with holes in it placed over a pit. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the jagged holes, and the frayed edges. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s steel country, anthracite country, a place full of holes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They shot out of the garage before it was fully open, leaving a Cadillac-shaped hole of splintered wood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once I thought there are no campfires and no holes but something else, too hard for me to understand. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her violent death had left a hole in our family that would never be repaired. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Iorek could see the face of his old comrade drawn and tight with the pain of his wounds, and see the jagged holes in his garments where the bullets had entered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I want to crawl into a hole and die, but I make myself smile, and everyone claps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Powell varied this by wrenching at the edges of the original hole. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Really? Was it them? Do you know? Did Matt and Lance shove you into that hole?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Stepping back, I looked up and could see another hole, which had been hidden from me because of Old Dan’s body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad dug a hole underneath your favorite tree, the maple tree you planted when you were in third grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Books are overdue,” I explain, “they lock you up. They have a special cell for it. Overdue library book cell. If it’s more than ten days overdue, they put you in the hole. Solitary confinement.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each then looked around for more debris to throw into the hole: paper, bits of glass, butts of cigarettes, until all of the small defiling things they could find were collected there. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw a solid shot furrow the earth, an instant hole, almost a tunnel, black, spitting, and die shot rebounded a hundred feet into the air, spinning off across the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Archives was filled with little rooms like this, reading holes, designed to give members of the Arcanum a place to sit privately and study. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The iceman in Springfield had four evenly spaced holes in the side of his neck from four evenly spaced jabs by something thin, round and sharp. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the holes in her ears you could see the hot river and the dark trees that bent into it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the hole was now a mangled mess of blood and shredded rags. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, deep holes were dug at various street corners to collect runoff water and anything else that might be washed along. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was a hole in the far wall, and an electric fan had been placed in front of it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The mouse darts out of our cell through a hole in the wall. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The wall tore like a piece of paper, and through that hole Taborlin could see the sky and breathe the sweet spring air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His mother was in the kitchen poking out the clogged holes of a colander with a hairpin, and biting her lower lip with concentration. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he might have seen one leap out of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Together they created a hole big enough to drive a small motorboat through. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He stuck his head through the hole and peered up and down the alley. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Ishmael never saw Ernest Testaverde get hit; later he found out, on making inquiries, that Ernest had been found with a hole in his head roughly the size of a man’s fist. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was afraid December would come before I got a hole big enough to lie in. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed inside the old shack that enclosed it, just to look down the deep, dark hole. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How a boy can fit in a hole this way. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Her throat constricting, Celaena tucked the piece of paper into her pocket and hurried back toward the great room, the Wyrdmark drawn on the paper burning a hole in her clothing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Just as zero punches a hole in the smooth sheet of general relativity, zero smooths and spreads out the sharp point charge of the electron, covering it in a fog. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It still has a hole in the sleeve, from the time we smoked secret cigarettes on the balcony. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to go patch the hole in her barn and do some chores quickly so that by the time Ivan’s papa came back, she’d be free for the day. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her small hands grab fistfuls of the grassy turf, lining them up beside the hole. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I punch my finger into the dirt to make a small hole, and I drop in the brown nut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of the path was a huge, rectangular hole in the earth that seemed about a half mile around. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Later, before they buried the urn, we were each supposed to throw a flower into the hole. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She decided that she didn’t believe at all what Mrs. Borkowski said about daylight stars and deep holes. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was also a pigeon-sized hole rusted through the door’s bottom corner, but that was no help to us—we needed the combination. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, ant lines, unbroken, unswerving, undismayed, still poured steadily out of all those little holes up around the vigas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the wire cutters, she snipped the pointy end of the hook, then stuck it into the hole she had just made in the bottle cap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With the hook stuck in one of the ventilating holes in the top of my light, I lifted it back out on the ice and set it down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed that, provided a stationary rotating black hole had an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls, eaten by termites, strained to support the roof full of holes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His stare could burn a hole in granite. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The pink boy shouts, showing a black hole where sharp teeth glow. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Unlike Bodega’s eyes, which were pools of ghosts and sadness, Nazario’s were black holes, nothing could escape them, not even light, as if he could read your mind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I bounced the ball slowly three times, keeping the inflation hole up. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He slowly allowed himself to lean against the side of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I wrote this one night: “The raft is almost done. Bando has promised to stay until we can sail out into the deep fishing holes. “Bando and I found some clay along the stream bank. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put your lower lip under the hole and roll it up and blow,” she says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Hassan was good at his job, no doubt—Colin felt a rush of affection toward him, and the recitation of the words caused something to wash over the omnipresent hole in his gut. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Farther down, another hole showed, a testament to the success of Nailer’s plan. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever she and the other children had been expecting to find inside this hole in the floor, I was not it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Amma,” you said, and looked all around us, as though our mother might pop out of the river and fly up through a hole in the bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And to demonstrate how fine she was, she passed her fist in and out of the hole a few times and did a jumping jack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When they crossed the road, they would begin to take canister fire and thousands of balls of shrapnel wiping huge holes in the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the rotation is zero, the black hole is perfectly round and the solution is identical to the Schwarzschild solution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed my sack through the hole, then myself. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We climbed through a hole in the chain-link fence he had discovered that morning and ran into the iceberg- lettuce farm next to the apartment building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But we burn them. We don’t put them in holes.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And then I stepped in the badger hole,” I added. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure about the hole? Have you ever . . .” He paused, waiting for the interruption, but none came. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And without another word to her, he pushed his way out of the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the next morning that Worsley discovered holes scorched in his socks, but the skin on his feet was still so waterlogged that it hadn’t burned. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me, his eyes boring a hole in my face as if he were trying to figure out what I was up to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At long last Harry thought it must be time for breakfast, so he headed through the portrait hole alone. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mong showed us how to dig a little hole in the sand and line it with a bunch of small rocks for a homemade barbecue pit. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The bullet had gone through the leg of my blue jeans, leaving two small round holes, and the sock underneath showed a narrow, straight tear through which blood was slowly oozing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Warden jabbed at Armpit with her pitchfork, knocking him backward into the big hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the matter accreting into a disk surrounding the black hole would be a sight worth remembering, in the unlikely case that you survived the trip. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clambered through the hole into the inside of the hill, and he went down the stairs. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They lay at the edge of the hole together, each with a muddy arm hung in, and excavated around it until a third of the shell showed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure, but I think these earrings actually go through little holes in her ears, unlike any earrings I have ever seen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the floor, dug into the rock, was a hole about ten feet across, covered by a heavy metal shield. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mulch had to stifle a giggle as he dropped the last two bars down the hole. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He moved his shovel up and down the side of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a hole, ain’t there? Under the edge of the house somewheres?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey helped search, even going as far as to check the mutant mole hole in his mother’s flower garden. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But from what he said in his dream, and from the holes in the suit, I cannot help believing he did. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ram interrupts my mind’s dip into that rabbit hole exclusively reserved for Flannery. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I lay there in the dim light and stared at the pattern of squares on the ceiling... noise-absorbing tiles with thousands of tiny holes soaking up every word. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The front of the new sand-pit was all levelled and made into a large sheltered garden, and new holes were dug in the southward face, back into the Hill, and they were lined with brick. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and in my mind I could see the funnel-like entrance of the hole, and the sharp slanting points of the nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hole beneath the ruins of the Hotel of Bees, Werner sleeps too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids looked as poor as me, with home-cut hair and holes in the toes of their shoes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long walk back to his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He stopped and told them to put down the cargo and dig a hole. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They widened X-Ray's hole, as well as the holes Armpit and Squid had been digging, until the fourth day, when all three holes met and formed one big hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The hole in die plane was still too small to use for anything and now he didn’t have a tool. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother would ask her, but by then I would’ve stubbed it out and dropped the butt in the hole in the tree. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Miep had also found a note under the warehouse door from Sleegers, the night watchman, who had noticed the hole and alerted the police. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There’s still a hole where the ceiling fan hung for ten minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He hauled me away before I could punch a hole in the appliance-store window. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’ve pulled that ace out of the hole, taken a good look, and found that it’s useless to me, devalued over time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned, and when it turned, the whole circle turned inside, and the images that showed through the little holes changed: rainbows into stars, blimps into planes, flowers into dragonflies. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Though he tried to convince himself otherwise, he'd been aware for a while that his piles of dirt were too close to his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They started searching the quarry for a possible hole or concealed entrance. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Some are on the hills to the south, digging holes. I think they know we have them surrounded. Our men are all around. Some are trying to get in closer by crawling in the grass.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She scanned the room, squinting through the hole in the stone, and caught sight of something that twinkled and burned like a star at floor level by the doorway. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Four old sweaters, ugly and full of holes, and five pairs of knitting needles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even as he came panting up, the last of them vanished into the black hole. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As Tree-ear stared, rice began to trickle out of a hole in the straw box. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She wore a big maroon Harvard sweatshirt and jeans that were covered with marker stains and little holes, like she spent her free time poking them with a fork. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He quickly drilled a hole in the beaker's stopper, then stripped a section of wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with my persistence that crummy black hole would eventually shrink and no longer have such a strong gravitational pull. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"He sure is a nice guy to let Zero dig his hole for him," said Squid. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he shouldn't let Zero dig his hole for him anymore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t fill the yawning hole left by Jesse, but sometimes he makes it hurt slightly less. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Cutting a hole right through the roof. They’re going to ruin the walls, I say. This stonework is old...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but you had the pleasure of holing up in this fine American establishment.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

However, any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability, because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After deciding upon the car, I got inside and ate the tuna sandwiches and then searched the floorboards for holes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dirty little paw reached in a hole in the mattress where he hid his marbles. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So I follow Finnick about fifteen yards into the jungle, where he finds a good tree and starts stabbing to make a hole with his knife. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But one day—April the twenty-second, a drizzly Monday, it had been—he ran ahead of them all, the red mud slooching up through the holes in the bottom of his sneakers. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Within, they found a pair of iron bars the size of saplings, with post holes in the ground and metal brackets on the gate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Frieda came toward us, her brown stockings straining at the knees because she had tucked the toe under to hide a hole in the foot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you not see what they are doing? In another moment they are going to pack blasting powder into that hole.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

By deftly lifting and twisting the claw, they could slip it out of the hole, and then they used their trunks to examine the wheel all over, cleaning the rim, checking for cracks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the back of the truck the other two took a large box made of wood and wire, almost a yard wide, and placed it over the second hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Bors came from the northern hole to parley with the King and with the Constable—a long, indistinct argument or explanation which the people could not catch on account of the wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the night we dug a hole underneath the wire wall and wiggled like snakes under it to the other side. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The term black hole is of very recent origin. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a thing he called a brace and bit, and he and Mr. Chris were going from tree to tree, drilling holes with it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The knife falling through a hole in his pocket—you can’t prove that he didn’t get to the door. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found him in a hole leading to a cave covered with thousands of engravings and paintings. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you, like my daughters, will fill this hole with a little bit of love until my time comes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“And what’d you expect? I had to make other friends. All you do is hole up making your lame drawings and obsessing about that stupid school with Mom.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“We ought to do our best to make some holes here. I’m ready to try, anyway.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your pipe is near to burn a hole in the table. And where are those coffee beans? We’ll have customers soon.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug his claws into the windowsill, chewed a hole through the flimsy screen, and hauled himself through the narrow opening. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Cade cut holes for us in each layer of concentric perimeter fencing, and we were in. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bernd’s face is white with dust, but his eyes are two voids and his mouth is a maroon hole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Why can't I dig my own hole, but still teach Zero to read?" he asked. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A grown-up couldn’t fit through the hole, but a kid could. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Then, if it’s a tree it w ants to be planted. We must dig a hole.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The garden could only be reached through a dark, covered alley, which at first glance looked like little more than a black hole between the Casa Spavento and the neighboring house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

All my life, I’ve stared at a gaping hole in the roof, the boarded-up windows, the slow, creeping forest that was starting to suffocate that house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The other houses. One small hole in the roof—if I fix it, no damage. If not, the whole house is wrecked.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The hole’s so small I can hardly imagine how a man could get in there, much less how a baby could come out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After struggling another day, the first chick cut a larger hole and thrust her beak and egg tooth into the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All around them, the mournful shapes of men and women rose from the ground or emerged from holes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She came up carefully behind the post, stared this way and that, and then darted around it and up into the hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I moved into the house, stopping abruptly in the entryway when I saw a three-foot hole in the linoleum that plunged to the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I see the train conductor pick up the paper tickets, punch holes in them with a metal clicker, and replace them into the seat tabs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s full of holes and the juice is dripping out everywhere!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And then they threw ’em every which way,” Curly said, waving a beefy arm, “and then they filled in the holes.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than thirty minutes after Magnet returned to camp, Stanley spat into his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He gathered his remaining strength, and tried to pull himself up out of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It served as a breathing hole for Asmodeus, also as amplification to echo the dreaded name through the caves and tunnels as a warning to intruders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Like it left yet another hole in my life. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing faded jeans with a hole in one knee and a brightly colored dashiki. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“They dug a hole when they wanted to beat a pregnant woman,” Mama said. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The water was good to drink, but the hole was far too small for them to fit through. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They patted the dirt when they were done, filling the hole up again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stanley was back in his hole, shovel in hand, when he heard Magnet call out. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"Caveman digs his holes, just like everyone else." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

To enter them, we would somehow have to penetrate a fourth physical dimension—not an easy undertaking, surely, but perhaps a black hole would provide a way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the night of September third, 1940, and in a little while a bomb was going to fall from the sky and blow a giant hole in the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"Well, the first hole's the hardest," said Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Had they gone through a wide gap someone had cut in it, a hole so big she could not see it? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Stanley finished his last drop of water and stepped up out of his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Spaced here and there in the walls, in a pleasingful pattern, are holes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

‘Merry Brandybuck is looking out for a nice little hole for me, or perhaps a small house.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He walked resolutely over to the portrait hole, pushed it open, climbed out of it, and found himself face-to-face with Hermione. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He taught me to beware of water holes because they attract animals and people. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he had a good-sized hole in one end of his cocoon, and what had once been Petey slowly strained its way out with a mighty effort. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The shadow from before, the one I had seen when I was falling through the hole, stood in front of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He lunged toward the bed then, pressing his fists into the mattress, bringing his face so close I could see the tiny holes where his whiskers grew. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish there wasn’t this hole at the top. Any old rat thing could crawl inside.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped closer and stuck his head close to the hole, listening. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Betsy had poked holes in the lid, and she had some twigs in there and grass, for it to eat, I guess. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Auntie Fatmata saw me hopping from foot to foot, she led me to an outbuilding with toilets, which were really only holes in the ground, covered with a wooden plank. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lower half of his face was bandaged tightly, a mask of hardened plaster with holes for breathing and feeding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He stepped over the mounds and looked into the first hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He attacked the sacking with his brass screw again, jabbing and pushing until he’d made another hole in the fabric. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Some strange vapor drifted out of the hole and curled around Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every three days, he went into town to buy a large block of ice, which he wrapped in burlap and placed inside a hole he dug in the ground by the entrance to our tent. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hole we’ve carved into this building gives a little light, but I can’t even make out the dimensions of the room, or whether there is a ceiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The star would, however, continue to exert the same gravitational force on the spaceship, which would continue to orbit the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve already poked two new holes in my belt to hold up my jeans. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The masked man pulled the hose over to the center rat hole and pressed the plunger over it, covering it completely. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was a perfectly torn hole where the word magic had been. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I struggled to get my arms through the right holes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Two or three,” I said, thinking of the rows of empty holes and broken stumps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two arms appeared in the hole left by the missing frame. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He broke a hole through the middle of each stone. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Somehow, it started and got her home, just another day on her long climb out of the hole. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sun’s broken a hole in the fog and light’s reeling around in the trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Holly’s right to want to stop the holes,” went on Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid Barney in the hole, then took from his pocket a scrap of paper. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Except for the hole in the roof, the place was just as I remembered. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"We had to lift the truck clear out of the hole," Zigzag told him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I walk round all day with the announcement burning a hole in my pocket It pink. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To an observer at a distance, it will appear to have been emitted from the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worms squiggled frantically from a billion holes in the ground and drowned, their pale bleached bodies floating everywhere. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, we dug a hole near the shed and planted the pit, just to try. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All they ever really saw of the soldier in white was a frayed black hole over his mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He dug holes all over the island and even in the cottages,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then I lifted my head from its bolt hole. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Water holes had dried up, and the grass had died. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stretches and yawns, revealing the big hole under the arm of her T-shirt. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We ended up at the Gantry watering hole, sweating and thirsty. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I found something,” said the digger, staring into the hole. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Pupils that are naturally large—it’s not the pot—which blend into the dark brown to make two big saucer eyes, holes in me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We were on our tenth pipe when I clambered into its deep hole to take my turn at breaking it up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, the villagers and animals shared the same watering hole, and the rhino would submerge himself in the shallows and wait. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Rain drips through several holes in the ceiling, but Peeta has built a sort of canopy over my head an upper body by wedging the square of plastic into the rock above me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The last time he had seen her, just before they left port, her eyes had been raw from crying, two ghastly red holes in a wan, pale face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gran had left such a big hole in our lives to fill that I wondered if I could even be a drop in the bucket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is thought that similar but even larger black holes, with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun, occur at the centers of quasars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d probably stay away all day, holed up in one of his secret hideouts. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The water from the holes in the lakebed could be collected only in tiny amounts. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the older folks smiled, waving as we hit a chuck hole and bounced. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If only you walked through holes as easily as you walked into that,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His lungs and soul were ready to pour out his own story through the ten square holes of his blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the heavy block rose from the hole until it hung two inches above level ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had been hiding the hole and the fresh air that came from it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Someone had stuffed some toilet paper in the hole, though, so I had to drop to the floor and peek under the door to see what was going on. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mouse council, thirteen honored mice and one Most Very Honored Head Mouse, heeded the call of Lester's drum and gathered in a small, secret hole off King Phillips throne room. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At least this hole in my heart is filled. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Mrs. Weasley’s ministrations, George’s wound was neat and clean, but Harry was not yet used to the dark hole in the side of his head, despite the twins’ many jokes about it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Please send a new pair of hose without holes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor looked at him so penetratingly that Meggie wouldn't have been surprised to see a hole suddenly appear in his forehead. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Both of his arms plunged into the terrible ragged hole and dragged out a big, white, dripping bundle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So black were they that they seemed like black holes in the deep shade behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To this day, when we arrive at a rental house in Hawaii or on Martha’s Vineyard, Barack goes off looking for an empty room that can serve as the vacation hole. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In this analogy, a black hole is a kind of bottomless pit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My life sucks worse than a greedy black hole.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Stanley put down his shovel and stepped up out of his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Do not call me Sunshine! Get out of that hole and come with me now so I can get you off my island!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Darkclaw set his claws against the ground to lever his body out of the hole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but not like that! A couple of hrududil could go down some of those holes.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there with his hands in his pockets, shivering, staring at the hole in the ground. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I kick loose and then we're up on the first floor, bursting out of the cellar hole. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the sack they would go, with their heads sticking out of the holes and their long ears flopping. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s like the Mole Man, back to his hole,” Humble says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Seth went forward five feet and found the next hole almost instantly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Only his eyes searched the darkness, and in the pale light of the moon that crept through the holes in the brush house Kino saw Juana arise silently from beside him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the plugs of dirt out of the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I think it’s pretty funny that people would mistake themselves for perfect if they didn’t include a hole in a rug. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The greyhound wriggles away from her and trots over to a hole in the flimsy wooden wall and sniffs at it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to step into a hole and vanish with a handsome revolutionary and live a life of exotic adventure.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This was new water—water that was coming out of the hole! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, the encounter with another set of particularities: the toenails, the ear holes, the nosehairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But soon more clouds filled the sky, shading Stanley and his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I watch ants file neatly into the ant hole by my feet and remind myself that Jenna and I have known each other forever. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Despite their desperate hopes that the money would help them forget you, they soon understood no amount of riches could fill the hole you’d left in their lives. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A hole had split up His Excellency’s face on the sleeve of her boubou. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The jagged hole had been carved from the inside, the work of a previous occupant who’d taken issue with the state of the lodgings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’m holed up in one of Tokyo’s dozen downtowns, registered under a false name at this hotel. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he could climb up, he might be able to get out of reach inside a maintenance hole. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’d spew a lot less asininity if you were willing to see beyond the eighteenth hole of your country club golf course. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I backed into the hole in the wall. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to work, and I watched the ground, rather than the phone, as near-invisible thread pulled the hole’s edges together tight with a puff of smoke. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And it feels really good to step away from the shovels of sand they’ve been throwing on me for weeks and finally climb out of the hole. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, something really silly...She said he was always trying to help her through the portrait hole, like she couldn’t climb in herself...but they’ve been a bit rocky for ages.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He wasn't sure how long he remained in the hole, maybe five hours. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The hole was the worst part of it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He imagined covering his head and lying in a deep hole and closing his eyes and not moving until the war was over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over she toppled, into the hole head first, screeching like a parrot. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And after a while he had dug so many holes along the ditch bank that water began to leak into his field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bumped foreheads trying to see into the hole at the same time, and then left our heads pressed together, which was something I hadn’t expected to do. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After she had been dragged off the spot, we all took turns using the hole to go to the bathroom. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He and his brothers, along with the sons of his father’s other wives, would walk with the herds to the water holes, where there was good grazing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug his shovel into the side of the hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to live in a hole!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not what it used to be. It is broken down with bullet holes everywhere, but we will go there,” he answers and continues peddling. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, they were climbing through the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The water that filled the hole was filthy, more mud than liquid. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concrete walls were riddled with bullet holes and grenade blasts. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They had been patched—that is, new plastic had been welded over them so that they were airtight—but from the inside you could see that they were bullet holes, round and quite large. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is, will always be, a black hole in my timeline. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door was shut, but nearby, along the wall, there was a hole above the drain where a brick had been left out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After removing each strip, Dr. Grossman passed it through a meshing device that perforated it with tiny holes so that it could be stretched to cover a larger area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Would we be trying to fill myriad holes in our life? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced quickly up and down the corridor, then tucked the map away again, hoisted himself into the hole headfirst, and pushed himself forward. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A whole coconut apiece too, in which my husband nicked a hole with his scythe for me so that I might drink the dear milk. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a ripped one in New York that, judging from the location of the hole in the wall, was one of the five boroughs of New York City. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And if at the beginning of the summer someone had said I’d be friends with my nemesis, I’d have said there was a greater chance that Earth would be swallowed by a black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I knew Joey and I were both helplessly being sucked into a black hole of Joey Cosentino’s niceness. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Curly gestured at a hole in the ground. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rotated it and only had to chip off a few chunks of dirt, here and there, before it could lie flat across his hole in every direction. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the glass and raised my mask, which covered most of my forehead and half of my cheeks, with small holes for my eyes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women who had done heavy crew work and then slipped out of the yards and into the twilight life of the beach with its nailsheds and gambling dens and opium holes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her elegant black dress and perfect posture, her matching black handkerchief to wipe her tears, her shoes with heels that punched holes in the grass. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Kabuo watched for one long moment—an occasional fish flaring at the gills or jerking—then pulled the hatch cover over them and sprayed sea slime out the scupper holes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would have only one chance to drive the cattle through the hole in the fence, and while he searched desperately for the opening, they could scatter in every direction. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One is in the interior of a rotating black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roots and holes and swampy earth snare unsuspecting feet. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A hlessi is a rabbit living in the open, without a hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermits could hole up in all that hair, and no two would ever meet. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I closed the door behind me, breathing through my mouth to keep out the stench of raw sewage wafting from the toilet’s open hole. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Nimble jumped toward Bod, his arms extended, leaping over the hole. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They crossed the park, eventually stepping beyond the spy hole’s domain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On the whole, Gutshot had been physically unkind to him: a puffy scar above his eye, forty-four distinct shoulder bruises, and of course a still-painful gaping hole in his gut. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t standing there on her tippytoes while anxiety ate holes through all her stomachs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rainy season came and went and golden aspen leaves skippety-hopped across the field into his hole. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was addressed to Fred, and it had holes punched in the top. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad humans killed my family, and bad humans sent me here. But that day in the hole, it was humans who saved me.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They would sit for a moment and stretch out their legs, revealing the holes worn into the soles of their boots. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prints of whatever creature had left the holes were unmistakable. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They had sacks tied around their legs with string and ground sheets with holes in the middle for rain capes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman like this would have no chance of swimming to safety, much less have the strength to cut a hole through her roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I mean it, too. The holes are concealed, are they?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was his son in the hole. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the stares of the other people in the shade, gazes drilling holes in my back like bullets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Next he bored holes at the edge of the box opening. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Above the hole, the ceiling and the second floor were completely gone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the elevator rose up off the floor and shot through the hole in the roof, out into the open sky. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The holes were big and uneven, and the rope was frayed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But the hole wasn’t completely clear, some green material was spread across the opening. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The image we all remember is the little spray of blood from the holes, like two little waterfalls, just before he clutched them and fell over. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then through a little hole in the side of the bag he poured the boiling water on the mixture. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Volkheimer urges him back and climbs halfway up the ruined staircase and begins whaling away at the edges of the hole with a piece of rebar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, I hold on tight to Meng as he steers the bike abruptly left and right to avoid the holes in the road. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand touched the stone that the real Misses Spink and Forcible had given her the day before, the stone with the hole in it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It was like a big hole opened up in the walls of my mind and I can just walk through. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She heaved her bag over and looked into the dark hole below. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The fires above ought to have sucked the last oxygen out of this hole by now. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gander discovered the hole and led his family through, and they walked to the orchard and ate the apples that were lying on the ground. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The knee hole had boxes of toys that the married children’s children played with now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each card had a hole punched in it, with a piece of string looped through the hole. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still long enough to put deep holes through a skull, though. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"I guess he likes to dig holes," Armpit had said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Coop’s eyes are burning a hole in the side of my face, just willing me to look at him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“There’s a hole in that ventilator. Maybe he went up there.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated and stared at the ham my father handed through the same hole people used as a toilet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Lee’s attention was drawn to this speckled fawn-colored chunk of wood by the bullet holes in it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the country the water holes had dried up, leaving only parched expanses of baked mud. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He used his fingers to pull the blood clot from the bullet hole. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water under the hole ran blacker and swifter, and there was no way I was going to squat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But they saw nothing except a field mouse, which came out of its hole and began furricking in a patch of seeded grasses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The traces of their jaws had looked like tiny bullet holes, and Mo had gotten out his book block, carefully fixed the pages back together, then, as he put it, gave them a new dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“My smoothbore will blast a hole or twelve in each of you while you’re still fiddling with the ramrod of your grandma’s blunderbuss there.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There’s brown paper tacked over the open window in that room, so it’s as dark as a hole in the ground. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall pulled herself back through the portrait hole to face the stunned crowd. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

David has punched a hole through my center. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

However, when I did the calculation, I found, to my surprise and annoyance, that even non-rotating black holes should apparently create and emit particles at a steady rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A shirt was warm and soft and had a good view of the classroom if a hole was nipped in the pocket. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Anya sat on the pile of hay behind him and watched his assessment of the hole. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even though my eyes waren’t all the way use to the darkness, I could still see the hole in the barrel of the mystery pistol that Mrs. Chloe was aiming right twixt my eyes! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ralph put his head in the hole, withdrew it, and turned to Jack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Coach Spinks pointed to a young blond boy in the front row and said, “Do you like to put it in a hole, son?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were specially favoured by millers, smiths, ropers, and cartwrights, and others of that sort; for even when they had holes to live in, Hobbits had long been accustomed to build sheds and workshops. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With the right music Dad’s mood could escape his black hole and shine bright again like the aurora borealis. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was the fisherman who Father Cham had wished would never get a hole in his boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The covering of them was torn and filthy and the wadding stuck out of the holes, grey and sodden. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He used a swatch of military uniform cloth to cover a hole in his pants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Once that was done, he told Fabian to poke holes in the sheep’s flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The next entrance was a tiny hole in the wall, scarcely worth bothering about. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The winged goddesses spiraled above, preparing for another sweeping attack, and Brer kicked high into the air, trying to close off the hole the monster had made in the Thicket’s wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I'm the kind of guy people expect to punch holes through walls—not because I want to, just because I can. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Man pushes his arrogant self out, poking holes through the sky; God will sling His arrows back down on man through those holes in a mighty rain.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She’s told Pedrito about our plan and he’s already found a spot among his cacao where he’s going to dig a hole for us to bury our box. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackal slipped out of the hole without difficulty, but when it came to Hyena’s turn he was so round from eating the fat sheep that he could not get through. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The waters of the Rio Grande were dangerous, and Mamá wouldn’t care that our swimming hole seemed safe to me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Rats still crawled through gaping holes in floorboards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley was required to dig only one hole the next day. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Henry has green twine and I'm in charge of that project while down below, the workers dig a huge hole because this bamboo they brought is serious business. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For fourteen to sixteen hours a day he worked in that sumptuously decorated hole in the ground and never stopped moving the entire time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure about the hole? Have you ever . . He paused, waiting for the interruption, but none came. “Have you ever tried making a rope?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Shut your hole, murderer!” says the beard, gesturing with his rifle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before them was a hole in the thatch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So, paradoxically, smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peering through the hole, I could see several bearded men wearing fatigues. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Hagar put Her shoe back on before reaching into the window hole she had made and turning the catch. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the tree stumps had been dug up, and their holes filled in with dirt. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was full of bumps and holes because so many people had carved their initials into the felt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They were members of the town’s trash-collecting corps, and as they huffed and bent to lay the box over the hole, they smelled vaguely of pine and rotten fruit. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I remember now. The sapling had a hole in it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Papa's face, battered, peering down from the bathroom hole on the train. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He grinned at the swimming hole like he couldn’t wait to get in. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their wands were drawn and they were listening at the concealed hole. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The shears are sticking out of the floor, gouging a hole in Mama’s maple. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They imply a deeper hole, a deeper shame, but my shame cannot go any deeper. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up through the hole came the smell of damp clay, and something else, an acrid tang like sour vinegar. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A military surgeon would have admired the clinical fidelity of the artist’s rendition of all Christ’s wounds—the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by the iron spikes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small amount of light and air passed through the pattern of one-inch- square holes in the doors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he’d said it was safe for him to dive in the hole. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s head came outta hole number five, which was on the bottom row in the middle of the board. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A black hole seems to be the only really natural explanation of the observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had punched thousands of holes into the scrubby earth, and some believed it was only a matter of time before the place got tapped out. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a hole in the world, and there wasn't any reason for it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Vacant buildings, many of them pockmarked with bullet holes, lined half-deserted streets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their oldest son, Logan, round and berry-brown from a day in the sun, is digging a hole nearby, while the newest addition, Luke, lies on a quilt wearing a swim diaper. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Since he had taken the blame for the sunflower seeds, he realized, the other boys had dug his hole for him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I was scared to explore the hole I still had inside myself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now they had their own territory, their own gambling hall, and that run-down house had become the Slat, a dry, warm place to get a hot meal or hole up when you were wounded. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The rabbit made it to his hole,” said Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Akira blurted out, “We had so much fun today! We stole some wheat and hid it in the hole in the closet!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I found a bucket with a hole in it and used it to scoop water up on his flanks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Surely there was a limit to how deep a hole could be. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would have punched a hole in the hull for sure. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A helpful way to understand black holes is to think about the curvature of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here at noon, jazz blared from jukeboxes and dark holes issued forth the cool odors of beer, wine and flesh into the sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see where the holes in his sole had been patched up with sap and scavenged leather. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There is Paolo, strutting along the alleyway and up the stone drive, running his hand along the wall, casually peering into each of the holes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In Wasilla there was a place where good tools could be rented, and I found a kind of machine for drilling four-foot-deep-by-eight-inch-wide holes in the ground. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then you poke at it sometimes, trying to remember what was there by the shape of the hole. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Neewo and Ten Snow had left huge holes in her life, and Andeg a tiny one black as pitch and hoarse with laughter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was attached like a shoe—there was a split down the middle with a long lace pulled tight through holes on either side. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Smoke kept pouring from a hole in the building. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “I think we’ll hit the ceiling boards about five feet down. Maybe six. We have to keep the hole super perfect, Mason. We want the Sonotube to fit tight.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z