Illyrio was reclining on a padded couch, gobbling hot peppers and pearl onions from a wooden bowl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad takes hot showers to cool down whenever he’s upset or disappointed in himself. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The broth was boiling hot, and the kettles were heavy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If you come outside you won’t see any tears because the sun is so blazingly hot my sad tears evaporate before they even have time to leave my swollen red eyes.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve tried everything, too—counting sheep, counting kittens, drinking hot milk, listening to relaxing music—but nothing helps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now they had their own territory, their own gambling hall, and that run-down house had become the Slat, a dry, warm place to get a hot meal or hole up when you were wounded. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could feel my cheeks were hot, and not because of the stuffy room. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now it was a hot bath that I needed. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When it got hot enough, one metal curved more than the other, which turned the heat off. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m startled as the onsen reappears around me and Hideo, the peaceful fog of hot water and the glisten of early lamplight on the rocks. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Why don't you let him say whether he can sing or not . . . ? Come on, Brother, git hot! Go Down, Moses," he bellowed in a ragged baritone, putting down his cigar and snapping his fingers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to gunfire Jumper didn’t have any more sense than a red ant in a hot skillet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my feet and then up again to the shuttered window, and as I did so I became aware suddenly that my head was swimming and I felt hot. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I threw on an orange backpack, which was stuffed with dry socks, dry gloves, and two Thermoses full of hot coffee. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not hot. I’m cold. I’m freezing. Lord, Lord, Lord!” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts to push his finger into the teapot, as if he's going to plunge it into the hot liquid. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nailer shrugged, remembering Blue Eyes’s blood hot on his hands. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on. earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie stuffed another shortbread into her mouth as she blinked away hot tears. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Harry’s nose felt very hot, and then very cold. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This time I knew exactly what was out there—a lot of long, taxing miles, steep rocky mountains, hard shelter floors, hot days without showers, unsatisfying meals cooked on a temperamental stove. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the laundry Moon Orchid hovered so close that there was barely room between her and the hot presses. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her exhaustion flowed into the hot water; she drowsed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire in his eye sockets glowed a little hotter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The paper was wintery cold, despite all the hot details. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When he came to, it was in a different space, small, hot, close to the drumming of a gyropter engine, lit by the glow of an instrument panel. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His blood covered her hands in a hot gush and he tried to shout but there was blood in his mouth as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chacho’s father was bending and cutting, bending and cutting poppies all day in the hot sun. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace’s face felt too hot, her pulse too fast. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bright air slides over my cheeks, hot and dry. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat trickled down Burn’s face, a combination of a hot day, a crowded room, and nerves. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was hot in the sky above and a dry wind came from the hills. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Secret alliances = treason Illegal weapons sales = also treason Illegal campaign contributions = bad Human rights violations = super bad Killing defenseless Bambi = just plain mean Totally having sex in that hot tub = conflict of interest, unethical, unsanitary. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The shed is stifling suddenly, hot and close, and I’m across the floor and out the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With a house full of people all trying to achieve Persian Casual, there wasn’t much hot water left. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was very hot and some of the rabbits were showing signs of exhaustion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As plain to feel as the heat on a hot day, or the tug of a fish on a taut line. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could say it was too hot in his room so he slept downstairs on the sofa. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Evan could just imagine how good the ice cream would feel sliding down his hot throat. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

And not, Do you have more hot dogs? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You can tell the temperature by looking at Margot and me, because we turn white when it’s cold and red when it’s hot,” I said. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I slide and scramble over the hot uneven ground. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It must be getting rather hot down there in Southern California by now. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clumsily added hot water, then sipped until wakefulness crept in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst crime you could commit as a Persian human is to not have hot tea, pastries, cucumbers, nuts, and a basket of fruit at the ready when someone enters your house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the sun was getting low outside and it wasn’t as hot anymore. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then, from behind us, another light appeared—this one accompanied by a gust of hot wind and a thunderous roar. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I worked over the bayonet a good long time until I had an edge on it that would slice through a man like a hot nail going through butter. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared out into the hot afternoon sky—a habit of his. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled open the hatch in the ceiling and a blast of hot air came down. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

In her autobiography, Elizabeth described the discussions of abolition and women’s rights at Peterboro as “white hot.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Buds opened into crinkled petals in a glory of white under the hot sun. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

ON a hot Saturday in late September, the cotton fields chopped and empty, Daddy carries a new RCA color television set into the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All of them out there in the hot sun that day were just dumb animals cursed with the mark of ash on their brow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m all hot from running,” I said, though the skin on my arms was pimpled from cold. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt something hot in her throat and blinked fast. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The stew smelled like thyme and roast mutton that night, and when Beatrice lifted the lid, the fragrant steam wafted up in a hot cloud. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took her head in my hands and licked tears from her eyelashes while her breath rushed hot across my skin. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And then the black dome of rage burst and hot lava flowed through him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The energy, in a climate so hot as to be staggering, is also staggering. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond rose Middle Mountain, just 2,500 feet high but acutely angled and an entirely different experience on a hot day with a cumbersome pack sagging down on tender shoulders. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She ran some hot water, and he stripped to his underpants. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have felt hotter if I’d picked her up out of the oven. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jo obeyed, but as her hand went softly to and fro across Beth’s hot forehead and wet eyelids, her heart was very full and she longed to speak. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is hot and out of breath from the walk up the stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrust in the ground, Lightbringer still glowed ruddy hot, but the flames that clung to the sword were dwindling and dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hot metal of the trucks, the reek of diesel fumes, the smoke from the drivers’ cigarettes, all mingle in the thick air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost hot in the sun, and I want to go swimming. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “You gunn have to help her take some the bite out them words, Elijah. Her pain too fresh to be locking it up so hot in writing.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The surface temperatures on Venus, as deduced from radio astronomy and confirmed by direct spacecraft measurements, are around 480°C or 900°F, hotter than the hottest household oven. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer was exceptionally hot across much of the United States, though the summer of 1936 would cruelly eclipse even this one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tony slurped the hot cheese, then set what was left of his slice down. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But in the middle of the day the sky was always blazing hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the long, hot, silent trip back in the wagon piled high with goods, Harry looked over at me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Pretty hot question for eighth graders, if you ask me, but I was excited by it, too, because I liked when teachers asked hard questions. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Missus Wilhelmina yanks me into our classroom of cinder blocks, with ceiling fans pushing hot air around in circles. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How do you guys have hot and cold running water?” he asked. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pool seemed to be shrinking—it had been a drier summer than usual, and hotter. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The chill’s gone from the air, and the real hot days—the scorchers—are just around the corner.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But it’s hot tonight, like summer is refusing to leave. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

At least Mom and Dad never brought us to the park on the really hot days. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was two feet from the crow’s nest when he felt a hot blade of pain sear through the flesh of his thigh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He would keep it hot, I cold, and either’s comfort is the other’s pneumonia. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We walk and talk some more, and by midafternoon, we make it back to Bushwick, where the sun is blazing hot and it’s even louder than in Bed-Stuy. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One advantage of the Fertile Crescent is that it lies within a zone of so-called Mediterranean climate, a climate characterized by mild, wet winters and long, hot, dry summers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was already nearly as hot as it had been the day before; but clouds were beginning to come up from the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Under Ralph's direction, they picked a careful way along the palm terrace, rather than dare the hot sand down by the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They filled the tub with scalding hot water, bathed her and washed her hair and gave her a cloth to wear between her legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But presently the day grew so hot and humid that all activity was quenched. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a burst of hot red fire in the sky, Freak tugs my hair and screams, "Copper! That's copper powder combusting with oxygen!" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

"What y'all boys up to anyway?" she asked, her voice comforting like a cup of hot chocolate. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Some weather! Hot! Hot! Hot! Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it . . . ?" My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“When washing, do not use hot water. They’ll shrink. Stop shaking them out like that. I recommend you always take them to a cleaning professional.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel all right? Your face is hot.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Momma said, “Sister, sit down and eat your soup. Cold night like this you need something hot in your stomach. Go on, Brother Taylor. Please.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us about the sauce he was making, a putanesca, how he had prepared it the way Sophie taught him, shot full of capers, anchovies, olives, garlic, hot peppers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and another Tlingit woman brought in a Thermos of hot soup and set it next to the bed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was a six-chair barbershop, where civic leaders were mummified in hot towels; and bathtubs for rent; and elevator banks lit by translucent egg-shaped marble lamps. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On very hot days, the algae’s weave became tight and dense, and the island increased in height; the climb to the ridge be­came steeper and the ridge higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was reading The Wall Street Journal The lady across the table was probably Mrs. Dare, though all I could see of her were hot pink fingernails and the cover of Conde Nast Traveler. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Along the way I buy us some hot chips with lots of salt and vinegar. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I blew some hot air on the window and drew a sad face with my finger. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And as he climbed, a fire grew in his gut, a fire as hot as Darwin’s arid maybe hotter. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

By the time the school bell ranged, Cooter had me so worked up that I was looking like I was sitting on a hot stove too! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The hot exposed solar interior will flood the shell with ultraviolet light, inducing a lovely red and blue fluorescence extending beyond the orbit of Pluto. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swam slowly, it seemed like a long swim with the high tide, and then pulled up on the raft and sat, dripping, on the boards that were becoming hot in the sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

JT might be a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles on the top, but his brother was castor oil. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

While upstairs, her face hot from the air rushing out of the vent, Desdemona resisted this new twist in the story line. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My, but it was hot down there,” said Mr. Dalton. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She told him that they were going to have to wake up early so that they could work in the cornfield before it got too hot. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even on a hot day San Sebastian has a certain early-morning quality. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

King Stannis had rowed his fleet up the Backwater, hot he would not row out again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was hot in his stuffy little office and as I stared at him, I could see that he was sweating up a storm. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As the hot summer dragged on, morale and strength began to break down in Mark Antony’s camp. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not hungry after devouring two croissants and a thick hot chocolate at the airport in Paris. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Amos hated bed wetters more than anything in the world and my bed had a sticky, hot, smelly rubber baby sheet on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She tells me that María was yelling at her dad because she was cold and didn’t have hot water to shower. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"Pork chops, grits, one egg, hot biscuits and coffee!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss kept a bottle of Crystal hot sauce on a turntable with other condiments. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

More words were exchanged, hot words and dark, and the whole thing ended with the arraignment of the three black men, and an appointment to appear in civil court Thursday next. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She hopped into the tub and put a hot washcloth on her head. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then they pounded the hot metal with mallets, making the corrosion flake off the outside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a scorching hot day in New York City. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Her voice reminded Piper of corn growing—a crackling, hissing, hot and persistent noise she used to hear at Grandpa Tom’s on those quiet nights in Oklahoma. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Marie just hands me my change envelope and my Pagoda Phone and eight pies in hot bags, and rattles off four addresses. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In those days Nebraska stood on a vast, hot plain very like the Serengeti of Africa today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning I was sitting in Miss Love’s kitchen, eating hot apple pie and cheese and hoping she wouldn’t pick a fuss with me like she had with everybody else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It smelled like hot urine, but at least the cats and my mother were pleased. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is bright As a hot dime. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once my skin is free of the gel, hot air blows from the blanket’s inner lining over my body, muffling the noises in the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

While Marcus lay trembling with fear and guilt, and Julius in chains tracked Boots into the hot, dry hinterland, Aurelia was in her mother’s private apartment, where she had been summoned. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The window is as open as it goes, there’s a breeze, hot in the sunlight, and the white cloth blows across my face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard work, walking around and around the field in the hot sun, and with both hands swinging the heavy cradles into the grain and cutting it, then sliding it into the piles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slides and blood tubes were the only glass objects allowed in a hot zone, because of the danger of glass splinters if something broke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air of the ice cream shop felt cool against my hot skin. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I took a scalding hot shower, worked over my face for the last time, and got dressed in my cheap suit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue and hard now, the last of the mist dissolved, and the sun, stepping higher above the trees, was hot on Winnie’s back. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain patters in a hollow echo against the metal, drops evaporating into steam where the iron is still hot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Right. Because you usually pack for a hot hospital romance?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Henry’s mouth falls open into a very unflattering expression of drunken, bewildered arousal, like a hot halibut, at his reply several beats later. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if my face has ever been this hot. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"See that he's given a comfortable chamber and a hot meal. Send him a new pair of boots as well, good ones, courtesy of King Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The space between the fire and the wall of the cave was much hotter than when he had ventured out Whimpering and crying, he kept trying to get around the fire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the kind of person who doesn’t say that it was hot yesterday. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carter leaned from his perch to call to us, his face hot and perspiring. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was back in my apartment I took refuge in a hot shower. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your hot water,” he said, and his was the voice of the other quarreler. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darts like hot coals went through my legs and arms and I howled more loudly still. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot tip is a two-year-old mare called Bacon Rashers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Kendra finished the last of her hot chocolate and wiped her lips. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Laughter boomed all around him, and Jon felt hot tears on his cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Inside is not the sort of dim lighting you hope for when you want to move something hot, but I was careful to dress nice enough to look like the watch is mine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first line of defense against a hot agent is sticky tape, because it seals cracks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s cooler in the forest, it’s still hot. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I discovered my face was hot as a stove, I happily used it to warm my freezing hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But wearing the thing is blazes hot in the summer, so I spend most days forgetting mine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It had been a long, hot summer in B-block— a long, low wave of attacks and reprisals, and then lockdowns to let everything cool off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took two fresh hot dogs out of the package, loaded them up and brought them back to Styx. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She kept kissing me on one cheek and then the other, alternating back and forth until my face was hot enough to boil off the tears she left behind. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Coffee for her, hot anise milk for me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On all the tables, spheres popped like hot soda cans. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The chili got too hot—it's bubbling and spilling over. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We wrapped her wrists with beaded bracelets, gave her castor-oil enemas, packed hot cactus compresses on her brow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While other kids were swimming and playing baseball, de la O was out in the hot sun, weeding, picking beans, and pulling heavy sugar beets out of the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Rocco approaching, holding a cardboard tray of hot drinks. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I obeyed inexpertly, dripping hot wax on my fingers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And there she stayed, as if she couldn't decide between the hot room and the strange freedom to be found outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once Annabeth caught up, she could walk right behind him and keep an eye on Percy, who was mumbling deliriously, his forehead dangerously hot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s really good on a really hot day,” said Link. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I threw on my clothes and went downstairs to the kitchen, where hot chocolate and buttered toast waited for me on the counter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I take a big gulp of hot tea myself, scald my mouth, and swallow hard. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Last of all, I tucked two apples in among the hot rocks of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was the hot, sleepy feeling of a summer afternoon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind was so hot and dry, it would hasten the process of curing on its own. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specially if it is hot weather, my advisement is dont waste no time.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I cut through the crowd, emerging minutes later with two hot moon cakes dripping with chilled cream. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Eventually, because I know Peeta will be worried about me, I head back to the camp, hotter and more frustrated than ever. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He intro­duced me to a dozen men, one of them a retired teacher, another an engineer, a former architect, a surgeon who was now running a hot dog stand in Hayward. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If it was already hot outside, it was going to be unbearable inside. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Bad news screamed around him, so he couldn’t hear me breathing, hot and hard, behind him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was on a day so hot that we had to wipe our sweaty hands on a cloth to keep them from soiling our work that Mala was fired. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We should go to the fabric store and pick out something really cool! You could do flames or flowers or just a solid, like hot pink!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now I knew my mother had liked almond cake with honey and hot tea, that she’d once used the word “profoundly,” that she’d fretted about her happiness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I found this manifestly unfair, to say nothing of hot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was skating on the moat, which roared with the gliding bones which they used for skates, while hot chestnuts and spiced mead were served on the bank to all and sundry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, the sun grew hotter and more punishing, too hot for June, and the fence seemed to get longer and longer, like a living thing snaking out across the prairie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside, the portly knight who commanded the waycastle greeted Mya by name and offered them skewers of charred meat and onions still hot from the spit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

MoMo B. ChaCha and Ladybird Hope sat in a heart-shaped bubble bath hot tub, rifles in their hands, champagne glasses nearby. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At thirty her hot brown eyes had turned to agate, and her skin had taken on the sheen of maple struck down, split and sanded at the height of its green. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was freezing cold, and there was no food prepared, not even hot water. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly felt hot not from the crush of people, but from shame. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I turned it up as hot as he could bear to warm his bones so he didn’t get sick. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Pacing in front of the library waiting for Gran, I shaded myself from the sun under the roof overhang, but the air kept blowing gusts of hot breath in my direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She stood up and poured more hot water into her cup. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He flexed his biceps, though he didn’t have much to flex, and showed off his hot stuff tattoo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Not if you were holding hot tea. Plus, you're forgetting Storm." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He knows Dorus doesn’t approve of these long walks, and it is quite hot out, but he’s making so little money, there’s no other way to get to London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She spoke slowly and carefully, like she was explaining to a toddler not to touch a hot stove. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His shoes were tan and new and he moved easily over the hot earth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, of course, thought this was a very hot thing to say. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cup was hot, and she pulled her tongue in again in a hurry. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mother says we’ll skip breakfast, eat hot cereal and bread for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner and, if possible, vegetables or lettuce once or twice a week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Thank the gods and pass the hot sauce.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hell, if you handled hot agents without a space suit, that would be hazardous work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper brought a second bucket of hot water, then a third. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We’d all been too hot for too long to give it much thought. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And she said, “That is the hottest middle name ever!” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She mixed the cocoa powder with a little sugar and poured in the hot milk, making some for herself as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Fadi tuned out his sisters’ phenomenally boring conversation, added a chunk of crumbly brown sugar to his watered-down hot milk, and stirred. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

B-block could get hot and sticky if there was no breeze outside, and on this day, many of the inmates who went to the yard after midday chow peeled off their shirts before heading outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s one thing the Tumblr has taught me, it’s that a lot of guys consider it hot when a girl is a lesbian. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Obviously not,” I say through the tears that have completely disobeyed me and are now making their hot trails down my face. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The soup was barley bean, which I don’t dig that tough but it was hot and the restaurant was warm. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the flames had licked at Rattleshirt, the ruby at her throat had grown so hot that she had feared her own flesh might start to smoke and blacken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rorge heaved the scalding hot broth across the table, full in their faces. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Coming to New York had perhaps been an unconscious attempt to keep the old freezing unit going, but it hadn't worked; hot water had gotten into its coils. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uptown rhythms were slower and yet were somehow faster; a different tension was in the hot night air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had agreed to wear white carnations to identify each other, and the porter kept my flower in the diner’s Frigidaire until we reached the small hot town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t hold our breath for rain, but a hot breeze blew through the tree house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If the patient was hotter than the doctor’s hand they were, in absolute terms, hot, and that was that. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My face feels hot and I get a soft pain in the middle of my chest. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s the soggy Spares!” yelled some of the other spectators, and Seven’s cheeks went hot from the name-calling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t risk a fire, so they ate the hot dogs uncooked. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because nothing’s more hot than making out behind the gym at school,” she said, winding her arms around Claire’s neck. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Lilly was still using red- hot irons and an ounce of oil on every head. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will walk hot coals with a quart of kerosene in my hand for this. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s even too hot for Miss Celia to sit out at the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was holding two swords—long bronze scimitars that glowed with a weird greenish aura, boiling wisps of vapor that smelled sour and hot even across the yard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Three days later and you and I were running for our lives through a tunnel that was hotter than the sun.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A dry hot wind glided up and down the canyon restlessly, shaking the salt bushes and sweeping dust over the tire tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Marie up front, slapping fresh hot pies into boxes and slicing them, and I claim the order, even though it’s not my turn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Something hot and sharp cut through the air, billowing out under Betty like a stinging cloud of sand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And no hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was really hot and humid that day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he awoke it was half-past nine, and he sallied forth to the restaurant car in search of hot coffee. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she tried to remove it, she noticed that the cocoon had begun to unravel in the hot liquid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was near the wall of windows, but not so close as to get too hot on sunny days. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark now, but the breeze had died and somehow the air seemed hotter than it had all day. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When he made his way downstairs, he found Hollis wearing a hot pink muumuu, passed out on the couch with papers strewn across her chest and the floor. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Their eyes are like fireflies, hot and erased of memory. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I had pulled my panties down to my knees, a hot wave of embarrassment swept through me and by reflex I covered myself with my hand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Thick black smoke climbed furiously into the cloudless blue sky, hot and windless. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So everyone had some nut cookies and hot tea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My face got hot when the others laughed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But victims of this type of hot virus have changes in behavior that can render them incapable of responding to an offer of help. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed at the hot wax on the back of my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was hot but not enough to burn, so I walked on it a piece, arms spread-eagle, balancing with my fishing pole like a tightrope-walker at the circus. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My ears started to burn, and all of a sudden I felt hot all over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The white bands are thought to be high clouds, probably ammonia crystals; the brownish-colored belts, deeper and hotter places where the atmosphere is sinking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large food processing company offered to buy the rights and sell the hot dogs in stores, but Milton, mistakenly thinking that popularity is eternal, rejected it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

During the hot, dry season, everybody would bring chairs outside and sit in the shade. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was quiet for a minute, and then he asked, “So, how often do we give Boots that medicine? She still feels pretty hot.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him cleaning his master’s woolen coat; he was wrapping wet scraps of brown paper about hot coals, and, with a tongs, dousing grease spots with the steaming paper. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s been so hot here recently. It feels kind of good to be cold.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even look at me before she marched back up to the front of the room and dropped that paper on her desk like it was a hot potato. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear was particular about his hot spiced wine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man who filled drink orders from behind the bar would let him sit up on the counter and practice his magic tricks, and gave Kaz all the hot chocolate he could drink. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A hot, conical flame spurted from Auk XXI’s base as it accelerated off the pad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wince as the hot, dry air enters my nostrils. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt them getting hot in his hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I tried meditating on a teapot in my mind’s eye but all I saw was hot water spilling from the spout and coming straight at me like a scalding hot tsunami wave. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He squinted, his eyes stinging from the hot, filthy air, and looked around. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The windows in the bus were open to the hot breeze and road dust. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Don’t know why, but it always seemed hottest at cotton-picking time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And then she rushed at me and threw her arms around my neck, the flame in her hand snuffing out just before she touched me, her skin hot where she’d held it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Her face looks like somebody threw a hot pot of something on it,” Char says, frowning. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry felt a hot, sick swoop of anger in his stomach. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Air conditioners poked out from the windows in the white section, but back here there was nothing but electric fans moving the hot air from one place to another. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first one he had smoked in a long time; he sucked the hot smoke deep into his lungs and blew it out slowly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The weather was unlike anything the boys had experienced back home—oppressively hot and sticky. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Of course I didn’t know, would probably never know—if the experts were right, I would soon be dead, burned in intense white clouds hotter than the sun. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’ll be hot, but it will feel better than wearing shorts and a tee. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Pork Chop exclaimed, Ira hot on his heels. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot, but I drank that tea and ate those sandwiches like I had magically aged and turned into my father. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Waiting for the hot dogs, she put in a cassette and turned the music up loud. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer rolls behind us like a hot tar spreader. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Blowing grit and hot light and the stink of saltpeter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It landed hot and thick and wet on the side of Wash’s neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We all ate in the kitchen amidst the hot frying grease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra put down her toothbrush and, sitting on the edge of the bathtub, waited for the water to get hot. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

They would be buddies in the hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t move, she’d end up right in the middle, like a monkey, like a hot roasted monkey. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

For me, the hotter the better, because the hotter it gets, the hotter I get. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Even a heavy dose of Tamika’s hot sauce wouldn’t be able to bury the bitter aftertaste. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even in the middle of summer, though it was so hot my face would sweat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

That summer, it was so hot I could barely breathe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second is that the ground is hot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The world had been divinely ordered so that our sensations of hot and cold corresponded to real qualitative differences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It made a little hot track down my cheek. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He used those Swiss Miss instant hot chocolate packets where you just add water. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And, man, I gotta state it for the record: Mei-li was probably the hottest hipster Asian chick you could ever meet. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One morning I was laying out some clothes to dry in the sun when Selvam came running in, his face hot and excited. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost nearly a third of his blood, but the hot rails had cauterized many of his arteries. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After a while Mom sauntered out with a pitcher and cups to give us some cold water because it was hot and because she wanted to check up on our progress. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I went to have a look and cooled her hot, red wrists with water. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s too hot to sleep,” she said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing better than to dredge a hunk of hot biscuit through chowder thick with clams and potatoes. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Stanley must have looked surprised, because Mr. Sir went on to explain that they started early to avoid the hottest part of the day "No one is going to baby-sit you," he added. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But they only had enough hot water for one squadron to leave. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I am sitting around the breakfast table with my family, drinking hot coffee, laughing at Teddy’s chocolate-chip mustache. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the world’s hottest hot sauce without any extracts. It has over one million Scoville units!” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But it was very hot, and she clung to Emma and Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marketing says pirates are over — it’s all about hot trolls now. They’ve got a hot troll show lined up and ready to go in our time slot: Trollin’ on Delaware Beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

No one knew whether it would be too hot or too cold inside. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my hair was straightened, I had curls put in with a hot curler. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I always say, there’s nothing like fresh hot cake and cold milk to make a body feel better on a funeral day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It orbits around the world. Like the moon, only closer. It’s got science stuff in it, measures things like how cold or hot it is in space. That’s what ours was supposed to do, anyway.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve heard that if a political complains, the guards in charge of that cell will be in very hot water indeed—maybe even shot! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had made it a lifetime ago, before the hot summer month when my grandfather and I had first recognized each other. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I can see through the window, you know,” Rupa scolded, stirring sugar into a hot, milky cup of tea for Neel. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t sleep during the hot daylight hours; he couldn’t cope with the nights. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school’s computing school was one of the hottest in the country, the admissions counselor said, and Eric would be up against kids with outstanding grades and achievements. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She positively glowed as she told me about the hot meals and the hot showers and all the friends she’d made. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the hottest summer on record in America, and New York was one of the hardest-hit cities. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hallyne said that sometimes the substance burned so hot that flesh melted like tallow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But to think about Mr. Chris made all the goodness in her change and seem to go thick, like milk curdling on a hot day. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s July, it’s hot, but I can’t really imagine leaving the room without it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was so hot, if you stood still too long in the vacant lot, the sun bouncing off a chunk of broken glass or metal could fry a patch on your hide. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sticky hot and he hated the ashy taste of the water stored in a clay pot behind the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On a sprig of hope, I even called about an apartment listing on East 85th Street, a one-bedroom with hot plate for forty-five dollars a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We are in summer and it’s very hot. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Too hot. By the way, I got the bus tickets." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sun was hot this moming, the sky blue and cloudless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When it gets hot, I dive off the houseboat into the murky water, taking care not to drink it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady and Hattie Mae were talking about how hot it had been and how there wasn’t even a hint of rain. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry yelled, fighting the pain of the hot metal on his skin, as Griphook clambered onto his shoulders again, determined to avoid the swelling mass of red-hot objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Nathan’s hot dogs. New York pastrami, corned beef, baked pretzels, NewYork Italian ices, and don’t forget”—he pauses, dramatic—“Manhattan clam chowder.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say how much anybody had actually suffered, but the disaster at the basketball game was definitely the hot topic at school. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The day is getting hotter and there’s no circulation in here. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad fixed hot cocoa for me and coffee for himself. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the hot day darkened and the sky began to clap and grumble. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lidia is in the kitchen, warming up a bottle in a cup of hot water. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My face was hot and probably red, but I squared my shoulders. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Francie loved the smell of coffee and the way it was hot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back down to himself in his baggy green robes and oversized sandals, Matthias felt hot tears of shame and frustration spilling from his eyes and dripping on his young whiskers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her skin became so hot it gave Xan blisters, or so cold that she made a frostbitten imprint of her body on Glerk’s chest when she gave him a hug. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He whipped the spatula in front of my face and little bits of hot oil flicked at me, burning my eyeball. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But by itself tea is usually bitter, as were the two other new drinks that came to Europe in the 1600s—coffee and hot chocolate. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The air is still and soundless apart from the flapping, neither hot nor cold—not like air at all, but I can still breathe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“When I get big,” she thought, “I will have such a brown bowl and in hot August there will be nasturtiums in it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly very hot inside the cheap synthetic sack, and I pressed my knees against the lining, trying to create a little breathing room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Yossarian cooked a can of hot soup to have ready for Orr and ate it all himself as the time passed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They tore through the hot days of summer, knocking over all comers, winning with daring and flair. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He stood, his anger growing hotter in his gut. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He looks down at me, and his eyes glint in brief, hot rage before cooling into something else—shock? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When all of the ingredients had been combined and crushed into a fine powder, she drew a small knife from her pocket and bent down to hold it in the hottest part of the flames. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ma opened the front of the cookstove and raked hot coals out into the iron hearth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and shaved and took a hot bath. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They practiced by jumping out of hot air balloons at night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arm was hot and heavy around my lake-cold body, and my bare shoulder wedged up into his armpit hair, which felt gross, like animal fur. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she returns hot and fatigued from a day of shopping, the first thing she does, following Chinese culture, is to take off her sandals and leave them at the door. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cars felt hot Sloan handed the photo to his ugly buddies, who snickered and started ripping it up to make spit wads. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bran had bathed with his sisters hundreds of times and he'd seen serving women in the hot pools too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wooden armor was as hot and heavy as it was uncomfortable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Each hour the dance hall seems to grow progressively warmer, so by the eighth day, the air, walls, and floor are saturated with the hot, teeming odor of boys. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We keep the shades pulled, hot day like today, people get suspicious. This way is safer. I’m sorry.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we could observe them, it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around from where I sit on top of hot rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And oh, the hot flush of shame that chased that picture. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One hot December afternoon, toward the end of my first year at school, the principal interrupted classes and summoned everyone to the courtyard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still in the same hot mess that we were. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I shake some vinegar into my hot and sour soup and stir it in. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So much for daintiness, but it didn’t take care of hot baths. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the fat smelly markers that cost two-fifty each, the leather diaries that locked with little keys, the battery-operated fans that you could wear on a string around your neck on hot days. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I can feel hot tears in my eyes now and try to keep them from spilling out. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have I crossed half the world and seen the birth of dragons only to die with them in this hard hot desert? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Fish it out of that soup then and come on. It’s hot in here.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale — on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory — he decided to buy it. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The image of Zero crawling across the hot dry dirt remained in his head. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The sun that had looked warm and buttery at a distance was blazing hot here. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I waited for Hobb to pull the fresh loaves from the ovens, my lady. The bread’s still hot.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone else sitting at my table is having a hot dog. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We usually went to my grandmother’s church, an old-school Methodist congregation, five hundred African grannies in blue-and-white blouses, clutching their Bibles and patiently burning in the hot African sun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They are holding me so that I cannot squirm, shoving into my face a hot branding iron. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a black dot in a hot blue sky, going swiftly, and then it was gone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like “lips touching, me tasting her strawberry lip gloss, her probably thinking my breath smells like hot dogs” kissed. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pain shooting through my arm hurt like crazy, hot and sharp as a flame. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was a hot, muggy day, and I realized suddenly that the mare had been sweating excessively and needed water. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or that plants spontaneously transformed into caterpillars, or moths into birds, simply because the climate was so hot and wild. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that would scare the daylights out of a military biohazard specialist. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he liked the yacht’s heart-shaped hot tub, where he sat watching Ladybird Hope on a TV news hour calling him a threat to national security. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, on hot days, all the time was spent in the water, and the boys raced Robin to the weir and back. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It looked as if it were going to be a hot day later. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that l doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody rushed to get the hot, spicy-smelling slices from the box. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was so hot and steamy out that a line started to form immediately, winding like a DNA double helix. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Digging for fossils under the hot tropical sun was very hard work. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Petey drove them home, windows open, hot wind tossing their hair, the song of the crickets seemed to reach a furious crescendo. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We ate hot dogs and hamburgers and corn on the cob and strawberries. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sun was overhead, the world still and hot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I know the sun sears its branches to hot wires. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train was very hot – the sun shone straight onto his face, through the glass. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe if the sun is hotter, then that would mean it’s probably brighter. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He looks sweaty, uncomfortable—I can’t imagine the heavy blue robes masters and brothers of the temple are required to wear are comfortable during the Zamani Regions hot season—but I don’t dare to ask. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On that bus, it was hot and dusty, and we sometimes stopped at a restaurant. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything had been jagged there, hot and full of peril, and it didn’t matter how beautiful he was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He bent his head to the hot broth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I felt hot, then hotter. Smoke passed before my eyes. The world went black. Didn’t you see it?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By ni-Frith it was so hot that the lower part of the field was humid. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was a hot white penny, shining down upon the grey river as it rushed around the charred bones of sunken ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Poppy recalled, “When I saw a sign for hot dogs, I thought they were made of dog meat. It scared me. I thought the big shiny trash cans were mailboxes.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The red walls of the Inner City loomed tall and forbidding, and every gold-studded gate door was guarded by at least two soldiers, their silver armor reflecting in the hot sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would turn the hose on him and get him very wet, which he liked on hot summer days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drinks a cup of hot tea every day because it’s “good for digestion.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t occurred to me that Cecile didn’t own a hot comb or curling iron, even though that fact was as big and thick as her unpressed braids. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With king's men, Darry men, Lannister men, and Stark men all crammed into a castle far too small for them, tensions burned hot and heavy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the morning of August 18, a stiflingly hot day even by Nashville standards, elected officials gathered at the statehouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After a hot ride on the train, I’m eager for a shower and cooler clothes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain is bright and hot as the ring burns into his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They sold hot dogs, chili dogs, and tamales for a dime each, soda for a nickel. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then the workers, foraging ceaselessly through the hot days of summer, will destroy countless caterpillars. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment under the hot sun, she thought she might faint. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If there were a break in the suit, the normal world would vanish, merging with the hot world, and you would be exposed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still the welcoming scent of chlorine and Coppertone and hot dogs and mustard. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He wrote that no matter how hot the sun got, the sound of the ocean spraying against the walls of El Malecón was enough to keep you cool. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One hot afternoon Mr. Dawson caught me sleeping in the strawberry patch that I was supposed to be weeding and told Mrs. Dawson about it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is about as hot as it gets for the two of them in public. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loeffler always had a cup of hot tea waiting for me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After that they’d be living in a building with heat and hot water. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘YOU!' Nike glared at Leo, her eyes hotter and brighter than her metal wings. ‘You dare?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled his arm out of Rashid’s grasp and started down the hall, trying hard to ignore how much hotter the air was with every step. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the hot slurry were shreds of prawn and carrot. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Heat pressed against every inch of my skin—a dry blast so hot that my sweat evaporated before it made it out, and yet the shadow crow made it with little effort. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And, inevitably, the black man’s anger rekindled, deeper than ever, and there began bursting out in different cities, in the “long, hot summer” of 1964, unprecedented racial crises. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face went hot and his hands went cold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

Genie imagined him and Grandpop were sitting on a giant spoon, and God was holding them up to his mouth and blowing on them like hot soup. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have any soap or hot water, so my mom bathed me with dishwashing liquid, in a tub of ice-cold water. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Under the hot sun, Milkman was frozen with anger. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you need a sweater during the hottest part of the summer?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Downstream, conunoners and highborn captains alike could see the hot green death swirling toward their rafts and carracks and ferries, borne on the current of the Blackwater. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Walking barefoot on the sand was like walking on a hot tar road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The She Elephant bought loaves of hot bread and mugs of sweet milky tea from street vendors. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And here I have a notarized affidavit from Sergeant Whitcomb in which he states that he knew the tomato was hot just from the way you tried to unload it on him.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Through me and past me and over me and I’m hot and cold and shivering and shot down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a fever in their eyes and in their hearts, and it burned so hot they could never rest for long. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mother worried even more than usual, but I was too hot to care. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spoon descended and a hot—but not burning—swallow poured in. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s blazing hot outside at midday, especially up on the roof where Zohra and I like to hang out late at night. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I barely knew the kid, hut we were the only two in the courtyard at that moment, and I had to, so to speak, touch the stove that I knew was hot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The more one contemplates the hot viruses, the less they look like parasites and the more they begin to look like predators. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, she cooked soup and sausage and pierogi on a small hot plate she’d smuggled into the dorm room. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a great summer, thank you. Though I am seriously looking forward to the fall. I hate this hot weather.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then, like a movie that burns in the projector while you’re watching it, a bloom of hot and perfect whiteness spread out before me and swallowed everything. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Come help me move dis manure pile befo’ de sun gits hot. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m hot and cold at the same time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I give you a dozen hot dogs.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many labored under hot suns and then killed the restless ache with alcohol. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like most of the shacks, Joe’s had no indoor plumbing and his room came with only enough electricity for one lightbulb overhead and a hot plate on a shelf. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I sleep hot,” she explained to the children. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and there stood Miss Persimmon with a jug of hot water on a tray. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

On hot days, Kendra had seen the air shimmer in the distance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the hot June sun burst down on Mossflower, as if in apology for its absence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she’d tried to touch him since she’d cleaned his wounds two weeks before, and his shirt was damp with sweat, his skin hot under her palm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Or what she looks like. He’s just blowing off a lot of hot air. Isn’t he?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be cold and hungry, I am sure. A hot meal awaits you in our common room.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Jane, you have to calm down. It’s going to get hot in here, and they didn't leave us with any water. Jane.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Ronan. I think maybe we’re more like tea bags. In hot water, we just get stronger and stronger.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Someone having chest pains by the hot dog stand. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had never, not even on long bike trips in the hot summer, been this thirsty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashley’s weight settled over my legs; I knew it was her, even as my brain came in and out of consciousness, and a white hot light was burning behind my eyelids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The house was hot and stiff and as quiet as a library in hell. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Condemned prisoners on Alabama's death row unit are housed in windowless concrete buildings that are notoriously hot and uncomfortable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of hanging out with his boys and imagining the smell of barbecued hot dogs made Wes happy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Or that in two days, I hadn't figured out how to get the hot water to work in my uncle's bathroom and that no form of deodorant would mask the stench of my body odor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The guy in front of me was dressed in a silvery, skintight jumpsuit, and he dropped and bobbed down at my knees, then slowly inched upward until I felt his hot breath on my nose. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only consolation is that if I was hot, “Queen” Angelita must have been burning up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It beats the shrieking hot tub chaos over there.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“D’you know what I want?” he says, his voice so low and hot that it burns right through Alex’s solar plexus, right into the core of him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt her ears get hot as a wave of whispering and snickers erupted in his wake. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Shame rose from the ground and wrapped me in a hot, turbulent funnel that I wished would lift me out of this room, away from my school principal’s startled blue eyes and quivering, elegant fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Without her, Lanre’s life was nothing but a burden, and the power he had taken up lay like a hot knife in his mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he went into a ten-minute diatribe about the dangers of doing hot work in a space suit, especially with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summers are always hot, but that year holding ponds dried up, even some wells went dry. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry had to pull out the mouthpiece, and the cold sponge turned hot on his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder felt partly responsible—it had been his idea that Tommy do some detective work, and now his buddy had gotten in hot water because of it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Erin, Boy21, and I sip hot chocolate as we watch our football team lose their final game of the season on their home field. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten the boy’s name, but I remember staring at him dumbfounded and in pain, my lower lip already swelling, my eyes hot with tears. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She collapsed, out cold against the hot sand. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hot air pressed against my face, and my hair was like a hot, heavy blanket draped on my neck and back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Would you care for a hot dog? I extend the same courteous service to all colors and creeds. Paradise Vendors has been a pioneer in the field of public accommodations.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the hot water hit my hair, I smelled the gas again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She said this as she was picking hot dog chunks off my chin. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My mother used to say that when men get old they think anything that smells bad can kill germs better than soap and hot water, so they either bathe in liquor or cologne. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Mirror seemed to be growing hot and curls of steam were rising from the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

While he and Mom drink coffee, Malia and I have hot chocolate with mini marshmallows. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure is hot. You thirsty? Got the canteen?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my cheeks go hot as they both start to giggle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mother had hit me sometimes because she was a very hot- tempered person, which means that she got angry more quickly than other people and she shouted more often. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Miles stopped at the fourth door on the left, touched the handle hesitantly a few times as if he thought it’d be scalding hot, and then pushed the door open. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Too hot, I took my pajama top off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The taste of hot blood filled Jon’s mouth, and he knew that Ghost had killed that night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My body warms, like I just drank a quart of hot cocoa. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Marco reaches up to a branch above his head and passes the ring through one of the burning candles until it glows, white and hot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I can remember those hot telephone sessions with those reporters as if it were yesterday. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only wisps of greyish-blue smoke floated like ghosts into the hot air. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lumbered over to the passageway where his cart was hidden, prepared a hot dog, and prayed that some customers would happen along before the day was over. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were part of what is called the Street Crime Unit, a special division of the New York Police Department, dedicated to patrolling crime “hot spots” in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Just hot in the midday sun, anxious to be out of my shoes, eager to be on the islands again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We ate on the verandah, although it was almost as hot as the kitchen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll clean up in here, Mom. You can go read your book or take a hot bath or something. That’d make your back feel better.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mom had a cup of hot chocolate waiting for me and pulled out a chair. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My face was hot, and tears tickled my eyes, but I wasn’t about to let them see me cry. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My stomach surged and gurgled, roiling with hot dread. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy and hot, and the clear water of the Hidden River was smooth and still. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pa let Mrs.’s question hang in the hot air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A long table laden with many dishes, the smell of musty old room and hot grease in the kitchen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why you don’t scald your mouth, drinking it that hot.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the courtyard. The entire courtyard, not just the bonfire. Bright and burning and hot. Then...I don’t know what happened but Bailey was there. That much I’m sure of.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We all crank down the windows, but it’s just as hot outside as it is in the car. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This secret is like having hot burning coals under my bare feet all the time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down and looked out but he stirred with a piece of wood and found a bed of coals still glowing hot and red. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Stuart arrived at his camp site by the river, he was tired and hot. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Okay, fine. They are stereotypically hot. They’re like the male fantasy.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It was a day more than hot enough to make you work up a sweat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

While the rest of us are sitting around outside, in the hot Stockton sun, sweatin’ our balls off. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sun had only just come up over the horizon, but he already could feel its hot rays against his face. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Even Memorial Park on the south side closed its “all black” pool, so during the hot, steamy Birmingham summers, children had no place to swim. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mary pressed the hot iron against the apron on the table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or eat hot dogs with while cheering the Chicago Bears? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Somewhere off to the right, another voice sang counterpoint to hers, some baker’s boy shouting, “Meat pies, three pence, hot meat pies here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Not them curtains in your room. Too hot the way it is.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dunstan leaned over toward her, reached a hand up to her face, felt something wet and hot splash against his hand. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s head smacked the top edge of the missing window’s frame and slipped through it, out into the hot air of the morning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was too hot to know how it tasted, but I shook my head to indicate that it was fine. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby’s cheeks were hot, burning, the corners of his eyes tense and taut. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Otis yelled after her, “I told you not to wear that thing, it’s too hot for a wig. It’s sliding around on your head from the perspiration.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m hot,” I said, which was true, since there was no air- conditioning in the trailer. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I leaf through a copy, pausing at an article about keeping your hot bikini body through the holiday season, before stuffing them into my bag. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It would be so lovely to sink our teeth into hot juicy food again. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The jail physician wrote the Marion County Board of Health that due to “close confinement and very hot weather” Fannie risked great injury to her health. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

My mother grabbed my hands and I felt hot tears scalding my fingers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held his hot tea to his lips, and patted delicately at his beard, his fingers slowly adjusting the symmetry after his nap. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me, Caleb,” she said, her voice as creamy as the hot polenta. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Above ground the night was fresh and clear—not as hot as summer or as cool as autumn. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch the hot leaf paste to my face, my arms. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each one is dressed from head to toe in the hottest fashion of the season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hot, pro-tective anger she had felt for Calvin when she looked into his home she now felt turned toward her mother. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning. Harriet’s sweet easy temper will not mind it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I shove the half-lemon in, shove Grandma out, tell myself the English bloke has glandular fever, cold sores, and tooth decay, the trifecta of unkissability, like every other hot male in Lost Cove. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Staying in my compartment is impossible, so I decide to go find someone to make me tea or hot chocolate or anything. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We keep playing as Dylan goes on and on about which hot beverage he and Samantha should name their firstborn after, and I refuse to be Uncle Ben to any child named Cider. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The day was murderously hot and there was no wind and the dust hung above the army like a yellow veil. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dusty vents blew hot, dry air in my face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was almost midday, but the tar road was already too hot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was dark and awfully hot in there. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"I don't suppose you have such a thing as a bottle of something spirituous upon you? Or perchance a pot of hot, sweet tea?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fear spawned by a Cold War that threatened to turn hot, there was encouraging news as well. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that her allowance was so small that it took her more than three weeks of skipping hot fudge sundaes to save enough for train fare was another example of injustice. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her curly cinnamon-colored hair was tied back in a bandana, which gave her a commando look that Leo found kind of hot—and then immediately felt guilty about. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me and his face was bathed in water and flowing, hot blood, but it was also dark and peaceful as it slumped into the sand of the riverbank. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was funny to think of Father Mulrooney looking forward to anything except a hot night translating Cicero. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

At first it had been hard to get the words out, but then she just turned off the hot water, and the cold water shocked the words out of her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“He had to come; he was making a fuss. I love you so much,” Mom whispers into my ear, hot and full of spittle. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The night before had been stiflingly hot, and the early morning was already steaming and miserable. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stood there with his bare face hanging out, burning hot all over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once he dismisses us, the congregation goes outside, where a few of the deacons are flipping burgers and hot dogs on the grills. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he would be eating out here on the hot sidewalk by himself. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the coals of her dying fire are still hot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Byrd will say, “If you get uneasy, no hot cars.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stand in the corner a minute, drinking coffee too hot for the weather. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The road came out from the shadow of the woods into the hot sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The days were still hot but the evenings had begun to cool, the frigid hours after sunset claiming more of each day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When it got too hot in the day, we took some of the clothes off and carried them on our shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In books hatred is often described as hot, but at Capricorn's festivities Meggie discovered it was cold—an ice-cold hand that stops the heart and presses it like a clenched fist against the ribs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She really does dance like a spider on a hot plate. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When we sat down, I noticed Ali Shekari wouldn’t eat his hot dogs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The hot, protective anger she had felt for Calvin when she looked into his home she now felt turned toward her mother. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Rowdy got hot, hit fifteen or twenty in a row, and I rebounded and kept passing the ball to him. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing about a hundred yards north, Snuffy discovered the trail into the gorge he had known would be there, a narrow descent to the river bank where two small hot springs were located. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I add scallions, bean sprouts, and mint leaves to my soup, Ma dips my spoon and chopsticks into the hot water, wiping them dry with her napkin before handing them back to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at Mary Lou as if she had recently plunged a red hot stake into his heart. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

These were just to hold — cool to the touch, though the day was hot. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re driving and it’s stifling hot outside, but the heater is on and the windows are up, and the radio is loud but tuned to the garble between stations. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Those, of course, were nothing more than a family pack of hot dogs cut up and wrapped in croissant dough. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had breathed fresh air, walked on paved roads, mingled freely with white people, rested upon green grass and eaten free hot dogs given to me by whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he chopped hot dogs into the spaghetti sauce, he told the group how Garvey had taught him that life was a hot dog. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"Here?" he asks in disbelief, as if I'd asked him to walk barefoot on hot coals or something. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The “long hot summer” of 1964 in Harlem, in Rochester, and in other cities, has given an idea of what could happen— and that’s all, only an idea. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it’s hot in here? Let’s go out.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I pretended like I was used to older hot girls showing me love. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

By sunset, Quintus hadn’t even broken a sweat, which seemed kind of strange; but Tyson and I were hot and sticky, so we hit the showers and got ready for dinner. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So we ate our pizza there, and got some hot cocoa. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the gooseflesh come up on her amis, hot as it was. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The grownups all gave us way more. 'That's too cheap!' they said. 'It's such a hot day and you're working so hard. Here, take a dollar. Keep the change.' It was crazy!" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But then she remembered the hot sparks she had felt while sliding down the mountain peak. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bring you a bucket of hot water. Winter rate’s two dollars.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner Caroline made some hot spiced cider, and April arranged a plate of fancy Christmas cookies that she and Caroline had baked. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun sank into the horizon and exploded in hot oranges and blues. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She knew her wet dress should have been making her cold, but she felt hot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s too hot for shenanigans, Cameron,” Grandma had told me, right after she said yes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was a cheery sun, which suggested another hot day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed a few minutes and moved on, and soon afterward, when the sun was at its highest and hottest, Serafina Pekkala darted down to speak to them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And added, “Our chances are not so hot. Our varsity is undoubtedly slower than last year’s shell, and is inexperienced entirely in racing.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Beverages during the hot summer became my chore, largely because no one else wanted them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The humidity mounted an assault even at nine-twenty in the morning—like a hot, wet towel wrapped around his face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I have my generator and about a million hot dogs.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

A hand flashed out, reaching for the handle—Cate’s pale, slender fingers, outstretched—only to pull away at its molten hot touch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if the temperature had gotten so hot that the air itself was sweating. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see through the tangled vines into the former hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day it was very hot, and as he was bending over a pool, he felt a burning on the back of his head, and a dazzling light from the water pained his wet eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hot chocolate costs a whole dollar more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He loved being blinded and hot under the plastic, and gave contented sighs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The blood stopped spreading, but he still felt like he had a hot metal curtain rod sticking through his ribs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She led me into the house and gave me a cup of hot cocoa with lots of sugar in it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It is always cool and shady on certain streets on the hottest day. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“If you have nothing else to say you had better go and tell the cook about the hot lunch,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation, as always, was pleasant and induced in him a warm languor, like the feeling he got after sitting too long in front of a hot stove. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

No more freeze tag hide the belt hot peas and butter. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She brought in some hot water in a teapot to make more tea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three packs of hot dogs, a pile of buns to match. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I knew as soon as the weather turned hot that something new was in store for me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She filled a big Dutch oven with hot water and placed it on a burner, seeming to have set aside all personal topics. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I watched the child obey, her long gown hanging dangerously near hot coals. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks get hot again and mimic my heartbeat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She found Jaqen soaking in a tub, steam rising around him as a serving girl sluiced hot water over his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was hot and the sun intense as she walked up the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She touched a long match to the pile, and it erupted into a huge boil of hot light and smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Steam rose off the hot pools, fragrant with the smell of moss and mud and decay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hurried out into the hot, dusty, end-of-July afternoon, sweating and sandymouthed, as if late for a difficult interview, and boarded the red bus, whose motor was already running. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was just too hot to put her into shorts. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The challenging subjects were “delightful” and “hot stuff,” he told his brother. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, for Skid, that could mean getting her a juice if it gets hot in church or handing her a Bible if she forgets hers. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Doubt it. It likes hot weather. I wonder if/would survive your winter, but I want to see the snow,” Zohra replies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You kept pulling at your tie and then tightening it back up. I saw a little kid in a hot church.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and checked to see if my brother’s forehead felt either too hot or too cold. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So Toby kept covered up, no matter how hot it got in the trailer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The solid weight of Carmine is in my arms, his hot breath, slightly sour and sticky from his morning milk, on my cheek. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I need to drink some milk or some hot honey-and-lemon water. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ruth May was now getting rashes all over her back and was hot to the touch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we are lucky, it might be ginger chicken, spicy hot, fire on the tongue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had become one of those hot, grey days when there seem to be twice as many flies as usual. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I cupped the hot water in my hands and let it drip over my face. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His fingertips, working there in the hot darkness of the muff, wanted to know what the two lumps in the lining of the little impresario’s coat were. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His straw-blond hair was matted from perspiration, and his forehead felt hot to the touch. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother shook hands with Claire, then Will, and asked them to sit down on the porch because the kitchen was so hot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened closely to their conversating, but they blew only hot air, complaining about the Congress and the weather and the effect of war on business. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all hot guys, he has a crooked smile. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After the hot shower, we stood shivering in the darkness. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And knows Axel for Pokémon battles in the woods, and playing games with Ms. Dale, and eating strawberry ice pops at the picnic table on hot days, and making silly faces, and being kind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting at the white kitchen table staring out the window with an ugly look on her face like her poor fancy life is just too hot a hell to live in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The way he says with boys makes my face go hot. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

My head throbbed, and something hot and wet poured down over my right eye—blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I head down the hot sidewalk at eight thirty in the morning wondering what I’m on do with the rest a my day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And then, because hot tears have sprung to my eyes, I give the twins’ water bucket a hard kick and march across the yard for home. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I would swim in those jellybean-shaped pools and sip lemonade under the hot sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was getting dark and almost everybody was hanging around their barbecue pits where they’d built little fires and were roasting hot dogs or burgers or marshmallows. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was that it was really hot inside. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner did Tyrion lower himself into the hot water and close his eyes than he was fast asleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When it was done, she put it smoking hot on the plate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said Mrs. Moss had not paddled her, although she had put hot sauce in her mouth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The lines at Disney World had been so long, the wait sometimes more than an hour, and it had been hot. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Wearing that plastic suit and carrying all that stuff, I could tell he was getting too hot; he stopped twice to rest and put the carton down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Guth suggested that the universe started out from the big bang in a very hot, but rather chaotic, state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

South Africa's summer is our winter so their February is lovely and hot. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The idea of a hot shower fascinated me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white man's hot eyes swept the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gas lanterns flicker despite the hot six o’clock sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“They don’t even let you feel what you want to feel. They after you so hot and hard you can only feel what they doing to you. They kill you before you die.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a heavy sheepskin coat, uncomfortably hot in the heated cabin, but with her hands manacled she couldn’t take it off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I turned around and saw this short dude carrying a hot dog in one hand and a book in the other. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I drink some hot chocolate and covertly spy on a group of older guys to my left. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But the long, hot day was passing without sight of anything. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bare hands were best for climbing, but the incinerator walls were far too hot to permit that. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a while, Stan remembered that Harry had paid for hot chocolate, but poured it all over Harry’s pillow when the bus moved abruptly from Anglesea to Aberdeen. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Most kids get drained on hot days, but not me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

At least we didn’t have to store the honey in a special hot room to keep it from crystallizing, because every room we had was a hot room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt road is dusty and hot beneath the soles of my sneakers, and sweat tracks down from the top of my head and across my back, making my T-shirt stick to my skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But they’ll be on his back from Washington, wires hot with messages: attack, attack. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tipped the glass to the side so the hot wax wouldn’t smother the wick. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It said Redemption was leaving, which was strange enough, but it was sending hot flashing waves of anger along with it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was hot there, and empty except for the pallets and my bag in its comer. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A hot steamy sound came out with each word. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geoff Graham’s parents have a hot tub, so she wraps her bathing suit up in a towel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was a wide screened-in porch where they could sleep if the weather turned hot. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A lady who worked there and knew my dad would stack up soda crates so I could sit down while I ate hot dogs and drank my soda. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She said he couldn’t because the tank was small and there wasn’t enough water for another hot bath. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realized it was glowing because the metal was hot. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There’s purple light everywhere, and crushed bodies, and, wow, it’s hot. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Full-on panicking, and all the comfort she felt from her notes with Keeper melted away like a sugar cube in a cup of hot tea. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No need for me to be carrying his b-bags. B-besides, it’s too hot down here for me to be hauling stuff all over.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but I’m not. I can’t help it that I care about animals and don’t want to eat them. And it’s not my fault I don’t like hot sauce or cilantro.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Feathers and beads of every color under the hot sun fly everywhere in swirls, as people clap along to the music and dance on by. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

In July the streets and sidewalks were too hot to touch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got out of the hot tub and walked over to the pool in that gunmetal bathing suit. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In this hot noonday the trees of the Belt were looped and netted with darkest shadow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I could have stood hot. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next he decided to cut the hot dogs in half. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Late July was a good time to get out of murky, hot, dirty London, and Charles loved the Staffordshire countryside around Maer, which “was very pleasant for walking or riding.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like her urine, like something hot and just starting to bud. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they flew over the Crematorium, the plane shot upwards on the column of hot air rising from the chimneys, only to fell as suddenly when it passed into the descending chill beyond. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Remedies for hot flashes. She’s going to help all the dried-up old ladies.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Calder felt his face get hot and slammed his locker door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were gathering behind me now, I could feel their presence and their hot, bitter breath. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edwin stood, and with one motion opened the door and flung the last of his hot chocolate outside. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Last winter he had watched in horror while a family of Cyclopes prepared to roast Jason and Piper with hot sauce. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grandpa and Grandma Lustig were there, weeping, their faces shifting like wax, shimmering as all things shimmer on a hot day. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands must have real thin blood, because even though it was hot as a furnace in the house she had on a big thick nightgown and a big thick robe. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny pours hot water from the kettle into teacups. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He lay for a moment, and smelled his own, close, hot smell, not hearing anything. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The numbness of the initial assault now faded, the bruise deepened into my skin, along with an anger so hot, it threatened to burn me alive. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The meeting adjourned with tempers still hot and both sides feeling absolute in the rightness of their position. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But I really wanted to go on the tire swing, even though it was so hot, it would probably burn lines into my butt. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re just in time for a big hot bowl of chicken soup with noodles, made from scratch, the best you ever tasted.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cain had incapacitated Verin while he summoned the creature; it liked its blood hot. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I caught it bare-handed, then dropped it like a hot potato. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sometime it seem like the very air we be breathin’ is hotter than human blood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will not get hot enough to emit X rays, but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was the time I thought I was in hot water with her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I liked Pink just fine, I couldn’t help thinking that if Blu hadn’t of died, it would be him going out to Banks County with me this hot July morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I say nothing, but the hot water hurts my hand. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom, I turn the faucet on high and let the hot water rush over my hands until they’re red. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dad brings us two cups of hot chocolate. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Why did you let her make you keep us in that hot, hot room with no potty, no water? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The poor things brain is boiling from that hot water. Pull her down, dear!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to the riverbed somehow, being very careful not to hurt the hot fuzzy body that was against my own. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames and hot ashes exploded into the dark. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Macaroni and cheese is my favorite, how she makes it, hot and gooey from the oven, four different kinds of cheese, and bread crumbs brown and crunchy on top. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Initially the water was indeed too hot, but as she became used to the heat she relaxed, and was, for the first time since she had tumbled from the sky, utterly happy. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I—” The tide of venom reached her feet, sizzling like droplets on a hot iron. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a hot day and the sun burns right through my hair, searing my greasy scalp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand is too sweaty, too hot, and I don’t want Jasmine to hold it here, in front of everyone—but we’re boyfriend and girlfriend now, and that’s what boyfriends and girlfriends do. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

That's my name for "hot water with a caffeine pill dissolved in it." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of that hot July, the dry hills of California were the tawny brown of a lion cub that had been rolling in dust. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The air conditioner was on, but I was hot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was hot, and I suddenly realized how dry and cool it had been for the past three days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we went inside because it was so hot and took a nap. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mami took one step out, but before she could leave, hot urine trickled down my legs into a pool on the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A mop and a full bucket of hot soapy water would not only get a floor cleaner but would be a lot more dignified for the person who does the cleaning. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot winds sent the bamboo groves rustling. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His head throbbed, and although the night was hot a chill passed through his body. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Any other day I’d play a prank on him, like the time I poured a packet of hot mustard in his mouth and then ran back to my bed. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A blast of searing hot wind knocked them off their feet. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The shame and fear and hate which Mary and Jan and Mr. Dalton and that huge rich house had made rise so hard and hot in him had now cooled and softened. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke billowed up from the hot oil, and Teashop Aunty turned back to the stove. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Is it hot in here, or does she have a touch of fever? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As Milton and Tessie prepared to see Dr. Luce, a hot foam was rising in their stomachs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mama had made a good stew, filled with flaky chunks of fish, and the kettle bubbled hot, hung above the hearth fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The planes were strafing and, just before Ugwu shoved the child down the bunker, a bullet flew closely past; he smelled rather than saw it, the acridness of hot metal. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He noticed that Pond was shivering, which was weird, because his scales were very hot. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Poor Basta! Are you feeling hot already? Do your limbs begin to tremble?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He whined a bit: “Why do I have to go? It’s hot in the car.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The coffee was good—really black and very hot. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The supply of hot dog buns, a key barometer of fan enthusiasm, was completely exhausted by early afternoon. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was eggnog and hot tea and cookies and carols and colored lights and love. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And for discipline? Sit down, please, it's hot . . ." "And for discipline. And for orders and consultation when it's possible to have them," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Capone has a thick build, round shoulders and dark old-fashioned lace-up clothing that looks hot and uncomfortable. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it got too moist, we were afraid that the moisture would condense on the coldest equipment, just as a pitcher of ice tea on a hot summer day gets dripping wet on the outside. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South Wind horses were made of fire, sand, and hot thunderstorm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine now. It was just too hot in there.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It feels like the receiver is growing hot in my hand, and I'm ready to throw it away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was wearing jeans, even though it was too hot outside for jeans, and sandals, and a pink-and-orange plaid short-sleeve button-down shirt. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a hot stab of shame, like somehow it was my own crime he was describing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She takes a hot cheesy slice in her hands and happily burns the roof of her mouth a little. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He hands me a hot dish covered in tinfoil. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ray leaps up too, follows hot on Axel’s heels. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The refreshment stand ran out of hot dogs. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

It was so hot, the tracks behind him looked like a squiggly line, warped by heat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“That wasn’t a joke, Marcus; it was felony assault! What’s next, acid in my face? I hear hot tar and feathers is a real crowd pleaser.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He returned from Azkaban, expecting to find his daughter dutifully awaiting his return with a hot meal ready on his table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And it’s certainly not something you want the hottest girl in eighth grade to hear. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus wasn't air-conditioned, and the hot, heavy air was almost as stifling as the handcuffs. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

First, because there was not one chance in a million that it could actually help, and second, because plasma screens grow extremely hot after prolonged use. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was a hot day, and I wiped beads of sweat from my forehead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You must be real hot to be out on a night like this.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He felt quiet and at peace with himself when he was padding around a hot zone in a space suit, carrying a rack of test tubes that held an unknown deadly agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not just in our soft drinks and snack foods, but in the ketchup and mustard, the breads and cereals, the relishes and crackers, the hot dogs and hams. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Turner’s hot face changed the water to rusty brown. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were poor and uneducated, and the researchers offered incentives: free physical exams, hot meals, and rides into town on clinic days, plus fifty-dollar burial stipends for their families when the men died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s too hot down here,” she said, walking to the stairs at the end of the long porch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The day was the hottest of all and the sea shimmered with red fight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doled out hot dog skewers, preloaded with two dogs apiece. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Been here two months now, but still can’t get enough of that water, one spout for hot, one for cold. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway’s body still dangled in the front of her mind; it felt like someone had put the image on a hot iron and branded it across her forehead. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Rishi put a hand on her arm; it was hot and sweaty. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This was negative air pressure, designed to keep hot agents from drifting outward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About sixty seconds later, she said, “Baby, you hot? You want me to call Virgie up here to fan you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The fire upon them was hot and brisk and, as I have said, it was a massacre. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Nancy opened the far door of the air lock, and they crossed over to the hot side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists never expected there to be any living organisms there because it was so hot and so poisonous, but there are whole ecosystems there. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Blood rushed to my cheeks, so they burned hot as the vodka racing inside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A hot yellow flame jumped into life, and I watched her suck it up into the cigarette. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every time I whisper it to myself, my insides feel the way my mouth does when I have hot chocolate with marshmallows, all warm and gooey. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"More wood. I want it bright and hot." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everything inside him felt too hot to let out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone cheered: the spectators, the cheerleaders, the band, the players, the officials, the parents running the hot dog stand, the policeman, me. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The media were only too willing to cooperate, because as far the New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest combat reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam War. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That night in my rented room, while letting the hot water run over my can of pork and beans in the sink, I opened A Book of Prefaces and began to read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee lifted the bottle to his lips and took a deep hot drink and panted the fumes out of his burning throat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rides when it is cold, hot, raining. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“No,” he says as he takes a sip of his hot boricha. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The midnight air is hot and dry, but that doesn’t stop me from wrapping my arms around myself. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He denied that the Mosses ever spanked him and claimed they never gave him hot sauce, only black pepper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Highly enjoyable though it was to swim in hot and foamy water with clouds of different-colored steam wafting all around him, no stroke of brilliance came to him, no sudden burst of understanding. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The room was hot, and my stomach sank a little deeper. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His head felt hot, almost like he had a fever. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He spoke fluent Spanish, which he had learned during his years in the jungles of Central and South America, hunting for hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he brought another woman into the house, they were to gang up on her and play tricks on her, hit her, and trip her when she was carrying hot oil until she ran away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he was taken from the air-cooled sickroom, the hot weather might sap the little energy he had left. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A pearly string of drool hung from his mouth, which meant he was either hot or hungry, or possibly both. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He performed research on defenses against hot viruses—vaccines, drug treatments—and he did basic medical research on rain-forest viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a warning. Your life isn’t so hot that you can tell me what to do.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From an open door, the smell of hot dogs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hot stuff on the dance floor for a minute there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift a mug of hot chocolate to my lips and offer a frothy, chocolate-mustached grin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They ate fish, drank hot coffee, and enjoyed canned meats and vegetables from America. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ron came back five minutes later, carrying three foaming tankards of hot butterbeer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I groaned as she placed a bowl of hot grits in front of me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another hot debate I remember I was in had to do with the identity of Shakespeare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool river air cut through the hot night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I fought down the hot anger boiling up in my stomach. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We are dazed here because we still remember the hot cities in which we were born, where the first days of spring were laced with fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

One morning, she spills hot cocoa and burns him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was hot today, just like it was last year, the day the pool was closed and I first saw her at the park. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He nibbled at the hot mash, but he was not very much interested in it, and he still shivered now and then. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got very hot in the office, and that evening, when I left, I was glad to walk back slowly along the docks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

My face is hot, and my stomach muscles are aching. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I breathed in the warm air and thought, Another hot day. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He downed six hot dogs, then a can of baby carrots, and gratefully accepted a dozen or so Oreos, one after the other, and ate them with great savor and particularity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was in the hot seat, no pun intended. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Before the monsoons hit in May, we have to endure April, our hottest month, with temperatures often reaching no degrees—so hot that even the children stay indoors to avoid the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them in hot pursuit came a gang armed with dummy rifles taken from an Army & Navy Store. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mong claimed the wood was perfect, we cooked the hot dogs and ate and drank more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We watched him scribble notes into his lab book and organize the materials, and within five minutes, we had a hot magnet, a cold magnet, and a magnet at room temperature. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I could feel my face getting hot, all the way to my scalp. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ask how I got them hot,” she said to Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything when I feel myself getting hot, not even when the tears come again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I’ll let the skin form on top of the hot chocolate and be so grossed out by it, I can’t drink any more. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Just as I was thinking that this particular hippie chick was kind of hot, a horrible realization hit me: It was Bat Lady. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just give up and go home then, shall we? Who’d like a nice hot cup of tea before bed? Hell, as long as the Bird ain’t around, make it a toddy!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When I revealed it, each word felt like a hot iron hook being ripped from my flesh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The morning air felt more like the afternoon, when it was so hot you didn’t want to move. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could snow in May or be very hot or both in the same day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the warm, open field feeling hot, dirty, and bored. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hung up the phone and hurried downstairs to Jahrling’s hot lab. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at Henry D.’s desk and said, “Yo, Henry D. You want to be in a group with Theresa and me? We got a hot idea.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, our friends Rudy and Pilar sent over a hot meal, and after they ate, the men were allowed to walk around in the prison yard for a half hour. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner I have a hot dog; Lara has two hot dogs and two bowls of ice cream. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So cold, he thought, remembering the warm halls of Winterfell, where the hot waters ran through the walls like blood .through a man's body. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some of the water was hot and startled her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring your hair things when you come back and you can have a cup of hot tea while I redo your pigtails.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot lunch is pasta with meat sauce. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sizzling on the grill, the hot dogs bulged in the middle, grew fatter, and, yes, flexed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He felt hot and scared and unable to breathe. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John raised an eyebrow and waited, and a flush of hot anger burned my face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then I lay deep in hot water in the tub and I was utterly miserable, and nothing was good anywhere. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's many a mile and many a hawk between here and King's Landing, the message may hot have reached them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When they reached the palace gates, the sun hung straight overhead, beaming down hot on their heads. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All along the way were discarded greatcoats, left there by men too hot to carry them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the hottest day yet, so heavy that the slightest exertion brought on a flood of perspiration, an exhaustion in the joints. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised too, that she wouldn’t let me keep her hand in mine—and I feel the shame even hotter than the sun—but Kalinda doesn’t say anything about it. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s going to be hot, one of those weird warm winter days. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I took the iron pipe and held it in the fire till it glowed red hot. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

There were still enemies on the ground, making it a hot LZ. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Van Helsing’s face almost beamed, and as we lifted her from the bath and rolled her in a hot sheet to dry her he said to me:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They can unearth a piece of hot dog buried at the bottom of a neighbor’s trash can. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a hot bubbling in my chest. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She fitted in close to him and pressed her face against his hot little naked shoulder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was barefoot and the patio was hot, so I hurried to where the boys were swatting a beach ball with some branches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta’s life in limbo, I finally did. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"What about in the summer when it's hot?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ll get a bad cold. Would you like a hot rum? That will knock it out of you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He speaks with a Southern accent, smokes fat cigars and wears a felt hat—winter or summer, hot or cold, don’t matter—a felt hat. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pumps fire—hot, sizzling in the pit of my stomach. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, and to his own surprise, Frodo felt a hot wrath blaze up in his heart. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Six pails full, and see that it’s good and hot. Lord Ramsay wants her pink and clean.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bar downstairs was hot and crowded and there was a heated argument in progress over Clifton's shooting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her eyes burn in the light, and although it's hot and might be my imagination, I think I see a small smile on the girl's face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I had such a wild hot fever that Mama nearly ran herself to death, packing fresh cold water from the spring, which she used to bathe me all over, trying to run my fever down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How much you got," Noodles said, sucking in his breath—the patty was hot! When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning the sun was very hot. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the sharp autumn air outside there would be a hot, stale odor in the house that made him cough. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I gulp my tea even though it’s too hot and push back from the table. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her blood was hot—she reached out and came up with a rock that she slammed into the boy’s skull. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the boxes had broken open on the way, spilling hot uranium over the truck bed; Seaborg advised his assistants to wear rubber gloves to sweep up the detritus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But just thinking such words made me look around guiltily, as if Mami were standing behind me with a hot pepper, set to rid me of the habit of vulgar speech. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I lean down until my face is close to hers, her sweet, sickly breaths hot against my cheek. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Every year, Dorothy Vaughans children counted the days until the laboratory’s giant picnic, where they could romp and play with the other kids and eat their fill of grilled hot dogs and hamburgers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The hot sun beat on the earth so that Kino and Juana moved into the lacy shade of the brush, and small gray birds scampered on the ground in the shade. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was almost weeping with distress as she arrived at the table and put down her jug of hot water. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They crushed her breasts and cut them off but when they rolled her over hot coals it was more than she could bear so she expired, giving praise. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The scent of hot bread drifting from the shops along the Street of Flour was sweeter .than any perfume Arya had ever smelled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s too close upstairs and frightfully hot in the day.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It so hot White people busy celebrating they independence from England July 4th, say Harpo, so most black folks don’t have to work. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The casement was only half full, so I put the pot back on the hot plate to mix up some more. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A hot, foul wind blew down the street, clogging my throat and making my eyes water. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They all had porches, it seemed, and a lot of people were sitting out on them, even though it was hotter than hell in summertime. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“If anyone orders hot chocolate, tell them to wait for me.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Our cottage had one small lavatory, but no hot water, shower, or bathtub. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s coffee left from this morning, Johnny. It’s nice and hot and we’ve got milk tonight. I was waiting until you came home so that we could eat together.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did what Papa said but I only grew hotter inside. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was very hot indeed upon Old Orlick’s daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on myself. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred began to feel cramps in his stomach at the mingled smells of cotton candy, barbecue, fried chicken, and hot dogs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's hot, and the forest floor is overgrown. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The breath that came from between his chapped lips was hot and dry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s hotel in Dubai had a pool surrounded by date trees, under a sun so bright hot and white that it bleached everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bigger, without moving an eyelid, felt his skin grow hot and his muscles stiffen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our long hot day in the sun was too much to contend with, and soon we felt sleepy and tired. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Neighbors complain, even the ones eight mats away, saying it’s bad enough being trapped in putrid, hot air made from fermented bodies and oily sweat, must everybody also endure something rotten? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My face flushed hot and my throat tightened. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She poured hot water into two handmade cups stuffed with mint, and sweetened it with honey from her hive outside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Therefore, late on a hot Sunday afternoon, I presented myself at his door. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It simmered now in the huge iron kettle, beneath which the fire must be kept glowing all through the long hot day. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life he has said no to the frosted cake, the box of harlequin ice cream, the hot dogs in buns, the balloons and streamers taped to the walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when the numbing medicine wore off later that night, it felt like someone had pressed a red hot coal to my loins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning sun was high now, coming to midday and getting wildly hot. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody else spat out into the hot dust of noon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hot noontime, while he was poring over the manuscripts, he sensed that he was not alone in the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Duke, Nala, and Scruffy hurtle out the secret exit, hot on Dr. Loofah's heels. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The air was hot and humid tonight, but I suddenly felt a chill. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The next day, Tuesday, was extremely hot, one of those freakish humid days that sometimes strike Indio late in October. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There was a thin layer of dust on the furniture and the air was stuffy and hot. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ordered orange juice and coffee and a side order of toast and hot chocolate and French fries, too, even though I knew I wouldn’t be able to pay for any of it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Geisbert looked at a piece of it under his microscope and, to his dismay, found that it was “incredibly hot—I mean, wall to wall with virus.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am hot supposed to speak of it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I picked her up to rock her, her hot tiny body spooned next to mine. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The most delicious vision these eyes ever beheld,” Valentine liked to tell the new arrivals, drawing out delicious as if ladling hot caramel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What’s the big deal if I fix a hot dog or not?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“So, kiddo, who makes the best hot fudge sundaes in town?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Simon put out his hand, timidly, to touch Ralph; but Ralph started to run, splashing through the shallow end of the bathing pool, across the hot, white sand and under the palms. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the suggestion of Shin’s new friend, who knew cheap places to eat, they stopped on the way to his apartment and bought hot noodles from a street vendor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She showed them how the hot syrup went suddenly sticky in the snow, and how they could take a stick and make an all-day-sucker by poking it in and twisting it around. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was being served coffee and hot rolls by Kreacher and wearing the slightly manic expression that Harry associated with exam review. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The day was hot, so we walked slowly. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could get a haircut from his favorite Cuban barber and then take a hot shower and hang out in the Admirals’ Club, a benefit for those with lots of frequent flyer miles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Already, so early in the morning, it was very hot on the bridge across the river. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As if that cast couldn’t make his foot any hotter in August, I had to wrap it in plastic. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was so hot that it seemed like the air was sweating. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her cheek was hot and wet and stinging with pain. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the small, hot prison cell on Holman's death row was far worse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From the hot heart of whatever hell I sent him to, he thrusts his steel into my hand and twists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The building was hot and stifling in the summer—and bitter cold in the winter. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Your heads were back, resting on the edge of the hot tub. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She put this in a little pan of milk on the stove and when the milk was hot she poured milk and carrot into a cloth bag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next two years, early every morning, before the day got too hot, he drove to the beach where he took a walk. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, Penelope and I become the hot item at Reardan High School. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My face flushed hot and I knew I must be red as a beet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was cold today, but I was feeling hot inside. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed and the hot sun orange on mv eyelids, I could be anywhere. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate sitting on the curb, with the sun hot overhead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Randolph flattering the fat woman, and the fat woman eating it up like hot- fudge sundae with all the nuts. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A chopper brought in some hot food for us and some grain and a box of chicks for the people in the hamlet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost taste the oily hot liquid. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so now she opened the spigots, shivering a little as the spiders scrambled, lost their footing, struggled momentarily in the hot water, and died, immediately bedraggled, soggy, long gone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was opening the monkey up, and now he was putting his hands into a bloody lake of amplified hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The syringe was hot with an unknown agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now hot tears stained her face and she covered it with her hands. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had confused him with her son again, because the hot wind that came after the deluge and had brought occasional waves of lucidity to Úrsula's brain had passed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Any hotter, and my shoes’ guttapercha soles might melt to the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was low now, making the shades richer and deeper, but the hot, moist wind was still heavy on my chest. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Both of our mouths are open now, and I’m hot and my hands are sliding up to his neck. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When a hot virus multiplies in a host, it can saturate the body with virus particles, from the brain to the skin. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hot rush surges through my chest, spreading outward. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a week, when the resupply choppers came in, they carried hot chow in green mermite cans and large canvas bags filled with iced beer and soda pop. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Canned beans and hot dogs and something the Americans call salsa.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When the water was good and hot I stuck the jelly jar underneath until it was filled to the brim. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The water was scalding hot, as she liked it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

These self- appointed tasks would occupy her during quiet, hot days of her summer vacation, and her mother would look on in disbelief, sipping watermelon sherbet in front of the fan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had that hot, stuffed-inside-a-sausage feeling that always happened before she cried. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I smell hot red pepper flakes, but the other smells are sharp and sweet, unlike anything I’ve ever smelled before. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Please. Everyone knows. It’s the hottest gossip this side of Melanie Farrow dropping out to have a baby. It’s like a Democratic presidential candidate marrying a Republican presidential candidate.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bosses had decided the Pentagon Papers were too hot to handle in the Times building, so Sheehan had moved his operation to the Hilton. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

How hot she was, caught in these cross beams! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She faced the attacker in a kind of instantaneous flash and saw the disconsolate eyes, which remained stamped on her heart like the hot coals of pity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was hot and bitter, but it washed away the sandy cotton in his mouth. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to balance myself and the harpoon and keep my heart from pounding so hard, it makes my ears hot. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How could I know those barrels were hot?” he was saying. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I especially liked the ones with tiny bits of hot peppers crushed into the meat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s so hot there that swimming pools boil, so one emir built himself an indoor ski resort. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He makes me a cup of hot chocolate with little marshmallows, and then we go sit in the cozy living room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moment she tosses cumin seeds into the hot oil, I know this club is where I’m supposed to be. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I said one night as I measured out our gichy-michy ration and put it to soak in hot water. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, we dipped the ends of their cigarettes in hot sauce and returned them to the pack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The furnace—the thing in the basement, the thing that makes hot air that comes out of these registers. I don’t think it’s working.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bring us some hot wine, if you would. The night is chilly." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This time what she touched felt hot and wet, as if she had put her hand in somebody’s mouth, and she pulled it back with a small wail. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“You needn’t feel bad. Enjoy the money. I think you’ll find you’ve earned every penny. It’s hot as Hades up here in July” “But where will you be going?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did I mention she’s the hottest girl in the eighth grade? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above a spacious fireplace an oil portrait of the Founder looked down at me remotely, benign, sad, and in that hot instant, profoundly disillusioned. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the land was mined and booby- trapped, it was SOP for each man to carry a steel-centered, nylon-covered flak jacket, which weighed 6.7 pounds, but which on hot days seemed much heavier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I fastened the last strap, out there in the hot sun with the mules snorting and stomping and twitching off green flies, he finally said it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He warned us that it was hot and walked away. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he reached the house he found his supper hot on the table and the old man eating. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It had been very hot downstairs and my face was as red as a lobster. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now that we were back on earth, it was moist and smelled like burned chemicals, but mostly it was hot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suits that I wore, the finest, I bought hot for about thirty- five to fifty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could feel the dog’s hot, smelly breath as they approached the giant heads. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

My skin gleamed like the morning star and I felt as hot as the centre of the sun and I smelled God knows like what. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already I could tell the day was going to be hot, and I wanted to go to the bathroom and press my face against the edge of the tub, where it was cool. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s hot!” she yells as she reaches out and squeezes Mark’s hand. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When it was hot and sunny, Briny Beach was crowded with tourists and it was impossible to find a good place to lay one’s blanket. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

If Rumpy tried anything, he was going to get a hot foot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo had programmed their quarters to adjust automatically to the occupant’s preferred temperature, so it was never too cold or too hot. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After Mary Alice twice said she was so hot she thought she might throw up, we left. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He asked how she was, how the weather was in her city, and told her it was pretty hot in Phoenix. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jacob’s feelings raged so hot and confusing that they stopped up his throat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s the hottest day of the year, and I’ve got a day shift in the city. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In a hot side street I came upon a couple striking matches along the curb, kneeling as though looking for a lost coin, the matches flaring dimly in their faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still bright red from the hot wax and curled over like the talons of a hawk perched on a fence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sunday stretched long and hot, through siesta time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She meant it, but she also felt angry and hollow inside, with this hot buzzing like bees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Snow, thought Shadow, in the passenger seat, sipping his hot chocolate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

You get to your building and decide that the elevator is hot lava, so you take the stairs. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid you two are in hot water.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

That kid is so sharp—got it right away, tossed Maman’s irons into the kitchen fire to hot up, pointed me to the ironing board, and ran for her sister. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And even I have to admit it: street vendor hot dogs make a perfect dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s call them hot cross pancakes,” she said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seth jerked his hand away, sloshing hot chocolate onto the counter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the still air, the room turns hot, nearly suffocating; perspiration trickles down the migrants’ faces and soaks their shirts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They had planned to leave before breakfast so as not to add to Suya’s food worries, but she pushed two bowls of hot porridge into their hands. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Estha had, and when he did, his skin grew hot and shiny, and his eyes helpless and beautiful, and Ammu loved him more than usual. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hot inside the gym from all the kids, and I wish I could get a drink or step outside and breathe some cooler air, but I’m afraid I’ll miss Jason. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was stacked up in a hot, close grid, and the summer lay heavy over it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma asked Dad, “What about hot water? Couldn’t we pour enough hot water on the mirror so it would warm up and he could get off?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He straddled one of these, and paddled his hot feet in the cool brown water; and there he too suddenly fell asleep with his back against the tree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She brings Enrique a bowl of hot broth, filled with bits of meat and potatoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I look up at him, feeling very hot all of a sudden. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Talking to Ben could make me feel a little claustrophobic sometimes, and I wasn’t even a hot girl. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I take another run, and when I get back to the store and stack my empty hot bags under the stainless-steel counter, there is relative calm. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mom handed Dad a cup of tea, me hot chocolate, and set out a plate of my favorite, Mom’s chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The water was deliciously cold on her hot face, and she gulped it thirstily straight from the bucket. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had watched with growing dread, as the water heated up and the pot began to clatter with this crab trying to tap his way out of his own hot soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize how hot it was outside until I step into Virgil’s house and feel the cool buzz of the air conditioning. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She came back every day, staying longer and longer, bringing me hot chestnuts. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Her skin is almost too hot to handle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His actions were smooth, precise, as if he were dealing cards at the Crow Club or picking an easy lock, but his rage felt hot and mad and unfamiliar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It is also pullulatingly alive: howling with insects, hot and humid as demon’s breath, perpetually shaded by mats of lianas and branches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We went into the movies where it was cool and dark, and then we came back out into the bright, hot sun. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even when mathematics is at its purest and coldest, its pursuit is often quite hot. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t speak to my mother that way,” I say, my face hot. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Well, that got my mother all worked up, antsy like the cushion she was sitting on got hot. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Once he tried to slip her a hot apple tart, but he made such a clumsy job of it that two of the cooks saw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s hot, but we could eat that can of beans. They’d be better hot than cold. You got the matches?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The room was hot and humid, and in no time we were drenched in sweat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even the crows seemed restless, lighting on first one tree and then another as if the branches were hot to the touch. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said that people complain when there is too much sun and it gets unbearably hot, and also when it rains too much or when it is cold. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a science lab—hot dogs and baloney are the same meat. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My mother fussed around the stove and poured two cups of hot chocolate. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

From the midpoint of the division, a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out fire, hot coals, and sparks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did her best to clean up, but she found it ironic that she was in an actual Roman city and couldn’t enjoy a nice hot Roman bath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When it is night, you are cold and wish to be warm and dream of hot curries and wrap yourself in blankets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I showered until the hot water was gone, then I crawled in bed and did not sleep. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was very hot in that room in spite of the open window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because the more massive the star is, the hotter it needs to be to balance its gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot rum and the heavy sound of the rain made him drowsy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It lacks air-conditioning, something Gerald and Lydia have never bothered to install because they are never there when it’s hot, and the enormous windows lack screens. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Milton was threatening the looter with two pieces of toasted bread, a slice of meat, and some hot mustard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bod could smell the hot grease from the chip shop on the corner. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if it was just the rain forest humidity, but his brow felt hot and moist. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

People are in the street, too, kids from the party, kids trembling in their swimsuits wet from the hot tub, neighbors coming from their houses. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful weather, sunny but not hot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the stove was a water boiler which got hot when the fire was going. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Geat said: "No one could live in that. It's scalding hot." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn went back to his house and stood under a hot shower, even though it stung the cuts on his face and washed off his bandage. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was hot inside the taxi, and quiet. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pack the three town orders in separate hot bags, grab a six-pack of Coke and a six-pack of Sprite, and load up the car. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her spatula moved like a striking snake and the hot cakes settled their white sides hissing on the soapstone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot, and she used the flowered apron to wipe the sweat from her face. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many girls woke up early and spent hours applying hot combs to their hair, trying to straighten it to look, as some said, “almost white.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She pictures clearly the gray cement floor of her parents’ sitting room, feels its solid chill underfoot even on the hottest days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry swallowed a large amount of very hot soup and thought he could feel his throat blistering. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was like thousands of fish rotting and oozing in the hot sun. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty. I used most of the hot mustard packets, though.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was so hot that for the first time in history Mother left the candles of the chandelier unlit at dinnertime. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My arms ached, my fingers were numb, and my head felt as if it were filled with hot pitch. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rooms upstairs had grown unbearably hot; the air conditioners had suddenly stopped working, as though they had decided, in unison, to pay tribute to the end. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And suddenly they were clear, sailing upward on the comparatively gentle spirals of hot air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He stood in the hot atmosphere generated by the fiery rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very genially: “Ahhhh, brother, the white devil has taught you to hate yourself so much that you put hot lye in your hair to make it look more like his hair.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made it to Miss Sadie’s house but all I found was hot dirt and a cranky old woman. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My stomach went hot, and I pushed the book in just a centimeter, but when I looked up at Mrs. Rouse, she was still smiling. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

My shoulder, where the penny hit me, is throbbing and hot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden America wasn’t about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some people on the street supported the protesters by smiling, offering words of encouragement, or bringing them thermoses filled with hot coffee. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her hands find Madame’s face, and the old woman’s cheek is so hot that Marie-Laure’s fingers recoil as though scalded. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The air around his lips went from cool to hot with the threads of sounds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His skin was surprisingly hot, and she wondered if she’d kissed him properly as she pulled away and found his eyes bright and wide. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It had been especially hot that day, and it seemed to her that all her strength had been drained by the long walk. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A hot, prickly feeling of shame spread from the top of Harry’s head all the way down his body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I take hot sauce and sprinkle the runny yolk red. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“What that tells me is the goods are hot.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was as hot as Bougainville and the bugs were even worse. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of relying solely on old-fashioned cop know-how, he introduced technological solutions like CompStat, a computerized method of addressing crime hot spots. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I throw on my slippers and tiptoe to the kitchen for a cup of hot tea, hoping we at least have lemons in the refrigerator and tea bags in the cupboard. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After the biting cold of the ice cells, the crowded cellar was so hot that Jon felt suffocated from the moment he came down the steps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The heat out there seemed so much hotter than what Genie and Ernie were used to in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If it's so unbearably hot out in the open, I don't want to think how awful it must be inside the jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It is a hot day and the icy stream cools the air. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go back. I don’t know the way,” she said as she shoveled the hot sadza into her mouth with her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance through my closet, and decide it’s too hot to try and instead opt for gym shorts and an old T-shirt from one of my mom’s pageants. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At the time, a local kid nicknamed “the Nebraska Wildcat” was the hottest boxing property around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I froze in the entrance of the Krupp Pavilion, chilled to the bone although the sun beat hot on my face. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before he had eaten his first hot meal in China, Shin had a job and a place to sleep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was a large bowl piled high with hot boiled eggs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand guard, fidgety and hot and raw with the emotions of the day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She leans over Frank’s shoulder, looks at the cracked eggs in the hot pan. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had to light the can-candles and put them under the pans of food to keep them hot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The weather was breathlessly hot, there was thunder in the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nights were hot and steamy, as we had no air-conditioning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I guess it would be really cheesy of me to say I think you’re ten times hotter and smarter than any beauty queen.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy thought that comets bring wars, hot weather and “disturbed conditions.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last two weeks we’ve been eating lunch at eleven-thirty on Saturdays; in the mornings we have to make do with a cup of hot cereal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’ll be right back, okay? I promise. If I don’t show up you got the money anyways. You can go buy yourself all the hot dogs and beer in the world.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The work was hot and dry and as monotonous as the maddening, slowpoke motion of the pumpjacks themselves. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Styx seemed impressed by the size of the fire, and even more impressed by the full spread of hot dogs and fixin’s on the picnic table. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had on a long-sleeved dress that was too big for her and, even though it was hot, long black tights. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my face down so no one could see the hot, angry tears running down my face. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what they have planned, but I’m no coward, so I go right down that aisle out the back door and into the hot courtyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My ankles went wobbly, and I felt hot and cold all over. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“This is the hottest station in the nation, Hot 105,” the DJ says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They’d gotten into canoes in the morning, and fished and swum and pitched tents and grilled hot dogs. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She waited, peering down the hall anxiously, panting into the hot plastic of her mask. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When our eyes meet, he winks, which makes my face hotter than the blazing inferno in front of us. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The police car smelled of hot plastic and aftershave and take-away chips. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Even though it’s hot as sin and steam’s already rising off the blacktop, kids are throwing balls, kicking cans, skipping rope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Samuel joyously felt hot rage in his stomach. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, Sofya and the others stumbled out of bed and began to defrost the planes by spraying them with hot water from a tank truck. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was sloppy and hot, pink and black, smelling indescribably and seemingly full of huge yellowed teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hot tears filled my eyes and my words sputtered out all angry and sad, like water sizzling on a hot tin pan. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their black skin glistened in the firelight as they worked, sparks flying as they took turns hammering on a long piece of glowing hot metal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go to hell with devils chasing me for eternity jabbing me with hot pitchforks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This is when I notice how hot his skin is becoming. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had never seen so many people, or been so hot, or stood in one place for so long. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a tray with bread and jam and hot tea next to the bed, but Joseph couldn’t imagine eating anything right now. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The playful romance we had sustained in the cave has disappeared out in the open, under the hot sun, with the threat of Cato looming over us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they went, the words getting hotter as their tempers grew shorter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all stared at the frogs, the hundreds of frogs climbing out of the pond on our left, fighting their way up the bank, leaping for the hot pavement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The next moment she realized the marshmallow was missing from her hot chocolate. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the air that pushed in from the sea was hot ana held no refreshment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When our mother drove us home, we were tired from doing nothing all day in the hot ear. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, don’t even get me started on my hot bod. You don’t want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace’s breath away,” he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Spokane Powwow is wicked hot during the day and freezing cold at night. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I never thought she was as hot as everyone else does,” Lydia said, after she’d gone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“In case we get a chance to get in the hot tub.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My face turns hot, not knowing how to respond to that. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

No matter how hot it got, Big Ma had to iron white cotton sheets with light starch. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even though it was hot in my attic bedroom, I had my own room now that Asiya had moved downstairs to share a room with Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Luckily the weather is all right: not too hot, cloudy bright. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot but I didn’t pull away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And because they were still hungry and didn’t want to waste food, they picked the hot dogs off the grass and ate them right before a flock of seagulls usurped them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A dozen feet down the tunnel she heard the sound, like the roar of some monstrous beast, and a cloud of hot smoke and black dust came billowing up behind her, smelling of hell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was another heavy morning, already hot and breathless, but in the wood the air was cooler and smelled agreeably damp. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guenever herself, ushered into a small waiting-room while the state apartments were made ready for her reception, added to the confusion by insisting on bandages and hot water and stretchers for her wounded men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if he’s just reading chemistry trivia off index cards or eating a hot dog or embarrassed because his parents are talking about his childhood or even now, looking tired and wearing glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That box inside his chest had come down and crumbled away, and he could feel his heart beating between his lungs—a hot, fluttering thing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked up into the sky, felt the water beat against his face—it was warm, almost hot, had a weird thickness to it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The wheel struck flat, with Encanis on top.There was an explosion of spark and ash as it landed and sank inches deep into the hot coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here, sir, one example: One day, it was beastly hot, a devilish hot rainy day, and Miss Fanny didn’t want to go above-stairs to her chamber to change her dress, because her paint might melt. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When they got home she offered to make him a hot cup of tea, but he refused. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There followed a most painful silence that hovered like hot, moist air before a big rain. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As she beckoned, a wall of flames roared upward, licking at the snowflakes with hot orange tongues. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sunlight, no matter how hot the day was, to be celebrated. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a hot day. Keep them open,” she snaps, opening the windows again. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I hoped I’d have enough cash by the time my small intestine shriveled like an earthworm on hot pavement. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mist churns over the lake as the cold air from the east mixes with the west’s fading hot breath. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When, at last, they emerged out of the mist and came again on to the hot yellow wasteland, all the other giants were sprawled out on the ground, fast asleep. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just trying to help. Look, see how the metal’s glowing red hot on top? When it gets like that you just have to wait and let it cool off. Then you can try again.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt her forehead and thought she felt hot. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting on the front steps of the school so antsy and twitch-ity that he looked like he’s sitting on a hot stove. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He takes a sip of his cider, now more warm than hot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was hot but free of yellow pus. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m on my break, so I can chill with you for a hot minute,” he says, and takes a seat right in front of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My sleeplessness made me feel that my days were a hot, wild dream and my studies suffered at school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the window he saw that the day would be windless and burning hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was sitting on the side of the bed in his nightshirt, holding a pack of steaming hot towels to his knee. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Emilika pours water that is already hot into a teapot and sits me at her kitchen table, talking nonstop about her boyfriend—not the old one, a new one, more handsome! The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If he had only known it, the hot dogs, huckleberry pie, strawberry pop and worms squirming on the hook weren’t doing them much good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bas’s mother used to pour me hot chocolate in her kitchen while Bas and I studied, and then she would find excuses to keep checking in to make sure we weren't kissing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every morning for these six years the old man had waited for his son to bring in hot water to ease him of his morning coughing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I’d made mac and cheese with tuna, peas, and hot sauce more times than I could count, but I overcooked the pasta and there was way too much hot sauce. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was already getting hot, and it was still springtime. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have slept quite a lot, for it is cool and shady here even during the hottest days. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They felt their way down the dark air-lock corridor, opened the far door, and crossed over to the hot side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was called hot sitting and was common throughout Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The grains dissolved easily in the hot tea, but they clouded the wine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ofglen and I walk slowly today; we are hot in our long dresses, wet under the arms, tired. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the dirt road, his laugh, the hot bike underneath me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A desert wind came up from the open ghoul-gate, hot and dry, with grit in it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

One cyclotroneer joked that “its neutrons would reach Chicago”; another wondered, less facetiously, if its beam would be so potent that the targets would be “too hot to handle.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

While they were eating, teasing, commenting on the soup, flavored with low-growing juniper berries and parched hot summer corn, something happened that disturbed everyone and changed the course of the winter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Coffee is even more interesting, for when the hot black fluid has ceased, a squirt of milk comes down and an envelope of sugar drops beside the cup. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been years since they’d fought openly—since Lio, wasn’t it?—but recently their hot little exchanges had started up again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the far door and went through to the hot side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It can get hot, so you’ll need to turn the fan on.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hot blaze in the iron stove, a festive tree smelling of pine needles, professional entertainers from Moscow, and an amateur talent show. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Aunt Jody, a medium-sized, neat, silent, mulatto girl, had a hot supper waiting on the table. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over the fields and the water the moonlight hung, a net of silver mist, and in his body his blood ran secret and hot and fast. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I used to think she was kind of hot for me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She cut the hot water with cold, and when she could stand it she got into the tub, scrubbed herself soberly, released the water, rubbed herself dry, and dressed quickly. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just hot here, it was sweltering. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At which I felt hot and cold at the same time. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was hot and sweaty, and the earpieces of my glasses were cutting deeply into the flesh above my ears as a result of the head movements that went with my pitching. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Waves of disgust and hot, burning anger enveloped him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot wind whined in the black tossing grasses on the hill. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It flared upward like a stream of hot orange waves trying to course their way to the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Inside the Plymouth it was still and hot. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re already in all kinds of hot water,” I said, refusing to apologize. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Georgia sun was hot, and still high enough in the sky in the late afternoon that its rays shone over the trees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Another one, popular with inhabitants of northern Europe, invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland’s cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s going to be a hot day; it’s already warm out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mother got up to bring us some hot food from the stove, which she put before us when we had washed and sat down. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an hour or so of polite, go-nowhere small talk, accompanied by a hot, hearty South Carolina meal, which we shoveled in appreciatively, tired as we were of dining-hall food. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The thought of home, however, reminded Tally how much her sore muscles would love a hot bath. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The hot autumn winds, the ones we called “Dragon Sighs,” were blowing with more force than in years past. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It mixed with the burning gasoline from the flamethrowers and napalm bombs, the sharp tang of gunpowder, the overheated metal of machine gun barrels, so hot that they were melting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We prepared her semolina with hot milk and raisins; still she would not reveal the man’s identity. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It is so hot and stuffy, and the air smells bad, really bad, like hot dogs plus body odor plus beer. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Her phone does not work,” Ma corrected me, passing Daddy the hot sauce. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He needed to stay out of the hot sun like everybody else. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

They could be sealed off from the outside world while you handled a hot agent inside them with the rubber gloves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was chilly in Capricorn’s church—Meggie was to remember that later, too—although the sun must have been hot outside and high in the sky by the time Mo began to read. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot. You know what he is.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Billy did not want to see what happened next, and a clerk importuned him to come over and see some really hot stuff they kept under the counter for connoisseurs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warm day promised to be hot by noon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“My granny always used one of these, every time she made one of her blackberry pies. Baked it right inside with the filling, and the hot air funneled out the beak.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, Bob slashed through the monstrous blister, which burst in a geyser of hot golden mud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

School sucks and it’s hotter outside than the dishwasher's steam cycle. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her skin was hot, and she shivered nonstop. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Miss,” I said, my face going hot at the laughter from the other kids in the class. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a supper of hot soup and crusty bread, I did my evening chores and headed straight to bed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Barren Mountain was a strenuous slog, much of it straight up and all of it hot, though we seemed to be getting stronger. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"She gets a promotion 'cause she was in the hot seat when the imagery came through?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never liked feeling either very hot or very cold, and she hated feeling both at the same time. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Am I “hot” in this outfit, makeup, and hair?? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One day long ago Snuffy was fishing toward the hot springs from downriver when he heard voices at the bigger pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, here. You sip another cognac while I get some hot water.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had one room, with a hot plate and an icebox for a kitchen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a short red-and-white building that has giant yellow signs with red lettering and pictures of a hot dog and a hamburger. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The chamber at the top of the steps was dark, smoky, and oppressively hot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His squall was like a whirlwind, like a sudden wash of freezing spray, like a harsh wind, weather like a hot wall of sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The late-August morning sun was hot and steamy, and there was no breeze on the balcony. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Once you ate a Hercules hot dog you never forgot it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the stars in Orion are hot and young, evolving rapidly and ending their lives in colossal cosmic explosions called supernovae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hot in this city, and sometimes at night when I come back to Aunt Victorias house I am tired and wishful for the silver poplars to set under. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim grinned, then clapped Dad on the shoulder and said no righteous God would deprive a man of homemade strawberry ice cream on a hot summer afternoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had walked eighty miles in four days through the hottest weather he had ever known and he had gone down with sunstroke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a refreshing hot shower, I put on clean clothes—jeans, dangly peace-sign earrings, and a T-shirt featuring Gloria Steinem's face—and head down to meet the rest of the group. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The palms of his hand were hot and throbbing, and the skin had come off one of his knuckles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

One hot summer day when Popo was already very sick, we stood outside watching a village funeral procession marching by our courtyard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the armrest of Cool Papa’s watcher’s chair lay the old guitar that had once cried and twanged hot electric chords and sometimes a ghost note out into the night. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was really hot in the room, so I took my clothes off and sweated in front of the television. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It just felt normal and right, like slipping into a hot bubble bath. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind off the lake grew hotter every day. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had done seventeen miles over a reasonably challenging mountain in hot weather. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Right now, Miss Katastrophe was examining Salim’s camera and I swallowed the hot huffy feeling I had back down my oesophagus. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d give anything to be there right now and to see the tea trolley with unlimited chocolate sandwich cookies, juicy mangos, and even that hot chocolate. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sweetie, you won’t need to wear that hot leotard,” Mama said. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for the king’s hand, which he granted unwillingly, and I pressed them into the flesh of his hot, moist palm. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Better come up with a better story,” my mother said as she poured hot water into the bathtub. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for this onslaught became evident immediately: do­rados were leaping out of the water in hot pursuit of them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet had given Bo hot milk and honey after dinner and he had emptied two whole mugs without becoming suspicious. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t even peddle hot dogs in the streets. Was that man angry. He says you gave him more trouble than any vendor he ever had.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How about a hot rum punch?" he said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times I bathed her, her face was hot and flushed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pain in my heart hurts so much it becomes physical and attacks my shoulders, back, arms, and neck like hot pins pricking at me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her glue gun dripped a glob of hot stuff onto her papers. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It’s just like the rest of central Indiana: hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and the only way to know the weather other times of the year is to walk outside. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She was definitely the hottest defeated multivariate calculus student I’d ever seen. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Apparently nothing does, because when I open my eyes, bright hot afternoon light gleams through the rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Next morning when I got to Grandpa’s, Miss Love had already fried a chicken for our picnic and was serving up fried ham, grits, scrambled eggs, and hot biscuits. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The waters of the hot spring are still and calm, a cloud of steam hovering over it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My head feels light and my cheeks hot. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A white priest had tried to persuade him to pray and he had thrown a cup of hot coffee into his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don't think you'll be needing this,” he says, his breath hot and rank on my cheek. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Where her lips had touched me felt hot. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I took a bite, finding it as sweet and hot as any I'd ever had, and was overcome with such a surge of homesickness that I turned away to keep my control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie said tersely, “I suppose we are,” and then, to make amends for him, added for general consideration, “Has England ever been hotter?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instantly I feel how stuffy and hot the room is. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For herself and for Father, she made tea, using water from a copper teakettle that she must have already boiled and set at the edge of the stove to keep hot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face felt hot and swollen, and the ache in my back had returned with a vengeance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing but hot, black, bare ground and delicate white filaments of ash, which stirred and crumbled under the trample of bare feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother is always cold and my parents’ house feels like I’m soaking in a vat of hot butter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What there was was hot dogs, Coney Island style, as that term was used in Detroit, meaning they were served with chili sauce and onions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He remembered a cell with a plank bed, a sort of shelf sticking out from the wall, and a tin washbasin, and meals of hot soup and bread and sometimes coffee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the silence between them the buzz of insects in the hot summer air seemed to crescendo: thousands of tiny wings beating. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, a roll in hot water, to loosen the feathers. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hot dog will be ready soon,” I added, as if it were some sort of consolation. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This is like birthday parties, with streamers and balloons at the ready and the hot dogs waiting in the kitchen, but what if nobody comes? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was only a few miles away but it was hot out and she said that she wasn't up to walking anywhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Not too hot for us, but warm enough to melt water from its colder side.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

The traffic is slower in this hottest part of the afternoon, but horns still blast, and buses still belch smoke. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mirage-gray at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust blew into my eyes and down my throat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The tears come again, like when I saw Tris’s body, and this time, pain comes with them, hot and sharp in my chest. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The San runs fast beneath my feet, white froth on top of its waves, and the air smells like hot truck exhaust and steaming rain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was high in the sky, high and hot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demon sun got higher, hotter, and brighter in the sky. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, the gin and the hot sun lulling me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, and it did promise to be pretty—if hot. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In the mornings the children climbed out of bed and went downstairs to the back room for breakfast, maybe a cup of hot chocolate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was very brave and smart and he tricked the giants and escaped . . . but no sooner was he outside the castle than die Others took him, and drank his hot red blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When he had finished the first hot dog, Ignatius prepared and consumed another, contemplating other kindnesses that might postpone his having to go to work again. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monte Cristi was too hot, desert really, and their doctor had prescribed healthier air for the little boy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food and good times fancy dancing and soul music. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But Pelias came in hot haste at the tidings and when he saw the single sandal he was afraid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was genuinely hot out again, warm like she was. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mami didn’t seem as bothered by his absence and fed us soups, or creamy rice with milk, or hot sancochos made up of whatever leftovers she could fit into the pot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It was hot,” I conceded, staring at my shoes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly pleasant on the deck of the ship—it was dreadfully hot, and the constant salty wind on her face only increased her thirst. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark and hot, and the alien whine of a million manic bees reverberated through the room like something out of a nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was sweating and getting hot spots on my leg, having to dry out my liner mid-run to keep from getting blisters. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her head ached, her body flushed hot to cold. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Augur looks up at the hot blue sky admiringly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If it gets hot enough, bassal burns with an intense, white-hot flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Something hot and itchy bubbled up in my throat, drifting up until it settled behind my eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then she would make the troublemaker swallow spoonfuls of the hot sauce. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Paris is hot and crowded and initially Theo is overwhelmed by the number of people, the chaos, and the confusion. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He shoves me and I fall again, scraping my hands on the ground, blinking, sluggish and slow and hot. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I dab a little ketchup at the corners of my mouth, scrape the entire mess into the garbage disposal, turn on the hot water, and flick the switch. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Lee mounted in pain, but the hot sun would heal the old bones. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself unable to see, but he let the hot tears flow and just held her close. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I cycle faster into my freedom, tiny beads of sweat popping up on my upper lip and brow, first hot, then cooled by the wind. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a vat of syrup boiling on the stove and fanned his face and squinted his eyes to show how hot it was. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When you’re all hot and somebody comes out of nowhere and starts squirting you? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He stood there, dumbfounded, while I rinsed the hot chocolate mugs and put them in the dishwasher, all the while thinking about Charlie and how good we looked together. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A hot wind blows into my face, forcing tears from my eyes before I can stop them, until I can hardly see where I am going. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One was crammed with See’s Nuts & Chews, M & M’s, candy-coated cashews, instant hot chocolate with miniature marshmallows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By June we had hot nights, and outside at the ballpark was the place to be. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot dogs had melted into a black goo in the skillet, which was now billowing a foul-smelling smoke. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. V returns a few minutes later with a plate of hot chocolate chip cookies and two servings of milk in red sippy cups decorated with Disney princesses. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her face was so hot she thought it would melt onto the floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The thunderclouds which usually go with hot weather were there, high columns of cumulus with glaring edges, but there was not going to be any thunder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just enough for a couple of hot meals?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tom finished his hot cakes and stirred his coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A bottle of vinegar hot sauce sat in the middle of four glasses of iced tea, the edges of each one sporting a wedge of shiny-skinned lemon. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Hot dogs, hot dogs,” Ignatius said a little angrily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tears ran hot down my face, and as they did, the smell of poison filled my nose. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He boiled the hot dogs, cut the buns, sliced the onions in a frenzy. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't want to put astronauts next to a glowing hot ball of radioactive death! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot inside me, and I began again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton saw the salvage party returning, and he went out to meet them with a kettle of hot tea. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And here he filled his thermos bottle with hot coffee, had them make up six ham sandwiches and bought two quarts of beer for breakfast. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I mean, on a hot day like this," Evan said, silently adding the words or tomorrow. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I let her lead me to the table, where the hot broth and gritty cornmeal soothed the ache. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The weather was pleasant—sunny and warm without being hot. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The white man at Mr. Dalton’s side was squinting at him; he felt that tight, hot, choking fear returning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Taking his leave, he returned to the walls, and passed round all their circuit, enheartening the men, and lending aid wherever the assault was hot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A hurt mother, an ex-nun, a hot child and a cold one. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or let a man survey his grove of live-oak trees, hard as coal and hotter, the best firewood in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Grandpa was a younger man, he had spent a hot summer on the mountain, riding the white mare he used for cowboy work. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Seven’s face was hot, her whole body was hot. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were adventures to come, but they could wait until she’d had a hot bath—maybe a few of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I turn on the hot water tap, to signify readiness or something approaching it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secular calendar made plain note of the hot first day of summer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what Joey said, I wasn’t ever going to be able to stop thinking of Megan Renshaw as smoking hot, and in some ways she was more accessible to me than Annie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The huaca grew hot, as if from Inti, but it wasn’t his time in the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“We have four different kinds of sauces. Mild, medium, hot, and blazin’. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

No one knew what would happen if their very hot exhaust gases touched my suit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam bit back the hot words in her mouth, picked up her serviette, and cleaned off her chin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went cold with anger, then hot, then cold again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot food, I had to put in pans that sit propped up on braces. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was just having fun with me; no son wants to talk about how hot his mom is. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My face felt as hot as the pizza. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ignatius pushed slowly away from the headquarters of Paradise Vendors through the heavy pedestrian traffic that moved to either side of the big hot dog like waves on a ship’s prow. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are balled and I can feel my face getting hot. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slips out of the room, taking his hot chocolate with him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, man, you want me to bring you something out? It's hot," I said, trying to act normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then it was almost noon, getting really hot, and Percy was starting to wish he had a trireme filled with Diet Coke. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her nostrils quivered at the smells of roasting meats and fresh hot bread and pies stuffed with pork and raisins, but her guts still trembled with excitement, and she was content just to smell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore nothing but his breeches; he was hot. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air is less hot, signifying evening's approach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The hot blast of light tousled the air to shimmering. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marly, Joe got that old man up the steps and into his bed and built a fire and gave him hot milk!” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mack’s bed, like mine, was flat, hot, without sticks or stars. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

What was left over, was sliced thin the next day and fried in hot bacon fat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the door, came in, looked around the big hot empty room. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I taste hot liquid, bile and bitter wine, in my mouth, and I run upstairs to be sick. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill came over from the piano and we drank the hot punch and listened to the wind. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mary turned on the sterilizing system and watched from outside as her cubicle filled with hot steam to kill anything that might damage the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones does not recall the name of the hot island. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick, molten hot anger welled up inside me as I waited for an explanation. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed to reach through her—within her—and smothered the flame of that desire until all that remained was a hard, hot little ember. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kay and the liberated Dog Boy slept twitching beside him, looking alien and incomprehensible as people do when they are asleep, and Cavall, lying at his good shoulder, occasionally licked his hot cheeks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the dining hall by 6:40 for a breakfast of dry bread and hot sugar water, watched over by a somber portrait of George VI, the king of England. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just cook the hot dog in water.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

An idea of what the city must have smelled like during its hot and humid summers is suggested by the goings- on at Giesboro Point Cavalry Depot, just south of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When the weather turns hot and the flowers dry up, the bees start sucking elderberry. It makes a purple honey. People will pay two dollars a jar for purple honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was a lot of ambition packed into that hot little room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I think of that afternoon, what I remember first is the awkwardness of it: Mother said she could feel the hot energy moving through our bodies, but I felt nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mama burns your ears with the hot comb to make your hair look pretty for class picture day. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel herself go hot and red. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The makeshift table was soon overflowing with food—oatmeal cookies, cheese grits, hot biscuits and honey, a sweet potato pie, Apple Brown Betty, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, corn pudding, pulled pork, and pickled pigs’ feet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The hot bitter juice burst into his mouth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was all wreathed in smoke from the hot lava inside it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home, Jordie had bought them each a hot chocolate, not just one to share. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He waved his arms and trotted on his hooves as if the grass were hot. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I was kidding,” she says again while I’m passing her a really hot rinsed dish so she can dry it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You ought to try a few yourself, my love. They are rolled in spice before the honey, so they are sweet and hot at once.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I need more than hot dog ties and Georgia,” Samantha says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

All we got to see that evening was a hot spring. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Walder and Walder had never seen hot water bubbling from the ground before, but they both allowed how it would make the game even better. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I felt hot and uncomfortable under the weight of the jackets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hot pink and silver sequins glitter from her extra-large boobies all the way to her hot pink toes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Because I want to be alone, I tell Pop that I’m going out for hot wings with the team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was first thought to be hot intergalactic hydrogen, an immense amount of it never before seen, perhaps enough to close the Cosmos and to guarantee that we are trapped in an oscillating universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner carts sit in the main salon, chock-full of steaming hot food. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma sat on a low stool, pulling the brown skin off hot cocoyams, throwing the sticky, rounded tubers in the wooden mortar and stopping to cool her hands in a bowl of cold water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As these contracted, and the atoms within them collided with one another, the temperature of the gas would increase, until eventually it became hot enough to start nuclear fusion reactions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were hot at Amity headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When someone looked particularly bad, the Boss ordered a round of hot milk for all hands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Jam pressed herself against the dresser, practicing being invisible and waiting for when she, specifically, would be in hot water, as Aloe liked to say. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was the best kind of summer morning—not too hot, not too sunny, and not too many mosquitoes out to bite me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

One god-awful hot night, I can tell you that. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The banks of the hot spring were made of thick, red clay. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At least Dad can still help me and Malia with homework, and make us hot chocolate with extra marshmallows. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He snuck up behind Mom and slid one arm around her waist while the other went to work freeing a hot dog stick. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My skin felt hot, my stomach dropped, and I had trouble breathing again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But it was too hot, so I spread newspapers out over the kitchen table and got the bucket of wooden mallets from the cabinet above the refrigerator. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When she put those hands on my hot forehead, I thought of sea lavender and April. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jane and I each want one hot dog and a soda. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The beast’s snarl turned into a whimper; Con ripped his weapon out and struck again, drops of hot blood stinging his hands. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She accompanied Alys one morning to Bryns cottage, where the baby girl, now named Elen, was swaddled in layers of woven cloth and warmed in her cradle by wrapped stones made hot in the fire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Foaly. I’m still running red hot. And I’ll make up for my age with a really big gun. Now get a pod ready. I’m leaving on the next flare.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He read it through quickly and felt suddenly as warm and contented as though he’d swallowed a bottle of hot butterbeer in one gulp. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The next three months were hot, confusing, and miserable as Amari tried to assimilate into the culture of plantation life. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed up at the sky and repeated, “Pretty hot.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“She’s not as hot as you,” I said, before I could think better of it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once two hounds came close to the camp, hot on a trail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of these changes stood Ethyne—all reason and possibility, and a hot cup of tea, with a baby strapped to her chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was no room for such a crowd inside and besides, it was too hot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet for some reason she couldn’t tell him about the things in her mind—about the hot, dark nights. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The furnace had cooked the air so hot my mother had peeled off her sweater and stood in short sleeves, jerking at the window in her bedroom, wrestling with the stuck paint. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don't plant beans till the weather's hot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They roasted the sweetcom in the husk that night, turning the ears with long forked sticks, and ate it hot right off the cob. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Hey, let's bag the movie and go get something hot to drink, okay?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We all sat down with a cup of hot chocolate and a bowl of roasted chestnuts to watch the ten o’clock news. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was hot and stuffy, and Will opened the glass door onto the balcony to let in the night air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was uncomfortably hot and smelled of sulfur and charred meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Most famously, she improved on the design of the “hot comb,” a device for straightening hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the hot dog into a pot of water. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Looking at all this, we know we’re not so hot; we’re kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the magistrate's hot, dry breath on my nose as he came close to me and felt the cold ink touch my eye and, suddenly, I could see! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot in the room, the sun streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, put in by architects who should have known better. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Manchee’s huffing and puffing, his back fur all ridged, hopping around like the ground is hot, looking as charged up and confused as I am, tho completely hopeless about keeping in any way cool. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

He ate a hot dog with trembling hands and peeked down into his pocket at the photograph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes the back of your neck hot to eat it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But now, on hot days like today, and other days too, Axel hears this story on repeat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a hot day and there were many flies in the room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was hot in the small apartment and Gerald was restless. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arcadio barely had time to put out his chest and raise his head, not understanding where the hot liquid that burned his thighs was pouring from. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He shaved his down to a powder with a straight edge razor then dipped a heaping spoonful into a cup of hot water and stirred it up with sugar. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In spite of two hot meals a day, they were hungry for fresh meat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Weird for the air to be so hot and the water so cold. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into small hot ashes which soon would be carried off in a wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a show of washing out her rice bowl with hot tea, and then warned other restaurant patrons seated near us to do the same. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out to touch her, but the light was as hot as a bonfire. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The water temperature bubbled a few degrees above comfortable—not scalding as I’d feared, but hot enough to scare me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And Miles, behind him, said, “We just jumped in with our clothes on. Too hot and tired to shed ’em.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo had closed the shutters that morning so the sun wouldn't make it too hot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Well, here it was almost two o’clock, and I had sold exactly one hot dog. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rising heat puffed at her face, soft and sudden as a lover's breath, but in seconds it had grown too hot to bear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kira sipped at the strong hot tea and thought again about the ominous stalking sound in the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I add hot dogs and red pepper flakes to it.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One was lounging in a lake like it was a hot tub. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Will sat on the side of one of the pedal boats and kicked off his shoes, his cheap sneakers that were coming apart and cramping his hot feet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Aunt Pam, “Yes, ma’am,” stack their plates on top of mine, grab the hot sauce and some forks, and leave as Nana starts one of her “back in my theater days” stories. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In a comer an old man was boiling hot dogs in a large institutional pot whose size dwarfed the gas range upon which it rested. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We remembered Hernando de Soto, who was the first European to explore what is now the southern United States, as Hernando de Soda: It was so hot down south that he needed a soda. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Level 4 air lock is a gray area, a place where two worlds meet, where the hot zone touches the normal world. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hot, isn’t it?” said Hermione, fanning herself with her hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Alfred Stoecklein, not usually a talkative man, had much to say as he fetched hot water and otherwise assisted in the cleaning-up. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got dark and we could feel the country hot and sandy and dark outside of the window, and about nine o'clock we got into Bayonne. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We dip our cookies in the hot tea, and they soften and taste delicious. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever anyone flew at the balloon to try to shoot it down, the gunfire would get so hot that they’d have to give up. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“No, but you’d be in real hot water with Daddy because those things cost a fortune!” she laughed. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We had lunch and lay out on the lawn, and then when it got too hot we came inside and ate ice cream while Tom watched the Grand Prix. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

His feet hurt, and while he was resting he didn’t want anyone to bother him by asking for a hot dog. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even smelled different: a hot smell, like heated metal, came off her body. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lee looked at him, the deep-set eyes still bright, still hot, still questing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drink my coffee, holding the shaking cup, hot liquid slopping down my chin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took the cup and drank it greedily, savoring the sensation as the hot liquid flooded into my stomach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said, “Oh, your dad got hot! ‘You can forget that, John!’ he yelled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we got too hot, we went to the muddy little creek that ran behind the slack dump and sat down on the rocks and let the cool water run over our feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A shell burst near Longstreet and he felt the hot brutal breath, and then the sounds of battle were softer, the smoke began to blanket the field. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the control of the blanket at the highest notch, which soon made Billy’s bed hot enough to bake bread in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just gave me an idea. Like my dad says, strike while the griddle’s hot.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanos formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel something tighten in my chest, something dark and hot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I saw fudge and chicken wings and hot biscuits. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had felt like there was a hot needle twisting around inside him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There are rumors of hot food and showers tonight. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

A hot, tight feeling crept up my throat. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was hot, and I drank some old water. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then he put the soiled dishes into a square metal machine and pulled a lever, which brought hot water and hot air through the device. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a few dollars for a cup of hot chocolate, but I barely have enough to get back on the bus. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mom brought me a cup of hot tea with lemon. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When you went through the line, after you got the hot meal, there would be a pile of fruit, and you could take one apple or one banana. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. We got plenty canister left. If they hit us now we could sure make it hot for them.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to get to our lunch, we walked through a gauntlet of hot flashing lights and squeezed past people shouting questions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children tore at the hot firm crust with their teeth and dug out the soft, yeasty white center with dirty fingers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We ate hot beef sausages served on split buns and slathered with whole-grain mustard, followed by deep-fried knishes stuffed with mashed potatoes and caramelized onions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He plunged his bare hands right in and started scrubbing, but Annabeth and I had to suffer through hours of hot, dangerous work, especially since there were tons of extra plates. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

My skin was hot, but my tone was bitter cold. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s boiling hot, like a forgotten soda can left out on summer solstice. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He climbed into the tub as soon as the water got hot, and he sat and watched with a curiously blank look on his face as the water overtook him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And now Bubba was nibbling like a rat on his hot dog. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one day I will have your tongue ripped out with hot pincers, and that will be hilarious. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, I felt very tired and fell back on the hot boards. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shade of the gatehouse was cool, but the barbican, with its close walls, was hottest of all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his, Ralph Alpher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in the countryside died like chickens on a hot summer day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all just slurped our hot chocolates and cleared our throats and looked anywhere but at each other for a few minutes. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

To cheer us up, Dayah buys slices of hot Turkish pizza and sweet sticky dough at a street stall. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s crazy stocked with everything from waffles to mini Spanish omelets to samosas and halal sausages, kept hot in those silver warmers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Much of the talk about the three-dimensional structure of proteins and nucleic acids was hot air. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We found her pigging out at an overturned hot dog stand while the owner was curled up on the sidewalk, sucking his thumb. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed the kettle on the floor, close to Papa’s feet, the green kettle Sisi used to boil hot water for tea and garri, the one that whistled when the water started to boil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was an oppressively hot and muggy day, and it was sweltering inside the crowded space of Independence Hall. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They knew only one thing for certain: When next summer’s hot, humid weather returned, yellow fever might very well visit their homes again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The air was so heavy that it was hard to breathe and the sun so hot that the sea was like a sun itself, too bright to look at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sped through the sky until the plane became so hot that their parachutes started to smolder. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She sets the house down suddenly, as if it is very hot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Amari returned to the world, sipping mugs of hot liquid, eating a little of the special foods that Teenie made for her, and staying awake for several hours at a time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hut was warm—almost too hot—after the coolness of the swamp. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That was one advantage of living near the earth’s core—the water was always hot. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was with her roommate, Isabel Reyes, who was also kind of hot in a faintly mustached kind of way. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nailer felt his face turn hot with embarrassment. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went back inside, boiled two hot dogs, and ate them without buns. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was only her second trip into a hot area. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the holes in her ears you could see the hot river and the dark trees that bent into it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called it a cafetín ambulante, a small truck with compartments and shelves in the back, a refrigerated section, and a hot plate. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I didn’t get up in time to help you make the fire, Mama,” Stella said, wrapping her fingers around a hot mug of apple tea. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She settled Matt between the two men and fetched him a mug of hot cocoa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was angry—hot, seething angry—but he knew that, because of Angel, he had to control himself. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no hot running water and the cracked toilet didn’t flush. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have no doubt his chiseled brown cheeks are hot to the touch. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s hot and Mom wanted me to wear a light dress, but I wore pants. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“And Auntie Spiker! Couldn’t we all—please—just for once—go down to the seaside on the bus? It isn’t very far—and I feel so hot and awful and lonely...” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot as hell and the windows were all steamy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

My cheeks grew hot, my mind dizzy, like I was still toeing the ledge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Someday I’m going to buy me one of those meat pies — one that’s hot — and eat the whole thing, all at once. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’d only just hit the ground when there was a blinding flash and a sound like the earth ripping open and a shock wave of searing hot wind that knocked the air from my lungs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

All of them gasped and grimaced as the potion hit their throats: At once, their features began to bubble and distort like hot wax. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lobster cakes were hot and buttery, brown and crunchy on the outside, sweet and white on the inside. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I add, because my scientific brain knows that room-temperature water is much better for vocal cords than cold or hot. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Later, after a hot shower and with the suit on, I looked like an Ivy League kid from the 1950s. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s not until a quarter till, an hour and a half later, that I rush out of the hot room toward the Cadillac. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The squad car was hot but, oddly, it looked darker outside now than when he’d first arrived—so dark, in fact, that he couldn’t see anything, not even the construction trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Mrs. Dawkins said, “the most delicate little waffle cookies. They nearly melted in your mouth with a cup of hot tea. Do you remember the lovely teas we had back then?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, he was. To keep him warm they had to put him in a pasteboard box with hot water bottles wrapped in towels all around him.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The kettle gave a faint whine as she set it back on the hot burner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There the birds were plunged up and down in the hot water to loosen their feathers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not allowed to drink coffee, so I order hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles, even though it’s warm out for November. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This June morning is hot and humid with a haze so dense I can barely see the huge hemlock tree in which I live. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the temperature is uncomfortably hot and the air hangs heavy, unmoving. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chinwe walked as if there were a hot object underfoot, raising each leg almost as soon as her other foot touched the floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she had been pregnant, she had felt like everything was twenty degrees hotter than it was, but now she just always felt cold. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Shooting that pistol wore Ma right out; when she brung it down she looked more beat than she would working the fields from sunup to sundown on a hot July day. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He put down a glass of some hot drink and a plate of chicken pie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

School was unbearable for Gerald and Angel, and when they got home, the small apartment was hot and miserable. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears a leather jacket no matter how hot it is. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She opened her umbrella to shield us from the hot sun and walked me about. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he gasped for air, the hot sauce splattered his face and ran down his shirt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was extremely hard work, and a hot wind made her throat ache. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in out of the hot sun now,” she tells us, and we follow her into an even hotter hallway that’s all scuffed wood and stained wallpaper. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Percy’s lungs felt as hot as lava again. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z