All those families, ripped apart and hounded through the forest, just because of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Teddy and I got along like a house on fire, one of those friends where you start hanging out and from that day forward you’re never apart. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The seams of the cushions were frayed and slipping apart. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A similar tip leads police to room 228 at the National Hotel—Booth’s room—which is quickly ripped apart. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In here you learn that a moment might be okay, but eventually everything falls apart. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“At one time you never saw them apart.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he said that, one of them came apart; the door sagged and hung crazily by one corner. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She tore me apart as once the Shaper’s song had done. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert LeBlanc brushed against a desk as he made his way down the aisle and it fell apart after trembling crazily for a moment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these months apart, and we’ve fallen back into normal like it’s nothing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He shook apart bales of hay to feed his flock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I braced myself, feet apart, trying to remember through my panic what little self-defense I knew. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were born exactly thirteen months apart from each other. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with both of them trying as hard as they are, it’s impossible to feel like it’s not pulling them apart. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The perennial “sick man” of the Hellenistic world, the kingdom of the Seleucids had been coming apart almost since its inception. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It’s like our class broke into two pieces and we floated apart, the girls one way and the boys another. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The cluster of low hills appeared to be uninhabited apart from one small cottage, which seemed deserted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sprawl was different: buildings spread farther apart, palm trees and low hills in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she would beat him at poker, smoke cigarettes with him late into the night once they found a way to be together instead of several states apart. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She saw Shay’s face—too thin, eyes too far apart—and an awful feeling welled up inside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But when the balance came apart, as it always did, the brothers would resume their strife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Corporal Whitcomb continued, biting the chaplain’s black thread apart contemptuously with a loud snap and buttoning on his shirt. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I went for a wing first, pulling apart the spindly double bones and getting all the meat trapped there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw stood apart from them, hands in his pockets, proud and at the same time scornful of Fielding's kindness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After several long moments — or it might have been half an hour — or possibly several sunlit days — they broke apart. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We're as far apart as two people could be on a mattress this size. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Somebody tried to pry the end off before discovering that the tube pulls apart. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had vowed to come through for her players and their families or to come apart trying. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

All they could hear apart from their footsteps was the gentle drip of water trickling down the walls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

On the left side of the East Door, deep holes several inches in diameter and spaced a foot apart were bored into the rock, beginning near the ground and continuing all the way up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sure, our kind may look a lot like Wolves—large fangs, sharp claws, and the capacity for violence—but what sets us apart from the rest is that we represent the balance between the two. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The lanterns were spaced far apart here, and the shadows between them looked deep enough to fall into. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the days when our mother says she doesn't want him smelling up the house with his potions, he takes his trains apart, studies each tiny piece, then slowly puts them together again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Arthur is still sitting at the radio listening to Amos ’n’ Andy, not even paying attention to Sonny and Henry, who are tearing apart Jimmie’s dolly. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Back to his block where his mother’s house wasn’t far from his father’s house, and his mother and father no longer seemed so far apart. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I expected her to open it right away, because normally Twig ripped her presents apart—but she set it aside and turned toward me completely, so she was sitting cross-legged on my bed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The only sound apart from Lupin’s voice was Scabbers’s frightened squeaking. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hanukkah and St. Nicholas Day nearly coincided this year; they were only one day apart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the first time, she tells Enrique about the struggles she, too, endured during their years apart: “I killed myself trying to help you.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When everything was carried up, Janina’s father and Uncle Shepsel broke apart the cart with hammers and kicks and carried the gray, splintery cart pieces up too, even the wheels. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It had all fallen apart after that, and though he wished it had turned out differently, he wasn’t so much embittered by it as hurt. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, Dad took apart a fire escape—a real fire escape, from a building that his office was demolishing—and he rebuilt the bottom level of it inside my bedroom. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We jumped in and broke them apart before it became a fight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from engaging guards, there was nothing she could do. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The three of us were together again, without any leftover weirdness from being apart. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He carries the words with him all day, letting them sort themselves into phrases, coming together, drifting apart, tumbling over onto themselves, settling into sentences, and paragraphs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

For more than 2 million years, human neural networks kept growing and growing, but apart from some flint knives and pointed sticks, humans had precious little to show for it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stupid columns. Some people claim I created the whole Strait of Gibraltar by shoving mountains apart. Some people say the mountains are the pillars. What a bunch of Augean manure. The pillars are pillars.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sheriff dampened the papers with a wet handkerchief to get them apart. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are still waiting for the potting soil, so Dell and I carry the three machines up to #28 and right away I start to take them apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He squeezed himself between the combatants and pushed them apart. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-month difference between them had spread them apart like a gulf, growing only wider with each passing month. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had only had the dog for a couple of weeks, so he couldn’t have been that attached to it, but when it died, Andy almost fell apart. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One good pull and it would probably fall apart. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Big Dub pressed his hands together, then slowly pulled them apart. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But still, anything was better than being torn apart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The second blast made me wonder if God Himself was Fixing to blow the island apart. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad tucked the sign under his arm and held out his hands till they were about two feet apart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jack unsheathes a set of wooden chopsticks, breaking them apart with a clean snip. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she saw rough hands picking apart ropes and twining them together again, with salt in the air and a breeze in the sails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were perquisites, apart from the thrill of shaming a man in front of his family or roughing up an unseasoned buck who squinted at you the wrong way. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He took apart light bulbs; he took apart the electric outlets on the wall to see how the wires inside wound together and, in the process, got a painful, vibrating jolt all through his body. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not muscle strong or fighting strong—a kind of strength that gave him the self-control to meditate instead of falling apart, or to ignore what other people thought, and find meaning in a dead bird. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At last we peeled apart and flopped to the ground, exhausted and laughing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He struck on the piano one last, wild note, and threw up his hands, palms upward, stretched wide apart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Early stood with his legs wide apart, his hands clasped behind his back, heavy in the jaw, his face bleak and grim, black beard dirty and untrimmed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then there are those pesky little verbs that are as annoying as ants at a picnic, and just about as hard to tell apart: sit and set, rise and raise, lie and lay. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knots fell apart in my hands, the rope fell apart, and he wrapped his fat hands around Astelle’s neck and squeezed until the room crackled with the snap of fragile bones. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But the fact that they could pick me apart so easily was crazy. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Immediately my friends and I pulled apart, and I could breathe normally again. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had never seen Moaning Myrtle so cheerful, apart from the day when a dose of Polyjuice Potion had given Hermione the hairy face and tail of a cat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, putting me on my back again, he took hold of each of my curved legs and pulled them apart. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they’d be able to talk about it; but for now he felt full of sorrow and regret that he’d hurt her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I see a loosely built part where the stakes are far apart and the bushes sparse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s life-size, the width of two fists, and it comes apart like a 3-D puzzle. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

No one has lived there in a long, long time, and it’s about to fall apart. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, what Harry said is the most useful if we’re trying to tell them apart!” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Those whose numbers had been noted were standing apart, abandoned by the whole world. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their teacher, Mr. Quisling, planted himself at the front of the room, legs apart, arms crossed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then the pyramid fell apart, and the rats scampered, fast and black, toward the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They live apart for eternity because they don’t belong together. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then one day she’s discharged, and the pastels take it apart, and put it back in the box for other patients. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But she could also feel the rifle being pulled apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the scientific side, apart from the work on gravity, in 1678 Hooke came up with his best-known piece of work, the discovery of the law of elasticity which bears his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If you let Gaea drive our camps apart,” Annabeth said, “the giants have already won. They’ll destroy the Romans, the Greeks, the gods, the whole mortal world.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anxious to get out of Prague before everything fell apart politically, Kepler travelled to Linz, where he applied for a job as district mathematician and was accepted in June. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They stood far apart from the rest of the whites and virtually all blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From time to time Ash thought she saw the air split apart as if torn by an unseen hand, and within that secret space was the oldest land of all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “David, no way. The last thing we need is you pulling apart another kitchen appliance and turning it into some robo chef.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d probably tear her office apart if I had to wait there. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was black apart from the white lightning bolt down the side—and the screen could have been a porthole into outer space. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, however, they were a long way apart—as far as Lyra had had to travel from her Oxford to Cittàgazze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beatriz and some other girls start to rip the dress apart right before my eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bridge itself is different, of course; it’s made of concrete and lighted up at night, not wooden and falling apart and rotten-smelling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Majestic street lamps were staggered on both sides of the sidewalk, spaced fifty paces apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When they pulled apart, Rishi grinned and sat back up, picking up his notebook and pencil again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The two animals were three feet apart, wide-open jaws directly facing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have gotten used to my cast holding me together and I am afraid I might fall apart when it comes off. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ironically, we can only know what they were saying to each other while together from the letters they wrote when apart. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The villagers punished her for acting as if she could have a private life, secret and apart from them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its special qualities set art apart, so that it is often placed away from everyday life—in museums, churches, or caves. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their jobs and their family set them apart, but they were best known for their unrelenting meanness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the gallowglasses fight among themselves if they must—indeed, since there was a real aggression for thorn to settle, apart from the question of ransom, let them light to the best of their ability. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have been born millions of years apart, but we were able to meet each other and fall in love. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘We shall pass them soon. Keep the boats in line, and as far apart as you can! Hold the middle of the stream!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every year as we grow older, we grow a tiny bit further apart, the differences becoming more noticeable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“So what are you saying? That we turn our family upside down because of gossip? What was the point of everything we went through if you just want to rip everything apart now?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they even costumed themselves with dusty curtains and old tablecloths, scissoring through the faded fabric with Mamá’s gardening shears or tearing them apart with their bare hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After that, Chen lived apart as a rainmaker, neither relatives nor the monks willing to bring lightning upon themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the man shoved them apart and shouted to the others that it was time to go. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby sisters, Lucy and Clare, looked like twins, but they were a little more than a year apart. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Shagga hacked the door apart with three great blows of his axe and kicked his way through the ruins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the Creek was rife with gossips—particularly the Weekday Warriors, and if just one person told one friend who told one friend who told one friend who told the Eagle, everything would fall apart. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A little apart from the rest, sunk in deep maternal bliss, lay the largest sow of the lot. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At a time when many middle-class children and parents grow distant, apart, no longer speak, romantic solutions appeal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

God made the races . . . nobody knows why but He intended for ’em to stay apart... if He hadn’t He’d’ve made us all one color . . . back to Africa . Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I walked into bio the next day, prepared to make the herculean effort to be an aloof, boring lab partner yet again, when the whole thing finally just fell apart. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They cut apart birds to trace the structure of the avian skeleton, and, masked in leather hoods, they dissected a skunk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A tone is a very regular set of waves, all the same size and same distance apart. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She had given him permission to take the old wheelchair apart, and he had made something that he had called his go-cart. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One expert, an authority on how much structural strain a steel tank could bear before breaking apart, was on the witness stand for more than three weeks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As Palmer’s anti-Red crusade steadily fell apart, he refused to admit that he and his agents had done anything wrong. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In a city that was fast falling apart, it was seen as an omen that even worse things were yet to come. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He looked down over the side of the bat’s wing and saw the rats beginning to burst apart on the rocks below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

BREN: So, Arturo, perchance does that hook of Cuban rapper poems belong to a special someone who popped into your life the other day after so many years apart? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Milo, you can’t fly sixty-four more missions. You can’t even fly one more mission. The whole system would fall apart if anything happened to you.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Gerald remembers a bar of French chocolate he bought on his way home, and this is unwrapped, broken apart, and passed around the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I braced my feet apart, shoving the point of the walking stick outward. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If, by fell apart, you meant crumbled into oblivion. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It felt like our friendship was falling apart. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But when Úrsula died the superhuman diligence of Santa Sofía de la Piedad, her tremendous capacity for work, began to fall apart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They cut HeLa cells apart and exposed them to endless toxins, radiation, and infections. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wait until the three of them return to Owen’s room to tear it apart again, then skulk out the back door. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She touched one hand with the other and her hands leaped apart as though the contact burned them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s legs were sprawled wide apart and a cigar glowed in a corner of his mouth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A day came when it no longer made sense for the knights of Castle Black to dine apart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mine always fell apart, so I left them to the end. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to keep the scope of my situation as narrow as possible or risk falling apart. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that if she let go, the whole inside of her would fall apart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mastering himself again, he tried to prise the locket apart with his fingers, then attempted the charm Hermione had used to open Regulus’s bedroom door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas reached in and pulled apart the curtains of ivy, then stared blankly at a square of metal riveted to the stone with words stamped across it in big capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and several of the girls slipped behind the curtains as if being sucked from the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then imagine the skill required to isolate this particle, to take it apart and analyze its components and determine their highly complex functioning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Partly by design, then, and partly by custom, blacks and whites were kept apart in the tobacco factories, working on different floors and even in separate buildings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamburg crucible is one of the things that set the Beatles apart. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sat in red easy chairs, a few feet apart. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As I try to pull apart a red flag from a gray block, the flag breaks in my hand. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They had not been apart for more than a few days at a time ever since they had first started dating, in college. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d only been living in our van for four days when somebody stole my mom’s purse, which had most of our money in it because my dad’s wallet was falling apart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I must have pushed the two boles apart as I stepped up into the place where they joined, and then when I stupidly let go again they closed on my foot like a trap. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, out of Ts’ai Yen’s tent, which was apart from the others, the barbarians heard a woman’s voice singing, as if to her babies, a song so high and clear, it matched the flutes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hook came apart, and whatever I had went circling back to its bed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Level of style won’t help you here: unlike the alternatives set apart by other pseudo-rules in the oral tradition, neither which nor that is more formal than the other. verbing and other neologisms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I learned from these former secretaries of Mr. Muhammad that while he was praising me to my face, he was tearing me apart behind my back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief to be away from the smell of the troll, quite apart from anything else. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His efforts were scoffed at by union leaders and picked apart by black folks and white folks alike. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One of them took apart a radio and dropped the pieces into a stream, ate a butterfly, and cut the throat of a cat, because she was deranged. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully he inched the door ajar—apart from a tiny squeak it swung effortlessly open. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, their church, one of the poorest of the city, was falling apart. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had a small family, his was large, and their parents’ professions couldn’t have been further apart. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Frodo and Sam were led apart and brought to a tent, and there their old raiment was taken off, but folded and set aside with honour; and clean linen was given to them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He likes taking Henry apart, but there’s something incredibly intimate about sitting on the bed they wrecked the night before, the only one who watches him create Prince Henry of Wales for the day. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And there was no way I could take apart every single picture and replicate the masterpiece in another bedroom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hoder, Balder’s brother, who was blind, sat apart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Object’s knees were spread apart and her legs, which were somewhat heavy in the thigh, were bare high up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the rear of the frame was another set of wings, also about four feet long and a foot apart; but these rose vertically rather than horizontally. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To most people in Manson the biggest thing ever to happen was a tornado that rolled up Main Street in 1979, tearing apart the business district. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No more! No more!” the bartender cried as the three men struggled and grunted to hold the two apart. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny that I eat lunch with these guys five days a week, but we never really hang out apart from the group. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Nathan poked his head up and saw a hogan that was falling apart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The worship of Dionysus was centered in these two ideas so far apart—of freedom and ecstatic joy and of savage brutality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finally the girl’s turn, the PSF at the head of the line forced us apart with a sharp jerk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked at the ground and hurried her steps, trying to pretend she was not about to burst apart with fear. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Your names appeared on the Scoreboard on the same day, just a few minutes apart. So you entered the throne room together, didn’t you?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I tore apart the bread from my cheese sandwich to feed the black and gray squirrels. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The concrete and glass buildings are huge, not tall, but wide and deep and far apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because of my record, sir. It speaks for itself, apart from the Hamburg thing. Ten successful recons. Not a single memory wipe or time-stop, apart from...” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way to tell them apart,” argued Horace. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the Owner could tell them apart, and they most certainly were not empty. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We need to get moving before the bedlam that always follows an airstrike tears the place apart. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ten other Sixer avatars emerged from the castle and positioned themselves behind Sorrento, each of them standing a good distance apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The birds burst apart, exploding in all directions. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I threw them to the ground and tugged them all apart, dumping the pieces into a pile. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We lived near Santa Maria but we were far apart from it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Far from blossoming, the economy of Midland-Odessa had fallen apart during the Reagan-Bush administration, and it was hard to think of any other single area of the country that had suffered as much. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs are apart, I lie between them, my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the chocolate on Harry’s bedside table and began breaking it apart with a small hammer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Almost,” Anya grumbled, and the rope finally frayed enough for her to yank it apart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Outside there are only a few streetlights, and they’re far apart and not very bright. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They tore apart the moped around him, tossing the pieces aside. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

To hold Emma as she crumbled and broke apart in my arms. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Swore and hissed, “Chest! Oh God, my chest is coming apart!” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delia went to the door and blocked it, her feet apart and arms crossed like some kind of mobster. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

These genes had to be positioned farther apart on the chromosome. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I smile at him, and take just that one more stolen step, until we’re five feet apart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Virgil’s phone and his feet hit about a half second apart. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She could see me coming apart at the seams. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This really was grave—a serious challenge, apart from anything else, to his promised equanimity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was no baggage apart from the indispensable gas mask in its haversack, and as usual Maddie wasn’t told her special passenger’s name. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And apart from the handful of photos and silly videos I sent them while I was on the trip, they don’t know about everything else that happened. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We pulled our heads apart and Colin shoved the rubber stopper back in. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And then Celia’s giant nonsense word began to break apart into smaller, more intelligible ones. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Pip, Pip,” she said one evening, coming to such a check, when we sat apart at a darkening window of the house in Richmond; “will you never take warning?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everything depended on Katherine’s ability to hold her family together; she could not fall apart. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He dipped one of the drabs into the pitch and stuck the other one to it, spoke several words I didn’t recognize, and slowly pulled the bits apart, strands of pitch stretching between them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Without the assistance of a halter nameplate, virtually no one could tell them apart. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, he’s falling apart—and this is over the idea of Abby and me as friends. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They sat well apart at first, with arms outstretched, soaking themselves in the freshness of the sea air. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I was happiest when the water rose and set us apart, on our own, so just the two of us decided everything there was to decide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I broke our arm link apart to let the man with his dog coming toward us pass, but he didn’t. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He wondered how she knew about their split, and if she knew what they broke apart about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega wanted me around because Vera was family; no matter how far apart they had been, she was still Blanca’s aunt. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They reflect the shape of the Earth’s surface, portrayed by contour lines twenty feet apart. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead it is his knowledge that apart from their affluence, Gerald and Lydia are secure in a way his parents will never be. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat apart from the rest of the cult of suicides, his legs crooked impossibly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I sat still on the edge of the bed, hands clasped, wanting to tell Amaka that I did not own a cassette player, that I could hardly tell any lands of pop music apart. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But if our bodies keep apart, our words do not. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The waves subside; the clouds begin to break apart. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was so clear in my mind, but when I tried to say it out loud, it fell apart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We grow apart, bit by bit, and eventually our summer idyll is ruined forever. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was nothing for Aru and Mini to do except clutch each other as the palace broke apart around them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But before that happened, another event occurred that drove the ANC and the government even further apart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dunno. Just looking,” said Lyra, and led the way to a squat, square building a little apart from the rest, with a low-powered anbaric light at the corner. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Roli watches as I put it together and peel it apart, again and again, stumbling over the words until I can say them all perfectly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

You and Manny, who are equal in pretty much every way apart from race, could commit the same crime, but it’s almost guaranteed that he would receive a harsher punishment than you. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the metal tank blew apart completely. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was standing with his hands in his pockets, his feet a little bit apart. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The negative image of things blown together and then blown apart,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I thought I was going to be brave and defiant, but I just fell apart. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The referee pulled them apart, and ducked as a long right arm looped over his head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had holes in the knees of their trousers, or shoes with the heels coming apart. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Curiously, even in my panic, a portion of my mind stood apart, observing my plight, as it had done during the performance at Whitehall. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you go up or down two half steps from one note to another, then those notes are a whole step, or whole tone apart. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Whether they resented or admired me, most students held themselves apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kicked and butted against whoever was trying to pull us apart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Our hands sit splayed out on the carpet, our fingers not even an inch apart. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She pulled apart an Oreo, handed me half. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I twist my fingers together and pull them apart. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Over the summer months spent apart from each other, we drifted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But after Henry died, it was as if some thread which bound us had been abruptly severed, and soon after we began to drift apart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Collins’s rating never rose higher than 2400, light-years apart in winning predictability. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The children were putting on a play, but it rather looks like it’s fallen apart.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The young dog disappeared into the undergrowth and reappeared presently, his smooth coat dripping water, to lie down a little away apart from the others. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did the stupid Romans have to take apart such a beautiful machine? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Let's sleep," she whispers into my ear, and I nod, and we break apart and lie down again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hair uncombed, dresses falling apart, shoes untied and caked with dirt. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the disorder of the past year, when the central command fell apart and the revolution degenerated into a bloody rivalry of leaders, it was impossible to determine any responsibility. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Standing ten feet apart, they were bellowing at each other, each scarlet in the face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Above all, what set the trail apart was the terrain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

More than likely, Luke was already tearing himself apart because of the punch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cardboard cover was falling apart, and the pages were bent and soft from age, especially the ones in the front. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t imagine how you keep the job if you fall apart every time a girl gives you a wink.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the being out of the big gay closet part that bothers me. It’s...My friends and that school are going to tear you apart.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He found two places, all the same, where he had to trust wholly to it: smooth surfaces where there was no hold even for his strong hobbit fingers and the ledges were far apart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And while everyone around me thought the sky was coming apart right above our heads, it was the ground that was surrendering under the weight of our heavy burdens. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And beyond that was the fence itself, which consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I don't understand how a piece of paper can mean the difference between us being together and us being torn apart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their marriage was falling apart and I was in the middle. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little later the three found themselves back in the nursery which, apart from the bedrooms, was the only room they felt they had a right to be in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I saw her fold backward as the automatic fire ripped her nearly apart. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In English, the letters stayed separate from each other, so it was easy to tell them apart. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This mountain was even bigger than the one I had made last night when I yanked apart all my Lego kits. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As September days turned to late autumn, my world fell apart with the onset of Grandmother India’s leukemia and her death on October 24. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth told me how, by the time she left the Cottages the autumn after me, she and Tommy had more or less drifted apart. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the comb and began tearing apart the thatch of hair with my fingers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

What they had in common is what kept them apart Mr. Paul had told me to use my head, so I started stacking up the positives against the negatives. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two people who I cared about died a senseless death exactly two months apart. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Desks and chairs were falling apart as if being demolished by mysterious unheard dynamite explosions. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had four sons born a year apart. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pitch black, so dark that Dallas and Florida couldn’t see each other although they were barely a foot apart. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no lane line, no net, nothing to keep them apart but the wall of her will. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Notes one octave apart are given the same name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

‘A terrible row, Ben. I nearly hit her, I came this close ...’ She held out her finger and thumb, a centimetre apart. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted his feet firmly apart, and laid his hand upon the haft of his axe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They stood apart and he kept lighting cigarettes and discarding them before they were half smoked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had been apart for all the years that I was in prison, Oliver was never far from my thoughts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Odysseus came, debating inwardly what he should do: embrace this beauty’s knees in supplication? or stand apart, and, using honeyed speech, inquire the way to town, and beg some clothing? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five of ’em all sitting the same space apart one from the ’nother. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Commander Lewis stood apart, her arms folded across her chest. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To make them solid, so they don’t fall apart.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But then they broke apart and started to walk away from me as if I had never been there. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were apart from one another, but as I watched two more sprang up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and I are drifting apart, but not because we’re spending less time together. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other girls’ daemons, apart from the rabbit, were close by listening at the door, and no one spoke above a whisper. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They established that Queenie and the gentleman’s wife had been at the same college, albeit nearly twenty years apart, and traded literary quotations in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m about to fall apart, the endless hours of practice kick in and I’m sailing along in complete control. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Hah. We had a fight before practice even started. They had to pull us apart.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We roll apart and I hear him call out in pain. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Because I don’t have anywhere to go, no real obligations, the days blend together; I can’t even tell them apart most of the time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie lived in a smart little house apart from most of the other year-rounders, though with all her animals she was not completely alone. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled one of them apart and said, “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then that fell apart, and we ended up moving to a neighborhood called Highlands North, a thirty-minute walk from H. A. Jack. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The Schoharie Bridge was falling apart for years and years, and no one did anything about it until it killed five people.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They slide apart and make out and argue over who has to sleep in the wet spot until they pass out around four in the morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Started pulling us apart, because there was never enough money. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth about the attack simulation brewed hate for the Bureau inside me, and I want to watch it break apart from within. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The subtlety and precision of the modeling, the fine gradation of planes and ridges, the feeling for the relationship of flesh and bone would be remarkable enough in themselves, quite apart from the early date. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children who hounded us daily for money and food weren’t dim-witted beggars; they were accustomed to the distribution of excess, and couldn’t fathom why we held ourselves apart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, it was like I’d caught them doing something they shouldn’t, and they moved apart self-consciously. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that’ll do, if I provide for you like a Jordan Scholar,” she whispered to the dead boy, and forced his teeth apart to slip the coin into his mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

By the early 1940s, biochemists had broken cells apart to reveal their chemical constituents and identified various molecules in living systems—but the molecule that carried the code of heredity was still unknown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted good schooling for them all, opportunities apart from fishing and shipbuilding. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was no time to fall apart, and he wouldn’t allow it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It felt so perfect to be sitting next to him, talking and touching, as if they’d never been apart. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Everything built up over fifteen years here can come apart as easily as an adobe house in an earthquake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So they laid them apart from their foes and the fell beast and set spears about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I made popcorn for us,” I say when we pull apart. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He misses being in his suite in Farnam, smoking one of Brandon’s cigarettes, listening to music with Jonathan, learning how to tell the classical composers apart. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how long Justice and I were apart, the brotherly bonds that united us were instantly renewed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodyguard watched impassively for a moment, then reached down and pulled the boys apart. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Be it a quetzal feather, it tears apart. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It culminated in a fight between the two brothers that ripped them apart in a way that meant they would never be brought back together. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie would have hit him if old Reysen hadn't pulled them apart. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And you’ll feel rotten in your rotten little heart because you helped to keep them apart. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Next I heard a sound like ice breaking, and, looking up, I saw the moon crack apart and start to fall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Winthrop,” I asked, “is Mrs. Brewer right? If she invited Negroes to join the WEC, would the group really fall apart?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands with her legs apart, breathing shallowly, tossing her blond frosted mane like a nervous pony. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I finally get to the laundry room, Mom has the place pulled apart. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Basta spread the books out on the table and pushed them apart from one another with his knife. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I suggested two alternative dates, both in the coming month and just a few days apart from each other. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I asked him why it took him so long for things to fall apart. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then it all fell apart, tears from nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie tried in vain to keep her hand closed, but it was easy enough for Basta to pry her fingers apart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Petey wondered how the mother cat told them apart, if she ever needed to. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the spear was done, although still crude, he jammed a wedge between the points to spread them apart and went to the fish pond. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would tear her apart, but in the end, she would do what had to be done. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I thought Miss Maggie might blow apart like a dandelion head in the wind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lightning struck in the sky and broke the blackness apart. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain was an axe splitting his head apart, but when the crow wrenched out its beak all slimy with bits of bone and brain, Bran could see again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They’re afraid of Pilar’s curiosity as if it were a stick of dynamite that could blow apart their lives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears no make-up apart from something glossy on her lips; two small brown moles by her right cheekbone are the only things that distract from the pale peach of her complexion. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dearest Marie-Laure— Your parcels arrived, two of them, dated months apart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. Philobosian would have had to pull the folds apart to see any better, but he didn’t. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Under the right conditions this energy is able to push objects around; in the early universe it might have pushed objects apart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I stare at the letter for a long time, breathing in and out, my world coming apart one piece at a time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart by airplane, for example. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But after initially allowing Sobukwe and me a certain proximity, the authorities took pains to keep us apart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside and out, Westley’s world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, boys and girls, but after ten years old they keep ’em apart.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hear footsteps and laughter at the end of the hallway, and we break apart. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Apart from keeping her company, apart from soothing her woes, apart from keeping an occasional eye on her, there was little we could do to improve the situation. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was about how she and her family sort of fell apart, but came back together again. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sat sinuously, with deliberately unhurried movements, till our faces were on the same level, just a foot apart. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She look at Biddy and talk slow with her words all apart like Biddy was deaf. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had never failed her, not even when she had married and they had spent a year apart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all looks like it would be easy to tear apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was fighting now with every little fraction of his strength, digging the paddle deep, leaning into the stroke, heaving hard—and nursing the broken thing, which was finally coming apart. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Making the best of things, he took apart a walking stick made of whalebone discs threaded on a metal rod, and used those as poker chips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In practice, nomadic hunter-gatherers space their children about four years apart by means of lactational amenorrhea, sexual abstinence, infanticide, and abortion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lowered myself more deeply into the Heart of Stone and forgot the world apart from the two candles and a piece of wick and straw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Estrangement from the collective consciousness of humanity’s wisdom is just one more thing that sets scythes apart from others. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I took it apart so I suppose I’ll just reverse the process.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wrenched them apart, the muscles of his arms flexing, his face grim. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The howling wind ripped apart tents, knocked over trees, and sent barrels flying through the air. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

They have been driven apart by their father's constant comparisons. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell them apart, because they all wore blue jeans and torn T-shirts and had their heads shaved bald to keep away lice. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They placed some of us at gunpoint and kicked others apart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ron, Harry, and Hermione sat apart from everyone else by a dark window that was gradually filling up with snow, and Harry read out: Dear Harry, Congratulations on getting past the Horntail. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The strands of wire were four inches apart and a quarter of an inch thick. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I can prove I am what I say I am!” said Fenoglio, so quietly that apart from Capricorn only Basta could hear his words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“In the end, I was embarrassed that I’d fallen apart in front of anyone who knew me. That isn’t my thing.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Groups of soldiers on guard were lined at intervals several feet apart. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t spoken to any white people apart from bosses since he arrived from Ecuador the year before, he told me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded as if the whole world was breaking and cracking apart; there hadn’t been a storm like that in memory. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bones crumble between your teeth; one touch and they fall apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And you think, “I’m going to die. They’re going to split apart and I will free-fall into brambles where the demons hide, into their waiting claws. The whole world will tear me open.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks, the seedlings would be transplanted into the field, in carefully spaced rows six inches apart, and then painstakingly nurtured. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She had a way of sitting with her feet apart and her hands on her knees. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Food concessions were torn apart searching for that one thing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sickler’s, it might be said, was the only restaurant in town where the steaks weren’t “that thick”—thumb and index finger held an inch apart. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I could tell Theo’s brothers apart better than I could those two. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We continued late into the night, catching up on all the things we had done during the time we were apart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Each article was set apart as an exhibit; the rucksack in the centre, the riding boots on one side and the ski boots on the other. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I argue that it’s all worth it, the time apart, putting the family thing on hold, because she’s great. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but now I feel like it’s music that’s going to pull us apart.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kara wasn’t Muslim or a woman of color, yet she still felt an appreciation for my personal experiences, though our lives were seemingly worlds apart. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The captains came; and then out of the trees crept warily other púkel-shapes so like old Ghân that Merry could hardly tell them apart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

With every step, I felt my heart falling apart, like that torture I heard about on the radio where a man was slowly cut up alive. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Not sure he wants to remember Afghanistan. Or arguing with my mom. Mom says, ‘It’s nobody’s fault, they “grew apart.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Same. My spaceships always came apart. Those smiling block-headed pilots never stood a chance.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Felicia watched the thickset butchers cleave and carve the flesh like sculptors, could scarcely tell them apart, in fact, from the marbled slabs of beef at their elbows. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that West Baltimore, where I lived; that the north side of Philadelphia, where my cousins lived; that the South Side of Chicago, where friends of my father lived, comprised a world apart. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen him since he pulled apart our Legos days ago. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She showed me how to pull the cotton apart, but just right so it didn’t tear. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds ticked by, the yard buzzing as everyone checked out each other’s hairstyles, cuts, fresh sneakers, jewelry, and book bags—accessories were the only way to set yourself apart. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And we could stay apart, and leave each other entirely alone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They rarely conversed with each other apart from the necessities of their service and practices. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We broke apart and she wiped under her eyes with the backs of her hands. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s look at one sentence on page ninety-four of this very entertaining introduction to Zen that I had you read this week. ‘Everything that comes together falls apart,’ ” the Old Man said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Enough energy would be released to blow the pluto nium apart—but only with about as much force as a normal bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clasp my bandaged hands together to stop them from shaking, but the Tribesman gently pries my fingers apart. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With a single finger, he nudges apart the folds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Cave Inimicum...Didn’t I say it was an Erumpent horn, didn’t I tell him? And now his house has been blown apart!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even in the old days they didn’t make kids stick with these marriages if they didn’t like each other. They just drifted apart.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have seen enough—parents whose marriages blow apart, homes foreclosed on, family vehicles repossessed in the middle of the night, classmates who commit suicide—to know that life is not a Disney movie. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He laughs again, and when he does, the walls break apart with a crack and fall away, leaving us in a circle of light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The centaurs’ habits are not human-like; they live in the wild, refuse clothing, prefer to live apart from wizards and Muggles alike and yet have intelligence equal to theirs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were narrow with concentration, like she was picking apart each leaf. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were at least a foot apart, but right then, a foot didn’t seem that far. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sat with my feet spread apart so I could spit the sunflower-seed shells on the ground between them. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It meant forcing black people and white people to live apart and unequal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Mosca rowed alongside, the second figure cast a line with a hook toward Prosper to keep the boats from drifting apart. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t take what your mother said about our family falling apart too seriously. She’s just upset. About a lot of things. But we’ll be fine.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the cloud ripped apart, and I saw Typhon clearly for the first time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The cushions felt lumpier on the ground than they’d been on the couch, and they kept sliding apart beneath her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He stood apart shyly and looked at Rocinante; he peered in the door, even lay on the ground and studied the heavy-duty springs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would tear the world apart to find him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, July 27, the storm that had been building for so long blew the city apart. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They left the city and came into the open country where the houses were far apart and the hills and gentle valleys began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the only way to really start over is to tear everything apart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

How would it be if the house fell apart? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tear the inkblots apart to make them reveal themselves. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My boxes fell apart too, at first. Don’t lose hope. One day they will stick, and then you will have no more trouble.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The bones of the history are that they had four kids, grew apart, and divorced. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then they fall apart when someone says, "Yeah, you look pretty tired." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He smiled hopefully, and I glanced over at Twig, because she was the one who usually started talking in awkward situations, but she’d turned pink and was busying herself by picking apart a marshmallow. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In my account, history did not set Mormons apart from the rest of the human family; it bound them to it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Derek had his wheel all apart again, and I had to step over it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I think of Charlie and our first New Year’s Eve apart, and how I miss him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There is nothing decorating the room apart from the Massachusetts state and American flags and an oil portrait of a judge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Adam had been set apart—an invisible wall cut him off from the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, within just a few hours, as the region continued to collapse, the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding in the Mazda sets us apart from the rest of the population. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to sit up but the car was shaking, lunging—it felt like it was coming apart—and Audrey fell on top of me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The holes were spaced roughly five feet apart and followed a generally straight line, passing the barn and eventually leaving the yard along a narrow path into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever an icy wind blew her coat apart and went through her thin dress, it was as if she had no underwear on at all. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people had been apart for a long time, and now he sensed a small coming together—although who knew what those who had survived could do with a future nobody had defined? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more, and there were none in Halley’s lifetime.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And before we knew it, our solidarity had fallen apart. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She felt split apart, broken, as frozen as the island that bore the weight of Elowen’s ambition. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And that ancient law went into effect which says that when you need towns they are very far apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I personally set myself apart from the war on blood parasites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the apotheosis of suburban constancy, Levittown is now an example of those same suburbs coming apart at the seams. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The lacy white paper fell apart in her hands. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help her if I fell apart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fezzik put the Princess down and ripped the ropes apart that bound her legs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The houses all seemed incredibly big and were placed ridiculously far apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Mexicans sat apart when they ate, just as they worked by themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navid knocked on the door, hard, and we were like shrapnel, flying apart. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“With so many soldiers dying in France and all, the world’s not going to fall apart if you smoke a cigarette once in a while.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After years of living apart up on the mountain, the people of Bithynios, my grandmother’s village, had emerged into the safety of the Meg ale Idea—the Big Idea, the dream of Greater Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The lock shuddered and the cylinder popped out, hovering in the air, and then the springs and pins came out of the cylinder like they were being pulled apart by invisible hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But as their careers and their politics began to pull them apart, something even more fundamental seemed to come between them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was frightened; he could feel himself drifting apart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I drew two hands clutching on to each other, yet pulling apart. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was all very confusing to Clevinger, who began vibrating in terror as the colonel surged to his feet like a gigantic belch and threatened to rip his stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If you try to separate them from the soil they just fall apart. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"I hardly get to see you. Haymitch seems bent on keeping us apart." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hassan was standing at the blind end of the alley in a defiant stance: fists curled, legs slightly apart. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine her having any other life apart from that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The foil crinkles as he pries the layers apart. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, of course, we went different ways and drifted apart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant would lash out violently when threatened, and those huge hands were strong enough to rip a man apart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The “machine-gun fire” was the popping sound of hundreds of steel rivets as the structure blew apart. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But I do feel like every second we spend standing these inches apart is one that I must impress upon my mind until my entire memory conforms to its shape. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their only drawback would be that the fabric of the universe would fall apart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Swordplay was like dancing—certain steps must be followed or else it would fall apart. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Not even in the womb were we apart. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“These pages look like they were torn out carefully, not ripped apart. So I think whoever did this was after what was on those pages.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as we stood apart, he began to smile so widely that my face relaxed and I too began to smile. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

This dark picture is worlds apart from the stories of classical mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to go along, so I step back from him and say, “I don’t like it when we’re apart.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

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

He glanced across at the other two but they were facing away from him, standing apart, smoking silently. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I heard Mr. Ward yell again, “There go 17 and 18!” and I heard the sounds of Portables 17 and 18 splitting apart. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You mean it breaks people apart? Splits them into tiny little pieces?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t being ripped apart down there, which we often joked about, and was the secret fear of quite a few girls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homer rarely spoke apart from his hectoring of the horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then something invisible snapped inside her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’d been without that leg for so long that it looked like the crutches were apart of his body. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I think she’s about to fall apart, and if my mother falls apart, so will this whole pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So apart from the very occasional town or ski resort, New Hampshire is primarily, sometimes rather dauntingly, wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the missing that comes from being apart, like last night with Ray, or before with Frank. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cardboard inside my shoe got soggy and started to fall apart. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Would our friendship fall apart over a boy? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He shifts on his stool, letting one of his knees graze against Henry’s under the bar, nudging them apart. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The child custody proceedings and public scandal had taken a toll on her; she had started using drugs and seemed to fall apart. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They chose two trees about a hundred yards apart and each boy stood under one of them waiting for the conies to come out again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panting, we clung to each other as though gravity itself might yank us apart if we weren’t careful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After the navigators climbed in and the pilots started their engines, fifteen 46th Guards Po-2s set out in a line one after the other, exactly three minutes apart. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I held up my thumb and finger, as far apart as I could get ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cord was cut through, and the metal wires inside the cord were split apart at the cut section. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like you’re tearing the house apart board by board,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end there were more than two dozen copies of Inkheart on the piles of firewood, their pages crumpled, their bindings wrenched apart like broken wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘Please! I -1 only meant -’ The ghost screamed as the dirt covered his body like a shell, then cracked apart, leaving nothing but a pile of dust. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But Malik and I are only baseball-team friends, because we go to different middle schools and live twenty minutes apart. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And I had never been anywhere apart from the shop at the end of the road on my own. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trail was littered with fallen branches and ripped apart by huge holes caused by the earthquake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Our Arts Master was a shy retiring man called Arthur Norris who kept himself well apart from the rest of the staff. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been a way for me to heal from my father’s untimely death, while this simply ripped apart the scar tissue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother is Mexican and this woman black, yet the emotions that made them cry came from a heart that was tearing apart the same way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to bring people together, and tear them apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

All I could see was my team falling apart. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We were growing up together, ten thousand miles apart, as she once wrote in a letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Free folk is what they call themselves. Most, at least. The Thenns are a people apart, though. Very old.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There need be no tension between the self in the crowd and the self apart from the crowd! Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The log in the fireplace fell apart, sending a shower of sparks up the chimney. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bridle fell apart in Anya’s hands, so she expected no one would pay for it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But it had set her apart too and made others, like Vandara, hostile. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These women squatting, knees wide apart in their long wrapped skirts, throwing handfuls of peppers and small potatoes into hissing pans over cookfires? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Extremely. Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Simple hook-handles were attached on both sides, and together they yanked them apart. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Their hands smacked, then they pulled them apart, real slick. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then I noticed that it was only cracked, not broken apart. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They were just a mass of people living their life as a race completely apart from the rest of us. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For all the talk and struggle to get Uncle Jet to commit, Nathan realized he had no idea what the ceremony was, apart from the fact that it was seven days long. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They place the tree in front of the window, drawing apart the curtains so that people passing by the house can see, as excited as they were when they were children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought how she might describe it, the way they bobbed on the illuminated water’s gentle swell, and how their hair spread like tendrils and their clothed bodies softly collided and drifted apart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything that set us apart from the manager at the Lily Grocery Store, who just knew he’d make it out but never did. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The house was otherwise quiet, apart from the simmer of boiling greens on the stove. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They broke apart wooden crates and stooped over smoky campfires, feeding the flames. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What sets the real artist apart is not so much the desire to seek, but that mysterious ability to find, which we call talent. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a country was as primed for civil war as Congo was, when it came apart, the pieces weren’t as heavy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat at a cafeteria table, alone and apart as always. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All my classmates certainly must have been uneasy on that first day of school—as most children are uneasy—to find themselves apart from their families in the first institution of their lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd began to break apart and stream from the yard, queen’s men, king’s men, and free folk alike, all anxious to get out of the wind and the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure Arthur is changing his tune about the universe after that marching band broke us apart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But in their fourth year of school, they had begun to grow apart. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The patroller required no reason to stop a person apart from color. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The bell rang, but neither of them heard it, grunting, straining, slugging, and then everyone was in the ring pulling them apart, grabbing their gloves. ". . . by unanimous decision . . . Elston • Hubbard." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that the two of us are sitting a good distance apart. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He’d thought they were close before, but their faces were inches apart now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He brought Frankie’s arms together until they were about a foot apart. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But recently, a friend of mine, Rose, who’s in therapy now because her marriage has already fallen apart, told me those kinds of thoughts are commonplace in women like us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn glanced toward Chess again, hoping his older brother noticed how Finn had had that whole conversation with Natalie without falling apart at the thought of Mom being kidnapped. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Luna pressed her hands to her forehead, trying to keep her skull from flying apart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He could tell things apart that looked exactly alike to Marly—at least for a while—like Dutchman’s-breeches and squirrel com, and Solomon’s seal and twisted-stalk with their tiny bells, and violets! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She took my hand then, silent in that hush, drew me apart, made me sit down, and lay beside me, softly questioning, as I told all I had seen, from first to last. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for USIA, it maintained that the tank had not come apart because of any negligence on its part, but rather was destroyed by villainous Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I was about to intervene when the brothers came apart and let out a doubled scream so loud and piercing I feared my head would break. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She screamed everything, and felt as though her very being broke apart in the soft scatter of wings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Covadonga had been taken apart and put back together with other pieces so many times that it barely ran. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scale survived the first few impacts, but then we heard a big sproinggg and it flew apart. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d go to work on the halves, splitting them apart. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in spite of everything we threw at him, Cap never fell apart, or ratted us out, or even got mad. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All around, sledgehammers rang against iron as swarms of men and women clambered over the ancient oil tanker, tearing it apart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The panels had started to slide apart, letting in a whiff of...ozone? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Our pinkie fingers are maybe an inch apart, and it’s as if an invisible current runs between them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The feeling that outside her tiny sphere, the whole world was being shaken apart. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

On the wall between the bookshelf and the fireplace, a taller bookshelf stood apart. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He could take apart an old watch and put it back together exactly as it had been. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It burst apart, its boards breaking like kindling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Matt no longer feared he would actually fall apart. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes them without saying anything and we sit quietly apart and eat for a minute. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They all got busier and wealthier and lived farther and farther apart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was going to take apart the walls, or me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I believe my atoms begin to drift apart—stop holding hands—in those wordless moments too. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I worry I don’t know who I really am. Sometimes I’m afraid nothing I do will ever be enough to set me apart.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After we had put on the new attire, we formed a horizontal line with legs apart and hands straight down at our sides. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was absolutely no sound in the mine apart from his own rasping breath, the crunch of his footsteps, and the quickening thud of his heart. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

You can only tell exactly what is going on if you can take the clock apart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When they pulled apart, he was looking at her, with his hands wrapped tightly around her, like he couldn’t believe his luck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

With his body he felt his brother move sideways to force his legs apart. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he let her go and they fell apart staring at each other and breathing- hard. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They detonated both of them in sequence, just a few seconds apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He stood, feet apart, swaying with the imaginary movement of the deck, and lifted the sextant. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I ride in the car, it involves a whole process of taking apart and putting together me, my chair, and my stuff. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“In how many ways does the U come apart?” he wrote a fellow physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I could tell her culturally conscious musicians apart now. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’d held him on the ground so he couldn’t escape and, with his powers weakened from being so far from his home territory, they’d been able to cut him apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But after the long swim, the terrible knife fin rising above her, the away and apart and alone, she didn’t have the energy, the heat for this moment. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He turned and the group broke apart and Romero was taking him out with his cape. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

An explosion goes off right above a monument near us, rocketing us all apart. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had been given a real suitcase by the missionary women in school, but it had broken apart in the rain one day. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They're taking the joint apart," he called above the shifting of the gears. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they neared the beach, the surf burst apart and the heads of three white stallions reared out of the waves. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Little Eva, who had continued to carefully take apart each doll to remove a smaller one from inside, finally removed the tiniest doll, and tottered over to Jinx. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they moved their faces apart again both of them sighed deeply. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Of all the days and times for my shoe to fall apart, it had to happen while my life is falling apart. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The fools never took off their jackets even in this heat—as if they were afraid of falling apart without that black uniform. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That they had made a tidy profit was evidenced by the size of their house, which stood apart from the rest of the village. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn't remember when he'd last lost control, but he felt himself falling apart. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mom’s fierce grip on me felt strong enough to last forever, but I knew the system hated us and would keep on tearing us apart. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horan taught the villagers how to take the rifles apart, clean, load, and fire them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I needed to hear her take on the awful situation that was tearing my sister apart. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She gazed down through the gulf, and all of what she had believed about the world began to slowly break apart. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The two largest islands in the Caribbean were only ninety miles apart, and my great-grandparents planned to return quickly after a temporary stay in Jamaica to make some money. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then the houses were far apart from each other and there were yards with big trees in them and black shrubbery. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had no present for her apart from the egg curry. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The two leaders stood facing each other, about forty feet apart. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When Florida saw them running toward her, she felt as if she would break apart into a zillion pieces, and all those pieces would scatter into the air and disappear into the clouds. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The jaws sprang apart and we all jumped. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He handed out the scores, which is really like a form you have to tear apart. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of the song itself, explore the meaning of the music itself apart from the lyrics—sing the melody of the song on a neutral syllable. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The world was too busy tearing itself apart. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The tangled mass of limbs slowed my dogs and they all but tore the treetop apart getting out of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car was empty apart from hay bales, dead mice, and bent nails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

None were more than eighteen months apart in age, all blond and freckled and sunburned, and who could tell one from the other? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

If he sounded too desperate, this would all fall apart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He found two small sources, two lumps an inch apart and hidden in the lining. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1970s, Goldman got involved with a group of mathematicians who were very interested in developing statistical rules for telling apart things like subatomic particles. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I want her to see that if she’s not telling me the truth, my world is going to fall apart at the seams. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe politics and borders were supposed to keep us apart, but David and I built a safe space, a nest where our differences brought us together. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How are these people not tearing each other apart, like in every other place we’ve been?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We're too far apart on the bed, and he doesn't even know what to do with his lips. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s in two pieces now, ripped apart at the jaws. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man’s moods. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He stood facing the tumult, with legs apart, and answered them in the language of honour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo and his companions huddled round the fire, wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed; but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The posts were about to my knee and as far apart as my arms when they were flung out wide. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Barometers would be set to dry and fair and isobars would be far apart, just as I’d predicted yesterday. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew little about Botha apart from the fact that he had been an aggressive defense minister and had supported a military strike into Angola in 1975. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, outside in the dirt, Papa had him by the throat and would have strangled him, but some other men pulled them apart. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Shackleton knew how close his crew was to falling apart. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Oh, Grandma, I thought, we may be far apart but we’re lucky, you and I. Do you even know how lucky? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They “needed some time apart” to figure out if they wanted to continue living together. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh why are we all so far apart? But what shall we do about it?” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once Grandpop had the gun completely apart, he lined the screws and bits of metal all out on the table like Genie always did when he was about to start building a model car. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nor did one know what became of them, apart from the few who were hanged as war criminals; the others simply vanished, presumably into forced-labor camps. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She tried screaming the girl’s name again, but the words ripped her throat apart. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Felt a bit like I was pulling myself apart to leave them here, and it’s a treasonable offense to lose my Pilot’s Notes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But the fence was apparently not built with the express purpose of keeping ten-year-old boys out, for while the bars are solid, they are spread almost a foot apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘I never see them. My dad and my uncle don’t get along. Some old rivalry. I don’t know. It’s stupid what keeps people apart.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They have lived apart most of their lives, but he is the only one who understands her loneliness. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It is all unraveling, Werner can feel it; the fabric of the war tearing apart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pick it apart, leaf by twig, stone by rock, until I have orderly piles of the material. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shuddered for a time as if she fully intended to fly apart. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many families broke apart as the young fled to Port-au-Prince to make a living. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A window at ground level, obviously opening on a cellar, was being wrenched apart with a crash of glass and a screech of tearing wood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to pick the whole thing apart and put it back together again. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he would have had time for a short, bitter chortle before being tom apart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were sitting apart and we jolted close together going down the old street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When they won, they did so handily; when they lost, they fell apart completely. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gus motioned down to the shadows of the branches intersecting and coming apart on the concrete. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat so quickly, and yet she felt utterly calm—as if she could have stayed there forever and not minded, stayed there forever and let the world fall apart around them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the magazines fell apart and were used to light fires. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Americans obsessed over the threat of terrorism, many were overlooking the racism and tribalism that were tearing our nation apart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But he was in the middle of a field and there was nowhere—apart from the grass itself. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He did not scream, not even when the wolf that had been his brother tore him apart, ripping open his throat and spilling his guts onto the rock floor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They had worked hard to keep their team together, and the season had fallen apart anyway. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had never tried to break apart anything as large as these rocks by magic, and now didn’t seem a good moment to try — what if the whole tunnel caved in? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Not long after October started, he took his bracelet apart and stuffed a few of the Devil’s Shoestrings into a small felt bag that he wore around his neck. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The repairs were dependent on the manufacturer’s engineers pulling the magnets apart, flushing the oil lines, and putting them back together properly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were so black I couldn’t tell them apart and called them both just Mary. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The guys in the fight tried to swing a few more punches, but people in the crowd had pulled them apart and locked them in arm holds. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His hands, which were so confident and skillful at taking apart clocks, probed the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She said that Frankie and I were her most prized possessions, and knowing that we were safe was the only way she could survive being apart from me on my fifteenth birthday. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The road they were on led through the center of the park until it branched apart about halfway through and went as two roads to the two different beaches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bessie wasn’t the only girl afraid to touch anything apart from the doorknobs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They broke down one of the tent poles and ripped apart the canvas, using it to bind the pole to Con’s leg. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their time apart had just caught up to the time they had been married—twenty-one years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He en’t here, but I don’t feel torn apart, I feel safe, and I know he is.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Kat thinks, she moves about a lot, but when I think, apart from putting my head to one side, I am still. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

That my heart might stop without the fragments of metal that would rip it apart? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I used to rip it with my hands, just for the sheer fun of tearing something apart. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I’m going to pull you apart, elf. I’m going to pull off each one of those thin, spindly, pale arms. But you’ll still be alive.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Put both your feet right against the line, shoulder width apart,” he instructed, pushing my body the way he wanted it. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face was all serious, and even though we were, like, three feet apart, suddenly he felt super-close. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If we look at the same unmoving celestial object six months apart, we should be able to measure very great distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tempted to get out his tools and adjust the idle on her carburettor, because that much vibration would make her engine fly apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But the spinner is all apart with some of the rings under the table and some under the sink, and the cord is near the stove. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

All the knots of tension inside me come apart at once. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We broke apart and took turns taking center stage, each of us performing a different combination of moves; but our performances were fluid—they talked to each other. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was lost back there. Like I was going to be swept away, my mind, my memories, all picked apart and dissolved into nothing.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sohrab had his arms wrapped around her, like he could keep her from flying apart if he squeezed tight enough. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was like when you pull apart two pork ribs that weren’t quite finished cooking yet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She crossed and recrossed the Great Square and always, ahead of her, the people swept apart to let her pass. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, Tally felt the pressure release, and her hands popped apart. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A second or two it rested there: a blaze of connection, the feeling of being seen and set apart. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was not remotely pleased to see Fudge, whose occasional appearances, apart from being downright alarming in themselves, generally meant that he was about to hear some very bad news. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

David opened a can of beef stew and ate the whole can— with his shrunken stomach it filled him to bursting— and still the whales tore the bay apart. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because, apart from the human animal, the chimpanzee is the most fascinating animal of all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are wearing identical navy-blue windbreakers and stand with their feet apart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Coach’s sitting on the steps, knees apart, his elbows on his thighs. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now, as father and son sat down at the kitchen table with a map, if either felt conscious of a family about to split apart for good, there was no reference to it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sides of the river might well be a thousand miles apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charlie—” “Just leave me alone. I’m not myself. I’m falling apart, and I don’t want you here.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His microphone picks up the sound, magnifying it until the entire dome sounds like it’s tearing apart. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Jumping out of bed, Martin pulled the curtains apart and was startled to see that the house was surrounded by dark liquid that kept rising. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

You disaggregate everything and tear it apart, but you are never able to synthesize the whole. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“And one more thing. You give Effie Wilcox back her house, free and clear. It isn’t worth nothing anyway—apart from its historical value.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But next to the sports complex, set slightly apart, as if to show off that it was there in the first place, was the hockey rink. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was not going to let herself fall apart. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the Labrador would sit apart, aloof and watchful, nervous and tense. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even at that age, I didn’t want to be set too far apart from my culture. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’d take the stereo apart to replace pieces and clean the insides, but he hardly ever spun any records on the turntable. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

By the time I subbed in for Drew toward the end of the third quarter, I was ready to rip somebody apart. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone was forced to watch when a prisoner was beaten, whipped, shot, hanged, or torn apart by the dogs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like a space has opened up within me, expanding so rapidly it will break me apart. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was galloping through the rocky forest by the sea cliffs when her foot splintered apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her back was sore too, from where her cushions had slid apart in the night and she’d fallen through to the rough plank floor of the cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To grieve, to ache, to be torn apart, and then...to hear his voice call your name again, feel the touch of his hand once more... You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re here,” said her other mother, in a voice so close to her real mother’s that Coraline could scarcely tell them apart. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He remembered what the Chief Elder had said: that his training would be alone and apart. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Western “love” concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy named Hussein, a small Meskhetian Turk with big eyes set wide apart, was skipping and thrashing his arms, making his teammates laugh. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her first attempts at a really long strand had come apart, but she was getting the hang of it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood with his legs apart and his arms on his hips, making himself quite large. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They passed through a music room where a harp stood sternly apart from them, with never a jangle of strings to mark their footfalls. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s 1941, and it doesn’t take her long to discover Hans’s Nazi sympathies, and since Cady is deeply concerned with the plight of the Jews and of her friend Marianne, they begin drifting apart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You squat and do your business. But be careful to keep your legs far apart so that you don’t fall in. Would you like me to go first and show you how it’s done?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed that two of the heads were ripping apart a piece of yellow canvas—one of our duffel bags. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually she assembled data from her friends at school, carefully spacing her questions weeks apart so as not to arouse suspicion. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He says there are no such things as discrete objects which remain unchanged, set apart from the flow of time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chair came apart in his hands, the screws which had previously connected its several sections ripping out and hanging loose. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As Franklin picked the model apart, molecule by molecule, it was as if she were extracting bones from their bodies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Have a friend pour Pepsi into one glass and Coke into another and try to tell them apart. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he could get them to lineup and stand still for a minute, but they might as well be identical for as much as he could tell them apart. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

You might say it would have happened sooner or later anyway, this sliding apart of such a large family, in postwar California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher walked off twenty steps and set up five hunks of wood ’bout three feet apart one from the ’nother. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But no matter how carefully I try to pull the individual strands apart, they just get tighter and tighter. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The investigators tore this place apart looking for clues about what might’ve happened to him, but me and Mama made sure to put everything back exactly like it was. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like the way that felt, didn’t want to be apart from them, ever, even if Juanita was changing the subject to avoid focusing on what could go wrong. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If they faced inside the chain, they would repel each other, forcing the molecule to fly apart in a nanosecond. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They’d been taught to jump in quick succession, no more than one second between men—any longer than that and they’d land too far apart to find each other in the dark. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But if it had come to a fight, he would have torn me apart." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In addition, things were seriously beginning to fall apart at home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to figure out a solution, though, and another to enter a place where she had just seen a buffalo torn apart. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had begun to suffer from rheumatism, and apart from this had had several attacks of fever, from each of which he recovered more slowly and emerged weaker. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts the plastic bat and moves his feet apart. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was empty apart from a couple of bundles that Alex vaguely recognized. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If I stop being angry, I’m afraid I’ll fall apart until I’m just a warm mound of flesh on the floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead I now stayed indoors, engrossed in attempting to master the Monopoly game, form English words with Boggle and figure out how the various toys worked, by meticulously taking them apart and reassembling them again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rotten orange burst apart all over Tom’s face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was tearing apart like a piece of wet paper. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Martial law is the last step before everything falls apart. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She shrugged, gave up the ball, and stood apart again, to watch. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But his back was to her as he slammed the lift gates apart, and told her to take her end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We have no fear in running at good speed up the river at night; there is plenty of water, and the banks are wide enough apart to make steaming, even in the dark, easy enough. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“At my friend’s house. Her parents are away this weekend. You can drive, okay? My car is literally falling apart.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Instead, I move into my silence-is-power body language: feet apart, fists on hips, frown on face. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when that happens, the two worlds split apart. i’m using the example of tossing a coin to make it clearer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“What you need to tell them apart for? They’s all deweys.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he pictured each face, it broke apart, until there seemed nothing left of his past. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is silent apart from the cicadas in the distant trees and the truck engines. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

To the right, about ten feet from the main building, are four cabins scattered six feet apart. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They argued a bit more then went on to the house where Joe was and found him in his shirt-sleeves, standing with his legs wide apart, asking questions and smoking a cigar. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They had opened their ranks only to the gentle young dog when he arrived years later; but, fond as they were of him, the affection they bore for one another was something quite apart. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull was standing in front of the class, legs apart, hands on hips, scowling at Miss Honey who stood silent to one side. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And where is your sister? I so rarely see the two of you apart.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world and the shock had made him physically sick. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“My family is falling apart,” she cried out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Only a silversmith could have told them apart. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple wasn’t completely sure they grasped the concept of college—that, in just a couple of weeks, she’d be living apart from them, making decisions for herself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His slight strangeness set him apart and made him safe as a repository. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I was larger, at that moment, I would have torn him apart. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’s holding himself together as best he can, but he’s going to come apart. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Paqo said, “Strange how close the two names are. Micay. Millay. Beauty and horror just a click of the tongue apart. One moment in time, and a life veers off on a different path.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I've only been at this for a day and I'm falling apart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Papa took things apart when he needed to relax. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s smoking a lot so he won’t feel hungry all the time; his teeth are breaking apart from decay. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We were probably the only ones they were really after, apart from Marcus, who is most likely dead.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chances are the thread viruses can survive for some time—if the surface is free of sunlight, which would break apart the virus’s genetic material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planks were slippery, and it felt like at any moment the whole thing might just fall apart and leave them to sink beneath the surface. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When we finally pulled apart, panting, he smiled down at me, his hand drawing a strand of hair off my face. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Luke and I had been apart more than we had been together, but at least we saw our mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The younger men leaned back on their stools with their knees wide apart, taking up all the room they needed, and were quick to yell out what was on their minds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of researchers at the Special Pathogens Branch of the C.D.C.—principally Anthony Sanchez and Heinz Feldmann—have picked apart the genes of all the filoviruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time to stan worrying about how things worked was when they broke down or fell apart, and not before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the way he stood, his feet slightly apart, his arms comfortably crossed on his chest, his head titled a little toward the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, the sweetshop’s rather good, and Zonko’s Joke Shop’s frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack’s always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you’re not missing anything.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“A sign—we has this sign—if we get apart.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We brought the ice cream home, and Brian pulled apart the carton and cut the block into five even slices. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what it was like to be stuck on the outside because of one little thing that set you apart. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She could cry once she was home, but there was no way she was going to fall apart in front of Claire. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her hoverboard was useless there, but the hiking was easy in the new shoes the rangers had given her, her own so burned that they had fallen apart in the helicopter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then he shouted, “Sergeant, take this boy up to the stockade to see Sam Meeker. See that they stay six feet apart and pass nothing between them.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite apart from wanting to win, Harry found that he had fewer nightmares when he was tired out after training. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and thirty miles of wilderness had been burned, ripped apart, or buried under a hundred feet of mud and debris. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But watch for planes in threes. When they spread apart, you know they’re going to drop bombs. Sometimes airplanes covered the sky, and we could not see and we could not hear.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook it, he took it apart again and put it back together, he kept his thumb on the power button until it hurt. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A dozen or so trolls began to smash apart the chamber with their clubs, while hags glided about the place in search of children to eat. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard me and jerked apart like they were caught having cookies before dinner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“All us teachers, I mean. I’m not the only one dealing with textbooks falling apart or supplies disappearing. You know Mr. Roberts? Science department?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Divination was his least favorite subject, apart from Potions. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then they were apart again and Vegas was snapping his glove in Billy’s face. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were barely three inches apart. Couldn’t you see you were both looking at each other?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The movement is falling apart with all this mistrust and gossip. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

To all of them Samuel communicated his love of learning, and he set them apart from the prideful ignorance of their time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made a face at Omakayas, for with her beadwork she was set apart, another of the women, and Pinch was left to fetch wood all by himself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He and Sam stood five feet apart, staring at each other. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire in my mother’s eyes brightens and she reaches out as if some current is tearing us apart. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could react, the planks in the bulkhead to my right split apart, and Tarrypin—his shell bundled in chains—was marched out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, knowing the drill, I open my mouth and pull my cheeks apart with my fingers like I’m making a face at her, to show her that the medicine has truly been swallowed. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Califor-nia Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, and Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we went in and before long we’d wandered apart to look at different aisles. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What’s amazing," says Carine as she studies these images of her brother, “is that even though the pictures were taken ten years apart, his expression is identical.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers, Lord Wyman made polite inquiry after Lady Homwood, who was a cousin of his. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe his world wasn’t about to fall apart. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The spare doesn't actually pull C02 apart and recapture the oxygen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was nothing, apart from his family, to draw him home, to make this train journey, again and again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of the fixture and not imagine all the ways it could fall apart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The carnival’s breaking apart into a riot hung like a bomb between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As has been discussed in this chapter and Chapter 7, “empty” space is filled with pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles that appear together, move apart, and then come back together and annihilate each other. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our lips were just inches apart, and I could feel her heat and smell that awesome stuff she uses on her hair, and I thought, Oh my God, she is finally going to kiss me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Nah. The contractions aren’t that bad and are still like twenty minutes apart. I cleaned our entire house, from top to bottom, while I was in early labor with you.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice came from a man who sat apart from the rest, wrapped in shadow at the edge of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was all alone, he thought, apart from the others in the litter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though she was allowed to visit him often, she was consumed by the guilt of living apart from him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He worked the blade lever-wise and the closing muscle parted and the shell fell apart. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really feel like rending someone apart,” mourned Do, even as his fur turned more bristly and his fangs elongated. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The whole of Harlem seemed to fall apart in the swirl of snow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The events were compound words that could never be ripped apart. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

If he were alive, he would rip them apart with his bare hands. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bodies set apart from the town cemetery because of the deadly disease that had killed them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, Bryson was awake, standing, yawning, stretching—all of which felt like he was pulling himself apart. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

If the Hercules Cluster is not flying apart, there must be five times more mass there, gravitationally gluing the cluster together, than we see in its galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can never remember their names or tell them apart; they’re equally spoiled. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Have taken Paul’s revolver apart and put it back together 7 times. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Now, her hand on mine after so long apart, here in Tommy's house and nowhere close to sleep, I wonder what might have changed if I had. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The flag was folded into a perfect triangle of white stars just like the one in Grandpop’s room, where Grandpop hid his gun—well, before he broke it all apart. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the blood has been wiped from the photographs; only a few traces remain, making the corners of the pictures stick together when I peel them apart. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And seated a little apart was a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I clenched my teeth, waiting for a bomb blast to tear us apart. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Circumstance had pulled us apart, but he was never not my father. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

While Hermann Muller’s scientific work was ascending to its zenith in Texas, his personal life was falling apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We were sitting so close together that when we’d lifted our heads our faces were only inches apart. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had been bom on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We listen to volley after volley, about three minutes apart. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The X-rays showed a certain malformation of the uterus, I remember, which meant she could never have had a child, but that was quite apart, it had nothing to do with the disease.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Puli alone not of the family, standing a little apart awkwardly, clutching in his arms the dum-dum cart. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he moves easily, caught up in the rush, and other times he’s tense and taut and wants Alex to work him loose and take him apart. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered looking down at him and feeling my own face tom apart. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids said she was a witch capable of witch deeds, unspeakable boilings and tearings apart and transformations if she caught us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would not be set apart from our distinguished audience at all; instead, we would be playing practically in their royal laps. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The mine whistle was the sound that brought us together. And kept us apart at the same time....” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He strained to think what the sound reminded him of, apart from thirty musical saws, but he had never heard anything else like it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They’d done their best to tear apart entire structures, things that made monsters. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was alive with energies she hadn’t yet teased apart, but one of them was waiting and listening. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But apart from the swiftly fading pain, and a certain lassitude which was new to him, he felt no different. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

This time he did not zigzag between rubbish heaps but strode purposefully toward a small house set apart from the others at a curve in the road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Someone with a lot more strength than me, that’s for sure. I mean, I could tell you were sad, but not falling apart like I was—” I caught myself. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And for a moment we just lie there, our faces a breath apart on the pillow. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Again he noticed the Long Knife standing apart. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was not her son, and apart from those eight dollars, I owed her nothing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were so together that we weren’t ever really apart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Two notes that are exactly one octave apart sound good together because their frequencies are related in such a simple way. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She tore the house apart looking for documents to prove we were her children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The same fate befell every adult in the party apart from the two who had fled on their horses. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europe was on edge again just twenty years after the Great War tore it apart. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I try to return his enthusiasm, but it doesn’t come naturally—when we break apart, my face is hot. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We broke apart, fighting to breathe, holding on to each other like we were drowning, like we’d been lost, left for dead in a very large expanse of sea. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Powell and Augustus, their faces inches apart, fixed their eyes on each other. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But they grew apart in the end,” Ruth adds. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In their luxurious sublet in Ann Arbor, Mia had taken various pieces of her hosts’ furniture apart and arranged the components—bolts as thick as her finger, unvarnished crossbeams, disembodied feet—into animals. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted the sword screaming, and moved on, closer, closer, but it was all coming apart; the whole world was dying. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he saw nothing of the great Odysseus, who sat apart, as a thousand times before, and racked his own heart groaning, with eyes wet scanning the bare horizon of the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had slashed him apart with a knife and stolen all the money. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Girls, apart from Dawn Madden, and the littl'uns were cleared off the ice. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then without a word, we break apart and head for the lake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a loud slamming noise, and Mrs. Weasley and Harry broke apart. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday I couldn’t tell them apart,” said Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I figured if I shorten it, God will hear this time, cause I’m starting to slowly fall apart. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We had simply drifted apart because we had so little in common, except our past relationship. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the colors of their hair, it was hard to tell the two of them apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fissure split and grew, like those scenes in disaster movies when an earthquake cracks the streets apart and chases the hero. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I always had trouble telling his sisters apart, because they were triplets and they looked alike. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I could take it apart and understand it then maybe I could make just exactly the right change. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, her strength! her weakness!—both pulling me apart. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He splayed out his hands, pushing the water apart as the wet floor under them cracked. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I reverted to the books I loved, those rare and impractical luxuries I’d happened on a few times in my life and hoarded until they fell apart, all pulp and tears. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Again our household was torn apart; belongings were sold, given away, or simply left behind, and we were off for another long train ride. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart; just as these presences did in the open air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He laid his hand on them and instantly they swung apart, opening inward, turning on their hinges without the least noise. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The water flowed apart, leaving a ditch of air down the middle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Twenty feet apart they would slide to a stop and stand screaming at each other with raised swords. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was remarkable that the same species of bird was able to thrive in two places so far apart, and so completely different. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from being my employer, Basner was one of those whites who had truly taken risks on the behalf of black emancipation, and I could not desert him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After falling apart, turning hysterical, when the officers first told her in the classroom at Utah State, she recovered her outward composure. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Each in turn knelt respectfully and kissed the ring, transmitting their DNA to the worldwide immunity database in the Scythedom’s own special cloud separate and apart from the Thunderhead. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“A man torn apart. An adolescent boy with serious issues. Let me show you, again, the last known photo of this troubled young fugitive, taken a week ago in Denver.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The dung cakes I made fell apart, so the fire went out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our hearts felt full as we studied the code, took apart and repaired radios in the field, and learned how to fight with our weapons. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though the clock is falling apart, slowly and gracefully. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Meggie thought they would tear him apart when he dragged them off Mo, but instead they licked his hands, jumping up at him like an old friend, and almost knocking him down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another death in this community was a reason for all of us to come together, not tear each other apart. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I eased the shoots out of the earth and gently combed their roots apart. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now, suppose one has two parallel metal plates a short distance apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bedi Ma'am tries to pull apart the fighting boys as I bury my nose in the jasmine flowers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But he said nothing when O-lan fried them in oil and when the laborers crunched them between their teeth and the children pulled them apart delicately and tasted them, afraid of their great eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning at breakfast, I sit apart and speak to no one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As they walked further into the field, I climbed onto the roof of the car, stood on tiptoes, and watched them until I could no longer tell them apart from the other pickers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though a necklace had come apart and each bead rolled separately across the floor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of people were killed at a wedding. Everyone dead, torn apart like rag dolls. Blue fire.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They cannot lead a good life apart from human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We were told to take the potatoes and onions out of their bins and knock out the dividing walls that kept them apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you gave the same group of kids the same test, under the same circumstances six months apart, Hartshorne and May found, the same kids would cheat in the same ways in both cases. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our villages are usually miles apart from each other—two, three, four—so kids are not encouraged to go to other villages to play. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled on it, and with the sound of thick paper ripping apart, the vine came unattached from the wall—more and more as Thomas stepped away from it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But eventually his religious commitments began tearing him apart. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I worried constantly that the raft would come apart, that the knots holding me to the lifeboat would become loose, that a shark would attack. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing electrical apart from a bare brown bulb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We wrestled around on the ground, holding back each other’s fists, trying to claw at each other’s faces and kick, but Rondell took both our foreheads in his huge hands and pushed us apart. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If the segregation laws were designed to reduce friction by keeping the races apart, in practice they had the opposite effect. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I felt so grossed out, like I'd been cut apart, and I looked at the girl who he’d said nothing about and wondered how she felt. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And as the heavy robothung there, cracks suddenly shot through the stone and it started breaking apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And yet, the farther into this tunnel we walked, the more I was overcome by clammy, creeping dread—a feeling entirely apart from the one I sensed hollows with; this was simply a bad feeling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was that class trip to Washington, D.C., where things really fell apart. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tony told Carmen something else that shocked her, what the molasses company was saying about why the tank broke apart. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Ben did not understand why his mother, his sister, and his friends had to bleed, hurt, and cramp; the separateness was an abyss, a continental divide that kept them apart. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sharp, ripping pain as though he is being pulled apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sound of it seemed to blow the room apart: Fragments of wood and paper and rubble flew in all directions, along with an impenetrable cloud of thick white dust. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

York could see that fashioning a modus operandi for the new lab that met both men’s specifications would be practically impossible, for “they were poles apart.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All the women talked together, while his father stood a little apart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The synchrotron principle has ever since been attributed to McMillan and Veksler, who discovered it nearly simultaneously but certainly independently, working half a world apart. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, that sure makes me laugh. Poor old Travis is about to fall apart, in case nobody’s noticed.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She moved the two pieces apart, watching how the appearance of things changed as she did so. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But, apart from this secret anxiety, he felt that his reputation depended on a fighting victory. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Oliver had earned that right by being born between two sets of sisters, but he had the honor of being the only boy, which held him apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At home, she took them apart at the seams, washed their pelts, fluffed their filling, repolished their eyes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A third, and what appeared to be the oldest, set of twins was blond, standing apart with hands on hips, and Ivan was face-down on the ground in front of them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He thinks of his parents then, living apart for the final months of his father’s life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their teacher, Mr. Quisling, planted himself at the front of the room, legs apart, arms crossed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Others distrusted Jews who lived apart, speaking Yiddish—which was the traditional language spoken by Eastern European Jews— and following ancient customs of dress, culture, and education. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie said, getting in between the two guys and pushing them apart. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The first crate rode to shore on a tumbling, rumbling wave and then crashed against the rocks with such force that the whole thing burst apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now that it’s all falling apart, I want it more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my whole life. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We always tried to sit apart in the mess hall, but sometimes seating arrangements were out of our hands, and one night we found ourselves across the table from each other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seemed to suggest that the Earth was splitting apart at the seams, like a nut bursting out of its shell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They wheeled up into the sky, broke apart, came together, and disappeared among the houses. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Who has set us apart from all the rest? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We packed up and joined the ever growing path of people going in two directions, with a big dip in the middle of paths set about fifty feet apart. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After dinner the three of them sat nervously apart in the common room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was about two days later, when I went to pick up the watch, that things fell apart. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his hand back and waved it through the air to sum up all the ways the San Antonio schools kept Mexican students apart from whites. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Newt ran forward and pulled her fingers apart, grabbing the paper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Millions of stars apart and I am still here with you. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After barely a year of marriage, the war that had brought them together was driving them apart. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jimmy kicked the body of the plane apart, opening it like a can of beans. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the end, the thing that broke us apart wasn’t all the hatred. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And here, the reality was that they sat ten feet apart, she at the window, crushing geranium leaves in her hand and smelling them, he twirling around on the piano stool, saying: The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The clouds turned from gray to white and broke apart. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Economic inequality tore friends and families apart, as did simply the accusation that somebody wanted intentionally to hurt someone else. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Crumbley had become a desiccated cast of himself, so fragile that a strong wind could blow him apart. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I set the lamp down, then we broke apart to search for something to protect us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This one word says everything to Lidia—fall apart, but piece herself back together. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Carolyn Malone was Stella’s best friend, and not only that, their birthdays were just three days apart. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a point when I get so worked up I can’t tell my emotions apart. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If you were to write a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, what would make yours stand apart from these others? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know Wilse Graham, but the man was “comp’ny”; that meant enough to set this day apart from the monotonous routine of many others. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whirl of color, and now everything darkened, and Snape and Dumbledore stood a little apart in the entrance hall, while the last stragglers from the Yule Ball passed them on their way to bed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

So I stared straight ahead at the ground, just like everyone else, silent and still as the man beside me was ripped apart. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only the underwire and the plastic clasps were keeping the fabric from tearing apart altogether. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first Easter we’ve been apart since I was born. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he had seated himself in his black leather armchair Cockerell placed himself behind it, legs planted wide apart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With my ax handle, I pried apart his locked jaws. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite apart from his great scientific talents,” he told Neylan, “I have always regarded him as a man of fine personal qualities of character, loyalty, and integrity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the counter had long blonde hair, and her eyes looked like they were set ever-so-slightly too far apart. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That word made the blog even more apart from her, a separate thing that could thrive or not, sometimes without her and sometimes with her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The soldier tears them apart until only the tips of their fingers hold them together, then that chain too is broken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight: The nest builder announced plans for his next performance piece, and the group fell apart. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But there was something that set us apart. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were so far apart I couldn’t use both of them to focus on any one thing at the same time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They performed a crazy kind of dance with their claws to scratch apart the caked manure and expose the meaty grubs within. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The two of us stood maybe ten meters apart, fixed in place, for a long time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When I felt I might fall apart I went into the bathroom and threw water on my face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He could drown, freeze, or be pecked apart by seagulls. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He had been alone like her, and his disability had set him apart from the other animals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What sets Mavens apart, though, is not so much what they know but how they pass it along. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another looked like she could take my computer apart. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The only sound apart from the drip of water was the normal forest birdsong. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her moths wheeled apart, cutting through the blowing smoke until they found another figure sprawled out flat and still. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We have tonight and half of tomorrow before the feast, before I must go to Hollow Hall, before my plans either come together or come entirely apart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Our attitudes were made, defined, set, or corrected; our ideas were discovered, discarded, enlarged, torn apart, and accepted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s going to be worse than being apart.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“So what you’re saying is after a lifetime of getting picked apart because of my skin color, I should dismiss the girl I love because of hers?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Of course, what Doc Kelly said didn’t make the Danvers hate the Gantrys any less, and that hatred had those boys drawing blood until Mr. Kennel came and yanked them boys apart. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He said that love and dark matter were the same—the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She knew what was out there because it was all a part of her now—the endless churning darkness, the shadowy snowdrifts that collected in the wind and blew apart again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Notes that are one octave apart are so closely related to each other that musicians give them the same name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Room is made for sex, plenty of room; but a room, as it were, apart. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it hit me fully: I wanted to make movies that would bring people together, not ones that would tear them apart. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Trees enveloped the great buildings, their roots slowly ripping apart the soft limestone walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another good thing about Sinaloa, she can cook things apart from octopus. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard about blood pooled on the floors of classrooms and the bodies of twenty first graders and six educators torn apart by a semiautomatic rifle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The slant was very steep and there were only a few blocks of wood nailed down, very far apart from each other, that the workmen used for footholds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It would either fall apart or it would collapse to form a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a feather from the falcon’s back, and the whole automaton fell apart. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I did not like the idea of being apart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When she first hears it, she thinks it is her own motor she has forgotten to turn off, but the sound grows into a pained roar, as if the engine were falling apart. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

‘And that justification fell apart with the floods,” Woods said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His permanent teeth were coming in, but they were blue and far apart like his baby teeth had been. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tore the joint apart and buried two large hunks in the sandy soil at the river’s edge, and then marked the caches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took a capsule apart and unloaded half of it and fitted it together again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were young, my mom and dad lived in neighboring villages that were about a day apart by foot. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, you just stop stupid talk like that! My whole world would fall apart if something happened to you. Your parents’ as well.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Wasting not a minute, I broke apart the earth with Horatio’s dagger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But that wouldn't stop them from tearing us apart. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her head whacked against the black stone, and he bit down on his yell, forcing himself to remain on the sidelines, forcing himself to watch as Cain broke her apart, piece by piece. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I pulled an Oreo out of my robe pocket and twisted it apart. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Nin buckled, as if someone had taken a sledgehammer to all her supports and she were bursting apart, falling, fading, and then...gone, her hands as limp as leather gloves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mark’s right elbow shuddered in pain, trembling as if the tendons and bone and tissue were coming apart. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Something I didn’t even know was breakable just fell apart inside me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

You can’t sit with your legs spread apart, or jump too high or hang upside-down, without ridicule. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hated to see her weak and crying and falling apart. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

James junior then put the colt on the road, touring through thirteen tracks up and down the East Coast to run in low-rent races spaced as little as two days apart. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the very time that his body was beginning to fall apart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I will tear her apart with my bare hands.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This is the first live naked woman I’ve ever seen, apart from myself in the mirror. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Things Fall Apart,” he said, and at first I thought he had given me a warning, that everything around me would fall apart. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I want to see you tear the next girl apart just like you did this one. You were amazing out there.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When was the last time he and Toby had spent more than a few days apart? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But apart from my big performance on the front porch, Wednesday is mostly boring. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been short—less than five foot six—and Turner could see nothing of him apart from a portion of the back of his head. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ever since Reagan's election, the United States and the Soviet Union had been moving further apart, not closer together. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She and Neda were only a few years apart in age, and even though their personalities were wildly dissimilar, they were inseparable. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All the doors were broken and the house was torn apart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The fussy biochemical setup had taken weeks to perfect—except each time the ribosomes were caught, they crumbled and fell apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Except they had blue bands at the top, so Mom could tell mine apart from Bobby Gene’s. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On June 1, 1919, seven explosives in five eastern cities tore apart homes and public buildings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. That’s not the point. The point is, you—sorry, we need to learn how to just calm down and take everything in before trying to pick it all apart.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were apart as when some one comes into a room and people are self-conscious. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He did not notice that the walls of his house were eager for a coat of paint, that the furniture was falling apart, and that the kitchen had turned into a pigsty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks, she told Redemption after they pulled apart. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The two stood a tiger’s length apart, gazing at each other. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not gonna lie: the only thing I’ve ever been truly afraid of in gymnastics—apart from letting everyone down—was that high bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mom always seemed glad enough to see me, but I started to think that my dropping by only reminded her of how things were coming apart. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tip of the hazel switch sang through its arc, leaves and stems flew apart, but the cheers of the crowds were harder to summon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the farther apart the spots are, the faster they will be moving apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what it felt like to her, anyway: taking things apart in her head and putting them down on paper so she could figure out how they worked. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Just a chapter from the Bible, from Matthew, with a single verse set apart in bold: O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was unconscious again, and it was ripping me apart inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His sharp duds weren’t the only thing that set Johnny Cakes apart from the other fishermen at the docks. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I joined a group of about twenty students from different grades, set off in a self-contained classroom apart from the rest of the school with our own recess, lunch, music, and gym schedules. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even as I looked away, I wanted her to come right over and treat me just like Amelia would treat Zara after spending three days apart. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Here’s yours. Stick it in your pocket like this. We stand five steps apart. At the count of three, draw and fire. Got it?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Barnabas Saint was the tree, tearing the house apart, and Great-Grandpop was the birds, sitting in all that mess, eating themselves. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Their lives were at sea, together and apart, as they passed from their twenties to their early thirties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But shortly beforehand, the two men died—hours apart, in the same hospital, of a similar respiratory ailment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“When you get on your bike, don’t you expect it to hold you up? Not fall apart when you pedal?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Back in Cape Town after the expedition fell apart, February described his disappointment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I finally managed to pry my lips apart, but when I spoke, the words sounded like whispers. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Trevor and Amy were in love. We all knew the rules. No contact, six feet apart. And I”—she points to herself—“I let them break the rules because I wanted them to be happy.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, staring dazedly at the fragments of crystal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, she did not immediately leave, for the room was pleasingly uncluttered by personal possessions—in fact, apart from Briony’s, it was the only tidy bedroom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were inseparable, kind of like the Three Musketeers, until the war tore them apart. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It sounded like Darnell was tearing his throat apart and Mark wanted nothing more than to cover his ears. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

While on these rocks, some far apart enough to make them pause and consider the best way to reach the next one, water had surrounded them on both sides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs that look as if they want to tear me apart. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sixth and seventh graders hugged and giggled, reunited after months apart. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If Kaz was their leader, then Inej had been their lodestone, pulling them together when they seemed most likely to drift apart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Hey! Knock that off!” he says as he wades into the water and pulls the kids apart. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When we pull our faces apart, the beach is empty and it’s just the two of us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I missed them a great deal during those days, long before I had any inkling that I would spend decades apart from them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind, hitting a pile of chaff, will scatter all the parched stuff far and wide; just so, when this gigantic billow struck the boat’s big timbers flew apart. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still fast friends, but there was something between us, and I could tell he was consciously holding himself apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would give her life one more day to completely fall apart. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the same reluctance to mix, the burden that bent her at all times and set her apart. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He watched the red stain spread, feeling light-headed, curiously apart; there had been no pain, not even a hint of feeling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If my eyes were farther apart, my finger would seem to move substantially more. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved his hands farther apart in front of him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment the two bears stood apart, getting their breath back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a noise, like the mine was tearing itself apart. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only the first day, and everything is falling apart already. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As they listened, they began to understand the lives of the Forest, apart from themselves, indeed to feel themselves as the strangers where all other things were at home. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The whole world was crying as everything fell apart. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She could not remember the other, who stood silent and a little apart. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has been touching me in some way since we left the stairwell of that building, like he thinks I might break apart if he doesn’t hold me together. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to risk losing the bones if the dress tore apart. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Will wanted to do justice to their generosity, but the only thing he could easily swallow, apart from the drink, was some flat, slightly scorched floury bread like chapatis or tortillas. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The way you learn about anything. Take it apart.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They flew together and apart at the sight of a predator, and Frightful dove into their midst. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he left Robin and went apart to his own devotions. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

If, for example, I played you five very high pitched tones, you’d be able to tell them apart. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It crashed over rocks and through narrow channels, catapulted up into moonlit sprays, split apart, rejoined, and dropped down into boiling cauldrons at the bottom of steep falls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It vibrates through me, shaking my ribs and breaking me apart, shattering me to dust. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"Your grief is mine, Cat," he said when they broke apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I can see how her dreams of becoming a doctor fell apart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When they are a whole step apart, the note in between them can only be named using a flat or a sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I could simply have ripped the “fruit” apart—I still call it that for lack of a better word—but I chose to satisfy my curiosity in a measured way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

You had to look at the scar patterns on people s faces to tell the tribes apart—Dinka scar patterns were different from those of the Nuer. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carpenter took apart the wheelhouse from the ship and rebuilt it at Ocean Camp for a galley, and the larger “hot potato can,” as the stove was called, was installed inside. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

So I'll paraphrase it for you: Me: "This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt like I was dying, or the Earth was breaking apart beneath my feet, or the sky might swallow me whole. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Uncle Ali rose from his seat and ripped them apart. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mvezo, however, was a place apart, a tiny precinct removed from the world of great events, where life was lived much as it had been for hundreds of years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miracles and answers to prayer thus become entirely subjective experiences; objectively, there is nothing there, apart from a coincidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gertrude heard it and turned, then seeing me, she gasped and drew Claudius apart from Laertes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Things fell apart at my house after that. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, is there no one else apart from your husband?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thirty-seven years old and it was all going to fall apart again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept whinnying, standing with her legs far apart. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flew apart, struggling to sit up, Dimple’s head swimming. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They spent an agonizing two months apart, writing each other letters to stay in touch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Behind her I see our snow angels, a perfect five feet apart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Much farther out I could see Jasper and Alice, at least a quarter of a mile apart, appearing to throw something back and forth, but I never saw any ball. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On a typical day, families were scattered and apart, tykes scampering unsupervised, parents at work; but today hubbies stood with their wives and tykes with their families. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to tell these corporate drones apart was by checking the six-digit employee number stamped on their right breast, just beneath the lOI corporate logo. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

These negative responses to his legacy were to blow music apart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The waves were close to swallowing up whatever was left of the shark, the remains of muscle and organs that were already being picked apart by isopods. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Still, it made sense that Jesse Dailey would have gravitated to a place like this, where he could use the gift he’d developed in grade school—taking computers apart and putting them together again. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now...can you make good on those bold words? Can you control what you ask for, or will you be torn apart?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time me and her been together without things falling apart. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then with one hand Vidar will reach up and grasp the wolf's upper jaw and rip its mouth apart. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The earth lay rich and dark, and fell apart lightly under the points of their hoes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We hurried to lock the doors and tried to close the windows, but the windows were stuck open—the vehicle was rusty and old, ready to fall apart. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He could not tell the two of them apart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She saw storms, rain, water droplets forming and falling and breaking apart as they struck the surface of the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her marriage with Howard settled into a state of limbo, never together but never completely apart either. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was clear that the world was about to blow apart, if it hadn’t already, and suddenly nothing else mattered but getting home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

My grandparents, once so inseparable, had drifted apart. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is still easy to tell the two notes apart, because an oboe sounds different from a flute. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My surprise doesn’t last, because he holds his thumb and forefinger apart by an inch. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the water rose into the earthen houses and softened the walls and burst them apart and they melted down into the water and were as if they had never been. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd around us goes right on cheering despite the fact that two runaway kids are starting to fall apart. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Which makes you wonder, can they tell themselves apart or do they think all together? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he was splitting open, like his body was twisting apart. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The case that tore families all over Cleveland apart.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I buy them, it’s a reminder that while the Folk can look like us, they are a species apart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you look is life; even the little ball of spit on the weed stalk, if you poke it apart, has a green worm inside it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

If I moved, I feared I would fall apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I got into it, feeling pretty much like I had felt that night when I had decided to break apart all of my old Lego kits and start telling the House of Moneekrom story. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He pulled his lips apart in what he hoped resembled a smile. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I hold the notebook in front of me like it’s seconds from falling apart. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Things were falling apart, and the halls of school were no exception or refuge from the chaos outside. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I imagined the universe as a giant set of LEGOs, all those pieces constructing endless forms, then coming apart only to create new forms. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We watch as the claw dips down five different times to retrieve the pieces of one body, torn apart. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If not for the ragged state sashes they still wore, it would be hard to tell them apart. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted you to have your own life, apart from fear— even apart from me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Everything was falling apart, the treehouse branches snapping, the winds blowing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The eight toes of Cinnamon’s front paws splayed apart. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But on the first day of school in Freetown, all the students sat apart from us, as if Mohamed and I were going to snap any minute and kill someone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her mom and dad, together and apart, weirdly hovering over her hospital bed like aliens from movies even cornier than teenage family dramas. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She holds her fingers about a ½ inch, maybe ¾ inch, apart. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was something inviolate about Manderley that made it a place apart; it would not bear discussion. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then they moved apart, and we went to work, trying to dredge out at least a few bottles or tins from the sea of sewage. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was clear now that Jay didn’t want us to get far apart like I thought he did when he wanted Tony to be his blood brother. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

People tried to space their children three to four years apart. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape had his wand out and was blasting rosebushes apart, his expression most ill-natured. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dusk was beginning to set, and apart from the handful of teens playing basketball, Vickers Park was empty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

See how it is even now doing its dark work and pulling us apart? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We were divided into four rows, about a yard-and-a-half apart, and sat cross-legged on the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met with a jolt and bounced apart. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had shifted apart; Taisin was turned away from her, one arm flung out over the furs. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He failed to stop his opponents from ripping apart most of the bags containing anti- North Korean leaflets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The gravitational tug is so strong that you ’d be torn apart in a fraction of a second. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Careening downhill, bumping over rocks and dried mud holes, we like to shook apart before we got the dern wagon under control. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The only significant difference in his life, apart from the permanent absence of his father, is the additional absence of Maxine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blue, furry fairy gestured toward the orangutan, and the shackles binding it to the wall fell apart. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In addition, the fraying relationship between Whitiker and her boyfriend fell apart and, without him to pay the rent, she fell further behind. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This depended on their confidence in the reliability of measurements taken decades apart; others were quick to dismiss such findings as the result of defective technique. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m just one more happy, shouting voice, we’re like waves in the ocean, one on top of the other, impossible to tell apart. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“For the world to fall apart,” Edward says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In both cases, war tore our fathers apart as well as our families. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Grace and Carol are browner, less pasty; their features are farther apart, their hair lighter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Peasants like Will’s father suffered if their strips of land were far apart, because hours of precious daylight were wasted as they zigzagged from field to field. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“For instance”—I hold my thumb and pointer finger ten centimeters apart—“the lake holds millions of tiny, winged fish.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In front of the flying machine was a pair of smaller wings, about four feet long and about a foot apart, which the Wrights called horizontal rudders. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the stores provided the family with a comfortable life in Kacanik, until ethnic violence tore their homeland apart. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was prepared to fall apart if it came to that. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to know we weren’t all falling apart. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were smiling rather brilliantly at the camera, both of them leaning forward on their evening canes, feet wide apart. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ground ripped apart like a snapping mouth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The one he has keeps pulling his cassettes apart, and I have to fix them.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you no shame? Lying there all silky and wanton, having good dreams while our lives fall apart?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Emma shouted, “Train!” and we split apart and pressed our backs to the walls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Everything was coming apart right in front of us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was sitting with my arms wrapped around my knees, side by side with one of the lads who’d escaped when I shot his chains apart. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He was just moving toward them when three sections of the ceding suddenly collapsed, breaking apart in a crunch of plaster and metal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Stupid rich man fed me tea and gave me a rickshaw ride home. But would he donate any rupees to our school? No! All the furniture here is falling apart—including these ancient desks!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their marriage could have survived the years apart, but I guess it couldn’t survive what my dad realized in those fights: Family would always come second for her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred smithereens of darkness, they broke apart and re-formed and siphoned themselves into a little typhoon that swept down toward the rooftops of Weep, whirling and wheeling on soft twilight wings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I wept, Horatio rose and stood apart from me, near the fire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The pigeon screeched like it was being torn apart. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she tried to break it apart, it was actually squishy and left a big smudge of brown on her finger. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Monday, May 27,1935 As the day of Nat’s interview approaches, my mother behaves as if her nerves have rotted and fallen apart like old rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t pull it more than two or three knots and then it would probably tear the boat apart. Sailboats don’t tow at all.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baptist and C.M.E. churches went down front and assumed stances a few feet apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, I had them walking in pairs, a good ten feet apart from each other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

More than in the past, they tend to live apart from everyone else, cocooned in their exurban chateaus. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I did spy one pair of bright red sneakers that set one woman apart from the others. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll have to lift the cast at exactly the same time so it doesn’t break apart. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Black and white babies were born in separate hospitals, lived their adult lives apart from one another, and were buried in separate cemeteries. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Nor could he see whether they rolled apart to open, or swung slowly round against the resistance of the water, or even lifted up out of it altogether. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He informed me that he and I would be the only ones there, apart from the nurse on duty. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But if you try to catch all of it with wide hands and fingers spread apart—it will slip through. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He and Bo had already sold any toys they had with them when they ran away, and his brother didn't even have a stuffed animal, apart from the sorry-looking lion that Riccio had given him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, we watched them grow apart in odd ways that made us sad. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor listened anxiously to the sounds of the morning for a moment, but there was nothing to be heard apart from the birds, greeting the day as exuberantly as if it were their last. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The distance through the wormhole might be only a few million miles even though earth and Alpha Centauri are twenty million million miles apart in ordinary space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real obstacle, apart from unquestioning belief in Aristotle, was the even more unquestioning belief in the Bible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of the other foster parents broke us apart. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The beans were so overcooked that they fell apart when I stuck my fork in them and so salty that I could barely force myself to swallow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Luther Windham looked up with a stern, proconsular gaze that began to come apart around his eyes and mouth when he saw Bull’s bright and guiltless smile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks—the polite term at that time was Negro—and whites lived side by side in South Philadelphia, but as Marian grew older, she learned that prejudice and discrimination often kept the races apart. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They are so far apart that they might be opposites. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could take apart a cipher, piece by piece, as if it were a machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. Well, apart from old Mr. Carson stepping in the hole we had to dig to get it out. He was wandering around in the dark for some reason and sprained his ankle.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but how are we going to tell them apart? It’s very confusing.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The people of the world, the ordinary people, were still alien to him, just as he was apart from them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And their bodies break all apart into little blocks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s got it all changed around. New kind of a boat. I guess he’ll take it apart and change it. Doc—is he nuts?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The outside’s getting torn apart by a storm,” I said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I feel like there is a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second, threatening to break me apart from the inside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If you turned the blood back on full blast, you might blow apart the damaged blood vessels or infect them or something like that—I couldn’t remember. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experiments of the German Gerhard Schramm, first published in 1944, reported that TMV particles in mild alkali fell apart into free RNA and a large number of similar, if not identical, protein molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I pull two blinds apart, and look outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After less than seven weeks, however, James’s plans fell apart when he developed the chills and fevers of malaria. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He was always puttering with things, taking them apart, putting them back together. When he was around nothing ever broke. Nothing ever dared to break.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The tents we'd seen previously had been torn apart, and their ragged canvas flapped limply in the fetid breeze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He leans back on the sofa, his legs spread wide apart, the big man, taking up space. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hessians kept a few paces apart, their muskets ready, their bayonets fixed as if they were advancing on an enemy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

So strange that it sits atop his face like a thing apart. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I turn back to the seam and pry its edges apart. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She had a whole other life apart from school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they fall, and the wheels tear them apart. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I ripped off a chunk of my tie-dyed T-shirt, which was already falling apart from all the bum marks, and used it to pick the eyeball off the floor. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then I think about the afternoons at Waffle House and the late evening rehearsals, and the way I was actually starting to like him before things fell apart. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As soon as they try, their slightly different orbital speeds pull them apart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get into what was going on at home, about how Mom seemed to be falling apart, and how I couldn’t think about much else than keeping us together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Headmistress stood before the class, legs apart, hands on hips, glaring at the small boys and girls who sat nervously at their desks in front of her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everything after that became a series of steps, a dance that she had to execute perfectly or else she’d fall apart right there in that tomb and never get up. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In a second I was going to fly apart into a thousand pieces. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now that their purpose was achieved, now the children had found their dæmons, and escaped, the dead warriors allowed their atoms to relax and drift apart, at long, long last. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fragments from his memory stitched together, then came apart. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The CD has ended and the apartment is silent apart from the sounds on the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would all have got forgotten eventually; or maybe Ruth and I would have drifted apart. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the men’s voices, loud as they were, were completely drowned out by the deafening roar of the tank tearing apart. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This is the opposite of the earthquake, where things were falling apart and the ground was shifting beneath my small feet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Soon he and his helpers were blasting apart house after house along Harrison Street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like they weren’t even really talking to me, but rather, right at my body, wrenching the two apart. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They rowed well when left on their own, but the moment they got a glimpse of the older boys they fell apart completely. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She trudged slowly, a little apart from the group. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I figured she’d had enough of being apart from Fern and me and was now glad we were all together. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in one ear-splitting moment, the molasses tank had exploded apart. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her purple dress had slipped up over her bony knees, which were spread apart, and I hate to say it, but you could see right up her skirt. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She pulled the release tabs, and it came apart. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And what about the nights when we all climb into our grandparents' bed and they move apart, making room for us in the middle. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Not only does she stand out from the other parents, but she stands apart. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I sat apart, but on the other hand we really was close together. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the bears had never seen mountains, apart from the cliffs on their own island of Svalbard, and fell silent as they looked up at the giant ramparts, still so far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Think you can tell ’em apart with your eyes closed?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His lips fell apart and his jaw hinged open. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She hugged me, and this time I squeezed back; this made her laugh after we stood apart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He puts his cut-up hands to the opening of his robe and pulls it apart enough to show his bare chest. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And if I played you five very low pitched tones, you’d be able to tell them apart. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from my placement in the room, little of that formality remains between us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When our world ends its structure will come apart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“When they finally stepped apart, he shook my hand and held the screen door open for us. He said, ‘My name is Theodore Graham. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She and James broke apart for three women with yoga mats slung on their shoulders and then came back together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time she could remember, Mary Lou had the sense that her sister stood apart from her, that though she could jump in after, they would not share exactly the same water. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The filial son, smashing apart the rock mountain prison. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The similarities in their lives became good omens: that they were both only children, their birthdays two days apart, and their hometowns in Anambra State. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The thought of being apart from Siobhan hurt worse than his body. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She lets go of Daniel to avoid being ripped apart. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A log broke apart and crackled in the fireplace. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

They could be cut apart and cut off from home and destroyed in detail, piece by piece. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the carbon fibers, usually 500 microns apart, now had a gap eight times that width in their midst. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They would. They’d send me home and then we would be apart until after the war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So much power in this room it was a miracle the whole palace didn’t blow apart. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Glittering clouds of gorgon essence struggled to re-form, but •the river pulled them apart like a blender. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The twins fell apart; holding hands, they screamed, “Mama!” and ran across the platform. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I would not tell the story of my love to this hard-hearted fiend should he press my thumbs and threaten to pull my limbs apart on a great wheel! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We don’t need names to tell one another apart. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even though my cousin was bent on flaunting his age and height over me, I relished the time I spent with him apart from my sisters. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Stop, stop,” they yelled, pushed boys apart, and carried the wounded to the side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As the balloon inflates, the dots get farther and farther apart from one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“No ganging up. I know you guys have your loyalty to each other and we have our own. But this is keeping us apart.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He might even now be pulling them apart page by page, folding them into birds, and launching them off his high widow’s walk, one by one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We’ve been split apart in all directions, time and time again. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to make sure that I wouldn’t fall apart ever again like I’d done at Classics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As usual we were separated from the white people, set apart in a wooded section away from the pool and the merry- go-round. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken galleys were ripping apart, the bridge breaking apart. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then he heard something — something quite apart from the spitting of the dying candles and Lockhart’s prattle about his fans. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a flat gray color, like underwear washed so many times it’s about to fall apart. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most Westerners, however, have a hard time telling any of these shaggy beasts apart and refer to all of them as yaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

As they expanded and the matter particles got farther apart, one would be left with an expanding universe that contained hardly any particles and was still in the supercooled state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are still young. Free,” he said, spreading his hands apart for emphasis. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I watch them and wonder how we all don’t fly apart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She focuses only on him, pulling everything that he is with her as she breaks herself apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only notable thing about the birth was that the infant was born with a caul which was supposed to indicate that the child was set apart to do great things in the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Gilbert, Galileo practised what he preached, and it was the peripatetic approach that was blown apart by his work in Italy late in the sixteenth century and early in the seventeenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the thunder came, it tore the sky apart with its roar, and as it came, she pulled herself through, and dropped to the cot inside, unharmed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isidore said, “If I took it back up there she’d cut it apart again. Bit by bit, to see what it did.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Infants torn apart by a mob’s hateful hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some tear apart bedsheets for diapers; a few find newspapers and fold those into triangles and pin them between their babies’ legs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It had been days since he had slept in a proper bed, and this was the first night since the assassination that Booth and Herold spent apart. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked as if a hurricane had torn the house apart. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Also, it turns out the visible mass of a galaxy doesn’t have enough gravity to explain why it doesn’t fly apart.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

No, if they tried to take her from him, he’d rip the world apart with his bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were close enough to allow me to focus both eyes on the same thing, but they were still a little bit farther apart than was ideal. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And apart from a few reportings of football games, the mental fare has been as generalized, as packaged, and as undistinguished as the food.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As brakeman Royal Albert Leeman stood and looked out the train’s windows, he heard a huge noise that sounded like metal tearing apart. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Then the bunch of reeds was pulled apart in the middle to form a hollow, and the two sides were tied all along their length to make a basic boat shape. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like an earthquake, like the world was falling apart as the gods pounded on each other. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“And now,” said Harry as they broke apart, “all we’ve got to do is find the tent again.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It felt like the world around him was falling apart and it was all his fault. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He always said that when he died, we should put him on a mountaintop and let the buzzards and coyotes tear his body apart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t cry at first, and then, I don’t know why, but I fell apart when I thought of Mother in bed sleeping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It plummeted straight down from my open hands and landed with a crash, shards of ceramic bursting apart and skittering across the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It fell like poured gravel, and the fiberglass shook like it was coming apart. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This alone, quite apart from the contents of the message, provides a powerful justification for the search for other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was pushing at the top end of it, and in a moment the threads there split apart and a dark furry knob emerged. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My memories of the hippos and the flying squads come from when I was five or six, when apartheid was finally coming apart. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“When a man loses his money, he may have trouble telling them apart.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jimmy's hand reached over and touched his wife's arm and at the exact moment that he made this connection, the world literally came apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The men behind were threatening to hack it apart and butcher the ox where he stood, whilst the driver and his kin swore to kill them if they tried. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Silence falls between us, but before it spreads and pushes us further apart, I take her hand in mine. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile back, but inside I was breaking apart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On June 12, six days before the race, Ulbrickson put both boats head-to- head on the river again, and the sophomores fell apart as soon as they saw the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He does not want to live apart from his mother anymore. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The ribbon is old and crinkly and nearly falls apart when I untie it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

All the more reason to pick apart the testimony and get as little of it admitted as possible. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The crowd stared in disbelief as the grassy lump started shaking and bulging upward and crumbling apart, and there was the robot! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mo put his arm around Meggie’s shoulders as he looked around, but apart from a few stray cats he could see nothing moving in the parking lot or among the houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hope he knows we are here because we want his blood and will soon rip him apart for it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man then ran toward the drawings and grabbed handfuls of them, tearing them apart. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It is clear that the outer notes were a perfect fourth apart, but the exact tuning of the inner notes is not certain. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dozens of ogres were camped on his lawn, waiting to tear him apart, and Frank could barely control the urge to grin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gray stomped around, kicking their ashes apart as they tried to re-form. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tobias takes my face in his hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They break apart, and when Alex opens his eyes, Henry is watching him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I love Julie, but I’m really not in the mood for talking about her new little family when mine’s falling apart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Her big hands tore apart a heel of black bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Con came out to join them, Taisin and Kaede hastily scooted apart, but the expressions on their faces were so plain that he laughed out loud. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My family is starting to crumble a bit, it isn’t falling apart yet, but I know it will soon. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two guys were shouting, and when I turned around, their chests were about an inch apart. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With the trees farther apart, the underbrush grew higher and the bushes bigger. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The book was falling apart, from her use and that of the previous owners. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The stalks of corn swung high and low, back and forth, like someone too big to squeeze down the rows was forcing them apart. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two were with a group of new ones who had a place apart, since they could not vote. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I did. But when the war was over and I was going home, I took my rifle apart piece by piece and flung it into the sea.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet all that was nothing compared to her screams, which tore us apart. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But God, when her lips come apart, everything turns warm and her sugar sweet breath is in my mouth, and I probably taste like hot dogs but I don't care. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Take this apart. Find out how it works. Put it back together.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you ever tell me what you and Will’s dæmon did while we were apart?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then they’d drift apart just as easily as they had come together. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s probably why the gods have kept us apart this long. If a Greek warship appeared in the sky above Camp Jupiter, and Reyna didn’t know it was friendly—” “Yeah,” Percy agreed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

No matter how far apart they are, Kit often thinks of Nell. patent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would go to vacant lots, where no one could see him, and sit down to rest from the claws that were tearing him apart inside. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It would break apart as soon as it arrived, maybe sooner.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he could get them to lineup and stand still for a minute, but they might as well be identical for as much as he could tell them apart. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were spaced very far apart, and they kind of bulged out a bit. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was flustered and went to close the door, but they broke apart and Pa said, “No need for that.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even just a few days in, his texts started to get further and further apart, and I decided to break up with him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever they took shelter for the night, while he and Hodor and the Reeds huddled together for warmth, the ranger kept apart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She pressed the heels of her hands to her skull and pushed inward, as though to keep her head from flying apart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I push my family from my mind, set my feet shoulder-width apart, and delicately wrap both hands around the handle of the gun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A herd of baby strollers parted the mass of bodies and ripped our hands apart. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I read about the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans, and the Dark Ages, when the old civilizations fell apart and the only people who could read and write were the monks. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

If it’s split apart into pieces then wouldn’t putting all the pieces together bring Closure? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house had no electricity or running water, and the kitchen that stood apart from the house was made entirely of zinc. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

You should make time for yourself and for your own interests and pleasures, apart from those of your son.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And of course Andrew and Sasha went to different schools and had different friends, and it was totally normal to grow apart. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, taking apart an old alarm clock with Brian. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You have to save every piece of flesh and give it a name and bury it near the roots of a tree so that the world won’t fall apart around you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And now her fingers spread apart, letting the voice reach her ears . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But how could she be so lighthearted when everything was falling apart? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would follow and fight until he ripped her apart. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

God, whenever she started to think this plan through, it all fell apart. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They walk differently from men in the south, slower, more considering; they say less and their words are farther apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A piece of cake, apart from the bit at the end where the pinpoint turned out to be next to a ruddy great prison!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve always been afraid that if I screamed, I might break apart in a million pieces. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Part of it seemed to come apart in a million pieces, as if a gigantic jigsaw had exploded. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was right—all the kids, apart from a few like Netta and myself, were younger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the farthest apart I ever saw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.2: When two notes are one octave apart, one has a frequency exactly two times higher than the other — it has twice as many waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

However, the speed at which the galaxies are moving apart gets smaller and smaller, although it never quite reaches zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled them apart while she separated the other two. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now, of course, you and I know, Mr. Dacus, that if I had gone wild, which I was about to do, I would have torn Red and his pals apart.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biking was simple, inexpensive, paperwork-free, and different, something that set them apart, not that they needed anything more. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, my eyes still sat more than twice as far apart as they should have been. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Beyond this O’Brien was careful to keep his job apart from his family. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a bang like a gunshot, the cracker flew apart to reveal a large, pointed witch’s hat topped with a stuffed vulture. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His father, who Conor had grown used to not having around as the trips grew less frequent and the phone calls got further and further apart. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were perhaps four meters apart when the girl stumbled and fell almost flat on her face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I braced my feet farther apart when it felt like the ground was skewing to the left. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Already, apart from many younger lads, more than a hundred sturdy hobbits were assembled with axes, and heavy hammers, and long knives, and stout staves; and a few had hunting-bows. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I thought about how the children who lived in this house had been burned up and blown apart because a pilot who didn’t care pushed a button. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Javi’s strong arm held Max to him like he was terrified a wind was about to blow them apart. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We stand arm’s length apart cuz her silence still bothers me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The story moves forward in a series of painful unravelings—the school is scandalized; a family fractures; a gay relationship is revealed; a deep friendship between two boys rips apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gimli rose and planted his feet firmly apart: his hand gripped the handle of his axe, and his dark eyes flashed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And since they had already witnessed how Big Ma hadn’t spared me from a small taste of what was waiting for us, Vonetta and Fern pulled apart and settled down on both sides of me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was very good at taking things apart but much less skilled at the art of putting them back together. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were only a year apart in school, but Maya was three years ahead in math classes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And now the scene, their slow and deliberate gathering actions, broke apart insanely as the two men began to pelt Linda and the five children in deadly earnest, aiming their rocks, trying to murder them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been pushed so hard into the face that the beautiful eyes you made are now way farther apart than they should be. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Myrtle . . . what lives in the lake, apart from the giant squid?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had asked him to, afraid that it would be the last letter she ever got from him, for once they were married they did not expect to be spending time apart. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t pick apart exactly what was pulsing through me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His hair, cut short apart from two thick strands hanging over his forehead, was fair. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wrenched them apart, but still they struggled to get at each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without the hydrogen atoms, the chains would immediately fly apart and the structure vanish. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike metal plates, plasmas could be made easily with a bolt of electricity, according to Puthoff, and instead of having to pry the plates apart again, the plasma “ash” is discarded. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On one occasion he felt that his private world had fallen apart because Úrsula came in when Melquíades was in the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I never realized how much I would miss her now that we are apart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grew up very much apart from the jocks who dominated the schools, the towns, his world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Katniss?” a voice croaks out from my left, breaking apart from the general din. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He steadfastly would not touch the few beans that O-lan still held in her hand, and it comforted him vaguely to hear her crunching them, one at a time, a long time apart. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They flew apart as I entered and both their faces went suddenly crimson. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look pale, Amir,” she said from the couch, the same one her parents had given us as a housewarming gift for our first apart­ment. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the three fates were approaching, their scissors poised to snip the knot that was keeping Dedd’s life from falling apart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He kept imagining himself tripping and falling under the wheels, torn apart by the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the window, apart from us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Quite apart from poverty, the variety of social oppressions that most concerned Americans involved unchangeable conditions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up there on centre stage in her green breeches with legs apart and riding-crop in hand, glaring at the sea of upturned faces before her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Planting his feet wide apart he hefted the great sword in both paws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In those early days, lightning and ultraviolet light from the Sun were breaking apart the simple hydrogen-rich molecules of the primitive atmosphere, the fragments spontaneously recombining into more and more complex molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were sitting only a foot apart during this speech, but each heard something different. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood. But someday you’ll be old too.Your body will start to fall apart and your brain will deteriorate. See if you’re so high-minded then.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert’s feet are far apart, and he leans forward. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Julia, stop. Look, I’m sorry. This has been hard for me. I feel like I’m falling apart.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And Rowan already knew what it was like to be a scythe—to be treated separate and apart from the rest of the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Every day after school we drove straight to the public library in my 1950 green Ford, which Papá bought from a neighbor after the DeSoto fell apart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He emptied the last drops of rainwater from a gasoline container on the mushroom, wetting the bulging toes sticking out of his sons’ sandals, which were already coming apart around his endlessly growing feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Bast leaned closer until their faces were mere inches apart, his eyes gone white as opal, white as a full-bellied moon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Yes, I think I do," I said, remembering that there was always that sense in me of being apart when the flag went by. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently the rising and falling of their breasts slowed to normal speed, and in a sort of pleasant helplessness they fell apart. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To disavow their faith, the Mexica say, would tear apart their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without our binary stars holding us together, our orbits decayed until the Bahrami family solar system succumbed to entropy and broke apart. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Whatever malevolent energy had been powering them was shut off, and they broke apart in screeching showers of rusty confetti. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grover Underwood and a team of satyrs danced around with their panpipes, playing harmonies so dissonant that the earthen-shelled ghosts cracked apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Coraline took a step closer to the man, and he fell apart. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And then a realization swept through my body as if I had been torn apart by bullets myself: My mother was not with Deborah. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I heard something else, too—a snap, like a dried-out wishbone being pulled apart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trent is the nosiest woman on the planet, and it doesn't help that the buildings in my neighborhood are only about fifteen feet apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got older, he learned about love as a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Belet stood before me, our noses inches apart, so I could register the fury burning in her eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Who was the first one, Mama, the first to kill when they decided to break apart India? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can't be in that place, because every time I allow myself to think about my last day there, I fall apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The list of the slain was topped by the High Septon, ripped apart as he squealed to his gods for mercy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Just hours ago, we had all been drifting off to sleep, and now our lives, our families, our people, were torn apart. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She loved logic, loved to take things apart and put them back together, whether it was a speech by Cicero or a windmill. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She imagined the North End crumbling apart, like her village back in Italy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He had been silent, set apart from the violence of their emotion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The borders of the two tents in the clearing stood no more than four or five feet apart. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘Thing is, our ship is caught in it, and it’s kind of being ripped apart. I’m sure you didn’t mean to ‘Oh, yes, I did.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They broke apart and looked at each other awkwardly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The slimy walls were barely three feet apart and glimmered like wet tar in the passing light of Dumbledore’s wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There I took the wreckage apart and moved the planks up the trail, beyond the place where the great waves had reached. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled apart the blinds to see the sun disappearing on the horizon. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To set herself apart from the Sweeper Class. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A looking glass had been dashed to thousands of pieces, and the gilt frame torn apart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The musical forms, phrases, harmonies and the poetic structure reveal a great deal of material apart from the content of the lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Now he stood across from Fern, his legs apart and his arms folded. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tons of foot traffic keeps splitting us up, but we always make our way back to each other, not letting strollers or group selfies keep us apart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I stand a little apart so I can capture a medium shot. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s gonna fall apart any day now, and I don’t want you to be the person sitting in it when it does.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He pulled us all apart, and for a split second it seemed like Guzzo and Tooms were going to go at it again, but Coach got each of them by the collars of their shirts. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Plus, the car sounded like it might fall apart at any minute. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But, most important, it means I’d be apart from Will now more than ever. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When they were about a hand span apart, a curious thing happened: the amber coloring disappeared, and everything seemed its normal color, but brighter and more vivid. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he reverses into the Toyota again, forcing the cars apart to give us space to pull out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was about breaking apart Invisible Twinkle and putting her together again, only as a shinier, impossible-to-miss version this time. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Companionship and joy came unexpectedly, mostly in small, exploding moments when I was apart from my husband and children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was falling apart as it rose. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two straw targets fifty yards apart, and when they had shot their arrows at one, they had only to go to it, collect them, and shoot back at the other, after facing about. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been Fabyan who first explained to her how to tell them apart. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Taran, usually eager to listen to the bard’s music, sat apart, gloomily watching the cauldron. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d reached them, they were already moving apart. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If I had sewn the skirt, it would have been easy to tear apart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once you have been close to chimps for a while they are as easy to tell apart as your classmates. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only a dusting of stars set the black of sky apart from the black of stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before this, they’d never been apart for more than half a day. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled the cotton apart, and Twig and I joined him, fluffing white clouds for Cotton Ball Heaven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s something about north,” he said, “something that sets it apart from all other directions. A person who is heading north is not making any mistake, in my opinion.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

And she hardly had to do that—of their own accord, they had moved apart and turned away, and now both were discreetly straightening their clothes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He drew his hands apart, as if to indicate a sizable space between them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, “it’s not so easy to read Shakespeare—especially when he can’t come up with names that you can tell apart.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be any edible food in the refrigerator, apart from a slightly discolored hunk of cheddar cheese. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last we pulled apart, he muttered: “I’m really sorry, Kath.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Carlisle was marking bases, but could they really be that far apart? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the eyes were what set him apart. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is slight and short and looks nothing like Uriah, apart from his coloring. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some of the jewelry they took apart and glued or sewed onto their robes for decoration; but some of the necklaces and bracelets that looked a little bit Egyptian they used just as they were. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boards in the floor were set apart enough that I could see between them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rod had two disks attached to it, one white and one red, which were 1 meter apart. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Hank, we are poles apart. I don’t know much but I know one thing. I know I can’t live with you. I cannot live with a hypocrite.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No steel was permitted within the sacred confines of Vaes Dothrak, beneath the shadow of the Mother of Mountains; she had to rip the heart apart with teeth and nails. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe you don’t have any trouble telling these apart, but I have to look them up every time. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they are apart, they speak by phone every night, at eight o’clock. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Never had he thought of his mother as a person, a separate individual, with a life apart from allowing or interfering with his own. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re them,” I think/say, stopping for a moment to catch my breath, my life, our mouths inches apart, our foreheads pressed together now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But this was not quite the brilliant solution it might have seemed, since F# and Q> were still - to stringed instruments, singers and some brass players - separate notes, albeit just a short distance apart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then they break apart and move to someone else, performing the same series of actions again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It showed a long straight stretch and the contour lines were spread far apart, which would indicate a large low or flat area where there might be a lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

This state of absence, of existing apart from the body, had been true of the Commander too, I knew now. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uriah was right—there isn’t a single light on that I can see, apart from the exit signs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It all comes apart, and I loathe myself for waiting this long to end it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Long before die first pale fingers of light pried apart Bran's shutters, his eyes were open. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I am perfectly healthy, madam, apart from a slight dustmite allergy, and I don’t think even you can do anything about that. No. What I want from you is your Book.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Furious with the novel, she ripped the copy-book apart and stuffed it into the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had my husband’s eyes, large and wide apart. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he jumped up on Mother’s quilt and prepared to pick apart his breakfast. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were pulling us apart and Ice tried to kick me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew we had been growing apart since summer, but I had been able to blame that on Caroline. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Randolph held his bony thumb and index finger an inch apart. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The water had a transparent skim that broke apart and clicked together, then went solid again, until there formed a tough gray coat of ice. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Anya had a hard time telling the eldest twins apart now that they had grown identical beards. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Since the arms weren’t coming out of the sleeves and our plan was totally falling apart, I started crying out, ‘Oh no, my arms! Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even up close it’s almost impossible to tell them apart. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You make me stronger—and when Dad forced us apart—without you— SCORPIUS: I didn’t much like my life without you in it either. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Crack—crack—snap—as the golden monkey pulled the little thing apart limb by limb, and the woman lay moodily on her sleeping bag by the fire and slowly ate a bar of chocolate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dragging corners of things that weren’t yet alight, we pulled the bonfire apart. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

O silent indications of the inevitable, as among the natural restraints of winter and good sense, life blows you apart in her arms. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This difference in the forces would stretch our astronaut out like spaghetti or tear him apart before the star had contracted to the critical radius at which the event horizon formed! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a document implies that a person can exercise that most public of rights—the right to vote— while still keeping apart, unassimilated from public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt embarrassed to be still falling apart two weeks later when the Colonel could take his medicine so stoically, and I sat up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the bones cracked apart over the blade her golden bangles jostled, her forearms glowed, and she exhaled audibly through her nose. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Check for yourself the other notes in the series that are an octave apart. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I guess I’d have eaten with Gale except, being two grades apart, our lunch never fell at the same time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the sight, I imagine all my plans coming apart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a garden laid out with spring water running through it, and he’s set a place apart for flowers, roses and the like, and some of the bushes are coming clear from Boston.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he would have come apart like a rag doll with a pulled thread, but he doesn’t look that different, except for some bandages and scrapes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ben spread his feet apart, to ground himself, lifted an imaginary microphone to his mouth, and began the color commentary. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Rose ran straight at her Lego city and began tearing it apart. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They went to the banyan tree and sat down, twenty paces apart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, bit by bit, the Getty’s case began to fall apart. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Seven on bottom, four in the middle, and one on top, but it looked misshapen, so I took it apart and settled for plain rows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d come a day apart, she seemed familiar, he had a consuming urge to become a Runner despite learning so many terrible things. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew had a tale of homes destroyed, families torn apart, and heartbreaking loss. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It could easily take twenty minutes to walk from one room to another, despite the fact that they were only fifty feet apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In 1974, Winnie was charged with violating her banning orders, which restricted her from having any visitors apart from her children and her doctor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from eating a piece of candy for the sake of his family and praying for their safety, there was nothing I could do. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mandela and Tambo was falling apart as we could not be there, and both Oliver and I were experiencing grave financial difficulties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dug her feet in and pressed forward: Wick still stood just behind his haintj staring in horror as his creation came apart before his very eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The parents before him, along with the walls surrounding them, started to fall apart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was nothing anyone could do; the plane came apart on top of him. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he drags traffic cones onto the court, spacing them a foot apart. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Standing a little apart from the choir, Ivy sang the dark sweetness that Pauline could not name; she sang the death-defying death that Pauline yearned for; she sang of the Stranger who knew . The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were no more than an inch apart. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, this one is marvelous. You can take it apart and see how it works. And it’s never going to go away.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Here farmland gave way to forest, the villages and holdfasts were smaller and farther apart, the hills higher and the valleys deeper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t a big woman, but her hands always felt so strong, like they could hold things up instead of tearing them apart. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was like we were doing one of those elaborate Modegan court dances, where the partners stand scant inches apart, but—if they are skilled—never touch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed so remote and no part of him; it was a play apart and separate, wondrous to watch, not without its strange pleasure. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these past months Phineas and I had grown apart on this; I felt a certain disapproval of him for grumbling about a lost luxury, with a war on. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to turn the shut-off valve, take the pipe apart, put on a new connector, and stick it back together again.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else’s, dying again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His lips pressed against mine hard, with enough force to drive them apart, to steal breath, and sense, and the feel of the bed under me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood about five feet apart, following orders even though no one was around to watch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lenina did not move, but sat with her face in her hands, unseeing, apart. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were apart again, circling one another, when suddenly Vegas turned and went to his corner. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop it! Stop it!” cried the manager, poking the walking stick through the bars and knocking the books apart. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Any diminution in magnetism is likely to be bad news, because magnetism, apart from holding notes to refrigerators and keeping our compasses pointing the right way, plays a vital role in keeping us alive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To tear apart this stupid competition and send everyone into a tizzy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It flipped the chassis, bouncing it across the road and ripped the engine apart as if it were no stronger than a spiderweb. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about taking apart that knot makes me put the lid back down and walk away. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Two planks in the bulkhead shifted apart like they were made of rubber, and the girl disappeared into the darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to let her go, like pulling magnets apart. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their uniforms were black, and two of them hadn’t taken their caps off, which Malcolm knew was bad manners, apart from anything else. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a further problem with the twins, who could not be told apart by a stranger. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One day it might be the man next to you at roll call who is torn apart by dogs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from that, the atmosphere was oddly peaceful and reassuring. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my son is in tears and I am his father and so I am here to ask why you would keep apart two good friends. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle to tear the place apart. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tore the logs of the raft apart as a great wind scatters a heap of dried chaff; it flung Odysseus into the wild waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were two boats apart in age but otherwise nearly identical. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the brilliant form fell apart immediately, leaving him back among the dregs of racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ropes were far enough apart that if you held the end of one rope, you couldn’t get close enough to grab hold of the other rope. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I can only hope that you find some happiness during the time we have to be apart—some happiness of some kind, Hatsue. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was silence, apart from panting and coughing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The powerful magnets jolted the fourteen-ton vacuum tanks out of place, which threatened in turn to pull apart the superstructure of pipes, pumps, and cables. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I lifted the picture gently from the mantel, afraid that it might fall apart with a mere touch of my hands. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But no, this one had blown apart as easily as a dandelion gone to seed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what, but it gave me crazy energy to want to rip apart all of my Legos and make them into something else. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There were moments every day when Carmen’s heart seemed to be crumbling apart, like the church tower in her village after the quake. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Indeed, she seemed ready at any moment to fly apart like a broken doll. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown so apart that there was little mutual reference and no questions. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alone and apart, Gwydion leaned heavily on the black sword Dyrnwyn, his shaggy head bent, his weathered face filled with sorrow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z